The Laurens baseball team bounced back from a Monday loss at Greer to down the Yellow Jackets Wednesday 4-1 at Ed Prescott Field. The Raiders scored three runs in the first inning and starting pitcher Josh Hughes made them easily stand up, scattering five hits and allowing one unearned run in the complete game win.…
By late Monday night, former Clinton co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Mathew Bennett had changed the job description on his busy Twitter page: He was the new head football coach at Ninety Six High School, and it was Twitter official. Greenwood School District District 52 announced Bennett’s hire Monday evening at its regular board…
Players of the Year Olivia Huck of Laurens Academy and Taliek Fuller of Clinton headline the all-Laurens County basketball teams for 2022-23. The Laurens County Advertiser and LaurensCountySports.com selected the boys and girls all-county teams, players of the year and coaches of the year in conjunction with the boys and girls varsity coaches from the…
Laurens baseball opened its Region 2-4A season Monday with a 16-6 win at Eastside. Wofford signee Jackson Martin led the Raiders 18-hit parade, going 5-for-5 with a homer, two doubles, 4 RBI and four runs scored. Mason Hamby and Asher Goss also each hit home runs for the Raiders (2-5-1 overall, 1-0 Region 2-4A). Josh…
SUMTER – The fourth time was not the charm for Laurens Academy. LA, which had defeated Region 4-1A foe Cambridge Academy three times this season, fell to the Cougars 41-34 in the SCISA Class 1A state title game Saturday morning at the Sumter Civic Center. Cambridge, a No. 4 seed in the state tournament, downed…
Rylee Ballard hit her fifth and final 3-pointer of the game in the waning seconds Thursday to lift the Laurens Academy girls basketball team into the SCISA Class 1A state championship game by way of a 44-41 victory over Wardlaw Academy in Columbia. The Crusaders will play at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Sumter Civic…
Travelers Rest center Drew McGibben scored 8 of his game-high 22 points in the fourth quarter as the Devildogs held off host Clinton 51-46 Monday night, stopping the Red Devils one victory short of their first Class 3A Upper State finals appearance since 2017. The five-point margin of victory for Travelers Rest was a single…
The Clinton High School boys basketball team advanced to the Class 3A Upper State semifinals Friday night with a 64-56 victory over visiting Southside. The Red Devils will host Travelers Rest Monday night in the semifinals. The Region 3-3A champion Devildogs defeated Powdersville Friday night to advance. Tushawn Richardson led the Red Devils with 19…
SCISA announces state tourney brackets CHS’s Fuller named all-state, Region 4-3A Player of the Year; Romines Coach of the Year Raiders’ Pulley commits to Wolves Wil Stewart led three Clinton players in double figures as the Red Devils made easy work of visiting Broome 79-51 Wednesday night in the opening round of the Class 3A…
The Clinton boys basketball team captured its second straight region championship Tuesday night with a 56-49 win over Emerald in Greenwood. The Red Devils (16-5 overall, 7-1 Region 4-3A) needed the victory to avoid a potential winner-take-all game against Union County for the Region 4-3A championship and the region’s top seed in the Class 3A…