By MONTE DUTTON People gather in a busy laundromat folding clothes and waiting for laundry cycles. Click here. What is the scribe to do when it’s Saturday and the Red Devils are rained out? Oh, it’s not so bad. I enjoyed a total of four quality conversations at the Waffle House and the laundromat. Let’s …
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One never knows
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. News like this is unsettling. I was well out of college when Kyle Busch was born. I’m at the age where life seems a bit more frail. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. The older I get, the more scary that …
Big Red advances to state finals, 4-3
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn drives in the winning run (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The sun was still out, and the sky was still blue when Clinton won the Upstate Class 2A baseball title on Wednesday. The Red Devils had a loss to spare when Batesburg-Leesville arrived. The Panthers put up a fine effort, …
Clinton eliminated from softball playoffs, 8-2
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. NINETY SIX – Softball ran its course for Clinton High on a hot Monday evening as Ninety Six eliminated the Red Devils from the Class 2A Upstate bracket, 8-2. Clinton (19-7) banged out seven hits, among them doubles by Alyssa Young and Sierra Templeton, but couldn’t group …
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Something old, something new
By MONTE DUTTON A vintage car drives past a rustic BBQ joint on Route 66 at sunset. Click here. It’s Sunday, and I’ve wrapped up the photos and story on Clinton High School’s latest baseball triumph and am presently surfing back and forth between the NASCAR all-star race and the PGA golf tournament. I’m going …
Devils keep the line moving, 11-0
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BATESBURG-LEESVILE – Following the destruction of the reigning Class 2A baseball champions on Saturday evening, Clinton (28-3) is one win away, on Wednesday back in the Red Devils’ home valley, with three days’ rest, against one of two teams it has defeated, by a combined score of …
Chesnee stops Clinton softball, 5-4
By MONTE DUTTON Halleigh Luke (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton (19-6) ran out of outs in its Upstate-final Class 2A softball game at home against Chesnee (20-5) on Friday evening. The Red Devils had three with the bases loaded. Clinton trailed, 5-0, entering the bottom of the fourth inning, at which point the Red …
Clinton gets out of the gate … fast
By MONTE DUTTON Jaydon Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Let’s not get carried away by Clinton’s 10-1 victory over Chesnee in the first game of the Upstate baseball bracket on Thursday evening. Sure, the Red Devils are 27-3. They have won four straight playoff games and six in a row overall. They have scored …
The best kind of road to ruin
By MONTE DUTTON Mike Hembree (left) and Larry Woody at the Franklin battlefield (Monte Dutton photos). I hope I’m going to get a bit more profound when I take stock of my three-day trip to Nashville, Tenn., which I cheerfully refer to as Music City USA, but not Nashvegas, because I like Nashville better. I …
Clinton softball advances, 4-1
By MONTE DUTTON Me-Me Smith Click here. Clinton (18-4) picked up a clutch, tense, 4-1, victory in its second Class 2A softball playoff game, basically making the most of about everything in Lancaster against Buford (14-9) on Friday. Me-Me Smith pitched a tenacious masterpiece after spotting the Yellow Jackets a 1-0 lead in the bottom …
Nightrider's Lament 