Tilda Sjokvist (PC photo) Click here. COLUMBIA – Even the most ruthless of Gamecock fans had to look at the outwomaned Presbyterians and think, Hate it for you. A little? It could not have happened any other way. The No. 1 team in the nation, South Carolina, defeated the onetime fifth seed of the Big …
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County Signs: Clinton softball can’t buy a break
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, long before one could drive a stolen car coast to coast on his “device,” kids used to play games such as trying to get a peer to believe something ridiculous. Once, while playing golf, I got a chum to believe that Atlanta Braves pitcher …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: No magic for Hose at Fluor Field
(PC photo) Click here. The nation of Presbyterian College sports, comparatively small in the overall pantheon, was stretched a little thin for Greenville’s Fluor Field on Wednesday evening. The overwhelming majority of the 2,744 watching Clemson play PC in baseball were wearing orange. Some Blue Hose parents and Greenvillians likely stopped by the minor-league Fenway …
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Wide-eyed Blue Hose keep miracle alive
(PC photo) Click here. COLUMBIA – The Blue Hose led all night long with their backs to a wall. Presbyterian College, the smallest school, 8-8 in the Big South Conference, surprise tournament champion, defeated Sacred Heart, 49-42, for not only the first NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament (First Four) victory but in the first game. Ever. …
County Signs: Raiders rule … but just barely
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I retired to the house so that I could watch Presbyterian College play women’s basketball on TV, but I regretted leaving the baseball being played by the ancestral Laurens County rivals on Wednesday night. The Blue Hose won, so I can’t really say I misplayed it. I took a plethora …
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Furmanology: Donnelly honored among peers
(Furman graphic) Click here. I’m confident I was among the first 10,000 to notice the common thread in the past two coaches to defeat the University of Virginia in the NCAAs. Nothing against the Cavs. It wasn’t personal. Did it strike you as odd that six teams from the Mountain West made the field, all …
County Signs: Raiders win eighth straight
Owen Pridgen (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One just never knows what’s coming up when the high-school kids start playing various kinds of ball. Some of it is reasonably predictable. Laurens is ranked third in Class 4A baseball, and the Raiders won their eighth straight game and second in as many nights over Hillcrest. Thornwell …
Blue Hose to face daughters of Pioneers
By MONTE DUTTON Tilda Sjokvist (4) (PC photo) Click here. What it mainly was on the YouTube live feed was heartwarming. Right now, on the likely eve of destruction, Presbyterian College is proud of its women’s basketball team. Alaura Sharp was sitting right where she always wanted to be, coaching a team in the NCAA …
Furmanology: Baseball gone, basketball over
Clark Akers (Furman photo) Click here. Furman is hustling and bustling as best it can without a baseball team. That’s old news, of course, but hope springs. The longest shot of the month is in Clinton, where the Presbyterian College women’s basketball team won the Big South tournament and is now preparing for an NCAA …
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County Signs: Basketball miraculously lives
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Who knew the last of the basketball would be at Presbyterian College? The Blue Hose women’s basketball team is playing Sacred Heart of Fairfield, Conn., in the NCAA Tournament’s play-in game. PC, the fifth seed in the Big South, swept through the tournament. The Pioneers of the not usually pioneerish …
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