Skip To Main Content
Jordan Ferrell on Muck Rack

Jordan Ferrell

Verified
  • Writer, Reporter, Radio Personality, Freelance
Spartanburg
Covers:  High School Football, basketball, and baseball. USC football, basketball, and baseball. Wofford College basketball and baseball. Braves baseball
Doesn't Cover: All I cover is sports. So anything that is not pertaining to sports.
I cover HS & College 🏈⚾️🏀, the @upstatespartans, @spartanburgers_, and @NASCAR as a writer/show host for @spartanburg1400. News Reporter @wbcuradio. 🌙🌴

Jordan Ferrell’s Journalist Portfolio

View as a grid

Terriers fall to 2-3 in SoCon with loss at samford

Terriers fall to 2-3 in SoCon with loss at samford

weebly.com — Wofford, fresh off back-to-back SoCon wins over Mercer and The Citadel to even their conference record at 2-2, went on the road to Birmingham on Wednesday night to take on the league-leading Samford Bulldogs, looking for an upset to help push them further up the SoCon standings, where the Terriers sat tied with Chattanooga for 5th. [...]

Landrum Rolls Chesnee

Landrum Rolls Chesnee

Fox Sports Spartanburg — Region play continued Tuesday night at "The Cage" with the first rivalry matchup between the Landrum Cardinals and Chesnee Eagles. The Cards came into the game 14-3 overall and 1-0 in region 1-2A after a nice 77-50 road win over Liberty this past Friday night. The Cardinals have been a scoring machine this season, [...]

Terriers Win 2nd Straight Conference Game

Terriers Win 2nd Straight Conference Game

weebly.com — Things have changed a lot in the last few weeks for Wofford Men's Basketball. A little over a week ago, after a leave of absence dating back to December 5th, Jay McAuley resigned as the head coach. In his absence under the leadership of interim coach Dwight Perry, the Terriers went 4-3, wrapping up their non conference schedule with a dramatic 71-61 comeback win over Coastal Carolina, a dominant 107-65 win over NAIA foe Montreat College, and a huge 67-62 upset win in College Station over SEC opponent Texas A&M [...]

Upstate Upends Conference Foe High Point

Upstate Upends Conference Foe High Point

Fox Sports Spartanburg — In their 2nd game since returning to basketball from the Christmas Holiday Break, the Upstate Spartans (7-7 overall, 2-1 in Big South) hosted the High Point University Panthers (8-7, 0-3 Big South) for the 9th all-time meeting between the 2, all having come since Upstate joined the conference in 2018. 2-time Big South Freshman of the Week Justin Bailey (Guard out of Blue Ridge High) came into this game looking to build on the momentum of consecutive games scoring in double figures [...]

Blacksburg Beats Chesnee

Blacksburg Beats Chesnee

Fox Sports Spartanburg — While all the holiday tournaments are great for finding out just who your team is as you go into region play, the real tests began Friday night. Region play got started in classes 2A, 3A, and 4A (5A will start Tuesday). For the Chesnee Eagles, the region schedule opened with an opponent that they are [...]

Battle at The Border Round 3

Battle at The Border Round 3

Fox Sports Spartanburg — The 23rd annual Battle at the Border concluded Friday with a bevy of 3rd place and championship games. Here's a brief recap of the tournament championship games and what I was able to catch of the silver bracket. Boys' Tournament Championship The Shannon Forest Crusaders had dominated their way through to the championship game [...]

Battle at the Border Round 1

Battle at the Border Round 1

Fox Sports Spartanburg — This week marks another great local holiday tradition for high school basketball in our area - the annual Battle at the Border Tournament at Landrum High School. The 23rd installment of the tournament features several of our teams competing in both the boys' and girls' brackets.

Battle at the Border Round 2

Battle at the Border Round 2

Fox Sports Spartanburg — With the Gold and Silver Brackets set, the semi finals got underway on day 2 of the 23rd annual Battle at the Border at Landrum High School's "The Cage." Things got started bright and early with the Girls' Silver Bracket. Girls' Silver Semi 1 Chapman and Woodruff both took tough losses on day 1, [...]

Roundball Classic-Round Three

Roundball Classic-Round Three

Fox Sports Spartanburg — The final day of the Chesnee Roundball Classic got started with the 7th place game between Blacksburg and Broome. I missed this one due to having other obligations, but from what I have gathered, Blacksburg pulled away in the 4th quarter to win 65-52. The 4th place game featured the host Chesnee Eagles taking [...]

Roundball Classic Day Two

Roundball Classic Day Two

Fox Sports Spartanburg — Night number two of the annual Chesnee Roundball Classic started with a B side game between Union County and Broome. But if anything about these 2 teams we know, it is that although this bracket is the teams that lost yesterday [...]

Roundball Classic-Round One

Roundball Classic-Round One

Fox Sports Spartanburg — One of the most fun parts of the high school basketball season is the annual Christmas tournaments. In our area, there are 2 of these tournaments that always come with major bragging rights if your team can come away as the champion. One of those two is the Chesnee Roundball Classic.

Sandlappers Win Annual Shrine Bowl

Sandlappers Win Annual Shrine Bowl

Fox Sports Spartanburg — A beloved tradition in local high school football made its return after a 3 year hiatus Saturday afternoon. The best players from South Carolina and North Carolina met up for the 86th time in the nation's oldest high school all-star game - the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas, this time at a new venue. ...

Spartanburg Hosts Coaches Classic

Spartanburg Hosts Coaches Classic

Fox Sports Spartanburg — Saturday, Spartanburg High School hosted the first annual Coaches Classic showcase at Viking Arena. Things were slightly different from your typical high school basketball game as this showcase featured a 35 second shot clock and 16 minute halves rather than the typical lack of clock and 8 minute quarters.

Dorman Dominates Wade Hampton

Dorman Dominates Wade Hampton

Fox Sports Spartanburg — The Dorman Cavaliers have become the gold standard for high school basketball. We all know they have a strong athletic tradition in general. When you walk into their arena, the first thing you notice is it is filled with state championship banners spanning from one end of the court all the way to the other [...]

Wofford Comes Close at Vandy; Comes from Behind to Defeat Coastal

Wofford Comes Close at Vandy; Comes from Behind to Defeat Coastal

Fox Sports Spartanburg — For the 2nd time in the last 2 weeks, the Wofford Terriers took to the road for a battle with an opponent from the SEC. If that isn't deja vu enough for you, the result was almost exactly the same....

Chesnee defeats Broome

Chesnee defeats Broome

Fox Sports Spartanburg — The Chesnee Eagles may currently be 2-5 overall, but don't be tempted to dismiss them based on just their record alone. The Eagles have played a relatively tough non-region schedule so far this season. They opened with a tournament in which they went 0-3 with losses to Mid Carolina, Fountain Inn, and a 1 [...]

Martin Gets First Win As Bulldogs Coach

Martin Gets First Win As Bulldogs Coach

Fox Sports Spartanburg — The 2022-2023 basketball season brought with it a new era at Boiling Springs. Craig Martin came to BSHS after 13 seasons at Myrtle Beach High School. The season got off to a bit of a rough start as the Bulldogs dropped their first 2 games to Clover and Wren on the road.

Terriers Fall to LSU; Defeat Blue Hose

Terriers Fall to LSU; Defeat Blue Hose

Fox Sports Spartanburg — The Terriers took a trip down to Baton Rouge over Thanksgiving Weekend to take on the red-hot Tigers of LSU. The "Bayou Bengals" were undefeated at 4-0 coming into the game, but not having been truly tested. They had been very strong offensively, averaging nearly 76 points per game, defeating opponents by an average of [...]

Dutch Fork Avenges 2021 State Title Loss; Advances to 9th Title Game in 11 Years

Dutch Fork Avenges 2021 State Title Loss; Advances to 9th Title Game in 11 Years

Fox Sports Spartanburg — As we all know, the last time Gaffney and Dutch Fork got together, the Indians overcame a 19-7 deficit over the final quarter to defeat the Silver Foxes' and snap their run of 5 straight state championships (all five 5A state titles since the classification was first introduced in the state of SC back in [...]

Vikings Welcome New Leader Caleb Gaither

Vikings Welcome New Leader Caleb Gaither

Fox Sports Spartanburg — When you think of Spartanburg High School basketball, undoubtedly, you think of the success the Vikings had during the Doug Lowe era. Lowe coached at SHS for 31 years, winning over 600 games, 17 region championships, going to 4 state championship games, and winning the 2002 4A state championship.

Terriers Take 2 to win Battle of the Carolinas

Terriers Take 2 to win Battle of the Carolinas

Fox Sports Spartanburg — The Terriers hosted the "Battle of the Carolinas" showcase this weekend at Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium, which featured some good competition from a couple of other mid major conferences - Gardner Webb from the Big South Conference and North Carolina A&T from the Colonial Athletic Association.

New Season Brings New Era for Boiling Springs Boys Basketball

New Season Brings New Era for Boiling Springs Boys Basketball

Fox Sports Spartanburg — A new era will be beginning as Curtis Nash stepped away to move to a different role in the athletics department at Boiling Springs High School. At the end of March, it was announced that Craig Martin, who had been at Myrtle Beach High the previous 13 years and experienced quite a bit of success [...]

2022 HSFB Playoffs Round 3 Recap

2022 HSFB Playoffs Round 3 Recap

Fox Sports Spartanburg — A playoff that started with 10 of our local teams is suddenly down to just one. I'll go ahead and "spoil" it for you, since you probably knew already (or figured it was going to be).. It is the Gaf...

Wofford drops 2 on Road

Wofford drops 2 on Road

Fox Sports Spartanburg — Wofford vs High Point The Terriers went up to High Point University this past Saturday for the first of back to back road tests against division 1 opponents after opening the season last Monday with a dominant effort against Division 3 Bob Jones University. The Terriers shot 65.3% from the field and 50% from 3 [...]
Show More