(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. What Presbyterian College used to play baseball games looked like bats, but they behaved like wands. Magic wands. Sunday’s 16-13 victory over Gardner-Webb was just another stark, raving mad, wondrous, wacky adventure. Elton Pollock Field was the Wild West. Sean Sean Hollister Click here. On Saturday, Gardner-Webb (11-14, 1-5 Big …
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Raiders pull out series with walk-off of Westside
(File photo) Click here. You win some. You lose some. The baseball games were rife with drama on Friday. At the top of the list was Laurens’ 5-4 walk-off victory over Westside at Ed Prescott Field on Friday night, giving the Raiders the series and an early one-game lead on the Rams in Region 1-4A. …
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Westside takes region opener from Laurens
By MONTE DUTTON Zay Pulley (file photo) Click here. Westside’s 8-4 victory over Laurens on Monday night came principally at the Raiders’ own hands.Five errors, all in the Laurens infield, were LDHS’s undoing as only one of the runs was earned. Laurens (3-7, 0-1 Region 1-4A) can make amends on a Wednesday trip to Anderson …
Games getting farther apart
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. One aspect of sports – in most every one except NASCAR, where races are increasingly contrived – is that close games and matches are becoming rare.Once I was at a trade show in Pennsylvania and said to a favorite race driver, “A man’s got to drive like hell to lose …
There must be Ninety Six ways to win a ballgame
Luke Young (file photo) Click here. Clinton continues to heat up with the weather, winning its third baseball game in a row on Wednesday night, 11-4, at Ninety Six.Catcher Luke Young singled in the third and sixth innings and homered to left in the fourth,The Red Devils got on the board in the second on …
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Blue Hose steal one from Bama
Sean Hollister (PC photo) Click here. Presbyterian traveled to Tuscaloosa to take on 23rd-ranked Alabama in baseball.The Crimson Tide won the opener, 10-0, and the second game, 15-1. Neither went the scheduled distance.Okay.But the Blue Hose (8-10) won on Sunday, 11-8. As Mel Allen used to say on This Week in Baseball, “How about that!” …
Slow starts back home
By MONTE DUTTON Gardner-Webb coach Jeremy Luther took his medicine in Johnson City (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Being away on my great basketball road trip spared me an inglorious period back home.It was sorrowful in Johnson City, Tenn., too. (I can’t say those three words without thinking of “Wagon Wheel.”) I was moved by …
Big South opener goes to Swift, Bulldogs
Kishyah Anderson scored 31 points, but it was not enough (PC photo). Click here. Presbyterian entered the Hercules Tires Big South Championships as the defending champion, but that was 2023-24, and PC pulled off that upset – or those upsets, three of them -- as the fifth seed.In the opening game this year, matching the …
Red Devils fall a game shy in Florence
Bryanna Belton (photo courtesy John Clayton) Click here. The third time was the charm for the Shamrocks on Tuesday evening at Florence Center.Eau Claire, which fell in its two Region 3-2A games against Clinton, prevailed in the one that determined the Upstate championship, 41-30.The Shamrocks frustrated any Red Devil hopes of a fourth-quarter comeback by …
For Clinton girls, it’s a different kind of three
John Gardner's Red Devils look for a third victory over Eau Claire (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Inevitably, when one team – any team – sweeps another in a season and plays it again in playoffs, the same cliché is going to invoked.It’s hard to beat a team three times.When region rivals play the second …
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Nightrider's Lament 