By MONTE DUTTON Red Devils are looking for a few good linemen. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.facebook.com/UpstateInsuranceConsultants At Clinton High School, Corey Fountain put his football team on the official-practice field at 7:30 a.m. Friday. Laurens and Laurens Academy practiced into the cool instead of out of it. The morning dew had been swept from the …
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Expectations and aspirations
By MONTE DUTTON Corey Fountain has many holes to fill. (Monte Dutton photo) YORK – High-school media days, on the rare occasions when they have them anymore, are always family affairs. The rivers have many tributaries. https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges The Woolbright system, whose headwaters are in Chapin, gained strength when Clover High School’s Perry Woolbright intersected with …
Diamonds are forever but not for a while
By MONTE DUTTON Bryce Young fires to first. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ This might be weird. I feel as if baseball is over. I haven’t watched so little major-league baseball on TV in more than 25 years. I kept hearing about how great the College World Series was, so I finally watched a couple games, …
Down to the last drop
By MONTE DUTTON The "good game, man" line (Monte Dutton photos) What’s not to like about playing a little ball on a beautiful morning? High school football is one of many arts of the possible. They don’t put the pads on till August. The High School League lets them play pitch-and-catch, and they make a …
It takes a village
(Monte Dutton photos) Any successful team is a many splendored thing, but baseball takes it to the nth degree. Football requires many coordinated actions, but football players do not dash beyond the goalposts to retrieve the extra points. In high-school baseball, the junior varsity completes its game and then prepares the field for the varsity. …
Baseball to brag about
(Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON The first time I heard Asher Goss was injured, Tori Patterson told me about it before a Raider game. I thought, what a shame. I had no idea it was life-threatening. It could be that Tori didn’t know, either. Conditions apparently deteriorated quickly, but Goss pulled through, some dour …
Raiders show spring in their steps
(Monte Dutton photo) Ira Bedenbaugh was in midseason form on the public address, but the teams wore practice togs, and it was not unusual for players wearing green jerseys to clobber others wearing the same. The occasion was Laurens District High’s spring scrimmage at K.C. Hanna Stadium. As a rule, offensive players wore white and …
Raiders can’t cross (Catawba) Ridge
(Monte Dutton photos) By MONTE DUTTON In baseball, and most sports, the last cut is the deepest. On Friday night, at Ed Prescott Field, it was administered by the Catawba Ridge Copperheads, so perhaps it was a strike, but it was 4-2 and advanced the Fort Mill school to the Class 4A state finals. Laurens’ …
Bats fail Raiders in Upstate opener
Bennett Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) FORT MILL – Laurens couldn’t handle Catawba Ridge pitchers Peyton Dhein and Caden Glauber, who combined on a two-hitter to throttle the Raiders, 4-0, in the first game of the Class 4A Upstate championship series Tuesday night. Mason Hamby, who took the loss on the mound, and catcher Bennett Edwards, …
Two bid for baseball titles
Mason Hamby leads the Raiders in batting average and ERA. (Monte Dutton photos) It’s not every spring one local baseball team, let alone two from Laurens County, gets to play for a state championship, and both the Laurens Raiders and the Clinton Red Devils aren’t there yet. They’re so close they can taste it. They …
Nightrider's Lament 