By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young launches the game-winner (Monte Dutton photos). Some things are just meant to be. Clinton’s fourth baseball state championship – and second in the past four seasons – occurred at the right time, in the right place, by the right young man. I was in the dugout, camera hanging from my …
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The pop heard ’round the state
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Perhaps the most famous baserunning play in baseball history occurred in the seventh game of the 1946 World Series. In the eighth inning, with two out, the Saint Louis Cardinals’ Enos Slaughter scored the winning run by dashing all the way from first base on …
Clinton goes a game up with 5-1 road win
By MONTE DUTTON Camden Finley (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Game one of the Class 2A state-championship series was memorable for Owen Glenn’s inside-the-park homer and Camden Finley’s virtuosity on the mound. Clinton’s 5-1 victory over Atlantic Collegiate puts the Red Devils a win away from their second state title in four years. Of Camden …
Big Red advances to state finals, 4-3
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn drives in the winning run (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The sun was still out, and the sky was still blue when Clinton won the Upstate Class 2A baseball title on Wednesday. The Red Devils had a loss to spare when Batesburg-Leesville arrived. The Panthers put up a fine effort, …
Clinton eliminated from softball playoffs, 8-2
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. NINETY SIX – Softball ran its course for Clinton High on a hot Monday evening as Ninety Six eliminated the Red Devils from the Class 2A Upstate bracket, 8-2. Clinton (19-7) banged out seven hits, among them doubles by Alyssa Young and Sierra Templeton, but couldn’t group …
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Devils keep the line moving, 11-0
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BATESBURG-LEESVILE – Following the destruction of the reigning Class 2A baseball champions on Saturday evening, Clinton (28-3) is one win away, on Wednesday back in the Red Devils’ home valley, with three days’ rest, against one of two teams it has defeated, by a combined score of …
Chesnee stops Clinton softball, 5-4
By MONTE DUTTON Halleigh Luke (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton (19-6) ran out of outs in its Upstate-final Class 2A softball game at home against Chesnee (20-5) on Friday evening. The Red Devils had three with the bases loaded. Clinton trailed, 5-0, entering the bottom of the fourth inning, at which point the Red …
Clinton gets out of the gate … fast
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Let’s not get carried away by Clinton’s 10-1 victory over Chesnee in the first game of the Upstate baseball bracket on Thursday evening. Sure, the Red Devils are 27-3. They have won four straight playoff games and six in a row overall. They have scored …
Clinton softball advances, 4-1
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 …
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 …
Nightrider's Lament 