Region 6-AAA Game Recap: Hanahan vs. Oceanside Collegiate

The 2024-25 regular season is preparing to come to a close – and fans across the Palmetto State have tournament brackets on the brains.    Hanahan teams the last three seasons have qualified for the 3A tournament only to suffer early exits in the Lower State half of those playoffs. This year's Hawks rendition has the potential to possibly make a run after an impressive 2024-25 campaign and becoming a real region threat.    Hanahan did enter the season finale with the Landsharks having lost to Oceanside Collegiate and Orangeburg-Wilkinson – a team the Hawks defeated at the beginning of the month.    Speaking of those Landsharks – they have brought their stellar play with them from the 2A to what is a 3A field that appears to have no clear-cut favorite ala the 1A or 2A realms. Oceanside Collegiate's only in-state defeats have come against Lucy Beckham, Atlantic Collegiate and the Bruins in region.    Oceanside Collegiate would conclude the season with not only a win but a region championship with its 52-21 victory over Hanahan.    “I'm so proud of them,” Landsharks coach Mandy Harrison says. “These girls wanted it. It was Senior Night, they were ready, they were prepared.”    Records   Oceanside Collegiate will enter state play having compiled 19 wins and only suffering five losses. It also finished the regular season with a 7-1 region mark. Hanahan will conclude the 2024-25 regular season having gone 14-8 and 5-3 in its region.    Remember What Happened Last Time?   When these two teams took to the court at Hanahan last week, the result was a Landsharks 38-26 victory.    Quarter-By-Quarter   Those in attendance at the Shark Tank did not hear too many whistles in the first quarter. No fouls were called on either team. What those did see was Oceanside Collegiate – in large part because of two seniors – build a 9-3 lead on Hanahan.   The Landsharks' lead in that Feb. 7 matchup was only 16-9. Oceanside's advantage was a bit larger after 16 minutes in this contest. That lead was 18 points and the scoreboard read 28 points for the Landsharks to only 10 for the Hawks.    Hanahan had made four field goals through the first three frames – all of those makes were 3-pointers. That will only do so much against a team as potent offensively as Oceanside Collegiate is. Through three frames, the Landsharks led comfortably – 41-15.    At the outset of the fourth quarter, it no longer became a question as to if the contest would result in a Landsharks win, but the margin of victory. This was particularly a surprise given how that earlier matchup went. When the final buzzer sounded, Oceanside would win by a grand total of 31 points.   “I'm just proud of the girls, ready to go to work and take it one game at a time starting on Monday,” Harrison says of Friday's game and the upcoming postseason.   Primetime Performers   <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://prepgirlshoops.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/02/IMG_7390.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-1191788" style="width:544px;height:auto" /></figure>   Fittingly enough on Senior Night, the two Landsharks' seniors were who led the way to Oceanside Collegiate's 19th win of the season. One of those 2025s was [player_tooltip player_id='496223' first='Ella' last='Mae Schepp'] who led all point-getters with 20.   <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://prepgirlshoops.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/02/IMG_7387.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-1191789" style="width:550px;height:auto" /></figure>   The Landsharks also greatly benefitted from the 12 points placed on the scoreboard by [player_tooltip player_id='390983' first='Teagan' last='Scott']. She particularly was effective in the interior in the second half – 10 of her 12 occurred in the latter frames of the game.   <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://prepgirlshoops.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/02/IMG_7291-crop-2340x1537-1739546778.jpg?w=800" alt="" class="wp-image-1191791" style="width:546px;height:auto" /></figure>   On what was an unusually rough day for the Hawks, Hanahan still got a spirited effort courtesy of sophomore guard Ellie Tyson. She led all point-getters for the Hawks with nine points on an evening where 3-pointers accounted for every Hanahan field goal.   Up Next   Both Oceanside Collegiate and Hanahan will now look to see where they will be in the 3A playoff bracket. With this being the first season for the Landsharks in 3A, their road to Florence will mean dealing with the likes of other tough outs such as Walhalla, Keenan, Dillon, Powdersville and Loris.   Harrison says she has kept the focus on what her team does instead of worrying about what that 3A field will resemble.   “I haven't focused on it too much,” she says. “We are focused on playing our best basketball and peaking at the right time and playing as a team and we'll take it one game at a time.”

The 2024-25 regular season is preparing to come to a close – and fans across the Palmetto State have tournament brackets on the brains.