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(Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ CHARLESTON – For a half, Furman died by the three-point shot. For another half plus, the Paladins lived by it. The result? An 82-79, overtime victory Wednesday night over The Citadel that was ripped from the jaws of defeat in front of the kind of raucous McAlister Fieldhouse crowd (4,117) that …
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By MONTE DUTTON J.P. gives PJay a hand. (Elena Davidson photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Life was but a dream until Furman happened upon Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium. As it relates to the Napoleonic palindrome: Able was I ere I saw Elba. A 10-point loss to the Terriers did not negate the five victories that preceded it. It …
Paraskevi Koilia (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ It would be a dank night in Spartanburg, but at least joy reigned in Greenville on Saturday afternoon. Sydney James came through for the Paladins in an exciting Southern Conference victory, 58-56, over Mercer at Timmons Arena. The 6-foot senior from Ocala, Fla., scored 10 of her 12 points in …
By MONTE DUTTON Furman couldn't get the crucial stops. (Elena Davidson photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ SPARTANBURG – When Furman plays Wofford, basketball is like a box of chocolates. One never knows what one is going to get. Oh, wait, it’s more than basketball. A football game comes to mind. The Terriers made a gooey mess of the …
By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Bob Richey and his band of Dins are playing Spartanburg on Saturday at 6 p.m. It’s a one-night stand at Jerry Richardson Indoor Stadium. Thrills! Chills! Gangs of screaming lads wearing khakis and light-blue button-downs! And tastefully dressed lasses, tossing all decorum aside. But I stereotype. …
Continue reading Paladins head to Wofford with joyful identity
By MONTE DUTTON Garrett Hien was clean behind the scenes. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Had you attended Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game at Timmons Arena and known that one team had the nation’s longest winning streak without knowing which one it was, you likely would have picked the one wearing gray. You would have been …
By MONTE DUTTON Ben Vander Wal, PJay Smith, Carter Whitt, Garrett Hien and Alex Williams are bracing for another big one. (Monte Dutton photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ When a sports team wins 17 games in a row, it naturally develops an aura of invincibility. If we won’t be beat, we can’t be beat. Forgive the grammar. That’s …
Continue reading SoCon’s top ‘Dogs to test toughness at Timmons
Head coach Pierre Curtis (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ SPARTANBURG – Wofford and Furman played a women’s basketball game on Saturday that looked like it was played outdoors, whereas, Richardson Indoor Stadium is titularly not. It was cold out there. Wofford was cold. Furman was colder, and the Terriers won, 69-51. The Paladins fired their first 17 …
By MONTE DUTTON J.P. Pegues made the difference ... literally. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Furman and Western Carolina played so hard on Saturday that the crowd was sweating … and crying tears of joy when J.P. Pegues buried Western Carolina with a pristine triple with 0.8 seconds on the clock, 65-62. Pegues hit it, but …
By MONTE DUTTON Marcus Foster -- and Paladins -- running free again. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Last night I thought of what Gen. George S. Patton – no, wait, it was George C. Scott portraying Patton – said: “I was nearly sent home in disgrace. Now I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the …
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