Laurens versus Catawba Ridge last season (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Laurens happened upon Catawba Ridge, which eliminated the Raiders from the Class 4A Upstate finals and went on to capture the state title. The meeting was in Georgetown on Sunday at the International Paper Baseball Classic, where the Copperheads of Fort Mill managed to …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Teel, Reddish-Rhone lead PC into tourney
Samage Teel (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian men’s basketball considerably improved its seeding for the Big South Basketball Tournament by finishing off a season sweep – in its first and last conference games – of Charleston Southern. Baseball won in extra innings over Saint Bonaventure, but women’s basketball dropped its game in North Charleston against …
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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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County Signs: Blue Hose teams in tight race to Big South Tournament
Jonah Pierce jockeys for position against UNC Asheville earlier this season. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The final games Saturday are crucial to Presbyterian College’s seedings in next week’s Big South Basketball Tournament in High Point, N.C. For Quinton Ferrell’s men’s team, a victory over Charleston Southern on Saturday at Templeton Center is particularly important. …
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County signs: Devils’ Glenn takes another tough loss
Carson Glenn (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Carson Glenn has pitched in both of Clinton High’s baseball games and is yet to give up an earned run. He is 0-2, as are the Red Devils, who fell to Mid-Carolina, 5-0, in their second outing in Emerald’s Greenwood tournament, the CFP Invitational, on Monday night. Three …
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County signs: Clinton baseball opens with loss
Brett Young Click here. Saturday seemed awfully strange at Templeton Center because the Blue Hose weren’t playing basketball there. On most Saturdays in Big South play, either the men or women are at home, with the other playing the same school on the road. The previous Saturday, both were at home. With the conference schedule …
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Blue Hose fall Canisius-ly, 8-6
Joel Dragoo (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Among other lessons left in Clinton by Canisius University’s baseball was that not all the teams touring the South are Saint Peters. Presbyterian (4-2) opened the season with four consecutive blowouts, by a total margin of 58-12, over the Peacocks, but the Buffalo, N.Y., Golden Griffins escaped Elton …
Injury hampers LA in semifinal loss
Rylee Ballard (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Laurens Academy fell a game short in its bid to for a state championship in girls' basketball, and powerful Clemson escaped a mild upset bid by Presbyterian College on the baseball diamond on Tuesday. LA lost its best player, Olivia Huck, to ankle injury, and try as they might, …
Sometimes Blue Hose get lots of runs
(PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ High-school basketball in Laurens County is down to the girls’ team at Laurens Academy, but the Presbyterian College seasons are still going strong. The Crusaders (24-1) take on Curtis Baptist (21-5) at 5:30 in Columbia at Cardinal Newman in the SCISA Class A semifinals. Inevitably, thoughts turn to baseball, where the Blue …
Laurens hires Porter to lead Raider football
Greg Porter takes over a Laurens team that went 2-9 last season. (Monte Dutton photo) Greg Porter It’s been rumored not just for weeks but for years, dating back to when Greg Porter had just left Hillcrest for Greenville. Mark my words. Greg Porter’s going to be at Laurens next year. That was in 2019. …
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