Owen Pridgen (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One just never knows what’s coming up when the high-school kids start playing various kinds of ball. Some of it is reasonably predictable. Laurens is ranked third in Class 4A baseball, and the Raiders won their eighth straight game and second in as many nights over Hillcrest. Thornwell …
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County Signs: Basketball miraculously lives
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Who knew the last of the basketball would be at Presbyterian College? The Blue Hose women’s basketball team is playing Sacred Heart of Fairfield, Conn., in the NCAA Tournament’s play-in game. PC, the fifth seed in the Big South, swept through the tournament. The Pioneers of the not usually pioneerish …
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County Signs: Hose get ready for taste of bigs
Mara Neira (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. In the small town of Clinton, some folks are aghast that the local college has such a tough path to the women’s basketball championship. Why must the Blue Hose have to be in a play-in? And, if they manage to defeat Sacred Heart, next is the No. 1 …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: One giant step for PC
It's a big ticket PC punched. (PC photo) Click here. Whatever happened to slow-pitch softball? The dirtiest game I ever played in was church softball. Undoubtedly, it gradually died out, but seems sudden to me. I went off to write about NASCAR … and it was gone. Like textile baseball before it. Whatever happened to …
Thoughts this time of year
Laurens Academy's Olivia Huck (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. When I get up in the morning, brew some coffee while I’m taking some meds, turn on the TV and see what awful happened last night, my set (remember when a TV was a set?) recommends what I want to see. Then I commence translating sports …
County Signs: Edwards to Raiders’ rescue
Carly Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The soft rivalry between Clinton and Laurens -- I always do it alphabetically except when it refers to the site, at which time it is Clinton-Laurens in Laurens and Laurens-Clinton in Clinton, and never the twain shall meet – in softball was a rootin,’ tootin’ dandy on Thursday …
Blue Hose Blurbs: Impossible Dream gets more so
(PC photo) Click here. The Big South women’s basketball champion is preparing for greener pastures but thick, long grass that is going to be difficult and likely impossible impossible to penetrate. Still, the opportunity is unprecedented. PC has never won a championship before. Click here. Presbyterian College is holding a watch party on Sunday at …
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County Signs: All is looking … mostly way up
Jordan Hudson (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I just heard a broadcaster say at the end of a tournament game, “They’d like to keep this run going!” Who doesn’t? The theme of Wednesday night’s games was Run, run, run, run, runaway! In Taylors, a red-hot gang of Laurens Raiders left Eastside green with envy, grounding …
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County Signs: Red Devils turn it around
Carson Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. My truck has a message on its video screen that occasionally reminds me not to be distracted, and I have to be distracted in order to affirm that I do not intend to be distracted. I love my truck, now, but goshamighty. Clinton evened its record and won …
County Signs: Words, names, Devils, Raiders, Crusaders & Hose …
Alyssa Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Words I don’t like. Bear with me. I’ll get to the good stuff shortly. In most cases, “utilize” is a snobbish replacement for “use.” In NASCAR, “forward bite” is redundant because none of the cars is burdened by “backward bite.” It’s just “bite.” “There’s a timeout on the …
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