By MONTE DUTTON Asa Thomas (Furman photo) Click here. They’re hard to figure, this season’s Furman Paladins. They have mysterious weaknesses. They have oodles of shooters, yet they are erratic in both three-pointers and free throws. They hung in gamely when beset by a rash of injuries, but they have struggled since mostly regaining their …
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Furman women coast past Catamounts
Pierre Curtis (Furman photo) Click here. At the moment, in basketball, the Furman women are outshining the men. Alyssa Ervin scored 20 points and Furman used strong work in the second and third quarters to forge a big lead en route to a 60-51 win over Western Carolina in at Ramsey Center in Cullowhee on Thursday …
Another one bites the dust
Cole Bowser (Furman photo) Click here. This is the time of basketball season Furman is supposed to be getting better. It is not. Ravaged by injuries, the Paladins are healthy again. Their freshman point guard, Alex Wilkins, is a splendid talent who has had three off games in a row. There’s no need to single …
Red Devils to open football season with Raiders
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton High School’s football schedule opens on Aug. 28 with a visit to Laurens for the county championship game. Three newcomers join the schedule due to the Red Devils being realigned in Region 2-2A. Clinton also visits Batesburg-Leesville in a non-region game on Sept. 25. The region …
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Lots of familiar faces
The Poconos Click here. I awakened on Sunday with a ferocious appetite and immediately jumped into my pants and headed to a drive-through. My dream was tiring. Let’s see. I drove the best car I ever owned – a 2000 Honda I eventually gave to charity -- to Pennsylvania, undoubtedly to cover a stock car …
Things are tough all over
By MONTE DUTTON Asa Thomas (Furman photo) Click here. This Furman men’s basketball team is an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. To borrow from a nursery rhyme, when it is good, it is very, very good, and when it is bad, it is horrid. The Paladins have mostly weathered their injuries, but the reassembly is …
Two Devils and a Crusader line up for college
By MONTE DUTTON Garrison Vaughan (second from left) and family are all smiles (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Newberry, North Greenville and Carson-Newman are the latest beneficiaries of Laurens County football talent. Garrison Vaughan, Laurens Academy’s burly lineman, is joining the Wolves, whose 12-2 record last fall included three Division II playoff wins. Bryson Perrin …
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Paladins can’t shake a 2nd-half lead
By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser (Furman photo) Click here. Unfortunately, the week-in and week-out progress of the Furman men’s basketball program has carried with it a disquieting pattern. The Paladins have been unable to hold leads in the latter halves of Southern Conference games. They win some. They lose some. East Tennessee State rallied from …
High noon is 7 p.m. in Johnson City
By MONTE DUTTON Charles Johnston (Furman photo) Click here. Furman entered the weekend tied for third in the Southern Conference and exited it tied for second. A win in Johnson City Wednesday night and the Paladins are tied for tops. Currently in a three-way tie for second place, Furman (16-7, 7-3) visits league-leading East Tennessee …
Furman weathers second-half storm
By MONTE DUTTON Cooper Bowser is back (Furman photo). Click here. What if they played a basketball game and no one came? What if it wasn’t allowed? The Furman men’s basketball game against Chattanooga was on Sunday at 1 p.m. The game was on national TV on ESPN2. Furman University is currently closed to the …
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