By MONTE DUTTON

The surreal moment of the week was finding myself a seat with a nice camera view and watching Wofford score nine runs immediately and 15 in the first three innings.

Until the game started, I had high hopes for the Blue Hose.

The Terriers won, 19-2, and the PC constant, center fielder Joel Dragoo, hit two homers to account for the runs.

Agonies and ecstasies are common in sports, and they’re a lot of the reason why I so enjoy trying to translate sports into English.

Strange coincidences and sheepish ironies occur commonly.

Just this spring:

Thornwell couldn’t play a close game in baseball and softball, and Clinton couldn’t buy a close one in softball.

Laurens Academy, however, remains active in the late-breaking SCISA Class A softball playoffs.

The Crusaders are playing their first game at 5 p.m. on Friday in Sumter against the winner of an earlier game matching Wardlaw and Jefferson Davis.

A win puts LA into a 9 a.m. game on Saturday. A loss means another Friday game at 7.

Presbyterian College baseball is like a box of chocolates. (Just assuming everyone has seen Forrest Gump. If not, most anyone reading this is capable of looking it up.)

The Blue Hose are, against all odds, in a three-way race for the Big South regular-season title, with one series, which begins in a week, remaining. PC is a half game ahead (but one behind in the loss column) of High Point and a game up on USC Upstate.

They’re fun to watch.

When UNC Asheville visits Elton Pollock Field for the final three-game series, the Bulldogs will be trying to reach fourth place and qualify for the conference tournament.

Four non-conference opponents – The Citadel for three (first two in Clinton, last in Charleston) and at Western Carolina – are between now and then.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote about PC in the guise of a poem about a little girl.

When she was good, she was very, very good / But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Presbyterian’s baseball games against Southern Conference members mean little, but it would be nice to win one.

The Citadel (18-29) came from behind dramatically to upend the Blue Hose, 12-7.

Presbyterian (25-24) is 15-6 on its native ground, the Big South Conference, and in a three-way scrap for its regular-season title.

While running roughshod over conference rivals, the Blue Hose are throwing their shoes in the SoCon, where they have now lost to Wofford and The Citadel twice each and to Western Carolina once.

The Citadel, on the other hand, is 1-17 in the SoCon.

They’ve got three more shots. The Bulldogs take on the Blue Hose again on Saturday at 4 p.m., then travel to Charleston to host PC on Sunday at noon. Then the Hose play the Catamounts in Cullowhee, N.C., on Tuesday at 5 p.m.

It looked as if the jinx was ending for the longest time. The Blue Hose led, 6-2, after five innings and 6-4 after seven.

This time the eighth was PC’s inning from hell. It was the first on Tuesday in Wofford’s 19-2 victory.

The Bulldogs scored seven runs in the frame, only one of them earned.

The Citadel center fielder, Wells Sykes, homered twice in the inning. For the night, he was 4/6 with three runs scored and two RBI because both his bombs made solo blasts.

Brody Fahr, Noah Lebron and Jake Randolph each had two hits for PC.

Each team used five on the mound. Anthony Hausner (W, 1-2) was the beneficiary of the seven-run rally.

PC starter Daniel Eagen pitched the first 5-2/3 innings, giving up four hits and a walk and fanning seven. One of the runs charged him was unearned. Tanner Smith (L, 1-2) didn’t give up a hit. Nor did he retire a batter.

PC scored a run in the second inning, two in the fourth and three in the fifth, but The Citadel scored the next nine runs and 10 of the last 11. Five PC errors made matters considerably worse.

Take a look at the box.

The Copperheads are coming. Get your hoes and rakes handy.

In Fort Mill on Friday night, Catawba Ridge (26-4) eliminated Greenwood (17-13) from  the Class 4A playoffs.

Thus do the Copperheads have their next appointment at Ed Prescott Field, where Laurens (23-6) defeated them, 4-3, earlier in the playoffs. After waiting a day for the Copperheads and Eagles to catch up to the rain, the Raiders can win the district and advance to the Upstate finals by winning either on Saturday at 6 p.m., or failing that, on Monday at 6:30.

Catawba Ridge run-ruled Greenwood, leading from their first at-bats, a three-run bottom of the first inning.

Aiden Cattarin homered, scored three runs and drove in four for the Copperheads.

Peyton Dhein (W ) went the distance for Catawba Ridge, though the distance was only five innings.

Greenwood’s Luke Godwin (L) gave up nine runs (seven earned) and 10 hits in 3-1/3 innings.

Landen Still went 3/3 for the Eagles.

Decision time is approaching. What’s next? Do I keep doing it the way I am now? Do I amend this site? Do I continue to concentrate on local sports coverage, or do I change my priorities?

I’m thinking. I’m thinking.

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