By MONTE DUTTON Angelo Cromer avoids Laurens' Elijah Cheeks (10) (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Clinton looked really good in Friday night’s 50-0 victory over Laurens. Laurens (0-2) also looked really bad, but the two often go hand in hand. The Red Devils very nearly erased from memory their loss to Woodruff on opening night. …
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Raiders to take their shot at Clinton
By MONTE DUTTON Seniors Jaydon Glenn (1), Kynius Williams (44) and Adarrell Swindler line up against Woodruff (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The football game scheduled for Friday night at K.C. Hanna Stadium is a different kind of rivalry, though both Clinton and Laurens are 0-1. Last week Woodruff defeated Clinton, 21-13. It was a …
One loss does not a season make
By MONTE DUTTON Seniors Kynius Williams (44), Noah Garrett (12) converge on Woodruff's Connor Davis (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. WOODRUFF – Man, I’ve seen a lot of Clinton-Woodruff football games. The game last year was the closest the Red Devils played en route to the Class 2A state championship. The first (I remember) was …
Friday night comes alive
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. A state championship is the ultimate achievement in high-school sports until, all of a sudden, it isn’t. Clinton High, like every other occupant of the proverbial mountaintop, enjoyed the experience so much that the prospect of another seems irresistible. It’s not easy. Last year, when the Red Devils were 12-2, …
It was a Gray heat
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. On Friday evening in Chapin, it was hot. Hot. Maybe I need to get out more. The stadium has a navy-blue concrete wall at the front of the visitors’ side. As I was my usual ridiculously early self, I sat on it for a while. No one else was there …
War Eagles, Red Devils slug it out
By MONTE DUTTON Angelo Cromer rambles for the Red Devils (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. CHAPIN – Gray Collegiate’s 7-0 exhibition decision over Clinton offered a complicated means of comparison on Friday evening at Chapin High School. There were similarities. The Red Devils are the reigning Class 2A state football champions. The War Eagles won …
Clinton to face unusual challenge in Chapin
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) is little but loud (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For the second year in a row, Clinton High School is off to Chapin to participate in the final exhibition warm-up to football season. For the second year in a row, the Red Devils are entering the season with one …
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The village and its team
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. It takes a village. In 2006, Hillary Clinton wrote a book with that title. Nowadays, for many citizens, the opinion depends on the origin of the message. The late songwriter/comedian Tim Wilson (a PC man, by the way) wrote a song that lampooned the message: “It Takes …
The Devils are in the details
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The Clinton Red Devils were decked out in their game uniforms on Friday morning, and they looked proud, as well they should. The fact that they are the reigning Class 2A state champions naturally leads to the suspicion that they can do it again. High expectations are, …
Trying to keep my head above water
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. So … … I’ve quipped for months that I hoped to live long enough to see the sale of my land go through so that I could make a new start in a new place and become successful again. It’s not as much of a joke as it used to …
Nightrider's Lament 