"Why do they [write] for their money? Why do they [work] for short pay? They ain't getting nowhere and they're losing their share. They must have gone crazy back there." — Michael Burton (paraphrased)
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 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, …
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. …
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 …
(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 …
Continue reading Paladins charge the net as SoCon’s top seed
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 (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 …
Quarterback Collin Hurst (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. Head coach Steve Englehart released Presbyterian College’s 12-game football schedule, which begins on Aug. 30 in Macon, Ga., against the Mercer Bears. Mercer, en route to an 11-3 record and Southern Conference title, routed the Blue Hose, 63-10, last season. PC, in fact, opens the season with …
Continue reading Consecutive SoCon trips to open PC’s football schedule
(PC photo) Click here. Presbyterian College led the Big South baseball standings for a day. Saturday’s 3-2 victory over the Longwood Lancers also allowed the Blue Hose to reach .500 overall … for a day. While PC was taking the first two games in Clinton, USC Upstate was winning the first two in High Point, …
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By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton claimed the Laurens County championship in softball by defeating Laurens, 22-6, on Wednesday evening. The Red Devils won the first game between the rivals, 7-2, on March 14. Third baseman Kamryn Campell went 5/5 with base hits in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth innings. …
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