(Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON In baseball, and most sports, the last cut is the deepest. On Friday night, at Ed Prescott Field, it was administered by the Catawba Ridge Copperheads, so perhaps it was a strike, but it was 4-2 and advanced the Fort Mill school to the Class 4A state finals. Laurens’ …
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Ridiculous 9th hustles Hose past Radford
(PC photo) RADFORD, Va. – Presbyterian won its 20th baseball game on Thursday night, playing Radford, which has a snazzy stadium, all synthetic-turfed, and wears snazzy, pin-striped uniforms that do not match the Highlanders’ 9-44 record. The Blue Hose (20-33, 11-14 Big South) and Highlanders (1-24 conference) were competitive until the late innings, when PC …
Outside the foul lines
(Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON As its baseball team celebrated on Wednesday night, it appeared as if Clinton High School had only one team. Football won Region 4-3A in the fall. Boys basketball won it in the winter, and baseball won it in the spring. It’s unlikely the Red Devils have ever pulled that …
Bats fail Raiders in Upstate opener
Bennett Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) FORT MILL – Laurens couldn’t handle Catawba Ridge pitchers Peyton Dhein and Caden Glauber, who combined on a two-hitter to throttle the Raiders, 4-0, in the first game of the Class 4A Upstate championship series Tuesday night. Mason Hamby, who took the loss on the mound, and catcher Bennett Edwards, …
Red Devils slide out of Union with streak intact
Union County's Tanner Hardin steals second ahead of Zach Fortman's tag. (Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON UNION – It was hard for Clinton to defeat Union County three times. Obviously. That’s what “they say.” “They” were right. The Red Devils, who won the Region 4-3A baseball championship at the Yellow Jackets' expense, opened the …
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Red Devils, Raiders to keep swinging bats
(Monte Dutton photo) Clinton and Laurens are both three victories into the baseball playoffs, but both are still playing familiar foes. The Red Devils are 2-0 against the Union County Yellow Jackets, and the Raiders are 1-2 against the Greenwood Eagles. In 3A, Clinton (21-3) is playing at Union in game one of the Upstate …
Blue Hose must regroup
Jack Gorman (PC photo) CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Presbyterian College baseball has its back to the wall, but Tuesday night’s 7-6 loss to Western Carolina had little to do with it. Nor did the weekend series at powerful Miami – the Hurricanes prevailed at a three-game clip of 37-7 and surely a generous stipend was involved …
Clinton engine purs, 11-1
Justin Copeland's right on it. (Monte Dutton photo) It all worked out rather nicely in hindsight. Four nights earlier, Clinton had opened awfully in its second playoff baseball game, coming from six runs behind to win, 7-6, over Wren. The Red Devils awakened dramatically to a wake-up call. Thus chastened, the Red Devils pounded Pendleton, …
Still a long way from over
Clinton's Wil Stewart (Monte Dutton photos) The baseball teams of Clinton and Laurens high schools have won their share of laughers, but now the playoffs have arrived and the going’s gotten tougher. Both the Red Devils and Raiders have proved themselves tough. On Thursday night, Clinton (20-3) spotted Wren six runs and roared back to …
Raiders storm back in late innings
Owen Pridgen (Monte Dutton file photo) NORTH AUGUSTA – Comebacks are in style. Owen Pridgen’s two-run single in the top of the seventh inning gave Laurens an 8-6 Class 4A baseball playoff victory Friday night over North Augusta after the Raiders trailed by five runs after an inning. A night earlier, Clinton came from six …
