(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants BATESBURG – Clinton fans who traveled to see the Red Devils take on Batesburg-Leesville probably enjoyed the season opener about as much as Shealy’s Bar-B-Que House. Corey Fountain’s Red Devils shoveled on the coals, 50-28, on Friday night, particularly in the first half. Clinton scored three touchdowns in each of the …
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Be true to your school, boys
By MONTE DUTTON The glistening sweat of summer days leads to Friday-night lights. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Lots of things I didn’t like as a kid I love today. I’ve got a lot more sense now. For all you kids out there in Internet Land, this is going to happen to you. You’re going to …
Looking for the heart of Friday night
Nick Fowler fires (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges A fan can get up, walk outside, yawn, stare at the horizon and imagine a football season that never ends. It now seems plausible. It seemed as if it would never get here, and now it stretches out, barely finite. It doesn’t matter which team. It only matters …
Devils, Raiders knighted in York
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants YORK – The Bill Pate White Rose Football Classic was worth the trip for both the Laurens Raiders, who played at 6 p.m. Friday night, and the Clinton Red Devils, who arrived on the artificial turf at 9. Both won – Laurens, 17-7, over Fort Mill, and Clinton, …
It’s early yet, but preseason rankings are out
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges No one has snapped a ball in anger yet, but inquiring minds want to know a media panel’s preseason rankings of S.C. High School League football. https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Laurens plays three teams – Hillcrest, Hanna and Chapman – listed in the rankings. Clinton (Chapman, Chester) plays two, and Thornwell (Great Falls) plays …
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Devils roll, Raiders scuffle
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants Laurens County’s top high-school football teams engaged in exhibition scrimmages about 10 miles apart on Tuesday night, escaping harsh weather that prevented play the night before. Mauldin transported its herd of Mavericks to K.C. Hanna Stadium an hour earlier than Chapin’s Eagles nested at Wilder. Mostly overcast skies …
Blue Hose to build back better
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants On the very week that Rob Acunto’s departure was announced (by Fresno State), I find myself suddenly upbeat about Presbyterian College’s football program. I wandered around at Friday morning’s opening practice, and the Blue Hose look better, bigger, faster, quicker, deeper and more motivated. I like the crack …
Are you ready to rumble?
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) There's an old baseball movie called It Happens Every Spring. https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges It happens every fall, too. When I was growing up / The biggest thing around our town / Was watching my old high school play / They didn't mess around. Before the week is over, all the football …
Ain’t no beatin’ the heat
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devils are looking for a few good linemen. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants At Clinton High School, Corey Fountain put his football team on the official-practice field at 7:30 a.m. Friday. Laurens and Laurens Academy practiced into the cool instead of out of it. The morning dew had been swept from the …
Expectations and aspirations
By MONTE DUTTON Corey Fountain has many holes to fill. (Monte Dutton photo) YORK – High-school media days, on the rare occasions when they have them anymore, are always family affairs. The rivers have many tributaries. https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges The Woolbright system, whose headwaters are in Chapin, gained strength when Clover High School’s Perry Woolbright intersected with …
