The high school season will extend into the summer for two HH players who were recently tabbed to compete in soccer all-star matches. Chris MacMurray and Chip Tremarelli, both seniors, will be representing our school and community in different all-star matches.

MacMurray was selected to play in the SC United FC, Clash of the Carolinas which is the only interstate high school soccer all-star event in the nation. The match is slated for July 6th. He will compete against the best 18 players from NC.

Tremarelli will play in the North/South Soccer Classic, the state’s oldest soccer all-star match. He will compete for the southern half of SC as it takes on the northern half. That match is on June 23rd.

Both matches will be played at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island, home of The Charleston Battery.

The boys’ varsity soccer team will be hosting The Beaufort County Championship, known as The Beaufort Cup, Feb 22-24 at Sonny Graham Field.

The tournament field includes Beaufort Academy, Battery Creek, and Whale Branch (in their inaugural season) in one bracket. HH, Beaufort High and Bluffton will be in the other bracket.

Play begins Friday at 5:30 when Whale Branch, in its first game ever, will play Beaufort Academy. Later that night HH will host Bluffton in a traditional rivalry. There will be matches all day Saturday and Sunday. Admission will be $5 daily. There are no tournament passes.

Senior mid-fielder, Chris MacMurray signed to play at Georgia Southern. Chris is pictured below with his family and HHIHS Soccer coach, Wayne Quinlan.

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SOCCER TRYOUTS will begin Monday Jan 28th at 3:00 on the Island Rec field. These tryouts are for high school players grades 9-12 who have a current physical on file at HHIHS. All aspirants should bring a ball, shin guards, soccer socks, shorts and t-shirts. Not tank tops. No ads for alcohol, tobacco, etc. These (varsity) tryouts will last 3 days. JV tryouts, for grades 8-10 will begin Thursday at the same time.You can't go anywhere without finding a HH soccer fan these days. Here is principal, Amanda O'Nan proudly wearing her colors on The Great Wall of China.

If you have spotted HH soccer fans sporting the colors in exotic places, email your pictures to Coach Quinlan at wayne.quinlan@beaufort.k12.sc.us. Just put "soccer fan picture" in the subject line.

Former HHIHS Coach Bo Sylvia (center) poses with the program's first coach, George Westerfield (L) and current coach Wayne Quinlan. Sylvia was inducted into the HHIHS Athletic Hall of Fame at Friday ceremonies.

A large group of Coach Sylvia's former players attended the ceremony. L-R Mike Cerrati, Max Carroll, Timmons Herring, Major Campbell, Coach Sylvia, Ryan Montgomery, Jaison Hrubar, Robert Banks, Ethan Bellamy.

Fall practice begins at 3PM on Monday, Nov 5th, NOT Nov 1st! Players must have a physical exam on file at HHIHS. Bring a ball and shin guards. After starting the year with 3 straight losses, the boys’ soccer team went on a school-record win streak. The streak lasted two months and took the team to heights nerve before achieved. Seventeen wins later the Seahawks found themselves in the program’s first-ever State Championship game. The boys went undefeated in the region, claiming the title for the 3rd straight year, also a school record. A series of upsets in the playoffs handed the Seahawks home games for all four rounds leading to the final. Wins over St. James (1-0), AC Flora (3-0), Chapin (2-1) and a 3-0 win over North Myrtle Beach to claim the Lower State Title put HH on the verge of a state championship for the first time ever in Columbia’s Memorial Stadium on May 19th.

A two-minute span during the second half doomed the Seahawks however as they fell 3-1 to Fort Mill. (The AAA Championship game can be viewed free at schsl.org.) The accolades have only begun to pour in to the well-deserving boys.

Keeper Mike Ritterbeck, defender Tyler Betts, midfielders Eliot McPherson and Chris MacMurray along with forward Ruben Romero were named to the all-region team. MacMurray and Romero also were named all-state and Romero was selected to the prestigious North/South Soccer All-Star Classic to be played at Patriots Point on June 16th.

Team honors also went out. Tyler Betts was named outstanding defender. Ruben Romero earned the outstanding attacker award, while Eliot McPherson got the Seahawk Award. Kebin Lopez garnered the Academic Award while Chris MacMurray was named MVP.

The Class of 2012 set itself apart from all other soccer classes and set a new standard for success. Mike Ritterbeck, Robert Barrientos, Captain Alvaro Aguilar, Ruben Romero, Captain Tyler Betts, Captain Nick Karis, and Bennett Murphy helped this program achieve what it never had before. Their legacy will live on as will their spirit as their sweat and blood will be forever mixed with the dirt and grass in County Stadium so generations ahead can draw inspiration from them. Forty-six wins and 3 region titles in three years along with a Lower State title and the # 2 ranking will be a challenge for all others to rise up to. Farwell and God Bless the Class of 2012.

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