Presbyterian traveled to Tuscaloosa to take on 23rd-ranked Alabama in baseball.
The Crimson Tide won the opener, 10-0, and the second game, 15-1. Neither went the scheduled distance.
Okay.
But the Blue Hose (8-10) won on Sunday, 11-8. As Mel Allen used to say on This Week in Baseball, “How about that!”

Left fielder Ryan Ouzts drove in three runs. Second baseman Trey Fenderson was 3/4. Center fielder Mika Conner and third baseman Matthew Rollison each collected two hits. The Hose scored five times in the sixth inning. Sean Hollister (2-1) didn’t allow an earned run in 4-1/3 inniings.
The Citadel caught PC on the rebound at home on Tuesday and defeated the Hose for the second time, 11-3.
Baseball is a funny game, as Joe Garagiola said in the form of a book title.

Clinton kicker Lukas Kuykendall is joining Rion Gordon, who snapped on his placements, at Brevard College.
Kuykendall should not be underestimated. He has no shortage of dedication. One of the highlights of his junior season was when he managed to corral an errant snap on a punt and somehow secure a first down. He is not a large young man, and he was running for sheer desperation.
On the high school baseball front, Clinton laid waste to Union County, 20-4, Tuesday night. The Red Devils put up six 2-out runs in the first, yielded three to the Yellow Jackets in the second and piled up nine in bottom half.

Camden Finley went the distance (only four innings), walking five and striking out nine.
Catcher Luke Young was 3/4 with a double and four runs batted in. Talan Campbell was likewise 3/4 with four driven in, and Rhett Gilliam drove in five, The Red Devils stole nine bases.
Clinton (3-2) fell to Emerald, 5-2, though Brett Young began the night with a home run.

Laurens took some water in its participation in Georgetown’s elite tournament, which the Raiders almost won last year.
Chapin defeated Lauren,10-0, limiting the Raiders to 10 hits, all singles.
James Island, which defeated Laurens for the state 4A title last year, pounded the Raiders, 11-1, though not as much as the score indicated. Thle e real culprit was 11 walks surrendered by four Laurens pitchers. Tristan Buzbee collected a double among his two hits, and Bennettt Edwards homered.
On Sunday, Laurens needed only three innings to dispense with Georgetown, 11-1. Avery Madden homered, drive in three and had three hits in as many at-bats.

Madden also homered in Laurens’ first game in the tournament, a 12-1 setback to T.L. Hanna.
Woodruff defeated Laurens, 19-6, on the Wolverines’ home softball diamond. Seven third-inning scores doomed the Raiders. Makayden Livington had two singles, Carly Edwards a pair of doubles and Addison Trevino two homers, but Woodruff’s 20 hits included three doubles, a triple and a homer.
Whitmire won Clinton’s softball tournament, which included both the Red Devils and Laurens in its field.
Whitmire handed Laurens (2-2) what, at the time, was its first loss, 7-5. Summer Nations was 3/4 for the Raiders.

Clinton dropped games on Friday, 11-2 to Blacksburg and 12-7 to Greenwood. In the former, Halleigh Luke doubled in both Red Devil runs. Sierra Templeton had two of Clinton’s eight hits in the latter.
Braylee Burke had a big day – two hits, a triple and three RBI, but Wardlaw beat Laurens Academy, 19-8, in softball. Spartanburg Christian bettered the Crusaders, 13-0.
Abbeville defeated Thornwell Charter, 16-1, in baseball. Zach Crowe doubled in the Saints’ only run. Crowe also laced a double, the only Thornwell hit, in a 10-0 loss to Carolina Academy.

Clinton won its golf match against Laurens, 162-182.
Luke McMurray was the medalist with a 39 but followed closely by the rest of his team.

Clinton opened boys’ tennis season with a 4-2 upset of Class 5A Chapin on Tuesday.
The Red Devils’ top four singles players – Nathan Meade, Edwin Orr, Matthew Kin0g and Jacob King – all won. Clinton’s next match is March 20 at home against Region 3-2A opponent Mid-Carolina.

I’m pooped. I’ve got a miserable cold and an upset stomach.
In the long run, a road trip to Johnson City, Tenn., and Asheville, N.C., was probably good for me. All that trudging around Freedom Hall and Harrah’s Cherokee Center made me stronger, at least until a long drive home from Wofford’s victory over Furman in the Southern Conference finals.

It was foggy. I-26 had a major detour. Time had changed, and I didn’t get home until about 2 a.m. A new laptop has gone haywire, probably as a result of too much free and unprotected wi-fi. I’m way behind, and the old laptop is on its last legs.
I need help, but, at the moment, I don’t have time for it. In short, my laptop’s got a virus, and so do I.

Words can ill express my appreciation for the assistance I’ve been getting from lifelong friends and acquaintances in regard to my recent health struggles. I am deeply touched at the concern of people I’ve known for most of my life.

The coming months will bring more change, and I don’t know yet what shape it will take.
Thanks for reading my stories, overlooking my flaws and indulging our differences.
My books, most of them fiction, are available at Amazon and on other bookseller sites. I’ve written two novels about stock-car racing, Lightning in a Bottle, and the sequel, Life Gets Complicated, both about fictional young driver Barrie Jarman.
Thanks for putting up with me.