Samford's Achor Achor and Furman's Marcus Foster (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Wednesday was momentous. I knew the high-school region assignments were imminent, but I was occupied all afternoon and evening. I’m not much of a multi-tasker – the Samford at Furman basketball game had my undivided attention until 2:30 a.m. – but a friend asked …
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Samford streaking no more
By MONTE DUTTON Garrett Hien was clean behind the scenes. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Had you attended Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game at Timmons Arena and known that one team had the nation’s longest winning streak without knowing which one it was, you likely would have picked the one wearing gray. You would have been …
Missing pieces completing the puzzles
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Things happen. Changes are made. People adjust. Life moves on. Sports are no different from anything else. What sets sports apart is that wins and losses are easier to see. Committees, panels, councils, senates, assemblies, federations, confederations, leagues, associations, et al., are all prone to hiding behind doors of various kinds. …
Porter aims to make LDHS foes green with envy
By MONTE DUTTON Raiders meet new football coach Greg Porter. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Why did Greg Porter leave a splendid Greenville High School football program to resurrect the fortunes of the Laurens Raiders? The man likes a challenge. At each stop on his road, Porter has taken a downtrodden program and elevated it to …
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SoCon’s top ‘Dogs to test toughness at Timmons
By MONTE DUTTON Ben Vander Wal, PJay Smith, Carter Whitt, Garrett Hien and Alex Williams are bracing for another big one. (Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ When a sports team wins 17 games in a row, it naturally develops an aura of invincibility. If we won’t be beat, we can’t be beat. Forgive the grammar. That’s …
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Paladins distracted by Terriers’ snarls
Head coach Pierre Curtis (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ SPARTANBURG – Wofford and Furman played a women’s basketball game on Saturday that looked like it was played outdoors, whereas, Richardson Indoor Stadium is titularly not. It was cold out there. Wofford was cold. Furman was colder, and the Terriers won, 69-51. The Paladins fired their first 17 …
PC teams blunt Lancers at home, get lanced away
Tilda Sjokvist (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges One unfortunate streak ended and another continued on Saturday as the Presbyterian College basketball teams took on Longwood, the victorious women at Templeton Center and the men who fell short in Farmville, Va. The women ended a modest two-game losing streak, and the men’s consecutive setbacks stretched to five. …
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Pegues buries trey of the day
By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues made the difference ... literally. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman and Western Carolina played so hard on Saturday that the crowd was sweating … and crying tears of joy when J.P. Pegues buried Western Carolina with a pristine triple with 0.8 seconds on the clock, 65-62. Pegues hit it, but …
Crusader girls breeze, boys sneeze
Rylee Ballard encounters resistance. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Where girls’ basketball was concerned on Friday night at Laurens Academy, it was a jubilee. Head coach Jason Marlett was honored for winning 200 games at the helm of the Crusaders, who crushed Wardlaw, 55-16. Near the end of the third quarter, LA’s Olivia Huck scored her …
Furman women to pay Wofford a call
Kate Johnson (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The schools playing women’s basketball at Richardson Indoor Stadium on Saturday at 2 p.m. are similar. The Furman Paladins (11-7, 1-1 SoCon) and the Wofford Terriers (9-7, 1-1) do, too. Both have thus far defeated Western Carolina and lost to UNC Greensboro. Furman hasn’t played a home conference game. This …
Nightrider's Lament 