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 …
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Pegues buries trey of the day
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 …
Opportunity to knock at Timmons Arena
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 …
Furman assault overruns VMI, 100-60
Marcus Foster is baaaaaaack. (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ LEXINGTON, Va. – Furman arrived at Virginia Military Institute on Wednesday evening poised to flex its muscles. Everyone who had been missing arrived at Cameron Hall ready to rock and roll. And so they did, decimating the Keydets, 100-60. Marcus Foster, J.P. Pegues and Alex Williams all …
These are the good old days
By MONTE DUTTON Colton Hinton hauls in the first of two Carson Jones touchdown passes in the fourth quarter. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ I walked the sidelines of a high-school football game on Friday night for the first time in two weeks. It was good to be back on the grind, right up to 5 a.m. …
Shooting marbles in Chattanooga
Tyler Huff was at his best last year versus Chattanooga. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ As the old western theme asked, Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam? Paladin, Paladin, so … far … from … home. And as Ringo Starr noted lyrically, You know it don’t come easy. The Southern Conference championship won’t be wrapped up on …
Confident Paladins getting ready for Homecoming
By MONTE DUTTON Tyler Huff made all the right moves. (Furman photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Oh, Evan DiMaggio was the Southern Conference Defensive Player of the Week, and Tyler Huff miraculously wasn’t the offensive recipient.* Dominic Roberto plundered Western Carolina for the last time with perfect marks in his career against the Catamounts. Cally Chizik and Hugh …
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Huff, Sochovka to lead Paladin charge
By MONTE DUTTON From left, Matt Sochovka, Tyler Huff and Furman sports information director Hunter Reid (Monte Dutton photos) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ When I arrived at the Southern Conference’s football Media Day on Thursday, I was happy to see that my two favorite Furman players, Tyler Huff and Matt Sochovka, accompanied head coach Clay Hendrix to the …
Time Passages
Clinton, South Carolina, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 10:09 a.m. I guess most people actually do have similar experiences. Class reunions. I’ve only been to one of those, the 10th, and I made a spectacle of myself that I don’t regret much because I was much younger, and it was roughly what I was supposed to …
Nightrider's Lament 