By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook breaks for the end zone (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One hundred. Sixty. Four. Clinton’s 35-8 victory over Laurens on Friday night was the 100th of Corey Fountain’s head coaching career, the 60th all-time against the Raiders and the fourth in a row. The town was coming off a devastating …
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County Signs: The rumble rises
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton won, 49-7, last year (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Football rumbles down a road. Basketball’s not the same. There’s almost a game every night. Same with baseball and most sports. NASCAR rumbles, but that’s literally. Maybe it vrooms. One aspect I love about football is … it’s organized. A game is …
A vast array of ballgames
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Presbyterian at Mercer is Thursday night. Laurens at Clinton is on Friday night. Furman at Mississippi is on Saturday night. Someone asked me what I was doing. What do you think? The stories on PC and Furman won’t have my name on them because I won’t be …
County Signs: U.S. 76 revisited
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton's Corey Fountain and Newberry's Cedrick Jeter show off the belt. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The benefits of a Wednesday trip to Newberry won’t be cashed in until next week, when thoughts turn to the Bulldogs and the Battle of the Belt. Appropriately sponsored by Clinton-Newberry Natural Gas Authority, Clinton and …
Blue Hose on march to recovery
By MONTE DUTTON Cincere Gill (0) (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Perhaps, at last, a change is going to come at Presbyterian College. It was a precipitous fall, and it has been a tortuous climb from a football abyss. In hindsight, Presbyterian College’s timid advancement to NCAA Division I, Football Championship Subdivision, and then its …
County Signs: All roads lead to Wilder Stadium
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Here’s a prediction that doesn’t require a soothsayer. Wilder Stadium will be packed when Laurens comes to town Friday night. Clinton’s band will be pumping out its knockoff of the Notre Dame fight song. Laurens will mimic Ohio State. It will be hot, with thunder in the …
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County Signs: It couldn’t get bigger … but did
By MONTE DUTTON Wilder Stadium was already packed at the opening kickoff when Laurens last visited in 2022 (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Until time changes from Daylight Saving to Standard time, I begin Clinton High School games shooting photos on the visitors side because the lighting is better until the sun goes down. A …
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Furmanology: Special teams are a specialty
By MONTE DUTTON Ian Williams scores against ETSU (Furman photo) Click here. The most inane stoppage in sport has spread to college football, which at least has the decency to call it “a two-minute timeout.” The NFL’s “two-minute warning” dates back to a time when many stadiums didn’t have visible clocks. An official trotted to …
Tales of serves and volleys
By MONTE DUTTON Lots of flags fly above Wilder Stadium. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Have you ever seen a presentation of That Championship Season? It was a play and movie about old teammates getting together. That tale takes a dark turn. Nothing dark happened at Clinton High School on Saturday night. It was all …
County Signs: Raiders make Rams earn it
By MONTE DUTTON Will Thompson had little room to rove against Hillcrest (photo courtesy John Clayton) Click here. Laurens waged a war of attrition on opening Friday night at K.C. Hanna Stadium, where Hillcrest defeated the Raiders, 16-0. Against the Rams, ranked fifth in Class 5A, Laurens had little chance after the 7:52 mark of …
Nightrider's Lament 