(Furman graphic) Click here. The Paladins showed up in the NFL Draft. Micah Robinson and long snapper Julian Ashby were selected in the seventh round. Both played four years for the Paladins, graduated from Furman and played their final years elsewhere. Robinson was selected by the Green Bay Packers as the 21st pick of the …
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Rams are Belton’s choice
Bryanna Belton (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. From the time she first stepped on a District 56 gym floor, it has been obvious that Bryanna Belton was going to find herself a place to play college basketball. That place is Columbia International University, which while international, is still in the capital city of South Carolina. …
County opponents laying baseball eggs
By MONTE DUTTON Isaac Cane (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Visiting teams laid lots of goose eggs in Laurens County on Monday evening. Laurens blanked Southside, 17-0. Thornwell quieted Calhoun Falls, 16-0 and 12-0. Clinton erased Fairfield Central, 12-0. Be they Raiders, Saints or Red Devils, they all laid goose eggs, a mere day after …
Raiders, Red Devils position themselves for playoffs
By MONTE DUTTON Bennett Edwards (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. A few weeks ago, before a Laurens High baseball game, I commiserated with the Raiders’ head coach, Tori Patterson, about how bad a Clinton region opponent, Columbia, was. Patterson offered one word: “Southside.” The Tigers, Laurens’ final Region 1-4A opponent, are 0-17. Southside, 0-9 in …
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Furman winding up spring nicely
(Furman photo) Click here. For a school that doesn’t field a baseball team around which to anchor its spring, the weekend’s sporting contests were rather exciting. The Paladins were shotmaking in golf, exuberant in tennis, dominating lacrosse, and so on and so forth. With the score tied at 3-all, senior Marissa Pennings defeated Alessandra Caceres, …
Different diamonds, same story
Jireh Brown bunts his way on (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Tuesday’s Laurens-Clinton baseball game was about the same speed as Monday’s. The Raiders’ center fielder, Jireh Brown, was the speediest in a 7-1 victory, one day after a 5-0 triumph in Laurens. Brown singled four times, one on a bunt, in as many at-bats. …
Ledford, Coker lead Laurens past Clinton
By MONTE DUTTON Coleman Coker (17) homered to put the Raiders ahead (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. How many times do you see a team with five straight shutouts … itself get shut out? About as many times as you see a team turn a triple play … and lose. The latter happened to Laurens …
Paladins charge the net as SoCon’s top seed
(Furman photos) Click here. And then there was one. Furman claimed the Southern Conference regular-season title in women’s tennis with a 5-2 victory over East Tennessee State, previously the only other undefeated team in league play. The Paladins (18-3, 7-0 SoCon) earned the No. 1 seed in next weekend’s league tournament. Furman, which won its …
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It wasn’t a simple football scrimmage
By MONTE DUTTON Carter Szydlowski takes a fumble to the house (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. In all honesty, I could make neither hide nor hair of Presbyterian College’s spring football scrimmage at Bailey Memorial Stadium on Friday evening. Following the theme of honesty, I was sitting in the front row of the stands, and …
Tanner Finley tosses a no-no at Fairfield
Tanner Finley (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Wednesday was a vintage night for baseball in Laurens County. It wasn’t all successful, but the Red Devils and Raiders played exciting games in vastly different ways. Clinton (11-4, 5-2 Region 3-2A) hasn’t allowed a run since March 24 and a hit since March 25. Righthander Tanner Finley …
Nightrider's Lament 