By MONTE DUTTON Zy Butler (18), Owen Glenn (10) and Angelo Cromer (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Before this season, Jeff Fruster stepped down after 10 seasons as head football coach at Daniel High School. He won three state championships (2020, ’21, ‘’22) and six straight region titles (2019-24). The new head man is Chris …
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Clinton wins a wild one, 40-34
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) rushed for 215 yards and three touchdowns (Monte Dutton photos). Some of the 3,800 or thereabouts who filed into Wilder Stadium looked forward to a leisurely Clinton High football victory over Chapman. They figured they’d sneak out after three quarters and be home in time to see the end …
Chapman has some catching up to do
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (10) fakes to Javen Cook (3) as Zy Butler looks for someone to block (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. A team begins its season and, despite the best of intentions, isn’t as good as expected. It’s a nightmarish realization for coaches. The atmosphere accelerates. Already obsessed with preparing for each …
Good times, great oldies, the Devils and the deep blue sea
By MONTE DUTTON Keith Richardson won six state championships and 239 games as Clinton head coach (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. Many times I have expressed the opinion that my life is seldom mediocre. Either everything goes right, or everything goes wrong. That’s not the way life is. It’s just the way it seems. …
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Newberry takes a belt from Clinton, 41-12
By MONTE DUTTON B.J. Jones takes on Clinton defenders Maison Tinsley (13), Jaydon Glenn (1) and Noah Garrett (12) (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. It would be a gross exaggeration to claim that Newberry’s Kenton Caldwell defeated Clinton by himself. The senior gave the Red Devils what they seldom ever get: Hell. The Bulldogs …
A sense of deja vu
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn is the latest Player of the Week (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Whoever heard of playing the three biggest rivals in the first three football games? Does Alabama open with Auburn, Tennessee and Ole Miss? Florida with FSU, Miami and Georgia? The Philadelphia Eagles with the Ravens, Bills and Chiefs? …
Big Red dominates Raiders, 50-0
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. …
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, …
