By MONTE DUTTON Hugh Ryan skirmishes with South Carolina's Xavier Legette. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ My lingering memory of South Carolina’s 47-21 victory over Furman wasn’t on the Williams-Brice Stadium surface. It was in the postgame media conference. Hugh Ryan, the Paladins’ much-decorated safety, sat there in anguished agony. He’d had a rough night. A lot …
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Paladins can’t corner Rattler
By MONTE DUTTON Xavier Stephens can't quite get there. (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ COLUMBIA – A disastrous ending to the first half opened the floodgates in South Carolina’s 47-21 victory on Saturday night at Williams-Brice Stadium. The Gamecocks’ well-traveled senior quarterback, Spencer Rattler, didn’t allow any opportunity for the Paladins to reverse that flow. The epitaph …
Paladins dream of chicken dinner
By MONTE DUTTON Tyler Huff passed for 172 yards and rushed for 42 in the season opener. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It’s improbable. It’s unlikely. It’s unexpected. Furman is playing South Carolina on Saturday night at 7:30. The Paladins have lost eight of their last nine visits to Columbia and 13 of their last 14 …
A latter-days version of playin’ hurt
By MONTE DUTTON Furman and Travis Blackshear (1) played much better than I felt. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Friday night at Wilder Stadium was a game-time decision. Fortunately, I was good to go. Back-to-back night games are tough on a body, particularly one that got bowled over at Paladin Stadium on Thursday night. I saw …
Paladins clip Eagles’ wings in 2nd half
By MONTE DUTTON Dominic Roberto scored twice on 9-yard runs. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It took a while, but Furman wound up glittering as much as its helmets in a season-opening 45-10 conquest of Tennessee Tech in Thursday-night football at Paladin Stadium in front of 9,827. Nothing like the chrome on display under lights ever …
Paladins back in black (and chrome) on Thursday night
(Elena Davidson photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman embarks Thursday night on a football season that could not possibly have arrived too soon. The second Paladin Stadium game on a Thursday night is also the second in as many years. Clay Hendrix’s seventh season as Furman head coach begins against Tennessee Tech of Cookeville, and his latest edition …
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Friendly places, smiling faces …
Darlington Raceway (NASCAR Images) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants I’m going to miss a unique opportunity to go to my three favorite places in the next four nights. I’ll be at Paladin Stadium to write about Furman playing Tennessee Tech on Thursday at 7. I’m going to be at Wilder Stadium to write about Clinton High playing Newberry on …
Time to bring it on
(Elena Davidson photos) With great talent comes great responsibility. No one has higher aspirations this season than Clay Hendrix’s Furman Paladins. To a man, they think they can win it all, and they are not alone. https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Preseason rankings have placed the Paladins as high as fifth nationally, and the consensus is sixth in the …
Wrapping up the weekend
Steve Englehart begins his second season when the Blue Hose visit Murray State. (PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Heat slowed the on-field activity at Presbyterian College’s football Fan Day on Saturday, but fans got to mingle with players and staff, get autographs, purchase gear and the like. Presbyterian opens on Saturday time with a road trip to …
Sing a little sunshine song
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ The coming season provides a potential vista as gorgeous as the one at Paladin Stadium late Saturday evening. Bright skies, glorious sunshine, frivolity all about. Clay Hendrix wasn’t pleased with the Paladins’ FanFest, but, after all, it was a fest. The band was playing the fight song, not …
