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 …
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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 …
A heap of sights and sounds
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Some of the cooler things I’ve ever done: No particular order. Watching part of the Rolex 24 in Daytona Beach, Fla., at midnight from a Ferris wheel. Driving the Pacific Coast Highway in a car full of scribes when we pass a restaurant on the water. Out front, a man …
The town loves its team
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) The sun was behind the visiting side of Wilder Stadium, hanging over the 20-yard line, and all the football players loose from baseball had golden coronas encircling their heads. The springtime celebration of the Class 2A state championship took just about as long as the game a little over …
Mid-Carolina stops Red Devils, 2-0
By MONTE DUTTON Isaac Cane makes a play at third (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Sometimes peace in the valley is not a great thing. Another strong Clinton High School baseball season ended there on Saturday as Mid-Carolina eliminated the Red Devils, 2-0, in the Class 2A Upstate round. It was a great season by …
A story that wasn’t told
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Sometimes the stars come together. Sometimes they line up. Sometimes they fall. There’s an old Randy Travis song that notes that the ocean’s salty and the stars sometimes fall. The name of the song is “Deeper Than the Holler.” I wouldn’t call Clinton High School’s baseball field …
