By MONTE DUTTON Samantha Mullock (25), Aretha Linger (8) and Allie Sykes (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Presbyterian College played something akin to boomerang basketball at Templeton Center on Monday. The Blue Hose women won by 68 points. The men lost by 21. The evidence suggests a disparity in the strength of the foes. PC’s …
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Blue Hose get back on track, 43-14
By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst had one of his better days (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Behind a pristine performance from redshirt-sophomore quarterback Collin Hurst, Presbyterian rolled past Valparaiso, 43-14, on Saturday at Bailey Memorial Stadium. Hurst, from Davie, Fla., connected on 26/32 passes for 278 yards and touchdown strikes of 17 and 18 yards …
Familiar faces at the Touchdown Club
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. As I sat in the audience at Thursday’s meeting of the Laurens County Touchdown Club, munching on a Groucho’s sub, I thought about the speakers whom I’ve known the longest. I narrowed it down to three: Robbie Caldwell, Phil Kornblut and Pete Yanity. Pete Yanity Caldwell, who is best known …
Pierce’s return signals high hopes for PC basketball
Jonah Pierce (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The backdrop of Presbyterian College’s men’s basketball season is the exhibition games that opened the season … unofficially. The Blue Hose have played the devil and then the deep, blue sea. Most of the games this season are going to be somewhere in between. “’I’m very excited,” said …
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Perfection is elusive, but the dream lingers
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. After seven straight football victories, Presbyterian College fell, 35-19, in Dayton, Ohio, last Saturday. The game started at noon, so I watched it on my laptop while sitting in the Paladin Stadium press box. On Monday, PC head coach Steve Englehart said, “It wasn’t that we played …
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PC streak ends at Dayton, 35-19
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The magic took a Saturday off in Dayton, Ohio, where the Flyers stopped Presbyterian in a variety of ways. The University of Dayton (6-2, 4-1 PFL) stopped the Blue Hose’ seven-game win streak this season, 11-game stretch dating back to last and rampage through the Pioneer Football …
Red Devils wreck Wildcats, 48-7
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BLACKSBURG -- Clinton’s 48-7 victory on Friday night was impressive but not as explosive as the previous week’s 56-14 win at home against Landrum. Nitro glycerine is not as explosive as the Landrum game. Five hundred thirty-three yards rushing, in a game in which the clock ran …
PC’s undefeated record comes with a price
By MONTE DUTTON Boyce Bankhead (22) leads the Blue Hose in tackles (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For Presbyterian College football, the pressure never lets up. For every Saturday that the Blue Hose win a game, the need for another multiplies. Seven weeks in, Presbyterian still has its perfect season intact. The Blue Hose goal …
Red Devils are in Zoom mode
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devil offense is getting better with every game (Monte Dutton photos). Corey Fountain and his Clinton High School football staff have been working on a building. It’s not much different from the old gospel, bluegrass tune penned by A.P Carter. I’m working on a building / I’m working on a building …
Will wonders never cease?
By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst cocks and fires (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It should go without saying. When a college football team wins its seventh game in a row, it’s not a miracle anymore. Presbyterian College is just good. The Blue Hose took the crease out of Stetson on a homecoming Saturday in front …
Nightrider's Lament 