By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) has plenty of company (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. High-school and college football have never been so offensive. In the last two games I’ve attended, one winning team had 801 yards in 60 minutes, and the other had 605 in 48. I suppose which meaning of “offensive” depends on …
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County Signs: Too many plays put on hold
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I was at a football game on Friday night. I watched on TV all day and well into the night on Saturday and Sunday. The most common part of all the games was holding. And other assorted infractions. The best quotation came from Clinton High School head coach Corey Fountain, …
PC dominates Hatters, 42-14
(PC photo) Click here. DeLAND, Fla. – Let me attempt to write in behalf of Steve Englehart and his Presbyterian College football team. It was about damn time. The Blue Hose released a month of pent-up frustrations on the unsuspecting Stetson Hatters, steam-creasing their labors by a score of 42-14 at Spec Martin Municipal Stadium. …
County Signs: Raiders, Crusaders fall hard
By MONTE DUTTON (Courtesy John Clayton) Click here. If you go to a homecoming game, and you have no idea who is going to be the queen, bet the quarterback’s sponsor. At Clinton High School, the monarch was Ry’Dai’ja Mars, who was – wait for it, wait for it – sponsor of the quarterback, Tushawan …
Homecoming heats up Red Devils, 61-14
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook runs away (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Blacksburg came to Wilder Stadium for the first time ever and to Clinton for the first time since 1938. It didn’t go well for the Wildcats on Friday night. Clinton (6-2, 3-0 Region 1-2A) torched Blacksburg (3-5, 0-2), 61-14, and rolled up 605 …
Furmanology: Huff keeps on playing
Tyler Huff as a Paladin (Furman photo) Click here. Amidst an otherwise dreary Furman fall, it’s comforting to see Tyler Huff swashbuckling his way through Jacksonville State games on weeknights. Huff is doing for the Gamecocks what he did for the Paladins in a pair of 10-3 seasons at quarterback. The 6-1, 215 “mega senior” …
County Signs: Whatever floats your boat …
By MONTE DUTTON Moonlight through the pines (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s seldom a good sign when someone answers a question by saying, “I just do.” Everyone has a right to say it. For instance, if you ask me why I dislike raw onions, I might say, “I just do.” Most issues, though, have …
County Signs: Clinton breaks free in region race
By MONTE DUTTON D.J. Clark (18), Tushawan Richardson (1) and Jevan Cook (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. With two games remaining, Clinton (5-2, 2-0) is alone at the top of the Region 1-2A football standings, having shoved Landrum out of the S.C. Media top 10 with a 56-22 thump last week. The Red Devils’ hopes …
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County Signs: This wasn’t my weekend
By MONTE DUTTON Laurens Academy's Caleb Hardy digs for the end zone (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Oh. My. God. I have a friend who used to say that all the time. What a rotten weekend. It started slowly, if Friday counts. I went to see Laurens Academy play and enjoyed it. If I had …
Another heartbreaker for luckless Hose
(PC photo) Click here. To paraphrase an old television show no less erudite than Hee Haw, “If it weren’t for bad luck, [they’d] have no luck at all.” Drake, protecting first place in the Pioneer Football League, defeated Presbyterian, 19-16, in overtime, at Bailey Memorial Stadium on a cool autumn Saturday that was otherwise perfect. …
Nightrider's Lament 