By MONTE DUTTON Me-Me Smith Click here. Clinton (18-4) picked up a clutch, tense, 4-1, victory in its second Class 2A softball playoff game, basically making the most of about everything in Lancaster against Buford (14-9) on Friday. Me-Me Smith pitched a tenacious masterpiece after spotting the Yellow Jackets a 1-0 lead in the bottom …
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Scores are not always what they seem
By MONTE DUTTON Camden Finley breezed against the Eagles (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. In Pageland on Thursday night, Clinton was two outs away from a 14-1 victory over Central in the Red Devils’ second game of the Class 2A baseball playoffs. Instead, because a lively storm hit the Eagles’ cozy home diamond, the game …
Red Devils advance to state finals
By MONTE DUTTON Matthew King won at No. 1, 6-4, 6-2 (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. It is admirable for a coach to eschew excuses with a stiff upper lip, and that’s what Clovis Simmons did after Clinton’s victory 4-2 over Saint Joseph’s Catholic in the Class 2A/3A Upstate boys’ tennis championship. The non-denominational Red …
Clinton wins playoff opener, 6-1
By MONTE DUTTON Isaac Cain answered the call (Monte Dutton photos). Click here Clinton needed someone to lean on in its 6-1 victory over Liberty in opening game of the Class 2A baseball playoffs on Tuesday. That someone was Isaac Cain, who held the line on the mound for six innings. The righthander – the …
On with the show, this is it!
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. It’s … playoff time. It costs $8 to get in for baseball, softball and soccer. What does it cost to get in Madison Square Garden to see the Knicks play the Sixers? Oh, $450 to $5,000. Eight dollars might be what it costs to watch …
Just enough knowledge to be dangerous
A young woman -- apparently one with three arms --- angrily reacts to her computer crashing and losing internet connection. Click here. Superficial knowledge. That’s what we got from technology. I am neither unaffected nor blameless. I write mostly about sports for an increasingly modest living. I don’t know as much about sports since I …
Raiders hang on versus Wren, 5-4
By MONTE DUTTON) Logan Bragg (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The Laurens Raiders finished off the regular season with a tense, 5-4, victory over Wren in which neither team scored after the second inning. Laurens (6-20) lost massively to graduation after contending for Class 4A state titles in consecutive seasons. They have an excellent feeder …
A mad, mad, mad, mad ballgame
By MONTE DUTTON Gaffney's Brady Smith is safe at second (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. A remarkable facet of baseball is how often lifelong fans, veterans of thousands of games, see things they have never seen before. Naturally, on Wednesday night in the bottom of the sixth inning at Clinton High School, a full moon …
Red Devils rebound with vengeance, 16-1
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn went 2/4, driving in three runs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. One night after being shut out for the first time, Clinton High (22-3) was back to its devilish baseball ways on Tuesday when Strom Thurmond (3-18) came to visit. Shortstop Logan Johnson went 3/3, scoring three times and driving …
Fountain Inn ends Clinton streak
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton High School’s baseball team needed to step up the competition in preparation for the Class 2A playoffs. The Red Devils found a bridge too far to cross on Monday when 4A power Fountain Inn came to town and left with a 7-0 victory. It was a …
Nightrider's Lament 