Rylee Ballard encounters resistance. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Where girls’ basketball was concerned on Friday night at Laurens Academy, it was a jubilee. Head coach Jason Marlett was honored for winning 200 games at the helm of the Crusaders, who crushed Wardlaw, 55-16. Near the end of the third quarter, LA’s Olivia Huck scored her …
Furman women to pay Wofford a call
Kate Johnson (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The schools playing women’s basketball at Richardson Indoor Stadium on Saturday at 2 p.m. are similar. The Furman Paladins (11-7, 1-1 SoCon) and the Wofford Terriers (9-7, 1-1) do, too. Both have thus far defeated Western Carolina and lost to UNC Greensboro. Furman hasn’t played a home conference game. This …
Blue Hose to seek answers from Lancers
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ This Saturday finds the Presbyterian College women at Templeton Center to play a crucial Big South Conference basketball game versus the Longwood Lancers of Farmville, Va. Alternately, the Blue Hose are also playing the Longwood men at 2 p.m., but in Farmville. A week from Saturday, the time/space continuum will warp …
Opportunity to knock at Timmons Arena
By MONTE DUTTON Marcus Foster -- and Paladins -- running free again. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Last night I thought of what Gen. George S. Patton – no, wait, it was George C. Scott portraying Patton – said: “I was nearly sent home in disgrace. Now I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the …
Red Devils on a rampage
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants I thought of an old Lefty Frizzell song while watching basketball Tuesday night: “I’m an Old, Old Man (Trying to Live While I Can).” I staked out a place on the front row. I need a seat because I take stats on a legal pad while I’m shooting photos. As the …
Blue Hose can’t climb High Point … from either side
Samage Teel (2) (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Once again, Presbyterian’s basketball teams lost, the men’s team in a close affair at Templeton Center, the women in a dismal showing in High Point. The men’s team, which began its season with a shocking upset of Vanderbilt, lost its fourth straight Big South Conference game and third …
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Furman assault overruns VMI, 100-60
Marcus Foster is baaaaaaack. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ LEXINGTON, Va. – Furman arrived at Virginia Military Institute on Wednesday evening poised to flex its muscles. Everyone who had been missing arrived at Cameron Hall ready to rock and roll. And so they did, decimating the Keydets, 100-60. Marcus Foster, J.P. Pegues and Alex Williams all …
Raiders get a breakthrough
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Apart from Clinton, where the Red Devils ran Chester out of the building, the rule in Laurens County on Tuesday was split decisions. The big news was the Laurens boys’ first Region 2-4A victory since 2021-22. The Raiders split. The Crusaders split. The Presbyterian men and women play on Wednesday, men …
Clinton finds flaws in Cyclones
By MONTE DUTTON The Red Devils ransacked Chester. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Clinton girls’ basketball coach John Gardner said, “It’s been a crazy week.” The Red Devils and the Chester Cyclones played a pair of crazy Region 4-3A varsity basketball games at CHS on Tuesday night. They were crazy in good ways for Clinton and …
Blue Hose to face challenge at High Point
Kory Mincy is Big South Freshman of the Week for the third time. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian College must nip a sinking feeling in the bud, particularly in men’s basketball. The Blue Hose have lost three Big South Conference games in a row after winning at Charleston Southern in their opener. A year ago, …
Nightrider's Lament 