Clinton needed every run it could muster in its 7-6 playoff victory Thursday at Union County. With the victory, the Red Devils advance in the winners’ bracket of the Class 3A Upper State round and will host Seneca at 2 p.m. Saturday. Seneca defeated Belton-Honea Path 3-1 Thursday. But getting there by beating Region 4-3A…
Red Devils begin Upper State round at Union County Thursday The late-inning drama centered around whether Clinton could put a couple of runs on the scoreboard to end the Class 3A District 2 Championship Game Monday in the fifth with the 10-run mercy rule. Mission accomplished: The Red Devils, who were coming off of a…
Twenty-four hours, 15 runs, two victories. That was the story of a pair of comeback playoff wins by Clinton and Laurens Thursday and Friday, respectively. Clinton rallied from six runs down to beat Wren 7-6 Thursday night in the Class 3A District 2 playoffs. Not to be outdone, LDHS came back from the same six-run…
Raider 9 heads to North Augusta LDHS softball ends run vs. Easley Lions topple Red Devils Clinton dug itself a huge hole early but rallied back furiously from a 6-0 deficit for a 7-6 victory over visiting Wren Thursday night. Brett Young’s two-out RBI single in the seventh inning scored courtesy runner Tyler Kyko. Wil…
The Clinton baseball team cruised to an 11-3 win over Broome in the opening round of the Class 3A state playoffs Tuesday night. The Red Devils (19-3) gave starting pitcher Carson Glenn an early cushion. Glenn and two relievers combined on a five-hitter, but the Clinton offense took over with five Red Devils collecting multiple…
Hunter Nabors just needed to switch things up. The Laurens District High second baseman, a switch-hitter at other levels of baseball, hit from the left side of the plate for the first time all season and hit a three-run home run in fourth inning to spark the Raiders in a 6-2 opening-round Class 4A playoff…
Rain has played havoc with the local high school sports schedule. Both Laurens and Clinton have canceled non-conference regular season baseball games, and LDHS has canceled its last regular-season softball game as the playoffs are set to begin Monday. Clinton finished up its baseball regular season Tuesday night by capturing its second straight Region 4-3A…
The Presbyterian College men’s tennis team is headed back to the NCAA Championships after claiming its third Big South Conference championship over the weekend in Charlotte. The Blue Hose got four singles wins to hold off Gardner-Webb 4-1 in Sunday’s finals at the Marion Diehl Tennis Center. The finals were delayed one day due to…
Behind four singles wins, the Presbyterian men’s tennis team defeated Campbell 4-2 to advance to the Big South Championship Finals for the sixth time in the program’s history. The Blue Hose (15-9) will play Gardner-Webb, which defeated Radford in the other semifinal match, for the Big South Tournament Championship at the Marion Diehl Tennis Center…
Jolly Doolittle found himself standing in front of a throng of current and future Laurens Academy varsity football players Monday afternoon after being introduced as LA’s next head football coach. Doolittle, who has been head coach at Greenwood Christian School for the past seven seasons, told the players he would be looking for great…