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 …
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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 …
Blue Hose to build back better
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants On the very week that Rob Acunto’s departure was announced (by Fresno State), I find myself suddenly upbeat about Presbyterian College’s football program. I wandered around at Friday morning’s opening practice, and the Blue Hose look better, bigger, faster, quicker, deeper and more motivated. I like the crack …
Acunto heads west to the Golden State
By MONTE DUTTON Blue Hose, reacting to the departure of Rob Acunto. Nah. Just running on the field. (Mitchell Mercer photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Gee whiz. At breakfast, I was lost in thought over the impending departure of Reclusive Rob. I mean, I don’t want to be too harsh. Who am I kidding? Yes, I do. Tonight …
Are you ready to rumble?
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) There's an old baseball movie called It Happens Every Spring. https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges It happens every fall, too. When I was growing up / The biggest thing around our town / Was watching my old high school play / They didn't mess around. Before the week is over, all the football …
Ain’t no beatin’ the heat
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devils are looking for a few good linemen. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants At Clinton High School, Corey Fountain put his football team on the official-practice field at 7:30 a.m. Friday. Laurens and Laurens Academy practiced into the cool instead of out of it. The morning dew had been swept from the …
Huff, Sochovka to lead Paladin charge
By MONTE DUTTON From left, Matt Sochovka, Tyler Huff and Furman sports information director Hunter Reid (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ When I arrived at the Southern Conference’s football Media Day on Thursday, I was happy to see that my two favorite Furman players, Tyler Huff and Matt Sochovka, accompanied head coach Clay Hendrix to the …
Up close and televised
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Brian Harman is a small, bald man from Savannah, Ga., who came from just this side of nowhere on Sunday in Hoylake, England, to win his third PGA Tour event ever. It was a major. The Open Championship, or, since we have an Open across the pond, too, the British …
Expectations and aspirations
By MONTE DUTTON Corey Fountain has many holes to fill. (Monte Dutton photo) YORK – High-school media days, on the rare occasions when they have them anymore, are always family affairs. The rivers have many tributaries. https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges The Woolbright system, whose headwaters are in Chapin, gained strength when Clover High School’s Perry Woolbright intersected with …
A great man gets his due
By MONTE DUTTON From left, Bernard Durham, Bobby Sheridan and Robbie Caldwell (Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ NORTH AUGUSTA – It was hot, not unlike football practices 40 years ago. It led me to words written by Tom T. Hall, paraphrased to reflect the passage of time. Was that only yesterday or 40 years ago? Lions …
