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 …
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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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Winthrop’s Duncomb drops 38 on Hose
By MONTE DUTTON Logan Duncomb (Winthrop photo) Click here. It was defense that set the stage for Winthrop’s 82-72 victory over Presbyterian in men’s basketball at Templeton Center on Saturday afternoon. All except for the Eagles’ Logan Duncomb. He provided the game with most of its offense, scoring 38 points, and checked almost all the …
Blue Hose getting it together
By MONTE DUTTON Jaylen Peterson skies over USC Upstate (Monte Dutton photos). A hearty band of basketball-playing Blue Hose tacked straight into the coming weather full speed ahead. At Templeton Center on Wednesday evening, the men’s team withstood a late Charleston Southern rally to defeat the Buccaneers, 87-83. Led by the reliable Jonah Pierce, who …
Hose must escape the pattern
By MONTE DUTTON Jonah Pierce has lived up to all expectations (Monte Dutton photos). Recent men’s basketball seasons have featured similar patterns at Presbyterian College. Last season, for instance. On Jan. 2, 2025, the Blue Hose opened the Big South season with a 68-60 victory over Longwood. At the time, PC’s overall record was 8-8, …
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 …
Free throws were few and far between for Blue Hose
By MONTE DUTTON Kaleb Scott works the paint (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- It wasn’t the shot selection. That was excellent. It was inaccuracy at the free-throw line that ran Presbyterian College’s Hose out of the Hercules Tires Big South Basketball Championships.Shooting was where the rubber met the road. Or didn’t. …
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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 …
County Signs: Not how it’s said around here
By MONTE DUTTON Corey Fountain and the Red Devils had their first scrimmage rained out for the second straight year (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s impressive that everyone in the state knows how to pronounce my hometown’s name. Clinnun. Area broadcasters who call the university in Columbia “South Cuh-lina” know how to pronounce Clinton, …
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Blue Hose fail in favorite’s role
Daniel Eagen fanned 10 Bucs. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. HIGH POINT, N.C. – The opening game of the Big South Championship baseball tournament on Thursday was almost a “must win” for the top-seeded Presbyterian Blue Hose. Fourth-seeded Charleston Southern (22-30) shocked the Hose, 5-4, in the tourney opener at Truist Point, the minor-league home …
Nightrider's Lament 