Area Sports
Red Devils’ playoff run ends in third round
American Leadership Academy ended Clinton’s Class 2A playoff run Monday night with an 80-56 third-round playoff victory Monday night in Lexington. The Red Devils ended their season with an 18-9 record, winning 15 straight games and going 10-0 en route to the Region 3-2A championship before running into a senior-laden ALA team. “We’ve got to…
Read MoreClinton girls advance with defensive win over Ninety Six
The No. 1-ranked Clinton girls basketball team cruised through the second round of the Class 2A state playoffs Saturday afternoon with a 42-28 victory over visiting Ninety Six. With the win, the Red Devils advance to the Class 2A Elite 8 and will host Landrum Tuesday. The Cardinals (22-7) defeated Saluda 54-42 Saturday. After a…
Read MoreRed Devils advance in playoffs with victory over Saluda
Clinton got a second-half surge Friday night against Saluda and advanced to the Class 2A Elite Eight with a 56-49 victory over the Tigers. The Red Devils advance to face American Leadership Academy (19-8) Monday in Lexington for a chance to go to the 2A Final Four. ALA defeated Chesnee Friday night. Against Saluda, neither…
Read MoreNo. 1 Red Devils advance; Raiders upset by Wren
The No. 1-ranked Clinton girls basketball team advanced through the first round of the Class 2A state playoffs Tuesday night with a 49-18 win over visiting Liberty. Clinton (26-1) is set to host Ninety Six at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Ninety Six was a 60-34 winner over Eau Clair in the first round Tuesday. Senior point…
Read MoreBasketball playoffs set to begin Monday for local teams
The SCHSL basketball playoff brackets are set for teams from Clinton, Laurens and Thornwell. The opening round of the playoffs are set for this Monday and Tuesday with Clinton girls and boys and the Laurens boys set to host first-round games. After winning respective Region 3-2A championships, the Clinton boys and top-ranked girls will both…
Read MoreNational Signing Day: LA, CHS standouts on the move
Laurens Academy Headmaster and former head football coach Todd Kirk held up the grade school art project by Garrison Vaughan proclaiming his dream to play college football, which he spelled “fotball.” Vaughan learned to spell it correctly and developed into an all-state lineman on both sides of the ball, paving the way to National Signing…
Read MorePC, LA reschedules weekend games due to weather
Impending winter storms have caused several area sports events scheduled for Saturday to be rescheduled or postponed. Presbyterian College announced that its women’s basketball game originially set for Saturday has been rescheduled for 6 p.m. Friday. The men’s game is to be played at 2 p.m. Saturday instead of later in the day. Laurens Academy…
Read MoreMuseum welcomes exhibit on baseball, community
A traveling exhibit set to open this week at the Laurens County Museum highlights baseball on the backroads of South Carolina while also serving as a reminder of a once-segregated game. The exhibit, which originated at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, features around 50 photographs that were initially part of a book called…
Read MoreRahl Ball: Rahl introduced as PC’s 18th head football coach
Matt Rahl’s journey to his first head-coaching job lasted more than two decades and countless miles with stops in places like Wyoming, El Paso, Minnesota and, finally, Clinton. Rahl, a career assistant at the college level who spent the past two years on staff at Presbyterian, was officially introduced as PC’s 18th head football coach…
Read MoreEnglehart leaves Blue Hose for West Georgia
Less than 48 hours after Presbyterian College celebrated head football coach Steve Englehart as the American Football Coaches Association National Coach of the Year, Englehart was named head coach at West Georgia. West Georgia announced Englehart’s hire as the 13th head coach in program history Wednesday morning on its website. “I could not be more…
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