(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, …
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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 …
County Signs: LA’s state-title quest ends
By MONTE DUTTON Rhett Gilliam and company ran away from Chester (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. In Laurens County, football season is down to one team, the Clinton Red Devils, and that’s the case for the fourth straight season.The Red Devils, 48-20 winners over Chester in the Class 2A second round, take on the state’s …
County Signs: Lumberjacks axed by Blue Hose
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. I didn’t get to watch the NFL snow game on Thursday, but I don’t think they’re actually wonderful for anyone but those watching on TV and some players.The fans in Cleveland are more acclimated, and the snow probably had something to do with the Browns’ upset of the …
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County Signs: Resurgent Cyclones to blow in
By MONTE DUTTON Brett Young, then wearing No. 35, rushes Chester's Trooper Floyd in last year's game (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Chester (5-5) is neither the team ranked No. 1 in Class 2A before the season nor the one that lost its first three games.The visitor in Friday night’s playoff game at Wilder Stadium …
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County Signs: Clinton rolls, LA advances, Laurens falls
By MONTE DUTTON Will Thompson (John Clayton photo) Click here. The state football playoffs begin in the S.C. High School League and continue in the S.C. Independent School Association with two Laurens County schools, Clinton (7-2) ,and Laurens Academy (8-3), alive.Only the Red Devils are at home on Friday, facing Pelion (2-8) at Wilder Stadium.Laurens …
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County Signs: Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Hold your horses – or perhaps your pitchforks -- on the celebrations for Clinton High School in the Class 2A football playoffs.The Red Devils – and the ones in Liberty, too – have a lot riding on Friday night’s game at Liberty.Clinton (6-2, 3-0 Region 1-2A) must …
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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 …
County Signs: Fun on Friday, done on Saturday
By MONTE DUTTON Javaye Suber evades Southside's Zaccheaus Dickson (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. I haven’t read The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone. I saw the movie starring Charlton Heston. It doesn’t matter. The chronology was off in Laurens County football this weekend. The ecstasy came first. For the first time, all …
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Nightrider's Lament 