(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ This Saturday finds the Presbyterian College women at Templeton Center to play a crucial Big South Conference basketball game versus the Longwood Lancers of Farmville, Va. Alternately, the Blue Hose are also playing the Longwood men at 2 p.m., but in Farmville. A week from Saturday, the time/space continuum will warp …
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Opportunity to knock at Timmons Arena
By MONTE DUTTON Marcus Foster -- and Paladins -- running free again. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Last night I thought of what Gen. George S. Patton – no, wait, it was George C. Scott portraying Patton – said: “I was nearly sent home in disgrace. Now I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the …
Red Devils on a rampage
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants I thought of an old Lefty Frizzell song while watching basketball Tuesday night: “I’m an Old, Old Man (Trying to Live While I Can).” I staked out a place on the front row. I need a seat because I take stats on a legal pad while I’m shooting photos. As the …
Blue Hose can’t climb High Point … from either side
Samage Teel (2) (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Once again, Presbyterian’s basketball teams lost, the men’s team in a close affair at Templeton Center, the women in a dismal showing in High Point. The men’s team, which began its season with a shocking upset of Vanderbilt, lost its fourth straight Big South Conference game and third …
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Furman assault overruns VMI, 100-60
Marcus Foster is baaaaaaack. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ LEXINGTON, Va. – Furman arrived at Virginia Military Institute on Wednesday evening poised to flex its muscles. Everyone who had been missing arrived at Cameron Hall ready to rock and roll. And so they did, decimating the Keydets, 100-60. Marcus Foster, J.P. Pegues and Alex Williams all …
Clinton finds flaws in Cyclones
By MONTE DUTTON The Red Devils ransacked Chester. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Clinton girls’ basketball coach John Gardner said, “It’s been a crazy week.” The Red Devils and the Chester Cyclones played a pair of crazy Region 4-3A varsity basketball games at CHS on Tuesday night. They were crazy in good ways for Clinton and …
Blue Hose to face challenge at High Point
Kory Mincy is Big South Freshman of the Week for the third time. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian College must nip a sinking feeling in the bud, particularly in men’s basketball. The Blue Hose have lost three Big South Conference games in a row after winning at Charleston Southern in their opener. A year ago, …
Furman finds fun in winning identity
By MONTE DUTTON Alex Williams launches. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ A season ago, Furman really started rolling when head coach Bob Richey started talking about joy. The Paladins started talking about how it was important to have fun, and sure enough, nothing was more fun than winning, and off they went to see the Wizard …
The wild, mild world of sports
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants The National Football League is fantastic at playoff time. Early in the season, the best players look rusty, as if they didn’t play in exhibition games. In most cases, this is because they didn’t. To summarize, at the beginning of the regular season, most all the teams looked like …
Spartans end Paladin women’s streak
Kate Johnson (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The team ranked best defensively in the Southern Conference lived up its billing on Saturday afternoon as UNC Greensboro ended Furman’s four-game, women’s basketball winning streak, 70-55, at Fleming Gym. Jayde Gamble scored 13 points to lead UNCG (13-4, 2-0 SoCon) past the Paladins, who got 19 points and eight …
Nightrider's Lament 