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Coleman Coker (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Laurens remains alive in the Class 4A baseball as a result of Saturday’s 7-4 victory versus Daniel (20-8) in Central, thus atoning fo a 3-2 loss to the Lions on May 6. In between, the Raiders defeated Blue Ridge on May 8. Monday finds Laurens visiting Daniel for …
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(Photo courtesy John Clayton) Click here. Laurens kept its hopes alive in Class 4A baseball and softball. Clinton flexed its Class 2A muscles in baseball, while its softball team’s fate depends on a Friday home game against Landrum. The Red Devils lost their playoff opener, 10-1, to Ninety Six. Thornwell is no more in the …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Clinton High School, undefeated at 11-0, is playing for the state boys’ tennis championship on Saturday in Cayce at 10 a.m. Red Devil teams have already won the Class 2A state title in football and reached the Upstate final in girls’ basketball. This is always a tall order, never more …
By MONTE DUTTON Tommy Spangler (Furman photo) Click here. At about the same time I arrived in the baseball valley on Tuesday, a familiar figure in a red shirt and a purple cap yelled my name. He brought someone with him. Was it a Clinton fan with Saluda roots? The only such person I know …
Bennett Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Well, here we go. The playoffs are underway. It doesn’t mean that all the games are fraught with tension, but the tension is going to rise as the process that determines state championships runs its course. In baseball, both Laurens and Clinton closed their regular seasons with an …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Lord, have mercy on the Presbyterian Blue Hose. If not for bad luck, the baseball team would have no luck at all. High Point just wrapped up the Big South regular-season championship by sweeping the Blue Hose 10-4, 8-5 and 15-5 on PC’s home field. Presbyterian has lost 11 of …
Continue reading The question at PC is will it get any better?
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Both Laurens and Clinton highs experienced early disappointments in baseball region play. The Raiders lost three straight to Fountain Inn (21-5, 13-2), and the Red Devils fell twice to Mid-Carolina (18-7, 10-0). Neither has lost in region play since, and as such, optimism rises as …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I don’t know where I got The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. I don’t remember when. I didn’t know I had it until I rummaged through a box looking for a book to read. I can only speculate. I may have bought it when I was interested in the World …
Zay Pulley (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Laurens crossed the lake as if it was Washington crossing the Delaware on Wednesday night, defeating Greenwood, 8-6, behind three hits from third baseman Coleman Coker and a leadoff homer from second sacker Zay Pulley. Pulley’s blast and Avery Madden’s double staked the Raiders to a 4-0 lead, …
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