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 …
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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 hustle pays off, 56-49
By MONTE DUTTON Nyterian Smith (3) paced the Red Devils with 17 points (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Clinton’s 56-49 victory over Saluda in the second round of the Class 2A boys’ basketball playoffs was animated. It was hard-fought. At times the opposing players did not like each, and the refs handled some ire. Nothing …
Fairfield Central shuts Devils down, 42-7
By MONTE DUTTON Tre Aiken (70), Brody Garrett (50), Jace Patterson (52) and others try to make some room (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. There’s nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone. – L.E. White It was probably the highest attendance at Wilder Stadium all season, around 4,000. All systems were go until …
Cook takes over in second half
By MONTE DUTTON Zy Butler accompanies Javen Cook (3) around left end (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Clinton needed what Saluda brought to Wilder Stadium on Friday night. Competition. A fight. A shot to come through in the clutch. The Red Devils won their seventh game in a row and advanced to the third round …
Clinton to face Saluda in second round
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton's defense burned brightly against North Central (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. A week ago, Clinton hosted North Central (Kershaw) in the first round of the Class 2A football playoffs. Though the Red Devils were the Region 1 champions and the Knights were fourth in Region 4, both teams ran onto Keith …
Scenes from Clinton’s 7-4 district title victory over Chesnee
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Raiders rampage in playoff opener
Bennett Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Well, here we go. The playoffs are underway. It doesn’t mean that all the games are fraught with tension, but the tension is going to rise as the process that determines state championships runs its course. In baseball, both Laurens and Clinton closed their regular seasons with an …
Gilliam leads Big Red rampage, 48-20
By MONTE DUTTON Rhett Gilliam finds a hole (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For teams that win their regions, the first round of the football playoffs is stress-free and the second is fraught with concern.Led by an unexpected hero, hard-nosed sophomore Rhett Gilliam, Clinton still got to chill – literally – in its 48-20 conquest …
Girls become women … and win
Malayja Thompson (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges It was the fairer sex that was better at playing basketball on Wednesday night. At Clinton High School, the girls’ team was winning its first-round playoff game over Southside. A couple miles away and across the railroad tracks, Presbyterian was polishing off UNC Asheville. However, in far Asheville, northward …
Nightrider's Lament 