By MONTE DUTTON When I awakened this morning, nature called. Nothing unusual about that. It’s my interior alarm clock. I keep forgetting to buy a new one. Last night I spent an hour talking with an old NASCAR chum. The first Darlington race of the season was Sunday. My friend and I laughed at stories …
Tag: Laurens County Sports
Baseball is just what we need
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The country has gone crazy. On that we can all agree. Most folks are mad. What we cannot agree on is what has made us mad. An old folk song comes to mind. It’s about the collapse of a musical group. Well, the one on the right …
Finally basketballed out
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. In a week of moping around, dealing with things that would not work and dreaming impossible dreams, life gets back to normal, or didn’t I write that last week? Notes from watching too many basketball games: Gunfighters shoot from the hip. Politicians shoot from the lip. Basketball players shoot from …
Rahl releases PC football schedule
New Presbyterian College head football coach Matt Rahl faces a schedule similar to the one the Blue Hose played last year. The good news is that PC enjoyed a 10-2 season in Steve Englehart’s final season at the helm. The bad news is that, for the first time since 2022, the Blue Hose have a …
Red Devils prosper in cool night air
By MONTE DUTTON Noah Hughes (12) and Clinton's Camden Finley (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. To borrow from an old country song, it was back to the basics of love On a Friday night in March, Clinton (4-1) handled Laurens (0-5), 12-6, at Ed Prescott Field. All there were appropriately bundled. The Red Devils wore …
Blue Hose turn some Big South tables
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – On Saturday morning, too early, I turned on the TV in my room and East Tennessee PBS was raising money by showing a cavalcade of disco hits. I was so happy I enjoyed it. For the first time in a decade Presbyterian College won a …
If only Aminata Tal was tall
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – A lot goes on at a college basketball tournament. This one in the Big South Conference is just getting started. The games on Wednesday matched the worst teams: eighth-best versus ninth. Winning it from here is similar to plowing a field that happens to be …
To dream impossible dreams
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Please release me. Let me go. I’ll catch up with the county when I get back from the mountains. Maybe nighttime baseball won’t be cold by then. I spent Tuesday packing, leaving some stuff at the storage unit and bringing some back to the camper-trailer, which, no, I’m not towing …
Hose have hope for Johnson City
By MONTE DUTTON Jonah Pierce had 20 points and 10 rebounds (Monte Dutton photo). Would’ve. Could’ve. Should’ve. Presbyterian (14-17, 7-9 Big South) outshot the Eagles (.463-.368) and outrebounded them (39-36). Presbyterian went cold down the stretch and fell, 74-70, to Winthrop (21-10, 13-3) in the final regular-season men’s basketball game on Saturday at Winthrop Coliseum. …
PC’s comeback falls short, 79-73
By MONTE DUTTON PC's Carl Parrish sets up the offense against Cam'Ron Fletcher (11) (Monte Dutton photos). All was in place for memorable upset on Thursday night. National TV on ESPNU. By far the biggest crowd of the season. Huge comeback by the Blue Hose. PC even brought in a pep band from Clinton High …
Nightrider's Lament 