County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils jockeying for playoff position

By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball is a funny game. Joe Garagiola named a book that. The first person who said it was probably in the first game. Garagiola gets credit because he wrote the book. Kids go to baseball games to play. They’ll take up any vacant space and …

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County Signs: Raiders’ Goss hurls gem, 1-0

By MONTE DUTTON Asher Goss fired a no-hitter. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The best thing about the baseball game at Ed Prescott Field on Wednesday night wasn’t the hot dogs. They’re good. Not as good as the ones at Whiteford’s Drive-In or Steamers. Slaw is an available condiment at those two spots, but hot …

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County Signs: Riverside eclipses Laurens

By MONTE DUTTON Ryland Paxton (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. We had a partial eclipse. I knew something weird would happen, especially since it was my birthday. The approaching eclipse prevented my truck from starting in front of Sadler-Hughes Apothecary. Little Walt (Hughes) fetched his truck and jumped me off. I took it to Clinton …

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County Signs: Hose home in baseball, softball

By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. Was Iowa’s upset of South Carolina in the national semifinals a year ago the first time I ever heard of Caitlin Clark? I certainly know all about her now. I’ve watched about 500 percent more women’s basketball this year, apparently mirroring the general public. This year I watched …

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County Signs: Coker, Madden come through

Raiders came back, but Jordan Hudson wasn't around to see it. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Even when the weather is clear, a spring night has dampness in it. Parents and friends huddle in the shadows, some up against the fence in their foldable chairs, others standing back a bit, wearing caps and windbreakers, wishing …

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County Signs: Figures that it began with a funeral

Brett Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A high percentage of people who attended a funeral and wrote about it mentioned the weather. For the record, it was drizzly and overcast at Fort Jackson National Military Cemetery when Jim McLaurin took his mortal bow. I saw no hidden meaning. The poet laureate of the working …

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County Signs: Vikings founder crossing lake

Me-Me Smith (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Because ESPN2 must have something to show on Tuesday night, I watched part of the men’s basketball game between High Point and Arkansas State. It’s the Ro College Basketball Invitational, live from Daytona Beach Center. High Point, the regular-season champion of the Big South, was up seven the …

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