"Why do they [write] for their money? Why do they [work] for short pay? They ain't getting nowhere and they're losing their share. They must have gone crazy back there." — Michael Burton (paraphrased)
By MONTE DUTTON Corey Fountain and the Red Devils had their first scrimmage rained out for the second straight year (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It’s impressive that everyone in the state knows how to pronounce my hometown’s name. Clinnun. Area broadcasters who call the university in Columbia “South Cuh-lina” know how to pronounce Clinton, …
Continue reading County Signs: Not how it’s said around here
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Down in the soccer holler, where the Raiders practice football, it’s exciting. Greg Porter and his staff are agitating a bunch of kids previously aggravated. A whole lot of shaking was going on, not to mention grunting, yelling, cheering and that inimitable sound of pads popping. Porter …
By MONTE DUTTON Greg Porter (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, though the streams are swollen, keep them dogies rollin’, Rawhide! All the things I’m missin’, good vittles, love and kissin’, are waiting at the end of my ride. The herds are being assembled. The trail bosses are Steve Englehart, Jolly Doolittle, Corey …
By MONTE DUTTON Laurens head coach Greg Porter (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. In terms of organized sports, most fields are fallow as we await the opening salvos of Independence 2024. Me? I could use the time. Before long, the hills will be alive with the sound of pads popping. On the county scene, the …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. At the end of Laurens’ spring football game on Thursday evening, head coach Greg Porter took microphone in hand to thank the attendees for being at K.C. Hanna Stadium. It was rather hot and airless, and the baseball team had fallen in the state finals the night …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders spring forward, Hose fall back
By MONTE DUTTON Tori Patterson watches Coleman Coker uncork. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One of my favorite characters, the late Jim Beauchamp, used to welcome in the writers and sometimes say, “Boys, sometimes you’ve just got to tip your cap to the opposition.” Then “Beech” would remove the Greenville Braves cap, with its logo …
By MONTE DUTTON Shortstop Brody Fahr (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Presbyterian College is headed to High Point seeking another one. The top-seeded Blue Hose open the Big South Conference Baseball Championship on Thursday at 1 p.m. against fourth-seeded Charleston Southern (21-30). The tournament is being conducted at Truist Point in High Point, N.C., home …
Continue reading County Signs: Blue Hose go title-hunting in High Point
Zay Pulley (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. CHARLESTON – Laurens’ third straight trip to the well yielded only an empty bucket as James Island won the first game in the Class 4A state baseball finals, 5-4, on Monday night. Both victories in the Upstate finals against Easley occurred on Laurens’ final at-bat. This time the …
By MONTE DUTTON Charlie McDaniel (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Not enough people realize what Presbyterian College baseball has just done. Going to work on the Blue Hose’ sweep of UNC Asheville on Friday, I anxiously awaited the local news. PC won the Big South regular season for the first time in history, that being …
Continue reading County Lines: PC baseball deserves more than it gets
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I’ve seen a lot of celebrations. This spring the most uncontrolled was when the Clinton High baseball team won its region for the third straight year. The Red Devils attempted to build a skyscraper in the infield grass. It was a human pyramid without order and support. …
Nightrider's Lament 