J.P. Pegues was first-team All-SoCon and the 2023 conference tournament MVP. (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Furman is unlikely to be picked first in the Southern Conference’s next preseason men’s basketball poll. The Paladins’ first, second, third and fifth leading scorers have entered the NCAA transfer protocol. The four – J.P. Pegues, Marcus Foster, Alex …
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Furmanology: Softball on a hot streak
(Furman photo) Click here. I heard a comic say, when the March Madness is over (in April), people can go back to doing work in their offices. Those lines have always been blurred for yours truly. My trade is translating sports into English. I write what I see and what people say. What separates being …
County Signs: Clinton softball can’t buy a break
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, long before one could drive a stolen car coast to coast on his “device,” kids used to play games such as trying to get a peer to believe something ridiculous. Once, while playing golf, I got a chum to believe that Atlanta Braves pitcher …
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County Signs: Raiders rule … but just barely
(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I retired to the house so that I could watch Presbyterian College play women’s basketball on TV, but I regretted leaving the baseball being played by the ancestral Laurens County rivals on Wednesday night. The Blue Hose won, so I can’t really say I misplayed it. I took a plethora …
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County Signs: Raiders win eighth straight
Owen Pridgen (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One just never knows what’s coming up when the high-school kids start playing various kinds of ball. Some of it is reasonably predictable. Laurens is ranked third in Class 4A baseball, and the Raiders won their eighth straight game and second in as many nights over Hillcrest. Thornwell …
County Signs: Hose get ready for taste of bigs
Mara Neira (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. In the small town of Clinton, some folks are aghast that the local college has such a tough path to the women’s basketball championship. Why must the Blue Hose have to be in a play-in? And, if they manage to defeat Sacred Heart, next is the No. 1 …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: One giant step for PC
It's a big ticket PC punched. (PC photo) Click here. Whatever happened to slow-pitch softball? The dirtiest game I ever played in was church softball. Undoubtedly, it gradually died out, but seems sudden to me. I went off to write about NASCAR … and it was gone. Like textile baseball before it. Whatever happened to …
Thoughts this time of year
Laurens Academy's Olivia Huck (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. When I get up in the morning, brew some coffee while I’m taking some meds, turn on the TV and see what awful happened last night, my set (remember when a TV was a set?) recommends what I want to see. Then I commence translating sports …
County Signs: Edwards to Raiders’ rescue
Carly Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. The soft rivalry between Clinton and Laurens -- I always do it alphabetically except when it refers to the site, at which time it is Clinton-Laurens in Laurens and Laurens-Clinton in Clinton, and never the twain shall meet – in softball was a rootin,’ tootin’ dandy on Thursday …
Furmanology: Softball splits with Gardner-Webb
Chloe Fabio (Furman photo) Click here. Basketball is over, and baseball, for now, is extinct, but Furman’s athletics program remains busy. It took a couple games, but Furman ended Gardner-Webb’s 11-game softball winning streak at Pepsi Stadium. The Bulldogs won the opener, 8-5, in 11 innings, and the Paladins bounced back to capture the nightcap, …
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Nightrider's Lament 