By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst had one of his better days (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Behind a pristine performance from redshirt-sophomore quarterback Collin Hurst, Presbyterian rolled past Valparaiso, 43-14, on Saturday at Bailey Memorial Stadium. Hurst, from Davie, Fla., connected on 26/32 passes for 278 yards and touchdown strikes of 17 and 18 yards …
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Mercer wins a mismatch, 52-28
By MONTE DUTTON Ben Croasdale takes a handoff from Trey Hedden (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For the first half of a quarter and the first three minutes of the second half, Furman was better than Mercer. Unfortunately, a college football game is more than 10 minutes and change; almost six times more. The Bears …
An upset of Mercer would be big for Furman postseason hopes
By MONTE DUTTON Joshua Stoneking (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Furman football gets an opportunity to make a statement on Saturday afternoon when Mercer (6-1, 5-0 SoCon) takes on the Paladins at their eponymous stadium, kicking off 2 p.m. The Bears, obviously residing at the top of the Southern Conference, is ranked 13th in the …
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Familiar faces at the Touchdown Club
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. As I sat in the audience at Thursday’s meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club, munching on a Groucho’s sub, I thought about the speakers whom I’ve known the longest. I narrowed it down to three: Robbie Caldwell, Phil Kornblut and Pete Yanity. Pete Yanity Caldwell, who is best known …
Perfection is elusive, but the dream lingers
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. After seven straight football victories, Presbyterian College fell, 35-19, in Dayton, Ohio, last Saturday. The game started at noon, so I watched it on my laptop while sitting in the Paladin Stadium press box. On Monday, PC head coach Steve Englehart said, “It wasn’t that we played …
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Dins down Dogs with 2nd-half surge, 24-14
By MONTE DUTTON Jayquan Smith (28) scored two TDs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The Citadel is coming! The Citadel is coming! The Citadel must be stopped. It’s easy to say it’s just another football game. It’s easy to say, oh, the rival is Wofford now. Well, Wofford won last week. When Furman plays The …
Red Devils wreck Wildcats, 48-7
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 …
A win over The Citadel would fix a lot
By MONTE DUTTON Gavin Hall rushed for 101 yards against East Tennessee State (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. As Furman prepares for homecoming and the annual invasion of The Citadel, it would be helpful to develop some of that old-fashioned distaste for the combatants of Charleston. Forty years ago, The Citadel was the last game …
PC’s undefeated record comes with a price
By MONTE DUTTON Boyce Bankhead (22) leads the Blue Hose in tackles (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For Presbyterian College football, the pressure never lets up. For every Saturday that the Blue Hose win a game, the need for another multiplies. Seven weeks in, Presbyterian still has its perfect season intact. The Blue Hose goal …
Red Devils are in Zoom mode
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devil offense is getting better with every game (Monte Dutton photos). Corey Fountain and his Clinton High School football staff have been working on a building. It’s not much different from the old gospel, bluegrass tune penned by A.P Carter. I’m working on a building / I’m working on a building …
Nightrider's Lament 