Clinton continues to heat up with the weather, winning its third baseball game in a row on Wednesday night, 11-4, at Ninety Six.
Catcher Luke Young singled in the third and sixth innings and homered to left in the fourth,
The Red Devils got on the board in the second on Owen Glenn’s two-run double. Both Luke Young and Camden Finley homered in the fourth.
Righthander Zack Lawson earned the decision with five quality innings of work, allowing five hits and one run. Talan Campbell finished up. Austin Wertz took the loss for the Wildcats.
Clinton (4-2) visits Union County on Thursday.

Righthander Emme Buzhardt pitched Furman to a 4-2 victory over Presbyterian in game one as the Paladins earned a doubleheader split versus the Blue Hose Wednesday afternoon at the PC Softball Complex.
Kasey Wolfe went 3/4 at the plate with four RBIs and hurled a one-hitter to power PC to an 8-1 win in the nightcap.
Furman rallied from a 2-0 first-inning deficit to down the Blue Hose, 4-2, in the opening game of the day.

Buzhardt worked around a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the first to toss a complete game without allowing an earned run while upping her record to 4-5. The Saluda native scattered four hits and recorded two strikeouts to earn the win.
Peyton Duncan (6-4) took the loss for the Blue Hose, allowing three runs on seven hits in four innings. She surrendered four walks and struck out three.
After scoring single runs in the first and third innings to grab a 2-0 lead, the Blue Hose pushed across four runs in the bottom of the fourth to take control of the latter game. Gracie Decuir’s triple drove in the first run orf the frame before the outfielder crossed the plate on Audrey Burton’s infield single. Wolfe and Kendall Owens ripped back-to-back RBI doubles to up the PC lead to 6-0 and chase Paladin starter Anergelina Ricciardi.

Wolfe added her second extra-base hit of the game with a two-run homer in the sixth inning to extend the margin to 8-1.
Burton, Wolfe, and Owens each registered three hits in game two to lead Presbyterian’s 12-hit outburst. DeCuir added a pair of hits.
Wolfe struck out two batters and allowed just one walk to improve to 3-4 in the circle. Ricciardi (4-4) allowed six runs on nine hits in 3.2 innings of work to absorb the loss. She walked two batters and fanned four.

Burroughs collected the Paladins’ lone hit in the nightcap.
Furman (10-19) is idle until opening Southern Conference play with its first ever trip to Wofford for a three-game series March 22-23. The Blue Hose (14-12) open a three-game set versus USC Upstate on Friday.
The Pioneer Football League members may not award scholarships but the overwhelming majority are good students.

The Academic Honor Roll contains 728 players. Presbyterian College has 66 of them.
PC is one of four institutions in the 11-team league to set a PFL-era record for Honor Roll members, along with Marist, San Diego and Valparaiso. This is the third consecutive year that the Pioneer League has checked off at least 700 student-athletes for the list.
The PFL Academic Honor Roll was created in 2001 by conference administrators to recognize the outstanding classroom accomplishments of its athletes. The league has recognized over 11,000 players on the Honor Roll in its 23 seasons.

In order to be included on the Honor Roll, one must acquire a 3.0 grade-point average during the fall semester while being enrolled full-time in accordance with NCAA rules.
The bottom of the batting order provided the bulk of the damage in Thornwell’s 11-1 baseball victory over Southside.
The Saints removed all drama with nine runs in the first inning.
Lefty Sam Robertson earned the decision. Thornwell (3-3) visits Abbeville on Friday.
Logan James, Cameron Bryant and Josef Holford combined for four hits, four runs and four RBI.

Led by the tag team of Peyton Duncan and Kasey Wolfe, as well as some clutch 8th-inning offense in the second half of Saturday’s doubleheader, lifted the Presbyterian College softball team to a sweep over Norfolk State (2-0) and Queens (5-2) in the final day of the Winthrop Eagle Classic.
Wolfe and Duncan linked up for 18 strikeouts as the Blue Hose boosted their win streak up to three, collecting their first shutout against the Spartans before later winning their second extra-innings bout.

Senior first-baseman Kendall Owens torched both opponents on Saturday with a 5/7 effort at the plate, while rookie shortstop Baxleigh Arnette was crucial to the Queens victory by going 3/3 with a walk.
Braving strong winds and precipitation against Fairleigh Dickinson, the Presbyterian College lacrosse team found the perfect mix of steady offense and stifling defense in a 15-5 rout over the Knights.

The third home victory for the Blue Hose this year – becoming the third school in the Big South to hit that number – PC led from wire to wire against another northeastern visitor and did not allow FDU to score a single goal in either the second or fourth periods.
Willow Hammond and Emily Currie each scored four times.
Presbyterian men’s soccer forward Damorney Hutchinson signed a professional contract with the New England Revolution II, an MLS NEXT Pro team.
Hutchinson was the 2024 Big South Offensive Player of the Year. He set the program’s Division I era records for goals (12) in a season and a career (19). Hutchinson finished the season seventh in the nation in goals per game at .80. The St. Thomas, Jamaica native scored seven goals against Big South competition.

River Bluff took a 13-8 softball victory over Clinton. The Red Devils scored six of their eight runs in the fifth inning.
Me-Me Smith, Alyssa Young, Cat Wilkie and Sophia Sullivan all rapped singles during the rally. Halleigh Luke went 3/4 in the game.
I really have no excuse for watching all these basketball games. It’s not like I didn’t already watch a day’s worth of them in Johnson City, Tenn., and three days’ worth in Asheville, N.C.
Truth is I’m worn out. I’m coughing, sneezing and my surgically repaired abdomen is queasy. I was so proud of making it through that road trip. Now I’m paying for it. Gosh, it was fun. I’d probably be fine if Furman had won.

I’m weary, but I’m looking forward to hanging out at the county’s ballyards.en
The written word is in decline. More and more folks get their information from what they see and hear. Just my luck. I’m a writer.
If you’ve still got some desire to read my fiction – and some non-fiction – a lot of it is available on Amazon and other bookseller sites. I wrote a modern western about two cowboys returning home to Texas at the end of World War II. It’s called Cowboys Come Home, and there’s also an audio version.
Thanks for putting up with me.