Chris Boyd (24) and Kadon Crawford take care of Chester quarterback Trooper Floyd. (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Youth was served in the final Player of the Week chosen by the Laurens County Touchdown Club. Sophomore defensive back Chris Boyd earned the honor for his performance in Clinton High School’s 27-24 loss to Belton-Honea Path in …
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Two kinds of endings
By MONTE DUTTON Daryl Smith (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges I have no business taking any role in the hiring and firing of coaches, or, quite possibly, anyone else. I’m going to miss Daryl Smith. I enjoyed every minute I spent with him. I think the world of him and wish with all my heart he’d …
Sometimes it ain’t your day
By MONTE DUTTON Looking at a long day (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Many years ago, I had been at a (then) Busch Series race at (then) Lowe’s Motor Speedway, and my wise colleague Jim McLaurin and I returned to our lodging in time to see the end of the Furman-Appalachian State game on television. That day …
Wyoming inexplicably prospers near the ocean
CONWAY – It takes a crowded weekend to draw attention away from Bob Richey’s Furman basketball team. It takes a bit of shock and awe, the kind that spreads from a stunning football upset at Wofford and the release of seedings for the FCS playoffs. For the second year in a row, the Furman men …
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Ferrell’s Blue Hose continue to surprise
Kory Mincy (PC photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Presbyterian lost any sense of infallibility but kept rolling along by winning two of three games at the First Coast Classic. The Blue Hose cashed in Saturday’s final game, 78-75, over Northwestern (La.) State after falling, 80-66, to Maine on Friday. Presbyterian (5-1) began the North Florida-hosted tournament …
Furman seeded 7th with home playoff game Dec. 2
(Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ A shocking Saturday loss to Wofford made it a bit more nervous and cost Furman a few seedings, but the Paladins are safely seeded seventh with a first-round bye in the playoffs of the Football Championship Subdivision. (It’s the same reason one should occasionally say the Pledge of Allegiance, just to make …
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Blue Hose come through in final clutch
(PC photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ A year of painstaking but frustrating improvement ended warmly as Presbyterian closed out Morehead State, 31-27, on Saturday at Bailey Memorial Stadium, thanks to a timely defense with a taste for turnovers. The Blue Hose stopped the Eagles just a week after Morehead State put a stop to Davidson’s Pioneer Football League …
Something so right turns out to be so wrong
By MONTE DUTTON Cally Chizik's fifth interception of the season (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Wofford stunned Furman, 19-13, on Saturday. No one knows why. Clay Hendrix doesn’t know. What toll the Terriers took on the Paladin’s post-season prospects remains to be seen. Such upsets happen seldom. Usually they are between rivals. Give Wofford (2-9, 2-6 SoCon) …
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Henderson leads Bears past Red Devils, 27-24
By MONTE DUTTON Tushawan Richardson drove BHP to distraction. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges HONEA PATH – Endings are hard. Endings are sad. When high-school playoffs come around, only one team in each classification wins its final game, and Belton-Honea Path ended Clinton’s season with a 27-24 victory on Friday night in the Class 3A third …
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The Ospreys aren’t biting (back) in Florida
Jamahri Harvey (PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Let’s see. Commodores. Rams. Bulldogs. Ospreys. The Presbyterian College men’s basketball team has beaten them all. Not that 4-0 by itself is that impressive. The Blue Hose defeated North Florida, 81-69, in the first round of the First Coast Classic in Jacksonville, Fla. PC has won the first four games …
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Nightrider's Lament 