By MONTE DUTTON Angel Vargas is all smiles running out a home run (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. In Clinton High School’s last eight baseball games, the Red Devils have outscored their opponents, 88-15, with four shutouts. On Tuesday evening, Clinton (10-2, 4-1 Region 3-2A) drew swiftly away from Chester (5-7-1, 2-1), winning, 13-0, in …
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PC splits first two at Samford
Emory Guilford (PC photo) The struggling Presbyterian baseball program split the first two games of a non-conference series in Homewood, Ala., against Samford. The Blue Hose won Friday’s opener, 7-5, and fell on Saturday, 7-4. The rubber game is at 2 p.m. on Sunday. On Saturday, Presbyterian (5-21) broke on top but yielded three runs …
Finley brothers hold the line, 2-1
By MONTE DUTTON Tanner Finley fires a strike (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. At its best, high-school baseball is tense, exciting and unlimited by a run rule. Clinton (9-2, 3-1 Region 3-2A) guarded a one-run lead with the tenacity of an animal defending its young on Friday night, gaining a split with rival Mid-Carolina, 2-1, …
Raiders blanked by Fountain Inn, 2-0
By MONTE DUTTON Noah Hughes (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Fountain Inn (14-1, 8-0) goes for a Region 1-4A sweep of Laurens (4-10, 4-4) on the Fury’s home field after winning, 2-0, in Laurens on Wednesday night. Collin Wilson 
and Brayden Passmore combined to stop Laurens on three hits. Wilson struck out 11. Noah …
In dreams and reality
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 …
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 …
Nightrider's Lament 