By MONTE DUTTON

Maybe Presbyterian College ought to play all its basketball games in the daytime.
While the men’s team was obliterating Columbia College at Templeton Center on Wednesday, the women were winning their first game of the season in Durham, N.C.
It was Education Day at PC, where mostly middle-and elementary-school kids were squealing as if Herman’s Hermits were hitting the stage. (Yes, that ages me, and, no, I don’t know a modern equivalent. I only know that it was too small a venue for Taylor Swift.)
The cheerleaders loved them. They took part in every cheer.

Quinton Ferrell’s Blue Hose took care of Columbia College with little drama and loads of excitement. Presbyterian (6-5) steamrolled the Koalas, 97-57, and a little over five minutes into the contest, it was 16-2, and so on and so forth.
In fairness to Columbia College (8-6), it is its first men’s basketball team. The school only enrolled men for the first time in 2020. Only two of its players are freshmen. The rest are transfers, ranging from Francis Marion and Newberry to State Fair Community College of Sedalia, Mo. The seven-footer, junior James Munlyn, is from there. He played 27 minutes and scored four points and grabbed three rebounds.

PC put five players in double figures, led by Kobe Stewart with 21 points.
Jamahri Harvey added 17, Kory Mincy 14, Carl Parrish 12 and Jaylen Peterson 11 (and 12 rebounds). Kaleb Scott had a double eights (points and rebounds). Parrish distributed seven assists, Mincy six, and as a team, the Blue Hose shot .587 overall, .440 for three and .750 at the foul line.
Columbia College’s corresponding percentages were .361, .261 and .700.

The Blue Hose outrebounded the Koalas, 44-26, and dished off 25 assists (from 37 field goals) while Columbia had nine.
Thomas Whitley led the Koalas with 15 points.
The Blue Hose play Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Take a look at the stats here.

In a game that started an hour earlier, at 11 a.m., first-year head coach Tiffany Sardin’s women’s team won for the first time, 67-63, over North Carolina Central.
Aminata Tal, a junior from Saint Louis, Senegal, led the Blue Hose with 21 points in a game marred by turnovers on both sides. Tal had seven of them, and PC committed 32 while forcing 27.
Presbyterian (1-8) led at the end of every quarter, though not by much.
The Blue Hose posted season bests with a .481 field-goal percentage, 11 steals and 21 made free throws.

Laney Scoggins pulled down nine rebounds, put up seven points and swiped three steals. Paige Kindseth recorded 11 points while shooting a perfect 7/-7 from the charity stripe.
The Eagles (0-11) put three in double figures: Morgan Callahan scored 15 points, and Kyra Bryant and Shakilia Foster 14 apiece. PC won on the boards, 41-31.
The Blue Hose host Coastal Carolina on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Take a look at the stats here.

WPCC’s radio coverage begins at 1:30 on Thursday for the Clinton-Barnwell game for the Class 2A state football championship, which begins at 2.
If the Red Devils win, the radio voice of the Red Devils, Buddy Bridges promises that the station’s “Saturday Morning Rewind” at 9 a.m. from Whiteford’s Drive-In will be an extravaganza.

The game can be heard via 96.5 FM, 1410 AM and streaming at largetime.net.

Elliott Pollock released the PC baseball schedule, which consists of 25 home and 26 road games.
The Blue Hose kick off the 2025 slate on Valentines Day in Clinton, hosting Georgetown in a three-game series.
PC won the Big South regular season earlier this year with a record of 29-27.

This year’s slate includes clashes against SEC and ACC opponents, along with seven schools who competed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament: Clemson, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Wofford, Georgia and High Point.
Take a look at the schedule here.
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