By MONTE DUTTON A man looks stressed while managing multiple devices and documents at a busy desk The waitress had her back turned. She was doing something at the grill. “How many days are there this month?” she asked to no one in particular. I’ve a little in common with those guys in the commercials …
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Young leads Devils, 15-1
By MONTE DUTTON Coach Peyton Spangler greets Camden Finley at third base (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Surprising no one, Clinton (21-2, 9-1 Region 3-2A) turned Eau Claire every which way but loose on Friday evening after the Red Devils honored their seniors at their valley baseball park. The region has been utterly dominated by …
Red Devils shut out Gaffney
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn homered in Gaffney (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Angel Vargas rapped three hits, Owen Glenn homered and singled, and seven different Clinton players drove in runs as the Red Devils clobbered Gaffney, 9-0, on the road Wednesday for their 20th victory of the season. Clinton (20-2) is 9-1 against baseball …
Clinton dispatches Eau Claire with aplomb
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young strikes again (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Clinton High hit the capital city like it was changing planes on Tuesday. The Red Devils took batting practice against Eau Claire, winning for the 11th time in a row with a 15-0, happy-hour annihilation of the Shamrocks. Led by catcher Luke Young …
Clinton drives Southside Christian to distraction
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young takes one deep (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. This wasn’t just another 13-3 runaway. It was, however, a runaway, gradually building and intensifying, executed by the long ball and the crafty bunt, moving runners a base at a time and circling them as if it were a stock-car race. Southside …
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All’s well that ends well at PC spring practice
By MONTE DUTTON Max Holtzclaw fires (Monte Dutton photos). After Presbyterian College’s spring football game on Saturday, I asked the new head coach, Matt Rahl, why the fans called better plays than the coaches. As Dudley Moore once asked in the role of Arthur Bach, “Isn’t fun the greatest thing you can have?” Rahl walked …
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Not a whole lot of close competition
By MONTE DUTTON Avery Barnes drives in a run (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It seemed too fast for a baseball game. With one out in the bottom of the third inning on Friday evening, Clayton Kyko reached base on an error by Fairfield Central’s Caden Brown. Graydon Watkins, who had doubled, scored what was …
Laurens’ upset bid falls just short, 2-1
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton's Logan Johnson lays down a bunt (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The latter baseball meeting between Laurens County’s premier public high schools was an entirely different affair. Clinton (16-2) won, 2-1, on Wednesday night. The Red Devils won the earlier game, on March 13, by a score of 12-6. This time …
Spring breaks Raiders
By MONTE DUTTON Brayden Patterson (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Five Blessed Trinity pitchers combined to limit Laurens (4-15) to two runs and three hits as the Roswell, Ga., school defeated the Raiders, 4-2, on Friday in the finale of Laurens’ spring-break trip to the Charleston area. With the exception of three forfeits over Southside, …
Clinton completes Low Country sweep
By MONTE DUTTON Tanner Finley (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Clinton High’s baseball team ransacked the Low Country as if led by Francis Marion, not Peyton Spangler. In three games at the Hanahan Invitational, the Red Devils cleaned out Hickory Grove Christian, Berkeley and Bishop England by a combined score of 25-10. Berkeley won the …
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