Miss Greater Easley Teen Hope Harvard is the only double preliminary winner – evening gown and talent. She is the only double winner in three nights of competition for Miss South Carolina and Miss South Carolina Teen.
Miss Columbia Teen Bailey Tyler won the talent competition in Thursday night's preliminaries.
Miss Greater Easley Teen Hope Harvard won the evening gown competition Thursday at the Miss South Carolina Teen pageant making her the first double preliminary winner for either Teen or Miss. Harvard, 16, from Easley won talent on Wednesday.
That makes Harvard, by virtue of winning evening gown and talent, a solid favorite for the title.
Bailey Tyler, Miss Columbia Teen, won the Thursday’s talent preliminary.
Miss South Carolina Teen will be crowned Friday night at Columbia’s Township Auditorium. It’s the first year the pageant has split crowning its queens on different nights.
Miss South Carolina Teen will compete for the title of Miss America’s Outstanding Teen in Orlando, Fla., in August.
Miss Greenville Scottish Games Kelly Ragan won talent and Miss Spartanburg Lustra Miller the swimsuit competition on Thursday. All three nights of preliminaries in the Miss pageant have had six different winners.
The Miss South Carolina finals will be televised Saturday on WMYA (my40) in Greenville, 8-10:30 p.m.
Miss South Carolina will compete for the title of Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J., in September.
Preliminary winners
Thursday
Miss Greenville Scottish Games, Kelly Ragan, talent
Miss Spartanburg, Lustra Miller, swimsuit
Miss Columbia Teen, Bailey Tyler, talent
Miss Greater Easley Teen, Hope Harvard, evening gown
Wednesday
Miss Fountain Inn, Daja Dial, talent
Miss Orangeburg County, Shiobhan Fraser, swimsuit
Miss Greater Easley Teen, Hope Harvard, talent
Miss Laurens County Teen, Heather Madden, evening gown
Tuesday
Miss Greater Greer, Lia Holman, talent
Miss Greater Hartsville, Anna Brown, swimsuit
Miss Duncan Teen, Anna Hatchette, talent
Miss Landrum Teen, Makayla Stark, evening gown