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Samage Teel (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Presbyterian men’s basketball considerably improved its seeding for the Big South Basketball Tournament by finishing off a season sweep – in its first and last conference games – of Charleston Southern. Baseball won in extra innings over Saint Bonaventure, but women’s basketball dropped its game in North Charleston against …
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Jonah Pierce jockeys for position against UNC Asheville earlier this season. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The final games Saturday are crucial to Presbyterian College’s seedings in next week’s Big South Basketball Tournament in High Point, N.C. For Quinton Ferrell’s men’s team, a victory over Charleston Southern on Saturday at Templeton Center is particularly important. …
Continue reading County Signs: Blue Hose teams in tight race to Big South Tournament
Tilda Sjokvist led the Blue Hose . (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ On a crucial Wednesday evening, with the Big South Conference winding down, Presbyterian basketball experienced mixed results in games against USC Upstate. The women’s team slipped past the Spartans at Templeton Center, while, at Spartanburg’s G.B. Hodge Center, Upstate delivered a crushing blow to …
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Walter Todd at the Laurens County Amateur at Lakeside in 2022. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Anthony Downs, Charles Peterson, Walter Todd, Jean Hammond Whitfield and Robert P. Wilder are the five new members of the Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame. The Laurens County Sports Hall of Fame will induct five members into its …
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Carson Glenn (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Carson Glenn has pitched in both of Clinton High’s baseball games and is yet to give up an earned run. He is 0-2, as are the Red Devils, who fell to Mid-Carolina, 5-0, in their second outing in Emerald’s Greenwood tournament, the CFP Invitational, on Monday night. Three …
Continue reading County signs: Devils’ Glenn takes another tough loss
Brett Young Click here. Saturday seemed awfully strange at Templeton Center because the Blue Hose weren’t playing basketball there. On most Saturdays in Big South play, either the men or women are at home, with the other playing the same school on the road. The previous Saturday, both were at home. With the conference schedule …
Continue reading County signs: Clinton baseball opens with loss
Joel Dragoo (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Among other lessons left in Clinton by Canisius University’s baseball was that not all the teams touring the South are Saint Peters. Presbyterian (4-2) opened the season with four consecutive blowouts, by a total margin of 58-12, over the Peacocks, but the Buffalo, N.Y., Golden Griffins escaped Elton …
Bryanna Brady led the Blue Hose with 23 points. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ As Willie Nelson wrote and sang, “Miracles appear in the strangest of places. Fancy meeting you here.” The Presbyterian College women’s basketball team popped Big South rival Winthrop on Wednesday evening, while, a 90-minute bus ride away, the men’s team was similarly …
Rylee Ballard (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Laurens Academy fell a game short in its bid to for a state championship in girls' basketball, and powerful Clemson escaped a mild upset bid by Presbyterian College on the baseball diamond on Tuesday. LA lost its best player, Olivia Huck, to ankle injury, and try as they might, …
(PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ High-school basketball in Laurens County is down to the girls’ team at Laurens Academy, but the Presbyterian College seasons are still going strong. The Crusaders (24-1) take on Curtis Baptist (21-5) at 5:30 in Columbia at Cardinal Newman in the SCISA Class A semifinals. Inevitably, thoughts turn to baseball, where the Blue …
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