Raiders came back, but Jordan Hudson wasn't around to see it. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Even when the weather is clear, a spring night has dampness in it. Parents and friends huddle in the shadows, some up against the fence in their foldable chairs, others standing back a bit, wearing caps and windbreakers, wishing …
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County Signs: Familiar face at Thornwell
Daryl Smith with the Raiders (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. My life is taking a narrow focus. I just realized I don’t know who won last week’s NASCAR race. Why? The answer is obvious. Presbyterian College was pursuing a doomed women’s basketball dream. To paraphase Bill Murray, I hear there’s money in that gig. This …
County Signs: Figures that it began with a funeral
Brett Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A high percentage of people who attended a funeral and wrote about it mentioned the weather. For the record, it was drizzly and overcast at Fort Jackson National Military Cemetery when Jim McLaurin took his mortal bow. I saw no hidden meaning. The poet laureate of the working …
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County Signs: Vikings founder crossing lake
Me-Me Smith (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Because ESPN2 must have something to show on Tuesday night, I watched part of the men’s basketball game between High Point and Arkansas State. It’s the Ro College Basketball Invitational, live from Daytona Beach Center. High Point, the regular-season champion of the Big South, was up seven the …
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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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County Signs: Raiders rule … but just barely
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I retired to the house so that I could watch Presbyterian College play women’s basketball on TV, but I regretted leaving the baseball being played by the ancestral Laurens County rivals on Wednesday night. The Blue Hose won, so I can’t really say I misplayed it. I took a plethora …
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Nightrider's Lament 