Area Sports

Former Laurens District High School and Ware Shoals High School head girls basketball coach Travis Langford will be among four inductees in the South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame later this year. Langford is in the SCBCA Hall of Fame Class of 2024 along with Homer Carraway (Lugoff-Elgin), Mike Cup (Camden) and Wayne…

Two Presbyterian All-American baseball players were drafted Monday afternoon in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft. All-American pitcher Daniel Eagen was drafted Monday in the third round of the MLB Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Joel Dragoo was selected 222nd overall in the seventh round by the Philadelphia Phillies, marking the first time in PC…

Clinton has turned to a former standout on the diamond as its next head baseball coach. Peyton Spangler, the 2018 Laurens County Player of the Year for the Red Devils, was promoted to head baseball coach after Clinton parted ways with Sean McCarthy. With Spangler as an assistant, McCarthy, who returned for his second stint…

Laurens was one out away from continuing its drive toward a Class 4A state championship Wednesday night, but a late James Island power surge led to a 10-7 come-from-behind victory at Ed Prescott Field. The win delivered the Trojans their third state championship and their first since 1996. James Island won two titles in Class…

This time Laurens’ final-inning rally fell just short. The Raiders left the bases loaded in the seventh inning after scoring a run that drew them to within 5-4 of host James Island in Game 1 of the Class 4A State Championship series. The best-of-three championship series shifts to LDHS (26-7)today (Wednesday) for Game 2 at…

Presbyterian captured its first Big South Conference regular-season championship Friday with a doubleheader sweep of UNC Asheville Friday at PC’s Elton Pollock Field. With the regular-season title, the Blue Hose (29-25 overall, 18-6 BiDrag South) also earned the No. 1 seed in next week’s Big South Championship Tournament at High Point’s Truist Point ballpark. PC…

Laurens’ Class 4A Upper State Championship game Wednesday at Easley started with a double rainbow behind the third-base line and ended at dusk with the Raiders finding a pot of gold. LDHS rallied from a four-run deficit in its final at-bat , and outfielder Avery Madden delivered what proved to be the game-winning hit –…

Green Boys 1, Green Wave 0. Laurens began its best-of-three Class 4A Upper State championship series with a 3-2 victory over Easley Monday night at Ed Prescott Field. The Raiders – who have embraced the “Green Boys” nickname – got a two-out, bases-loaded walk from Coleman Coker to drive in the game-winning run in the…

Laurens punched its ticket to the Class 4A Upper State championship series Saturday with a 5-1 victory over Catawba Ridge at Ed Prescott Field. The Raiders (24-6) will host Easley at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Easley defeated Riverside 7-5 Saturday to advance. Senior left-hander Jordan Hudson pitched a two-hit gem to eliminate the defending Class 4A…

Laurens spotted starting pitcher Asher Goss a three-run lead and the Raiders held on for a 4-3 Class 4A state playoff victory over top-ranked Catawba Ridge Friday night at Ed Prescott Field. Goss allowed three runs – two earned – on six hits, struck out eight and walked three in six innings of work. He…