(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. What Presbyterian College used to play baseball games looked like bats, but they behaved like wands. Magic wands. Sunday’s 16-13 victory over Gardner-Webb was just another stark, raving mad, wondrous, wacky adventure. Elton Pollock Field was the Wild West. Sean Sean Hollister Click here. On Saturday, Gardner-Webb (11-14, 1-5 Big …
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Raiders pull out series with walk-off of Westside
(File photo) Click here. You win some. You lose some. The baseball games were rife with drama on Friday. At the top of the list was Laurens’ 5-4 walk-off victory over Westside at Ed Prescott Field on Friday night, giving the Raiders the series and an early one-game lead on the Rams in Region 1-4A. …
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Clemson gets ‘Cowboyed up’
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Now, I’m kidding, okay? The last two times I’ve watched Clemson play basketball, the Tigers have come from hopelessly behind to losing barely. Against Louisville, if not for an unbelievable “no call,” they may well have won. Against the McNeese State Cowboys on Thursday, Clemson was way back. Yet the …
Porter’s Bronze Derby tribute is a keeper
By MONTE DUTTON (Maudlin Pond Press) Click here. I have been remiss in overlooking Chip Porter’s significant book, which, in a way, isn’t a book at all. The Little Bronze Derby That Was! is a scrapbook that tells the remarkable story of the lost, much lamented football rivalry between Presbyterian and Newberry colleges, contested for …
Westside takes region opener from Laurens
By MONTE DUTTON Zay Pulley (file photo) Click here. Westside’s 8-4 victory over Laurens on Monday night came principally at the Raiders’ own hands.Five errors, all in the Laurens infield, were LDHS’s undoing as only one of the runs was earned. Laurens (3-7, 0-1 Region 1-4A) can make amends on a Wednesday trip to Anderson …
Games getting farther apart
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. One aspect of sports – in most every one except NASCAR, where races are increasingly contrived – is that close games and matches are becoming rare.Once I was at a trade show in Pennsylvania and said to a favorite race driver, “A man’s got to drive like hell to lose …
There must be Ninety Six ways to win a ballgame
Luke Young (file photo) Click here. Clinton continues to heat up with the weather, winning its third baseball game in a row on Wednesday night, 11-4, at Ninety Six.Catcher Luke Young singled in the third and sixth innings and homered to left in the fourth,The Red Devils got on the board in the second on …
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Blue Hose steal one from Bama
Sean Hollister (PC photo) Click here. Presbyterian traveled to Tuscaloosa to take on 23rd-ranked Alabama in baseball.The Crimson Tide won the opener, 10-0, and the second game, 15-1. Neither went the scheduled distance.Okay.But the Blue Hose (8-10) won on Sunday, 11-8. As Mel Allen used to say on This Week in Baseball, “How about that!” …
Slow starts back home
By MONTE DUTTON Gardner-Webb coach Jeremy Luther took his medicine in Johnson City (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Being away on my great basketball road trip spared me an inglorious period back home.It was sorrowful in Johnson City, Tenn., too. (I can’t say those three words without thinking of “Wagon Wheel.”) I was moved by …
Big South opener goes to Swift, Bulldogs
Kishyah Anderson scored 31 points, but it was not enough (PC photo). Click here. Presbyterian entered the Hercules Tires Big South Championships as the defending champion, but that was 2023-24, and PC pulled off that upset – or those upsets, three of them -- as the fifth seed.In the opening game this year, matching the …
Nightrider's Lament 