County Signs: The fight is on for Region 2-4A

Coleman Coker (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I was working on the photos from the Greer-Laurens baseball game, and I decided I’d watch West Virginia play Iowa and check out Caitlin Clark for a while. I like her. But the Mountaineers took over the game in the second quarter while, for nearly three minutes on …

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Blue Hose Blurbs: They played, and it was close

Samage Teel scored a career-best 28 points. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Is it me, or did the Blue Hose’ 52-point loss to South Carolina seem a bit less painful when the Gamecocks pulverized the Tar Heels by 47? It’s been a minute since I’ve seen a pure shooter like Oakland’s Jack Gohlke. Emphasis on …

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Blue Hose Blurbs: Miracles don’t always happen

(PC photo) Click here. It has been established that Presbyterian College sports teams are capable of extraordinary surprises. The Blue Hose went to the Big South women’s basketball tournament as the fifth seed and won it, thus earning a berth in the NCAA. There they ended Sacred Heart’s 15-game winning streak. They could muster no …

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County Signs: Clinton softball can’t buy a break

(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, long before one could drive a stolen car coast to coast on his “device,” kids used to play games such as trying to get a peer to believe something ridiculous. Once, while playing golf, I got a chum to believe that Atlanta Braves pitcher …

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Blue Hose Blurbs: No magic for Hose at Fluor Field

(PC photo) Click here. The nation of Presbyterian College sports, comparatively small in the overall pantheon, was stretched a little thin for Greenville’s Fluor Field on Wednesday evening. The overwhelming majority of the 2,744 watching Clemson play PC in baseball were wearing orange. Some Blue Hose parents and Greenvillians likely stopped by the minor-league Fenway …

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Wide-eyed Blue Hose keep miracle alive

(PC photo) Click here. COLUMBIA – The Blue Hose led all night long with their backs to a wall. Presbyterian College, the smallest school, 8-8 in the Big South Conference, surprise tournament champion, defeated Sacred Heart, 49-42, for not only the first NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament (First Four) victory but in the first game. Ever. …

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