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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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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
By MONTE DUTTONg Luke Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton High got off to a strong start at the Hanahan Invitational, a spring-break tournament near Charleston. The Red Devils began with a 10-7 victory over Hickory Grove Christian (Charlotte, N.C.), led by red-hot catcher Luke Young. Young, who had homered twice in his previous …
By MONTE DUTTON Matthew Rollison (PC photo) In the midst of a rough season, Presbyterian College’s baseball team hit a new low on Friday in North Charleston. I was following the game. The Blue Hose took a 12-5 lead over Charleston Southern entering the bottom of the ninth inning. I read a book for a …
By MONTE DUTTON Angel Vargas is all smiles running out a home run (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. In Clinton High School’s last eight baseball games, the Red Devils have outscored their opponents, 88-15, with four shutouts. On Tuesday evening, Clinton (10-2, 4-1 Region 3-2A) drew swiftly away from Chester (5-7-1, 2-1), winning, 13-0, in …
Emory Guilford (PC photo) The struggling Presbyterian baseball program split the first two games of a non-conference series in Homewood, Ala., against Samford. The Blue Hose won Friday’s opener, 7-5, and fell on Saturday, 7-4. The rubber game is at 2 p.m. on Sunday. On Saturday, Presbyterian (5-21) broke on top but yielded three runs …
By MONTE DUTTON Noah Hughes (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Fountain Inn (14-1, 8-0) goes for a Region 1-4A sweep of Laurens (4-10, 4-4) on the Fury’s home field after winning, 2-0, in Laurens on Wednesday night. Collin Wilson 
and Brayden Passmore combined to stop Laurens on three hits. Wilson struck out 11. Noah …
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