Carson Glenn has pitched in both of Clinton High’s baseball games and is yet to give up an earned run.

He is 0-2, as are the Red Devils, who fell to Mid-Carolina, 5-0, in their second outing in Emerald’s Greenwood tournament, the CFP Invitational, on Monday night.

Three Mid-Carolina pitchers – Jacob Clark, Lawson Lawrence and Kaden Myers – stopped Clinton on one hit, Freddy Lopez’s s one-out single to right in the top of the second. The inning ended with the bases loaded, and the Rebels got in the board in the bottom half on a bases-loaded walk.

Glenn, the first of three Clinton hurlers, pitched 3-2/3 innings, giving up just one hit and striking out five, but surrendering three walks.

The Rebels scratched across runs in the second and fifth innings, then broke it open with three in the sixth.

Clark went four innings for Mid-Carolina (2-0), allowing the lone Devil hit, walking two and striking out four. Kilp Mobley drove in two runs. Mobley and four others had a hit apiece.

Lopez and Bryce Young stole bases for the Red Devils.

Contrary to what many would say, this is coincidental, not ironic.

Presbyterian College won its first men’s basketball game of the current season, upsetting Vanderbilt and ending an 18-game losing streak.

Clinton High lost its first baseball game of the season, ending an 18-game winning streak.

Steve Englehart’s Presbyterian football team opens spring practice next Tuesday, March 5.

The sessions will conclude with the annual “Blue vs. White” spring scrimmage, held under the lights at Bailey Memorial Stadium on Friday, April 12, at 7.

Coach Englehart and staff are to supervise 12 practices and two other scrimmages prior to the spring scrimmage. Next season will be PC’s fourth in the Pioneer Football League.

The Blue Hose saw a three-game increase in wins from Englehart’s inaugural season, defeating both Dayton and Morehead State in PFL play during the 2023 journey, which concluded with a 4-7 record. An upset of Wofford marked the first time in history a member of the PFL defeated a Southern Conference institution.

Englehart guided three All-PFL first-teamers last fall, including a Phil Steele Freshman All-American for the second consecutive year.

Most practices begin at 5:15 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, though the Blue Hose will also practice on Wednesday of the first week. The scrimmage on Saturday, March 23, is at 1 p.m.

Tanner Smith, PC’s fifth-year reliever from Laurens, is one of 73 in the country named to the watch list for National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association’s Stopper of the Year.

The award is given to the top relief pitcher in Division I baseball.Twenty-one conferences have representation on the list.

In Cookeville, Tenn., on Sunday, Presbyterian (5-4) defeated Tennessee Tech (0-5) by a 5-2 margin.

The Blue Hose won four singles matches along with the doubles point.

Blue Hose winners were Evgenios Vasilakis, Pedro Cardoso, Javier Matos and David Mamalot. 

Presbyterian is back in action with two matches against Belmont Abbey at Templeton Tennis Courts on Tuesday.

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