By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton High School’s baseball team needed to step up the competition in preparation for the Class 2A playoffs. The Red Devils found a bridge too far to cross on Monday when 4A power Fountain Inn came to town and left with a 7-0 victory. It was a …
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Red Devils prosper in cool night air
By MONTE DUTTON Noah Hughes (12) and Clinton's Camden Finley (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. To borrow from an old country song, it was back to the basics of love On a Friday night in March, Clinton (4-1) handled Laurens (0-5), 12-6, at Ed Prescott Field. All there were appropriately bundled. The Red Devils wore …
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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Hose almost pull off a miracle
Kory Mincy (PC photo) Click here. NORTH CHARLESTON – Presbyterian scored 11 points in the final 30 seconds of a men’s basketball game on Wednesday night. It would have been a lot of points for the final frame of a bowling match.Yet the Blue Hose lost, 71-70.Presbyterian trailed Charleston Southern, 66-59, with 30 seconds on …
County Signs: I try to be unaffected by commercials
By MONTE DUTTON Maison Tinsley (13) and Brett Young (10) (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Considerable evidence exists that I watch too much TV.I mention commercials that I’ve seen approximately a hundred times that others seem to have never seen.My knowledge is broad-based. They are gleaned from major-college football games, minor-college football games and reruns …
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Big Red punches its ticket to the state, 32-21
By MONTE DUTTON Brett Young, Jaydon Glenn team up to collar Fairfield Central's Kaden Diggs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. High-school football is fun, but it’s hard. It’s worth it. It changed my life. Once upon a time, it made me think I could do things if I set my mind to them, and when …
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County Signs: Whatever floats your boat …
By MONTE DUTTON Moonlight through the pines (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s seldom a good sign when someone answers a question by saying, “I just do.” Everyone has a right to say it. For instance, if you ask me why I dislike raw onions, I might say, “I just do.” Most issues, though, have …
Wolverines win wild one, 40-36
By MONTE DUTTON Tushawan Richardson hands off to Javen Cook (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Clinton got everything right but the final score Friday night at Wilder Stadium. Woodruff held on to defeat the Red Devils,40-36, behind 203 passing yards from T.J. Morris and 184 rushing from Aiden Gibson. Clinton (0-1) came from 13 points …
County Signs: One day at a time
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It wasn’t hot … yet. It wasn’t yet 8 a.m. when the varsity Red Devils joined the JVs out on the practice field Saturday morning. By the time it ended, sweat was prevalent, even for guys walking around with cameras. They needed to wash their shirts, anyway. …
County Signs: Red Devils stay alive
By MONTE DUTTON Camden Finley connects. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The latest of life’s ironies occurred to me Thursday morning as I augmented, updated, corrected and reposted Wednesday’s crop. NIL (name, image and likeness) provides college athletes monetary compensation, yet the world “nil” means nothing. Thus could the athlete at an unmonied institution say, …
Nightrider's Lament 