By MONTE DUTTON

I don’t know what’s going to happen. Some don’t think I know what happened every day.

When a storm heads in this direction, it’s like politics is every day.

As I took one last look Tuesday night at contemporary meteorology, it looked as if football can’t be played on Thursday or Friday, which could mean that all of it is played on Saturday, or some of it is played on Monday,

I’m sure I’m not going to be in Clinton twice, Laurens twice and Greenville at the same time. I might be able to make two of them. Either way, there’s going to be a heap of stat studying and capturing games the best I can.

Naturally, plans started to take shape as Hurricane Helene did in the Gulf of Mexico.

Lexington (3-1) takes on Laurens (0-4) Wednesday-night at K.C. Hanna Stadium.

The Wildcats are to take on the Raiders at 7 p.m., not the standard 7:30. The junior-varsity game has been canceled.

LDHS Homecoming has been moved to Oct. 4 against Fountain Inn.

WLBG (860 AM, 104.1 FM, wlbg.com) goes on the air at 6:20 p.m.

Among other Upstate games rescheduled for Wednesday are BHP-Chapman, Blacksburg-Broome and Byrnes-Dorman.

The Union County (1-4) at Clinton (3-2) game has not been changed. Nor is it likely to be played on Friday.

This week is also the scheduled Homecoming at CHS. Whenever the game is played, radio coverage is on WPCC (1410 AM, 96.5 FM, largetime.net) beginning at 7 p.m.

The JV game is still on at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Newberry Academy at Laurens Academy is officially still on Friday at Todd Kirk Field, but, if, as expected, it can’t be played, the Crusaders will play the Eagles on Oct. 18, previously a bye week.

Last week’s Clinton loss at Daniel was hardly a surprise to voters in the S.C. Media poll, where the Red Devils dropped only one spot, from second to third, in the weekly rankings.

CLASS 5A:  1. Dutch Fork (17) (4-0),  2. Gaffney (1) (4-0),  3. Northwestern (1) (5-0),  4. Summerville (4-0),  5. Irmo (5-0),  6. Sumter (5-0),  7. J.L. Mann (3-1),  8. Hillcrest (4-0),  9. White Knoll (3-1) and  10. Boiling Springs (3-1)…  Others receiving votes: Spartanburg, River Bluff, Greenwood, James Island, West Florence, Dorman.

CLASS 4A:  1. Westside (19) (4-0),  2. Daniel (3-1),  3. Richland Northeast (5-0),  4. South Pointe (3-2),  5. May River (4-0), 6. South Florence (3-2), 7. Seneca (5-0), 8. Camden (3-2), 9. Wren (3-1) and  10. Hartsville (2-1-1)…  Others receiving votes: North Augusta, Gray Collegiate, Hilton Head Island, Bishop England, Fountain Inn.

CLASS 3A:  1. Belton Honea-Path (10),  (4-1) 2. Mountain View Prep (5) (5-0),  3. Marlboro County (2) (4-0),  4. Dillon (2) (3-1),  5. Woodruff (5-0),  6. Loris (4-0),  7. Aynor (4-1),  8. Oceanside Collegiate (2-3),  9. Pendleton (2-2) and  10. Orangeburg-Wilkinson (4-1)…  Others receiving votes: receiving votes: Swansea, Powdersville, Newberry, Keenan, St. Joseph’s Broome, Fox Creek, North Charleston

CLASS 2A:  1. Saluda (8) (4-0),  2. Batesburg-Leesville (5) (4-0),  3. Clinton (1) (3-2),  4. Hampton County (3) (4-1),  5. Fairfield Central (1) (4-1),  6. Barnwell (1) (4-1),  7. Strom Thurmond (3-1),  8. Chesterfield (5-0),  9. Andrews (4-0) and  10. Woodland (4-0)… Others receiving votes: Mullins, Philip Simmons, Manning, Academic Magnet, Landrum, Liberty.

CLASS A:  1. Abbeville (17) (3-1),  2. Lewisville (1) (3-1),  3. Blackville-Hilda (4-1),  4. Bamberg-Ehrhardt (3-2),  5. Lake View (3-1),  6. Dixie (4-0),  7. Lamar (3-2),  8. Branchville (1) (4-0),  9. Cross (3-2),  10. Hunter-Kinard-Tyler (3-1)… Others receiving votes: Hannah-Pamplico, McBee, Williston-Elko, Latta, Baptist Hill.

Two new assistants have joined David Williams’ Presbyterian College softball staff.

Jessica Strong has won 199 games as a head coach and coached at five other schools.

Korynna Anderson comes to PC after a stellar playing career at Big South rival Longwood.

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