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By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues against Mercer a season ago (Elena Davidson photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Alas, old Timmons, we knew her well. This is no Hamlet. Timmons Arena is just going away as the home of the Furman Paladins for a season. After Furman (16-14, 10-7 SoCon) closes its men’s basketball regular season against Mercer (14-16, …
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Kate Johnson (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The Southern Conference champion apparent, Chattanooga, had too much for a game Furman team in a 60-53 victory over the Paladins on Thursday night at Timmons Arena. Raven Thompson scored 11 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to power the Mocs. Chattanooga (24-4, 12-1 SoCon), the regular-season champion, used a strong …
Continue reading Paladin women can’t stop Mocs’ reign, softball delayed by rain
Jonah Pierce jockeys for position against UNC Asheville earlier this season. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The final games Saturday are crucial to Presbyterian College’s seedings in next week’s Big South Basketball Tournament in High Point, N.C. For Quinton Ferrell’s men’s team, a victory over Charleston Southern on Saturday at Templeton Center is particularly important. …
Continue reading County Signs: Blue Hose teams in tight race to Big South Tournament
Tilda Sjokvist led the Blue Hose . (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ On a crucial Wednesday evening, with the Big South Conference winding down, Presbyterian basketball experienced mixed results in games against USC Upstate. The women’s team slipped past the Spartans at Templeton Center, while, at Spartanburg’s G.B. Hodge Center, Upstate delivered a crushing blow to …
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J.P. Pegues scored 35 points and surpassed 1,000 career points. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Furman could not win on J.P. Pegues alone. That’s a bit unfair. Pegues scored a career-best 35 points on Wednesday night in Western Carolina’s 85-77 victory over the Paladins, which raised the Catamounts into a fourth-place tie with …
Kate Johnson returns from injury Thursday night. (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It’s a tough test at Timmons on Thursday at 7 p.m. when Chattanooga, already the Southern Conference’s regular-season titlist, takes on Furman. The Paladins conclude the regular season on Saturday, playing host to East Tennessee State in a 7 p.m. women’s basketball contest that represents …
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Walter Todd at the Laurens County Amateur at Lakeside in 2022. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Anthony Downs, Charles Peterson, Walter Todd, Jean Hammond Whitfield and Robert P. Wilder are the five new members of the Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame. The Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame will induct five members into its …
Continue reading County signs: Five added to sports Hall of Fame
By MONTE DUTTON Furman took a hardfought, 65-62, victory over Western Carolina on Jan. 20. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The Furman Paladins have had their ups and downs, highs and lows, and wins and losses in an exciting, if erratic, ongoing defense of their Southern Conference championship in men’s basketball. Knock on wood. Or, at …
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Carson Glenn (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Carson Glenn has pitched in both of Clinton High’s baseball games and is yet to give up an earned run. He is 0-2, as are the Red Devils, who fell to Mid-Carolina, 5-0, in their second outing in Emerald’s Greenwood tournament, the CFP Invitational, on Monday night. Three …
Continue reading County signs: Devils’ Glenn takes another tough loss
By MONTE DUTTON Timmons Arena, as we now know it, will soon be no more. (Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ I was at Furman on Monday for Bob Richey’s biweekly media availability. I am one of journalism’s more absurdly punctual practitioners. When I drive from Clinton to Furman, I factor in the possibility of a flat …
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