County Signs: Basketball miraculously lives

(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Who knew the last of the basketball would be at Presbyterian College? The Blue Hose women’s basketball team is playing Sacred Heart of Fairfield, Conn., in the NCAA Tournament’s play-in game. PC, the fifth seed in the Big South, swept through the tournament. The Pioneers of the not usually pioneerish …

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County Signs: Raiders sweep Eagles, Hose drop opener

Owen Pridgen is on a tear. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball outlasted the weather – at least at Laurens District High School and Presbyterian College -- on Friday as the skies cleared and home-plate umpires yelled, “Play ball!” The Raiders, more notably, did. A band of Revolutionaries, once known as the Colonials, descended upon …

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County Signs: Edwards to Raiders’ rescue

Carly Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The soft rivalry between Clinton and Laurens -- I always do it alphabetically except when it refers to the site, at which time it is Clinton-Laurens in Laurens and Laurens-Clinton in Clinton, and never the twain shall meet – in softball was a rootin,’ tootin’ dandy on Thursday …

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County Signs: All is looking … mostly way up

Jordan Hudson (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I just heard a broadcaster say at the end of a tournament game, “They’d like to keep this run going!” Who doesn’t? The theme of Wednesday night’s games was Run, run, run, run, runaway! In Taylors, a red-hot gang of Laurens Raiders left Eastside green with envy, grounding …

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County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils come back in tandem

Owen Pridgen homered twice for the Raiders. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The high-school action was hot and heavy Monday in Laurens County again where, miraculously, it didn’t rain. Me? I wanted to be out at the diamond, but, until a payment got auto-deposited, it was too late for hitting the road, I couldn’t afford …

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County Signs: Raiders, PC win in varied fashion

(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. As dreary and drizzly as the Friday weather was in Laurens County and hereabouts, the games were rather spectacular, even thereabouts. The Laurens baseballers took the over while the softballers took the under. Translation: The Raiders won in extra innings in baseball and by run rule in softball. The Presbyterian …

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County Signs: Tough loss for Raiders, Saints silence Bats

Zay Pulley Click here. Laurens took a second loss in a row, and Thornwell found out where the Clear Dot was in Monday-evening baseball. The Clear Dot Bats, of Columbia, didn't use them very well. Four Laurens batters stroked two hits each, but in spite of five hits to the Raiders’ 11, Fountain Inn managed …

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County Signs: Those darn Copperheads

Laurens versus Catawba Ridge last season (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Laurens happened upon Catawba Ridge, which eliminated the Raiders from the Class 4A Upstate finals and went on to capture the state title. The meeting was in Georgetown on Sunday at the International Paper Baseball Classic, where the Copperheads of Fort Mill managed to …

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