By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young strikes again (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. Clinton High hit the capital city like it was changing planes on Tuesday. The Red Devils took batting practice against Eau Claire, winning for the 11th time in a row with a 15-0, happy-hour annihilation of the Shamrocks. Led by catcher Luke Young …
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Clinton drives Southside Christian to distraction
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young takes one deep (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. This wasn’t just another 13-3 runaway. It was, however, a runaway, gradually building and intensifying, executed by the long ball and the crafty bunt, moving runners a base at a time and circling them as if it were a stock-car race. Southside …
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All’s well that ends well at PC spring practice
By MONTE DUTTON Max Holtzclaw fires (Monte Dutton photos). After Presbyterian College’s spring football game on Saturday, I asked the new head coach, Matt Rahl, why the fans called better plays than the coaches. As Dudley Moore once asked in the role of Arthur Bach, “Isn’t fun the greatest thing you can have?” Rahl walked …
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Not a whole lot of close competition
By MONTE DUTTON Avery Barnes drives in a run (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It seemed too fast for a baseball game. With one out in the bottom of the third inning on Friday evening, Clayton Kyko reached base on an error by Fairfield Central’s Caden Brown. Graydon Watkins, who had doubled, scored what was …
Laurens’ upset bid falls just short, 2-1
By MONTE DUTTON Clinton's Logan Johnson lays down a bunt (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The latter baseball meeting between Laurens County’s premier public high schools was an entirely different affair. Clinton (16-2) won, 2-1, on Wednesday night. The Red Devils won the earlier game, on March 13, by a score of 12-6. This time …
Spring breaks Raiders
By MONTE DUTTON Brayden Patterson (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Five Blessed Trinity pitchers combined to limit Laurens (4-15) to two runs and three hits as the Roswell, Ga., school defeated the Raiders, 4-2, on Friday in the finale of Laurens’ spring-break trip to the Charleston area. With the exception of three forfeits over Southside, …
Clinton completes Low Country sweep
By MONTE DUTTON Tanner Finley (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Clinton High’s baseball team ransacked the Low Country as if led by Francis Marion, not Peyton Spangler. In three games at the Hanahan Invitational, the Red Devils cleaned out Hickory Grove Christian, Berkeley and Bishop England by a combined score of 25-10. Berkeley won the …
It’s a merry go-round
By MONTE DUTTON Alex Wilkins (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. This is a bit jaded by the institution on my diploma – but … In the first round of the NCAA Tournament, Furman kept it close for most the game before losing to Connecticut. In the final, the same with UConn against Michigan. The Paladins, …
Things go bad in a hurry at CSU
By MONTE DUTTON Matthew Rollison (PC photo) In the midst of a rough season, Presbyterian College’s baseball team hit a new low on Friday in North Charleston. I was following the game. The Blue Hose took a 12-5 lead over Charleston Southern entering the bottom of the ninth inning. I read a book for a …
Lander to seek Div. II title on CBS
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I have been remiss in overlooking what may be the sports story of the year. It’s been happening across the lake, where Lander University is playing on Sunday afternoon for the NCAA Division II national championship in men’s basketball against Gannon. Who is Gannon? It’s in Erie, Pa., where fans …
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