By MONTE DUTTON) Logan Bragg (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The Laurens Raiders finished off the regular season with a tense, 5-4, victory over Wren in which neither team scored after the second inning. Laurens (6-20) lost massively to graduation after contending for Class 4A state titles in consecutive seasons. They have an excellent feeder …
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A mad, mad, mad, mad ballgame
By MONTE DUTTON Gaffney's Brady Smith is safe at second (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. A remarkable facet of baseball is how often lifelong fans, veterans of thousands of games, see things they have never seen before. Naturally, on Wednesday night in the bottom of the sixth inning at Clinton High School, a full moon …
Red Devils rebound with vengeance, 16-1
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn went 2/4, driving in three runs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. One night after being shut out for the first time, Clinton High (22-3) was back to its devilish baseball ways on Tuesday when Strom Thurmond (3-18) came to visit. Shortstop Logan Johnson went 3/3, scoring three times and driving …
Fountain Inn ends Clinton streak
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton High School’s baseball team needed to step up the competition in preparation for the Class 2A playoffs. The Red Devils found a bridge too far to cross on Monday when 4A power Fountain Inn came to town and left with a 7-0 victory. It was a …
Young leads Devils, 15-1
By MONTE DUTTON Coach Peyton Spangler greets Camden Finley at third base (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Surprising no one, Clinton (21-2, 9-1 Region 3-2A) turned Eau Claire every which way but loose on Friday evening after the Red Devils honored their seniors at their valley baseball park. The region has been utterly dominated by …
Red Devils shut out Gaffney
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn homered in Gaffney (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Angel Vargas rapped three hits, Owen Glenn homered and singled, and seven different Clinton players drove in runs as the Red Devils clobbered Gaffney, 9-0, on the road Wednesday for their 20th victory of the season. Clinton (20-2) is 9-1 against baseball …
Clinton dispatches Eau Claire with aplomb
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young strikes again (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Clinton High hit the capital city like it was changing planes on Tuesday. The Red Devils took batting practice against Eau Claire, winning for the 11th time in a row with a 15-0, happy-hour annihilation of the Shamrocks. Led by catcher Luke Young …
Clinton drives Southside Christian to distraction
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young takes one deep (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. This wasn’t just another 13-3 runaway. It was, however, a runaway, gradually building and intensifying, executed by the long ball and the crafty bunt, moving runners a base at a time and circling them as if it were a stock-car race. Southside …
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All’s well that ends well at PC spring practice
By MONTE DUTTON Max Holtzclaw fires (Monte Dutton photos). After Presbyterian College’s spring football game on Saturday, I asked the new head coach, Matt Rahl, why the fans called better plays than the coaches. As Dudley Moore once asked in the role of Arthur Bach, “Isn’t fun the greatest thing you can have?” Rahl walked …
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Not a whole lot of close competition
By MONTE DUTTON Avery Barnes drives in a run (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It seemed too fast for a baseball game. With one out in the bottom of the third inning on Friday evening, Clayton Kyko reached base on an error by Fairfield Central’s Caden Brown. Graydon Watkins, who had doubled, scored what was …
Nightrider's Lament 