26/06/2022
Ardath Arvidson Jun 26, 2022 0
Miss Hartsville was crowned Miss South Carolina on Friday night in Columbia, S.C. She will compete in the Miss America pageant.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Socastee’s Jill Dudley entered the Miss South Carolina Pageant as Miss Hartsville. She left the Township Auditorium on Saturday as the outright Miss South Carolina.
The Miss South Carolina runner-up was Miss Florence Berkley Bryant of Anderson.
Dudley, 22, a graduate of Socastee High School and Coastal Carolina University, also won the talent preliminary with a vocal rendition of “Never Enough.” And, she was also named Miss Congeniality.
Dudley receives $60,000 in scholarships and will compete in the Miss America pageant.
Bryant also won a preliminary event this week. She won the red carpet/social impact preliminary on the first night.
Preliminary competition started Tuesday night and two Pee Dee-area contestants in the Miss South Carolina competition have won preliminaries, according the Miss South Carolina website https://miss-sc.org/.
Other preliminary winners on Tuesday night included Miss Inman, Maria Julianne Phillips, who won the talent in the Miss South Carolina competition. She gave a vocal performance.