By MONTE DUTTON Bennett Edwards drove in six runs. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Laurens accepted the key to Region 2-4A on Friday night, and Clinton has a locksmith on retainer. I was at Ed Prescott Field, even though the Raiders had already clinched the top seed but needed a victory over Wade Hampton to …
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County Signs: Music to my ears
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I’m going to miss Young Sheldon. Them’s my people. Tonight I played in front of people at The Lumberyard’s open jam. I like it because people sometimes listen. The local musicians shared with PC biology scholars, and I took one for the team because I needed to …
Furmanology: On the bright side, lacrosse wins
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. It’s all busy work, mostly thankless. Thanks to staking out Laurens County as part of my territory, I’m aware of the importance of baseball. It’s big. Clinton won the state title in Class 3A last year. An inexperienced team is getting better by the week and still has …
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County Signs: One down, one to go
By MONTE DUTTON Coleman Coker (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Fun. You can’t beat fun. Another of my late sportswriting chums – I’ve been mourning Jim McLaurin lately – used to say that with a regularity that somehow didn’t undermine the humor. It was all in the timing. David Poole and I were alike in …
County Signs: Big Red steps up
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young (Monte Dutton photo) Click here. I was back in my right mind Tuesday, taxes begone, getting ahead, watching part of a movie that I’ve watched part of three times in the last month, playing a little guitar, having something I hadn’t had at Steamers and trundling off to a ballyard. …
County Signs: Balls bounce opposite ways
By MONTE DUTTON Zane McLendon (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. There’s some place I’d rather be. A ballpark. The plan was to get the taxes done – I wait till the last minute every year, dang me – in time to make a ballgame. I missed it. I would have had to go unshaved and …
Furmanology: How the duffer relates
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. Augusta National is hell in heaven. It’s Oz, complete with witches both good and wicked flitting about. It seemed as if the first- and second-place finishers, Scottie Scheffler and Ludvig Aberg, were the only players on the course who seemed to be enjoying himself. Tiger Woods was a …
Blue Hose Blurbs: PC leaves feathers in its wake
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. Of course, I pondered the Masters when I should have been finishing my taxes. No sweat. Still got a day. I was happy Scottie Scheffler won. He seems like an agreeable lug. I enjoyed watching Ludvig Aberg. Don’t ever change, kid. Golf needs someone to be the best …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Baseball pounds Winthrop … again
(PC photo) Click here. On Friday night, I watched football, and in a way, it felt like spring practice for me, too. I started out at Clinton High School watching baseball, and when I got home from the Presbyterian College spring football game, I had two sets of photos to process, select and lay out. …
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County Signs: Nothing close to mention
By MONTE DUTTON Brett Young was 3/3 at the top of the order. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Success was commonplace, but tension was hardly in the air. As a matter of fact, the riskiest aspect of my Friday was the decision to enjoy pregame carnitas at Fiesta Grande. Fortunately, Tex-Mex agreed with me, as …
Nightrider's Lament 