By MONTE DUTTON Isaac Cane makes a play at third (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Sometimes peace in the valley is not a great thing. Another strong Clinton High School baseball season ended there on Saturday as Mid-Carolina eliminated the Red Devils, 2-0, in the Class 2A Upstate round. It was a great season by …
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A story that wasn’t told
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Sometimes the stars come together. Sometimes they line up. Sometimes they fall. There’s an old Randy Travis song that notes that the ocean’s salty and the stars sometimes fall. The name of the song is “Deeper Than the Holler.” I wouldn’t call Clinton High School’s baseball field …
Devils advance past Chesnee, rain, protest, triple play …
By MONTE DUTTON Brett Young went deep (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. And then, in the Upstate, there were were four. Four schools, in Class 2A, to decide the representative to play for a state championship: Clinton in District 1, Batesburg-Leesville in District 2, Mid- Carolina in District 3 and Strom Thurmond in District 4. …
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Scenes from Clinton’s 7-4 district title victory over Chesnee
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Tall order for Devils in tennis finals
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Clinton High School, undefeated at 11-0, is playing for the state boys’ tennis championship on Saturday in Cayce at 10 a.m. Red Devil teams have already won the Class 2A state title in football and reached the Upstate final in girls’ basketball. This is always a tall order, never more …
A star Spanglered night at the ballyard
By MONTE DUTTON Tommy Spangler (Furman photo) Click here. At about the same time I arrived in the baseball valley on Tuesday, a familiar figure in a red shirt and a purple cap yelled my name. He brought someone with him. Was it a Clinton fan with Saluda roots? The only such person I know …
Baseball hopes rise for county’s best
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Both Laurens and Clinton highs experienced early disappointments in baseball region play. The Raiders lost three straight to Fountain Inn (21-5, 13-2), and the Red Devils fell twice to Mid-Carolina (18-7, 10-0). Neither has lost in region play since, and as such, optimism rises as …
Against all odds, I read it and enjoyed it
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I don’t know where I got The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. I don’t remember when. I didn’t know I had it until I rummaged through a box looking for a book to read. I can only speculate. I may have bought it when I was interested in the World …
County opponents laying baseball eggs
By MONTE DUTTON Isaac Cane (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Visiting teams laid lots of goose eggs in Laurens County on Monday evening. Laurens blanked Southside, 17-0. Thornwell quieted Calhoun Falls, 16-0 and 12-0. Clinton erased Fairfield Central, 12-0. Be they Raiders, Saints or Red Devils, they all laid goose eggs, a mere day after …
Nightrider's Lament 