By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BLACKSBURG -- Clinton’s 48-7 victory on Friday night was impressive but not as explosive as the previous week’s 56-14 win at home against Landrum. Nitro glycerine is not as explosive as the Landrum game. Five hundred thirty-three yards rushing, in a game in which the clock ran …
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Devils fork the Fury
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook shifts gears (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Woodruff High School is a familiar place for Red Devils to play, though on Thursday night they were playing Class 4A Fountain Inn at W.L. Varner Stadium, where I once played and Varner was still the Wolverines’ head coach. As I sat on …
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, …
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 …
Back in the Roots of My Raising
Clinton, South Carolina, Friday, July 12, 2019, 1:28 p.m. My mother, 79 years young, and I chat on the phone most days. It is my theory that the relation between generations is all mathematic. When I was born, Betty Davis Dutton was not quite 18. When I was 4 and she 22, we were miles …
Nightrider's Lament 