By MONTE DUTTON Nick Fowler had a shortage of options. (Monte Dutton photos) Led by running back Thomas Stanley and a duo of quarterbacks who combined to complete 11-12 passes, Hillcrest mauled Laurens, 55-9, at K.C. Hanna Stadium on Friday night. https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges There’s just no other way to put it. “It wasn’t ever good, not …
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By MONTE DUTTON The glistening sweat of summer days leads to Friday-night lights. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Lots of things I didn’t like as a kid I love today. I’ve got a lot more sense now. For all you kids out there in Internet Land, this is going to happen to you. You’re going to …
Looking for the heart of Friday night
Nick Fowler fires (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges A fan can get up, walk outside, yawn, stare at the horizon and imagine a football season that never ends. It now seems plausible. It seemed as if it would never get here, and now it stretches out, barely finite. It doesn’t matter which team. It only matters …
Something’s in the clouds
By MONTE DUTTON Comprehensive cloud cover over York Comprehensive High (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Oh, what clouds. Life is starting to reverse. When I was a kid, I lied on my back in the front yard and stared at the clouds, seeing the shapes of pawing lions, pretty girls and spaceships briefly in their perpetually …
Devils, Raiders knighted in York
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants YORK – The Bill Pate White Rose Football Classic was worth the trip for both the Laurens Raiders, who played at 6 p.m. Friday night, and the Clinton Red Devils, who arrived on the artificial turf at 9. Both won – Laurens, 17-7, over Fort Mill, and Clinton, …
Waldron reaps rewards of a tennis life
By MONTE DUTTON Chuck Waldron's next stop is the S.C. Tennis Hall of Fame. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges I have known Chuck Waldron since we entered the first grade together. He has heard distant drums – okay, the thump-thump-thump of tennis balls bouncing nearby – for all the years since. Given his lifelong devotion to …
It’s early yet, but preseason rankings are out
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges No one has snapped a ball in anger yet, but inquiring minds want to know a media panel’s preseason rankings of S.C. High School League football. https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Laurens plays three teams – Hillcrest, Hanna and Chapman – listed in the rankings. Clinton (Chapman, Chester) plays two, and Thornwell (Great Falls) plays …
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Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying
By MONTE DUTTON (Elena Davidson photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman football has been ranked as high as fifth in various preseason forecasts of the Football Championship Subdivision, which is why people just say FCS whether or not they know what it is. I’ve never seen the need to suppress I-AA. The Paladins finished 10th last season, and …
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Devils roll, Raiders scuffle
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Laurens County’s top high-school football teams engaged in exhibition scrimmages about 10 miles apart on Tuesday night, escaping harsh weather that prevented play the night before. Mauldin transported its herd of Mavericks to K.C. Hanna Stadium an hour earlier than Chapin’s Eagles nested at Wilder. Mostly overcast skies …
Pretty pictures on a hot day
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges On Saturday in the heat of the day, on one end of the K.C. Hanna turf, the Laurens Raiders got their chance to smile for the camera. Few took advantage. Football players prefer to look tough, as if they were imitating Ray Nitschke. No one smiles like Joe …
Nightrider's Lament 