At the February 8, 2022 meeting and with a unanimous vote, the Edgefield County School District (ECSD) Board of Trustees appointed Andrew Webb as head football coach of Strom Thurmond…

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Head coach Corey Fountain has released Clinton High School’s football schedule for the fall. Coming off of a great season last year the Red Devils will open up at home.…

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Presbyterian College launched the public phase of an $8 million philanthropic initiative to improve athletic facilities during a Lettermen’s Day event on campus Jan. 29. The Championship Spirit: Building on…

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The Presbyterian College Football team under the direction of first-year head coach Steve Englehart added 16 players to the roster as a part of National Signing Day on Wednesday. The…

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Furman’s head football coach, Clay Hendrix, announced Tuesday the hiring of Tommy Spangler as the Paladins’ new assistant defensive backs coach and special teams coordinator. Laurens County locals know of…

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You may have to wait for football season but you don’t have to wait to learn more about PC’s new football coach. Hopes are high that Coach Englehart can turn…

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Presbyterian shrugged two major rallies by Radford to defeat the Highlanders 74-63 on Saturday at Templeton Center. A balanced scoring attack kept Radford at bay. Read the game story at…

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Presbyterian College head football coach Steve Englehart has announced the addition of a pair of coaches to his staff. Jayson Martin joins the Blue Hose staff as the assistant head coach…

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Both Laurens High basketball teams started slowly. Now both are red-hot. The Raiders won a pair of close games versus Greenwood. Read all about it at LaurensCountySports.com by clicking HERE.

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The Laurens Academy boys’ basketball team found mixed results when Wardlaw visited. The boys won big. The girls couldn’t hold a lead. Read all about it at LaurensCountySports.com by clicking…

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Presbyterian College has had three head football coaches in one year. Steve Englehart was recently hired to replace Kelley after one season. Englehart is on the job at PC, and…

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Presbyterian College and the Blue Hose athletics department announce that Steve Englehart, who has been a head coach for 13 years at Florida Institute of Technology and Rose-Hulman Institute of…

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The home court was insufficient for Presbyterian to prevent Wofford from winning, 76-49, at Templeton Center on Saturday afternoon. Shooting, especially from long range, was PC’s biggest weakness. Wofford outscored…

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First-year coach — and athletics director — Tommy Spires has started the turnaround at Laurens High, where the Raiders have already won more games than all last season. Last week…

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Jayden McGowan, a state-champion sprinter and versatile star of Laurens Raider football, signed with Vanderbilt of the Southeastern Conference last week at LDHS. McGowan, primarily known as a receiver but…

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Laurens made the Clinton boys work hard, but the Red Devils won the boys’ basketball game 45-42, and the girls rolled past the Raiders, 48-29. Read the story and see…

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Rayshon Harrison and Winston Hill both scored 26 points. One would think that was enough but it wasn’t as College of Charleston slipped past Presbyterian 78-76 in overtime on the…

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Matthew Wiggins of Laurens shot round of 71 and 69 — the only player in the field with a pair of under-par rounds — to win the annual Laurens County…

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Presbyterian College is launching a nationwide search for its next head football coach after Kevin Kelley informed the administration that he is stepping down from leading the program for personal…

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In the 1st stanza in the county basketball rivalry, Clinton won both boys’ and girls’ games on Laurens’ home floor on Friday night, dominating the 2nd halves of both games.…

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The UNO Classic was a 3-day, men’s basketball round-robin hosted by the University of New Orleans but dominated by Presbyterian College, which won on consecutive afternoons (Wednesday-Thursday) over, in order,…

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Corey Fountain’s 3rd Clinton football team won 11 games and advanced to the 3rd round of the Class 3A playoffs, but there, in Central, the Red Devils ran into a…

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While the Presbyterian football team was playing its final game against St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., the women’s basketball team was soundly defeating the Tommies at Templeton Center. Read…

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Kevin Kelley’s 1st season as head football coach at Presbyterian College ended with a 2-9 record, and the Blue Hose set an NCAA records for most average points (53.68) allowed…

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Laurens knew it was playing a worthy opponent in a 2nd-round Class 4A game in Rock Hill. The South Pointe Stallions were as advertised, eliminating the Raiders by a score…

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A tough early-season schedule has plagued Alaura Sharp’s Presbyterian women’s basketball program, which opened at Kentucky and took a 68-39 loss at Furman on Friday. The Blue Hose visit Western…

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After giving Clemson a bit of a scare in the season opener, Presbyterian, behind Rayshon Harrison’s 32 points, defeated VMI at Templeton Center on Friday night by a score of…

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Marist was the latest bearer of sad tidings to visit Bailey Memorial Stadium. The Red Foxes from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., handed the Blue Hose their 8th straight loss by a score…

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Clinton, trailing by two touchdowns in the 1st half, came off the deck to upend Lower Richland and advance to the Upstate football semifinals in Class 3A with a 48-34…

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The CHS Competitive Cheer team qualified for the AAA State Championship on Tuesday, Nov. 9.  The Red Devils will travel to Columbia on Nov. 20, to compete in the state…

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At the end of each tennis season, the South Carolina High School League hosts a singles tournament for the top girls across the state. Players qualify for the “invitation only”…

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Clinton High’s football team scored more points in a game than any team in the school’s history. And it was in the Class 3A playoffs, and the Red Devils played…

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Presbyterian College women’s basketball coach Alaura Sharp has four starters back and no shortage of optimism as the Blue Hose attempt to improve on last season’s 11-10 record. Sharp’s teams…

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The fact that Easley was seeded higher made no appreciable difference to the Laurens Raiders, who hammered the Green Wave, 56-13, on Friday night in Easley. Quarterback James Rawl threw…

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Jalen Jones set a pair of school records, but Valparaiso managed to keep Presbyterian at bay in a 65-55 victory on the Beacons’ home turf on Saturday. The Blue Hose…

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The CHS Girls Tennis Team will compete in the Upper State Championship tonight after easing through their playoff draw thus far. They beat Berea in round 1, 6-0. They beat…

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Corey Fountain’s Clinton Red Devils put a nice cap on the regular season with a 39-17 victory over perennial rival Woodruff on the Wolverines’ home field. Clinton (9-1) hosts Palmetto…

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Since opening the season with two victories over minor opponents, the Presbyterian Blue Hose have lost six consecutive games, the latest being a 56-14 loss to Stetson in a Pioneer…

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Although Laurens won both Region 2-4A football games it played, the Raiders enter the playoffs as No. 3 seed because COVID forced cancellation of games against Greenwood and Greenville. Nonethless,…

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At Presbyterian College homecoming, the Blue Hose allowed a point less than the week before, but the University of San Diego still won by a score of 69-28. Davidson won,…

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