By MONTE DUTTON Click here. In 1991, Rodney King said, “Can’t we all just get along?” In Matthew 5:19, Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” I don’t like Mondays. They make me catch up when I don’t want to. I spend most of the time on weekends …
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What’s next for Englehart?
By MONTE DUTTON Steve Englehart (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The Football Championship Subdivision, the lower tier of NCAA Division I, named Presbyterian College’s Steve Englehart as one of five district winners of the American Football Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year race. Earlier this week, Englehart, 48, was named as one of the 15 …
Wilder Stadium’s got to rock
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. In the third round of Class 2A playoffs, they don’t play. Okay, they play, as in play football, but they don’t play as in play around. This is serious business. Clinton is 9-3; Fairfield Central is, too. Wilder Stadium, and all those raucous fans, could be the …
Three go for 10
Clinton's Javen Cook (3) has rushed for 1,777 yards (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Guess what? This weekend three Laurens County football teams are going for their 10th victories. Clinton High School (9-3) hosts Fairfield Central (9-3) in the third round of the Class 2A playoffs. Laurens Academy (9-2) plays King Academy (11-0) at Greenwood …
Clinton to face Saluda in second round
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton's defense burned brightly against North Central (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. A week ago, Clinton hosted North Central (Kershaw) in the first round of the Class 2A football playoffs. Though the Red Devils were the Region 1 champions and the Knights were fourth in Region 4, both teams ran onto Keith …
Blue Hose get back on track, 43-14
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 …
Red Devils keep Cyclones quiet
By MONTE DUTTON Camden Finley (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Three Clinton pitchers – Isaac Cane, Jaydon Glenn and Camden Finley – combined for a three-hit shutout, and the Red Devils completed a sweep of Chester by a score of 10-0 on Friday night in the home valley. None of the three – Cane pitched …
Red Devils release football schedule
(File photo) Click here. No surprises. Clinton High School’s football schedule is the same as last year, when the Red Devils won the Class 2A state championship with a 35-6 victory over Barnwell in Orangeburg, except that the sites are reversed. Clinton opens the season with road games against its historic rivals, Woodruff and Laurens, …
Blue Hose prosper in Virginia; Devils doomed in Spartanburg
Kobe Stewart (PC photo) Click here. The ballgames played against type this weekend.The college reaped the dividends. The high schools took the lumps.While Presbyterian College was laying waste to Radford’s homecoming in Virginia, Laurens Academy was falling in Sumter at the SCISA girls’ basketball state title game, and Clinton was ending its boys’ basketball playoff …
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Red Devils, Crusaders roll on
Bryanna Belton (courtesy John Clayton) Click here. So far, the flying colors in the Class 2A girls’ basketball playoffs are red and white.Then again, those were the colors of the teams the Red Devils have blasted. After defeating Liberty, 67-29, in the first round, Clinton (22-5), sprinted past Landrum, 45-19, on Thursday night at CHS.The …
Nightrider's Lament 