By MONTE DUTTON Tyler Huff and Dominic Roberto (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ In Spartanburg on Nov. 18, the day was as lovely as the place and time made possible, and a horror movie broke out. On Saturday at Paladin Stadium, Wuthering Heights could have been filmed nearby, and Furman played a playoff football game as picturesque …
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Paladins save it for a cloudy day
By MONTE DUTTON Travis Blackshear steps up. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It’s inevitable. A team in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs must get a seed and a first-round bye. Then once that open week is used, observers wonder if the team will be flat and rusty from inaction. It’s always something. Goodness, gracious. To borrow the …
Paladins’ playoff foe is familiar
Braden Gilby has played in more games (58) than any player in Furman history . (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman-Chattanooga II: The Rematch. The first matchup was decided by three points. The Paladins enjoyed an opening week off as a direct result of their 17-14 victory on the Mocs’ home field on Nov. 4. That victory …
Sometimes it ain’t your day
By MONTE DUTTON Looking at a long day (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Many years ago, I had been at a (then) Busch Series race at (then) Lowe’s Motor Speedway, and my wise colleague Jim McLaurin and I returned to our lodging in time to see the end of the Furman-Appalachian State game on television. That day …
Furman seeded 7th with home playoff game Dec. 2
(Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ A shocking Saturday loss to Wofford made it a bit more nervous and cost Furman a few seedings, but the Paladins are safely seeded seventh with a first-round bye in the playoffs of the Football Championship Subdivision. (It’s the same reason one should occasionally say the Pledge of Allegiance, just to make …
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Blue Hose come through in final clutch
(PC photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ A year of painstaking but frustrating improvement ended warmly as Presbyterian closed out Morehead State, 31-27, on Saturday at Bailey Memorial Stadium, thanks to a timely defense with a taste for turnovers. The Blue Hose stopped the Eagles just a week after Morehead State put a stop to Davidson’s Pioneer Football League …
Something so right turns out to be so wrong
By MONTE DUTTON Cally Chizik's fifth interception of the season (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Wofford stunned Furman, 19-13, on Saturday. No one knows why. Clay Hendrix doesn’t know. What toll the Terriers took on the Paladin’s post-season prospects remains to be seen. Such upsets happen seldom. Usually they are between rivals. Give Wofford (2-9, 2-6 SoCon) …
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The Ospreys aren’t biting (back) in Florida
Jamahri Harvey (PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Let’s see. Commodores. Rams. Bulldogs. Ospreys. The Presbyterian College men’s basketball team has beaten them all. Not that 4-0 by itself is that impressive. The Blue Hose defeated North Florida, 81-69, in the first round of the First Coast Classic in Jacksonville, Fla. PC has won the first four games …
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …
By MONTE DUTTON Braden Gilby and the Furman defense dominated VMI (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It’s a football season both wonderful and weird. The best example is on Saturday at Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg, where Furman completes the regular season at noon against Wofford. The Paladins have two fierce rivals, the Terriers and the Bulldogs of …
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Pline Time!
By MONTE DUTTON Mason Pline matches up physically against the Gamecocks. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Say what you will about Mason Pline, but he can pick ‘em, and not just by leaping up to snag passes from Tyler Huff and Carson Jones. The outsized tight end, all 6-7 and 260 pounds of him, already played for …
Nightrider's Lament 