(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The women's basketball bracket at the Southern Conference tournament in Asheville, N.C., was a brief encounter for Furman. The Paladins won their women's tennis match over North Florida in Jacksonville. A Furman runner is competing at the NCAA Meet in Boston. The start was moved up a day for women's …
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County Signs: Red Devil softball remains undefeated
Halleigh Luke (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Clinton High’s softball team remained undefeated, while down the hill, Class 5A J.L. Mann overpowered the Red Devils’ baseball team. Laurens picked up victories in softball, tennis and boys’ soccer, defeating Clinton in the last sport and playing the Red Devils to a stalemate in girls’ soccer. Joseph …
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Furmanology: Four Furman women earn SoCon hoops recognition
(Furman graphic) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ Tuesday was a busy day in the Furman athletics department. The Paladins earned All-Southern Conference decorations in women’s basketball, produced quality performances in men’s and women’s golf, North Carolina overpowered Furman in softball, and women’s tennis lost the first match in its spring-break trip to Florida. Four Furman women’s basketball players, three …
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Blue Hose Blurbs: Big South tourney straight ahead
Trevon Reddish-Rhone (left) and Kory Mincy sweep the weekly Big South honors. (PC photo) Click here. Both Presbyterian College basketball teams enter the Hercules Tires Big South Conference Basketball Championship as long shots. Pretty dangerous long shots. Presbyterian (17-14, 8-8 BSC) is the fifth seed in the women’s bracket and opens on Thursday at 2 …
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Unbeknownst to Blue Hose, they won one for Mojo
Mojo Nixon's head still bobbling at 6:08. (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ Oh, what a night it must have been at Templeton Center. It may have been the best night of the season for Presbyterian men’s basketball, at the very least since the season opener at Vanderbilt, and this was in the Big South. The SEC …
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Devils, Crusaders, Hose roll
Mylayja Thompson (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges The latest high-school basketball results were about par for the course. Clinton won big. Laurens Academy won. Laurens High and Presbyterian College didn’t. John Gardner’s CHS girls pounded Chester (3-12, 1-6), 64-16, for their ninth consecutive victory. McKenzie Clark and Mylayja Thompson each scored 11 points, and Bryanna Belton …
High Point prevails, home and away
Marquis Barnett (PC photo) https://www.sadlerhughes.com/ The Point was too High for both Presbyterian College basketball teams on Saturday. High Point defeated Quenton Ferrell’s men on Saturday night at Qubein Center after the Panthers took care of Alaura Sharp’s women at Templeton Center in the afternoon. With 2:28 remaining, Jonah Pierce’s bucket gave Presbyterian (10-14, 1-7) …
Another big one as UNCG visits Furman
PJay Smith (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ After a couple raucous road games, Furman returns to Timmons Arena with righting an old wrong in mind. The Paladins have won six of their last seven games leading up to Sunday’s nationally televised game against UNC Greensboro at 2 p.m. on ESPNU. Furman (12-10, 6-3 SoCon) won a thrilling …
Paladins ambushed in 2nd half at ETSU
Sydney Ryan (Furman photo) https://dunesproperties.com/agent/mark-mitchell/ East Tennessee State utterly dominated the second half and put Furman away, 79-54, in women’s basketball on Thursday evening at the Bucs’ Brooks Gym in Johnson City. It took a three-pointer by ETSU’s Courtney Moore to give the Buccaneers a 34-30 halftime advantage. The façade of competitiveness ended in the …
Waldron reaps rewards of a tennis life
By MONTE DUTTON Chuck Waldron's next stop is the S.C. Tennis Hall of Fame. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges I have known Chuck Waldron since we entered the first grade together. He has heard distant drums – okay, the thump-thump-thump of tennis balls bouncing nearby – for all the years since. Given his lifelong devotion to …
