By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s hard to beat fun at the old ballpark. Somehow, in addition to snapping over 300 photos – deleted about 200, used 15 or so, saved the rest for future use – I managed to engage in friendly conversations with friends and foes alike. Furman assistant football …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: PC wins barrage of batters
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. It’s been almost 40 years since lights were installed at Wrigley Field. I can still immediately identify a night game there. Shadows cover the backs of all the players. The Friendly Confines have no light stands over the outfields. One reason I’m a good speller is that I …
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Red Devils nail down another region title
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The games that begin next week mean everything, but the one played Friday night at Clinton High School was pretty darn close. The Red Devils’ 2-0 baseball victory over Union County was pretty darn close in general. By winning, Clinton (13-10, 6-2) won Region 4-3A for the …
Furmanology: Searching for a pot of gold
By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues is moving along. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Ain’t gonna be no more Willie Totten to Jerry Rice at Mississippi Valley. Walter Payton blazing a trail at Jackson State? Ken Anderson quarterbacking Augustana? Walt Frazier at Southern Illinois? Centenary’s Robert Parish? Get outta town! Maybe this is how it should …
County Signs: A night for the locally famous
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. At this stage of my career, the best part of the annual Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame is that the audience mainly consists of people my age and older. They knew my parents. They ate at the Wrangler. They bought watermelons at my grandfather’s store. Those …
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County Signs: Raiders, Blue Hose play baseball adeptly
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The National Basketball Association, which I discover each year at this time, is fun. My way of watching may be a bit unconventional. For great stretches of time, I pay little attention because I am writing, editing, laying out and dickering with photos. I can get lost …
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Furmanology: Follow the bouncing ball
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The lingo of basketball constantly changes. It’s as if coaches go off to clinics and camps and come back speaking a whole new language. This has been going on for decades. It's almost as fast as technology. Every time a fellow feels like he's caught up, everything …
Blue Hose Blurbs: PC women advance in High Point
Tilda Sjokvist (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Presbyterian won its first-round tournament game for the first time in women's basketball since 2017. The Blue Hose eliminated Charleston Southern, a thorn in their side in the rgular season. A bevy of women's wrestlers are off to the national championship. Softball has a busy weekend in Florida. …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: It’s Big South tournament time
Tilda Sjokvist (left) and Bryanna Brady (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ For both Presbyterian College basketball teams, winning the Hercules Tires Big South Championship tournament is a long shot, but not as long as in the four years preceding it. For instance, the Blue Hose men avoided a play-in game for the first time in Quinton …
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County Signs: A whole lotta ball being played
Hunter Nabors (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Lots of laced spheres were bouncing around on Thursday, when Laurens won its first, Clinton won its first (albeit after two losses) and Presbyterian split a doubleheader. PC had a monopoly on the actual county in baseball as the Raiders played in a Georgetown tournament and the Red Devils …
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Nightrider's Lament 