By MONTE DUTTON PC's Joel Dragoo (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The best thing about pro baseball is the crack of the bat. I remember when all bats were wooden. We used them to fend off the dinosaurs. They gave away thousands of them at an annual Atlanta Braves game. I got a Felipe Alou. …
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County Signs: The sporting life and the real one
By MONTE DUTTON A Wilder Stadium Friday night (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Sports ain’t real, man. It’s better than real life. Most of my life has been devoted to it. I’ve relished that it’s not real. It’s microcosmic, perhaps in too many ways. I fear it’s becoming macrocosmic. True Grit isn’t a real depiction …
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County Signs: Clinton wrestler commits to PC
Sandro Guzman answers questions from WLBG's Mike Hughes (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Sandro Guzman has only wrestled competitively for two years. He came in when Clinton High School started a team. That’s not where it stops. The Red Devil senior signed a letter of intent on Tuesday to grapple with the Blue Hose of …
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Odds are trouble’s on the way
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. We’ll all know that gambling –oh, I’m sorry, it’s not gambling, it’s merely gaming – has completely taken over when folks can put money on the outcome of a Trump trial. Maybe even a parlay. Gambling is one of many areas of life that seems to be relentlessly …
Holiday observations and recollections
By MONTE DUTTON Laurens catcher Bennett Edwards during the national anthem (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball had quite a run in Laurens County, and it’s weird to write that before it’s June, but I’ve got to acclimate myself to the rest of it because mostly I’ve been paying attention to the Blue Hose, Raiders …
County Signs: Raiders spring forward, Hose fall back
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. At the end of Laurens’ spring football game on Thursday evening, head coach Greg Porter took microphone in hand to thank the attendees for being at K.C. Hanna Stadium. It was rather hot and airless, and the baseball team had fallen in the state finals the night …
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Blue Hose fail in favorite’s role
Daniel Eagen fanned 10 Bucs. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. HIGH POINT, N.C. – The opening game of the Big South Championship baseball tournament on Thursday was almost a “must win” for the top-seeded Presbyterian Blue Hose. Fourth-seeded Charleston Southern (22-30) shocked the Hose, 5-4, in the tourney opener at Truist Point, the minor-league home …
State title eludes Raiders, 10-7
By MONTE DUTTON Tori Patterson watches Coleman Coker uncork. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One of my favorite characters, the late Jim Beauchamp, used to welcome in the writers and sometimes say, “Boys, sometimes you’ve just got to tip your cap to the opposition.” Then “Beech” would remove the Greenville Braves cap, with its logo …
County Signs: Blue Hose go title-hunting in High Point
By MONTE DUTTON Shortstop Brody Fahr (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Presbyterian College is headed to High Point seeking another one. The top-seeded Blue Hose open the Big South Conference Baseball Championship on Thursday at 1 p.m. against fourth-seeded Charleston Southern (21-30). The tournament is being conducted at Truist Point in High Point, N.C., home …
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Sheridan legend still spreads
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman graphic) Click here. Dick Sheridan was a man of great fame. To his credit, he was inducted into most halls while he was still alive. It’s probably impossible for me to name them all: college football, Furman, Furman athletic, state athletic, state football and now Southern Conference. At least. The most …
Nightrider's Lament 