Tushawan Richardson (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Clinton’s first Class 2A boys’ basketball playoff game was a bit less tense than the final score indicated.Saluda (15-8) fell by a fast-closing 54-49 score. The Red Devils, also 15-8, led 44-25 entering the fourth quarter. Clinton also started slowly, trailing 8-5 after the first eight minutes.Led by …
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Red Devils run wide open in playoff debut
By MONTE DUTTON Bryanna Belton led four Clinton double-figures scorers (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It’s not easy to win a state championship. Clinton, which opened the Class 2A girls’ basketball playoffs with a 67-29 victory over Liberty Monday night, could run up against an opponent that’s much taller, or one that just shoots the …
County Signs: Clinton rolls, LA advances, Laurens falls
By MONTE DUTTON Will Thompson (John Clayton photo) Click here. The state football playoffs begin in the S.C. High School League and continue in the S.C. Independent School Association with two Laurens County schools, Clinton (7-2) ,and Laurens Academy (8-3), alive.Only the Red Devils are at home on Friday, facing Pelion (2-8) at Wilder Stadium.Laurens …
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County Signs: Red on red for region title
By MONTE DUTTON Guess which way Javen Cook is about to cut (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Clinton travels to Liberty, and the Red Devils are going to win.The above isn’t as bold as it seems. Clinton (6-2, 3-0 Region 1-2A) and Liberty (5-3, 2-1) are both Red Devils. The region title and a preferential …
Vikings master the home shores, 26-17
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. GREENWOOD – It’s November, and most of the hay is in the barns, or at least it would be if it wasn’t baled in giant rolls nowadays.Emerald and Laurens played a hard-fought football game that the Vikings won, 26-17, at Frank Hill Stadium, on Friday night. Emerald …
County Signs: Raiders, Crusaders fall hard
By MONTE DUTTON (Courtesy John Clayton) Click here. If you go to a homecoming game, and you have no idea who is going to be the queen, bet the quarterback’s sponsor. At Clinton High School, the monarch was Ry’Dai’ja Mars, who was – wait for it, wait for it – sponsor of the quarterback, Tushawan …
County Signs: Fun on Friday, done on Saturday
By MONTE DUTTON Javaye Suber evades Southside's Zaccheaus Dickson (photo courtesy John Clayton). Click here. I haven’t read The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone. I saw the movie starring Charlton Heston. It doesn’t matter. The chronology was off in Laurens County football this weekend. The ecstasy came first. For the first time, all …
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County Signs: Storms of life and ballgames
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. In the aftermath of Helene hell – and as Milton the monster departs Florida as if it was Godzilla – is there anyone out there who still doesn’t believe in climate change? It is almost always cheaper to fix a problem than it is to clean up a mess. We’ve …
County Signs: As Helene looms ever closer …
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. We’re in an oddly opportune, not in bad way, place for hurricanes. The little desk is made of wood. I’m knocking on it. Most Atlantic hurricanes bore into the coast and curve upward instead of clobbering us with a direct hit. Most Gulf hurricanes weaken, particularly where the land is …
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Lexington was better, 29-0
By MONTE DUTTON Lexington's Brennon Carter finds a receiver (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Wasn’t much to it. The short-term result of Laurens District High School having bona-fide quarterbacks again was ineffectual as Lexington methodically dispatched the Raiders, 29-0, on a Wednesday football game hastened by the approach of what recently became Hurricane Hellene. About …
Nightrider's Lament 