By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I’ve seen a lot of celebrations. This spring the most uncontrolled was when the Clinton High baseball team won its region for the third straight year. The Red Devils attempted to build a skyscraper in the infield grass. It was a human pyramid without order and support. …
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Blue Hose plant top seed with a broom
By MONTE DUTTON Charlie McDaniel (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. When Presbyterian College won the Big South women’s basketball tournament, the Blue Hose were seeded fifth and pulled three upsets in a row. When PC won the league’s baseball tournament in 2021, the circumstances were similar. Next Thursday, when the Big South Championship baseball tournament …
Blue Hose preserve a sweep
(PC photo) Click here. NORTH CHARLESTON --- Presbyterian College played Charleston Southern University three times in the lovely sport of baseball at the Buccaneers’ Nielsen Field. The Blue Hose won all three: Friday in a blowout, Saturday in a comeback and Sunday by comeback resistance. Click here. PC won the season’s first four games and …
Blue Hose Blurbs: PC reaches top of Big South heap
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. Saturday’s victory over Charleston Southern put Presbyterian in a tie for first place in the Big South Conference baseball standings for at least a day. It’s not like the Blue Hose just began the season hot, though they did. When Sunday’s game at Charleston Southern ends, PC will …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: First two at GWU
(PC photo) Click here. In the immortal commercial words of Mike Krzyzewski, “Who needs championships when you can look at birds?” I’m starting to add words to the CBS March Madness theme. Everyone talks about the Big Dance. And the Sweet Sixteen. And the Elite Eight. And the Final Four. Why no love for the …
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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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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Blue Hose dream the Impossible Dream
Bryanna Brady had the game of her career. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. HIGH POINT, N.C. – Presbyterian College are going to women’s basketball’s Big Dance. They may not dance for long, but the Blue Hose are going to sally forth to the hardwood floor. PC has never won a Big South tournament … until …
Battlin’ Blue Hose women playing for Big South title
(Big South photo) Click here. HIGH POINT, N.C. -- On Saturday, Presbyterian College went where it has never been before. The Big South finals. The Blue Hose (19-14) ousted top-seeded High Point (20-11) on its home court, Qubein Center, by a score of 59-50, in the Hercules Tires Big South Championships. Led by Tilda Sjokvist …
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GWU beats Blue Hose at the buzzer
Trevon Reddish-Rhone saved one of his better games for last. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. HIGH POINT, N.C. – Gardner-Webb’s 61-60 men’s basketball victory over Presbyterian in the quarterfinals of the Hercules Tires Big South Championship on Thursday night was all too typical of the Blue Hose, who could just as easily be merely the …
Nightrider's Lament 