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 …
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PC mauled by Bears, 63-10
(PC photo) Click here. MACON, Ga. – Mercer handled Presbyterian on Thursday night, but it took a while. It took a while because the dreaded “lightning in the area” resulted in a 90-minute delay. It was a long time to wait for a butt whoopin’. The Bears won 63-10, totaled 500 yards, twice converted turnovers …
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: 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 …
County Signs: Crusaders go first
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. On Friday night, there will be football. Honest-to-gosh, bona-fide, counts in the standings, football. It’s eight-man football, and it’s in Greenwood, where Laurens Academy kicks off the whole county season with a visit to the den of the Cambridge Cougars. It’s sort of week double-zero. Clinton and Laurens open thunderously …
County Signs: Change is the rage
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Here’s my prediction for professional football. Because most of the starters play little, if at all, in exhibition games – and that’s exactly what they are, even though the NFL insists on “preseason games” – the beginning of the actual season will be sloppy. The middle of …
From Paris to PC to NASCAR
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Shortly after Team USA won Olympic gold in men’s basketball, I showered on account of athletic heroics on TV and the lingering fatigue of a late night in Union, and I hadn’t gotten around to it. Then I drove over to watch Presbyterian College practice the art …
Nightrider's Lament 