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In its last tuneup before the first game of the 2022-23 season, South Carolina women's basketball flexed its muscles against local Division II school Benedict.

The Gamecocks won 123-32 in a halloween night exhibition game at Colonial Life Arena, led by 19 points apiece from Zia Cooke and Bree Hall and another 17 Sania Feagin points.

Although the game did not count and the starters were only on the court for about 20 minutes apiece, there were a few takeawys from the evening. Here are three thoughts from the team now seven days out from its regular season opener against East Tennessee State.

The true freshman guard from Turbeville, South Carolina did not start, but she played X minutes and flashed all night.

In particular she was impressive taking on defenders off the dribble, using her quickness to force defenders on the back foot and create open lanes to the basket.

The offensive numbers will not completely reflect her performance -- Cooper finished with just 11 points -- but it was largely due to an inability to finish at the rim after maneuvering her way into advantageous positions.

Her energy carried over to the defense end, particularly with one impressive second half sequence where she recorded steals on back-to-back possessions. She finished the game with six steals, two blocks and several more deflections to wreck Benedict possessions.

"I think she just felt like a utility player that can do a little bit of everything," head coach Dawn Staley said. "I think that the best thing about Coop is she competes. She competes. When you compete, you find a way to impact, so she'll play. We don't have very many guards. We have more bigs than we do guards, so the guards have a really good opportunity to play. They just have to make sure they're competing and being assets to our team."

Talaysia Cooper has probably been the best player on the floor tonight, especially defensively. Case in point: #Gamecocks pic.twitter.com/uY1KcnVNuS

— Alan Cole (@Alan__Cole) November 1, 2022

Dawn Staley did a lot of chopping and changeup with her lineups as you would expect in an exhibition game, and one of the combinations she rolled with a lot was a lineup with Aliyah Boston and Kamilla Cardoso on the floor together.

Benedict was of course overwhelemd by the matchup nightmare, but it is a pairing that might translate well to regular season action and throughout SEC play. The duo combined for 18 points and 15 rebounds, and their presence created a physical advantage for South Carolina. Cardoso and Boston combined to attempt eight free throws, but as a team the Gamecocks got to the charity stripe 33 times, knocking down 25 of them and consistently living inside with 70 points in the paint.

"We're able to just throw the ball up," Staley said on the lineup. "We probably didn't throw the ball up enough. I think we just dumped it off. I just like our length on both sides of the basketball. They play well together, they look for each other, essentially they're post players. Quite naturally, they look for each other more so than than probably the guards are looking for them. It gives us two opportunities to get the ball into our bigs."

Doesnât end in points, but you can really see what a threat the Boston-Cardoso duo is here. pic.twitter.com/EKxHHLan9l

— Emily Adams (@eaadams6) October 31, 2022

South Carolina entered the fourth quarter leading 92-31, and shut the door defensively from there.

Benedict did not knock down a field goal over the final 11:38 of action, and only scored one point total as the Gamecocks closed the night with a 31-1 final frame.

The Gamecocks finished the night with 17 steals, nine blocks and 26 total turnovers forced, walling off the paint with only six points allowed inside throughout the 40 minutes.

In the grand scheme of what the Gamecocks are hoping is a five-month run back to the National Championship Game, an exhibition game against Benedict will not make a significant ripple. But in terms of just looking for early building blocks of a championship team ahead of what could be a 38-game grind, the defense against Benedict was a tangible starting point.

"Just talking and communicating and moving our feet," forwrad Sania Feagin said about what was working well on defense. "You know, you don't get offense without defense."

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After being closed for two years, Turbeville Children's Home has reopened its doors under new ownership.

The home has been in existence in Turbeville since 1949 and was owned for 65 years by the South Carolina Free Will Baptist State Association. In February 2014, the association voted to close the home because it was not being able to operate at full capacity with the flow of income and expenses, according to a statement made on the home's former website.

In October 2015, the home was purchased by the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. The facility is a division of Falcon Children's Home and Family Services, a private nonprofit institution that also operates a children's home in Falcon, North Carolina.

The children's home officially reopened on March 1, and the demand for it was immediately felt, said Mike Dillard, the new director of the facility.

"A week before we opened, we received a call from the South Carolina Department of Social Services inquiring if we could house eight children," Dillard said.

The home has a maximum capacity to house 36 children, and 26 are residing there. The children, ranging in age from seven to 17, came through DSS and may have a history of either abuse or neglect, Dillard said. The facility can legally accommodate children under 21 years old.

The length of stay at the home varies, based on each child’s case, he said.

“It could be a year, for some it could be several years, for others several weeks,” he said. “The ultimate goal is reunification with their families.”

Dillard said the facility includes three dormitories, with an employee, or “house parent,” who stays at each facility 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The house parents work one week and take a week respite, switching out with another house parent.

House parents, Dillard said, not only cater to a child’s physical needs, but their also emotional needs.

“We want to develop a sense of family here,” he said. “I know we can’t replace their real family, but we want them to feel as part of a family as much as possible.”

Bridget Evans, a house parent, said it is a demanding job but also extremely rewarding.

“We are ‘mamas’ to them,” she said. “We treat them as our own children. Many of them at first may be scared or angry, but they are seeking care and happy to be here.”

Evans said she attempts to build a positive relationship with the children in her care.

“It’s about building a certain level of trust and letting them know that we’re here to help them, not to hurt them,” she said.

She said many times the children come from homes with little or no structure, and that may be a challenge, adjusting to a place where structure is required.

“The most rewarding thing is seeing a smile I didn’t see before,” she said. “Seeing them start to converse and blend in with the group is also great.”

Dillard said the home also houses abused or neglected teenage mothers and their babies through a special program.

Children all have a daily schedule they have to follow and will be attending local schools in the fall, he said. During the summer, the facility hires two seasonal workers who provide daily recreational activities.

Children take field trips and enjoy activities at the Sumter Family YMCA.

“We have been very fortunate to have the partnership with the Sumter Family YMCA and them allowing us to use their facilities for our children,” Dillard said. “We’ve also been blessed by the generosity of other churches, businesses and individuals who have assisted us.”

The home is primarily funded through DSS and supported by the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Monetary donations should be designated to “Turbeville Children’s Home” and sent to P.O. Box 229, Turbeville, SC 29162.

Airport coach Kirk Burnett learned many things being around Joe Turbeville, but two things he remembered most were his leadership abilities and work ethic.

Those two characteristics helped Turbeville become one of the winningest high school football coaches in South Carolina.

Turbeville, 74, died Monday at Lexington Medical Center after a battle with lymphoma.

"He just had such a constant work ethic," said Burnett, who got his first coaching job under Turbeville at Irmo from 1989-93. "It didn’t matter how bad or how well you did on Friday. He was back in his office by sunrise on Saturday. And no matter how many titles he had won, everything was new and fresh.

"He was a great leader. He let his coaches coach, but you knew who the head man was. And he was just so highly respected. There was never a black mark on him whether he was a coach or athletic director."

Turbeville coached 28 seasons at Winnsboro, Spring Valley and Irmo and appeared in nine state championship games, winning five of them. He went 239-99 during his coaching tenure and was part of the inaugural class of the South Carolina Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2014.

Turbeville was an assistant and head coach in the Shrine Bowl and North-South All-Star football games and also was inducted into the SC Athletic Administrators Association in 2011.

Turbeville won championships in three different decades. He won his first state title at Winnsboro in 1968 and final one at Irmo in 1980.

Turbeville led Spring Valley to three straight titles from 1973-75. After leaving Spring Valley in 1978, he landed at Irmo and led the Yellow Jackets to three state championship appearances.

Turbeville’s 1980 championship team was the last true Class 4A championship squad before the classification split into two divisions the following year.

Former Batesburg-Leesville and Spring Valley coach Jerry Brown, who played and coached for Turbeville, said his former coach’s ability to adapt was a key to his success.

"He was always on the cutting edge. He was ahead of his time, in other words, as far as offensively and organization-wise," Brown told The State in 2014. "He was always a student of the game and was always willing to try, look at different things and change, whereas a lot of coaches like their system more than they like the players.

"He adjusted his system to the players. He was always adapting and changing the offense and other aspects."

Turbeville, a Mullins native, deflected his credit back to his players.

"The only secret I had about being a good coach was the better players you have, the better coach you are," he said during an interview in 2014. "That was it. I’ve never heard of anybody winning a state championship with bad players. We tried to do some things to get them a little stronger and tougher and motivate them, but back then we had good players."

Burnett said he still uses things he learned from Turbeville with his teams at Airport. He also appreciated when Turbeville would stop by practice or come to a game, something he did regularly with his former coaches and players when he retired from coaching in the mid-1990s.

Before getting into coaching, Turbeville was a standout offensive guard at The Citadel from 1960-62. He was part of the Bulldogs’ teams that won the Tangerine Bowl and first Southern Conference championship.

Turbeville was inducted into The Citadel Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.

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TURBEVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Family Care Partners announces the expansion of the Colonial Healthcare brand into Turbeville, SC by acquiring the well-established and reputable family medicine practice East Clarendon Medical Center. East Clarendon Medical Center has served patients in Turbeville and its surrounding communities for over 20 years, and was established by Dr. Kate Smith who has practiced medicine in Turbeville since 1965.

“We looked diligently for a healthcare system we could partner with to continue providing medical services to the community. Family Care Partners had the experience we were looking for and we felt they would be a good fit for our practice”

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“We looked diligently for a healthcare system we could partner with to continue providing medical services to the community. Family Care Partners had the experience we were looking for and we felt they would be a good fit for our practice,” stated Dr. Kate Smith, owner and founder of East Clarendon Medical Center. According to President and CEO Tom Watson of Family Care Partners, “East Clarendon Medical Center has a very loyal patient following and is in a great location for expanding the Colonial Healthcare brand.”

Colonial Healthcare will re-open East Clarendon Medical Center on November 17 and will retain all providers and staff. With the partnership, patients in Turbeville will now have access to new services and support systems such as ancillary diagnostic testing and laboratory services, that will enhance their experience at East Clarendon Medical Center.

About Family Care Partners and Colonial Healthcare:

Headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Family Care Partners is a private organization that purchases primary and urgent care practices in an effort to create the largest independent primary and preventative care companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Family Care Partners purchased the Colonial Healthcare brand in 2015. Located throughout the state of South Carolina, Colonial Healthcare is a network of family medicine, and other specialty practices, comprised of community-based, caring physicians and specialists providing compassionate medical, laboratory, and diagnostic services. Family Care partners emphasizes providing physicians the process and managerial infrastructure needed to accomplish goals, and spur efficiency to drive outstanding care and quality outcomes. To learn more, visit www.fcpmgmt.com and www.colonialhealthcare.com.

We debated long and hard about publishing this video. Ultimately, we decided it was the right thing to do.

This clip – obtained from a source inside a South Carolina prison – highlights (graphically) the violence we’ve been writing about far too often related to South Carolina’s embattled correctional agency, the S.C. Department of Corrections (SCDC).

According to our sources, this video was taken inside Turbeville Correctional Institution in Turbeville, S.C. earlier this month. Turbeville is a level two (medium security) facility that houses “adult male offenders mostly sentenced under the Youthful Offender Act.”

Most of the inmates only have a limited amount of time left on their sentences.

In the video clip, a cameraman with obvious foreknowledge of the forthcoming stabbing attack narrates while filming on his contraband cell phone. A third inmate stands by with a mop (more on that in a moment) while a fourth inmate assists in the attack by tackling and restraining the victim.

The victim is stabbed at least two dozen times in a span of approximately half a minute – attempting to flee his attacker before being tackled and stabbed again.

Eventually, he falls from the upper level of the Turbeville prison dorm onto the hard floor below – fighting off another inmate before running out of sight.

Not a single SCDC officer is visible at any point during the roughly minute-and-a-half video.

Here is the clip, and please be warned it is extremely graphic …

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We spoke to a source inside one of South Carolina’s prisons about the video, which he said was one of many examples of SCDC inmates “wetting up” (a.k.a. stabbing) their gang rivals.

“That’s the normal response to any problem in here,” the inmate told us. “Wet him up.”

“It’s sad to me,” he added. “When they get home and someone owes them a few dollars … they gonna wet them up? It’s the prison mentality. The cell phones are not the problem it is the gang mentality. The culture of violence. The breeding of corruption.”

Attacks like this are commonplace within Palmetto prisons, we’re told. They are also meticulously planned. One or more attackers wield the weapons while others assume positions along a pre-established perimeter to make sure the victim is unable to escape. A “mop man” is also usually on standby to clean up in the aftermath of the carnage.

“You see the guy carrying the mop,” the inmate told us. “That was to clean up the blood.”

In this case, another co-conspirator was apparently assigned the job of recording the incident on his contraband phone.

As we’ve made clear in a litany of posts this year, the culture of violence inside South Carolina’s prisons has gotten completely out of hand in recent months.

Last week there was a violent attack at Evans Correctional Institution, a level two (medium security) facility located near Bennettsville, S.C. Last month, several outbreaks of violence took place at McCormick Correctional Institution, a level three (maximum security) facility located near McCormick, S.C.

As of last week, McCormick remained on lockdown as SCDC officials dealt with chronic staffing shortages at the prison. In some cases, these shortages have been compounded by lax oversight – which was blamed in the aftermath of a high-profile escape earlier this year from Lieber Correctional Institution, a level three prison located in Ridgeville, S.C.

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Earlier this month, we referred to the escalating violence behind the walls of South Carolina’s prison system as “mystifying.” Aren’t taxpayers doing their part?

Yes … and then some.

According to the latest budget data, SCDC is receiving $482.3 million in the current state budget (which began on July 1). That’s an increase of 7.1 percent over a two-year span.

Is it enough? Apparently not.

At a time when state spending is skyrocketing (approaching the $30 billion mark per year), critical core functions of government like law enforcement and corrections continue getting shortchanged. And outcomes continue to worsen – across the board.

“Republican” leaders at the S.C. State House continue to escalate taxing, borrowing and spending – yet government continues to produce consistently abysmal outcomes – economically, fiscally, educationally and with regards to infrastructure, public safety and protecting our most vulnerable citizens.

All of this is totally inexcusable … and while this news site has been extremely harsh on SCDC director Bryan Stirling in the past (going so far as to demand his resignation), the more we look at the situation we’re honestly not sure whether anyone else could do a better job given what he’s up against.

To his credit, Stirling has implemented some changes at Lieber in the aftermath of this year’s high-profile escape – bringing in a new “transitional warden” who according to our sources has taken several positive steps to improve conditions there.

“They have broken up the gangs and moved inmates around,” our source told us. “They also moved death row (to Columbia, S.C.) so that more correctional officers could be focused on (the) general population.”

(For our coverage of the death row move, click here).

Much more work is needed, though … and it won’t be accomplished on the cheap, either.

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As much as this news site hates to argue for additional revenue, at this point it has become abundantly clear SCDC needs more officers (and needs to pay them significantly more than they are currently paying them). Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pick up the tab for this additional muscle, either. Frankly, we would once again reiterate our call for the privatization of higher education as one possible method of freeing up the necessary revenue.

Seriously: Our state has absolutely no business paying liberal professors to indoctrinate our youth when there are severe shortages of Highway Patrol troopers on our roads and severe shortages of guards in our prisons.

Again … core functions. Government should do a handful of things and do them with excellence, efficiency, accountability and transparency.

Anything less is unacceptable.

Another inmate who reached out to us told us the ongoing staffing shortages will continue to exacerbate the violence.

“SCDC is trying to hide situations when in reality they can’t do (their) job,” the inmate told us. “They expect to lock us down everyday, we might come out two times a week just because they’re short of staff – no showers or anything.”

Multiple statewide lockdowns have been implemented in response to the latest incidents, leaving thousands of inmates to sit and stew for days on end (through no fault of their own, in most cases).

We’ve said it once, we’ll say it again: That’s a powder keg waiting to explode.

“Something has to be done,” the inmate told us. “Were getting punished for them.”

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