A bevy of big plays for Hillcrest resulted in a big season-opening loss Friday night for Laurens at K.C. Hanna Stadium. Hillcrest scored on the opening play of the game and again two plays later, starting an avalanche of offense in a 55-9 nonconference win over the Raiders. Running back Thomas Stanley ran for 115…
2023 High School Football Tale of the Tape Clinton Red Devils Last year: 13-1 overall, 4-0 Region 4-3A Region 4-3A Champions, Class 3A Upper State finalists This week: at Batesburg-Leesville Outlook: While there may be question marks with the departure of 25 graduated seniors from last year’s squad, the biggest question is whether anyone in…
Presbyterian College moved quickly to hire a new athletic director, announcing Friday that Dee Nichols is being promoted to the post. Nichols, senior associate athletic director for operations and senior woman administrator, replaces the departing Rob Acunto. PC announced Wednesday that Acunto was leaving to become deputy director of athletics at Fresno State, one day…
It’s all there in black and white. Charlie Washington, the head coach tasked with reviving Thornwell’s varsity football program, took photos of the pages of past annuals from Thornwell Charter School’s predecessor, Thornwell High School, and posted them on his Twitter feed. He was doing his homework. “How can I bring something back to life,…
Presbyterian College Athletic Director Rob Acunto has been hired as deputy director of athletics at Fresno State, the California school announced Tuesday. Acunto arrived at PC in 2019 after stops at Texas-El Paso (UTEP), The Citadel, American University, Cornell and the Atlantic 10 Conference. Fresno State is a member of the Mountain West Conference with…
Like so many small textile towns scattered around the Carolinas, Joanna was home to a teeming mill with workers who punched the clock and then competed fiercely in textile baseball leagues when they were off of it. And like the mills themselves, the teams and the leagues have fallen into the bins of history, but…
An oval track is taking Jabari Dillard from here to Grovetown, Georgia to Iowa. Dillard, a rising junior at Clinton High School, is headed to Drake University in Des Moines, at the end of July for the AAU Track and Field Junior Olympics and will compete in the 110m high hurdles after a personal record-setting…
The Laurens Parks and Recreation Department will host its Teen Summer Nights programs on Mondays and Thursdays in July. The three-week-long event, which begins on Thursday, July 6, will feature several different sports and activities, including Ultimate Frisbee, basketball, Wiffle ball, pickleball, dodgeball and kickball. Teen Summer Nights will run through July 20. Each event…
The Laurens County Shrine Race, the local Shrine Club’s largest annual fundraiser for Shriners Children’s Hospitals, is scheduled for Saturday, June 13 at the Laurens County Speedway. Over the past 41 years, the race has raised over $1 million, including more than $80,000 in 2022, for the Greenville Shriners Hospital for Children. This year’s race…
Clinton’s Justin Copeland had to be talked into playing baseball before the season began – a season that ended Tuesday night with Copeland scoring the game-winning run in a 5-4 victory over Hanahan for the Class 3A State Championship. The Red Devils swept the best-of-three series with a 17-2 victory Saturday and Tuesday’s nail-biter…