HONEA PATH, S.C. – Police in South Carolina said they were horrified after they found an infant in an infested house with numerous animals, some dead, and their feces. 

The backstory:

Honea Path Police said on May 19, the local health department responded to a home after receiving reports about the welfare of an eight-month-old infant. 

The infant was placed in the car of a relative during the investigation. 

Dig deeper:

Officers said they “uncovered severe unsafe and unsanitary conditions that put the infant at risk.”

They found the home “infested with numerous animals, including raccoons, rabbits, dogs, cats, chickens, and deceased animals.”

“Animal feces and waste are throughout the residence,” they added to their Facebook post. 

Forty animals were removed from the home, including a decomposing goat carcass in the bathtub.

Kayla Renard and Nicholas Foley were charged with unlawful conduct towards a child and ill-treatment of animals.

What they’re saying:

“In my 30-plus years of service, I have never encountered such a horrific situation involving unsanitary conditions and such a large number of animals,” one officer described. 

South Carolina baseball gets good news on Friday as senior Talmadge LeCroy announced his return to the team via the Gamecocks Baseball X account.

LeCroy will be coming back for his fifth season in Columbia. After a program wide down year in 2025, the super senior’s return to the Gamecocks could help provide a spark in 2026.

Joining the team as a freshman in 2022, LeCroy layed in 39 games with 27 starts. He had 24 hits, five doubles, 11 RBI and 19 walks with a .381 on-base percentage that season. His play increased as a sophomore where he played in 55 games with 52 starts for the Gamecocks in 2023. LeCroy hit .289 with 39 runs scored, 10 doubles, a triple, four home runs and 42 RBI

As a junior in 2024, LeCroy played in all 62 games making 60 starts, helping the Gamecocks to a berth in the Raleigh Regional. He finished that season scoring 45 runs, had eight doubles to go along with a triple, three home runs, 28 RBI, 38 walks and 14 hit-by-pitches.

After only appearing in 17 games in 2025 due to injury, LeCroy comes back to help the Gamecocks get back to postseason play in 2026.

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CLEMSON — In football, the Clemson-South Carolina rivalry is played on the last weekend of the regular season, which is usually around or after Thanksgiving. With the exception of a few years, it has been that way almost every year since 1960.

In baseball, Clemson and South Carolina have played a three-game weekend series every year since 2010. One game is played in Clemson, one game is played on South Carolina’s home field, and one game is played at a neutral site somewhere in the state of South Carolina, usually on the last weekend of February and going into March.

However, when it comes to the Clemson-South Carolina basketball game, finding a consistent date to play has been an issue ever since the Gamecocks left the ACC in 1971. When South Carolina joined the SEC in 1992, finding a date to play became even harder.

Through the years, the game has been played mostly in the months of November and December. Since Brad Brownell became Clemson’s head coach back in 2010, the game has been played as early as November 11 and as late as December 22.

On May 7, the ACC reverted back to an 18-game conference schedule, in hopes of getting more non-conference games against Power 4 opponents. Having two less dates to fill in could also allow Clemson and South Carolina to possibly set a later date to play and more of a permanent one. “Maybe. I think we would have to have both leagues give us a bye week off at the right time,” Brownell told The Clemson Insider at last week’s Spring Meetings on Amelia Island in Florida. “It is a possibility, but I do not want to say for sure. Sometimes TV controls a lot of this, probably a lot more than a lot of us realize. We will have to wait and see.”