My truck has a message on its video screen that occasionally reminds me not to be distracted, and I have to be distracted in order to affirm that I do not intend to be distracted.

I love my truck, now, but goshamighty.

Clinton evened its record and won its third in four games with a 7-2 Region 4-3A baseball victory over Union County, secured by a workhorse performance by lefthander Carson Glenn.

Glenn threw 110 pitches in 6-1/3 innings, allowing four hits, a run and four walks. Get this. He struck out 13 of the 27 batters he faced. Camden Finley closed it out.

On a fielder’s choice, Glenn drove in the first run, Bryce Young, who had walked. Luke Young singled to send Zane McLendon, who had also walked.

Taylor Kyko, who led off the second inning with a base hit, scored BBon a wild pitch.

Brett Young led off the seventh with a walk, moved to second on Bryce Young’s sacrifice bunt and scored when Glenn reached on an error. Luke Young tripled to right, driving in Rhett Gilliam and Tanner Finley. An error by the Union right fielder allowed Luke Young to score, too.

The Yellow Jackets scored two runs in the bottom of the game’s final inning.

Clinton (3-3, 1-0 region) only collected five hits but took advantage of two Union errors and six walks. Catcher Luke Young went 2/3 and drove in three runs.

Tanner Hardin, who took the loss, walked five and struck out  eight, allowing four Clinton hits. Andew Latham had two hits for Union County (3-3, 0-1).

I once read a release that dubbed a 1-0 softball game “a slugfest.”

On the road, Laurens defeated Eastside, 22-20, in Taylors.

More details when the internet catches up.

Not everything went well for the Red Devils in Union, where the Yellow Jacket won in softball, 10-1.

Clinton trailed just 3-1 entering the sixth inning, when Union County scored seven times, closed out by Carolina Davis’s two-run homer.

Six of the runs charged Me-Me Smith of Clinton (5-2, 0-1 Region 4-3A) were unearned. K O’Shields got the win, though only pitching the top of the seventh.

No one on either team had more than a hit. Smith, Halleigh Luke and Sierra Templeton had Clinton’s.

The Red Devils visit Newberry on Wednesday.

Laurens’ golf fortunes rose on Tuesday, but Wade Hampton managed to defeat the Raiders by 10 strokes.

The Generals scored 180, the Raiders 190. The medalist was Wade Hampton’s Ben Sanders, who shot one-under 35.

The LDHS scores were: Pearson Goss 46, Cameron Seay 47, Blake Lyons 48 and Rich Coggins 49.

Brashier Middle College dominated Thornwell (2-5) baseball by a score of 10 and limiting the Saints to three hits. Parker Workman got two of them. Sam Robertson took the loss for Thornwell.

Abbeville defeated Thornwell (0-6) in softball, 14-1. Kaleigh Porter drove home in Rose Yarborough with the Saints’ only hit.

The Panthers took advantage of 10 walks and seven errors, aggravating matters. Abbeville scored 13 runs in the third inning.

Wren edged the Raiders, 2-1 in overtime, in boys’ soccer.

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