A year ago, Clinton High School’s girls’ basketball team won the Region 3-3A and reached the third round of the state playoffs. This year has gone south. The Red Devils’…

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Senior Thomas Lowry shredded records during his career at Laurens Academy. Lowry was the Crusaders’ leading passer and rusher. LA finished the 2020 season with its best record, 8-4, in…

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Registration for baseball and softball is currently underway at the Clinton YMCA. Playing divisions from age 3 – 12. Cost is $50 for YMCA members and $65 for non-members. Financial…

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On Friday and Saturday, the Presbyterian College women split basketball games with High Point, losing the former game by a wide margin and winning the latter by even more at…

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During the 2020-21 season to date, Presbyterian College basketball has been playing in a closed gym. The COVID-19 crisis still has Templeton Center locked, but fans can see the Blue…

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This week only Clinton High School and Presbyterian College are playing basketball games. Laurens High and Laurens Academy postponed their games due to coronavirus concerns, but several have now been…

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For the first time since the Big South Conference reconfigured basketball schedules, the Presbyterian women took both games of a series. The Blue Hose defeated USC Upstate twice — 60-50…

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The Presbyterian College football season will start earlier than previously announced. The Blue Hose are now schedule to open at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., on March 6. The…

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Clinton High School held its Senior Night early in deference to the threat of COVID-19 spread, and Tuesday night’s basketball games against Ninety Six were noteworthy for the achievement of…

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Sports in the time of COVID-19 requires some fancy footwork. The Big South Conference made some quick schedule shifts in response to test results and quarantines. As a result, the…

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The cable sports network ESPNU is televising a series of men’s basketball games in the Big South Conference, and Presbyterian College has been selected for the first game. The Blue…

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Presbyterian used extraordinary balance to defeat Gardner-Webb, 69-20, at Templeton Center in what was both Blue Hose’ first home game and Big South Conference opener. Tionna Carter and Trinity Johnson…

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The Laurens boys’ basketball team control with nine 3-pointers in the first half and defeated Emerald 53-45 on Monday night at LDHS. J.Q. Fair led a balanced attack with 13…

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Clinton, which began the season ranked second statewide in Class 5A women’s basketball, returned to action and defeated a Class 5A school, Wade Hampton of Taylors, by a score of…

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No girls’ basketball game was played because of a COVID outbreak, but at least Laurens finally played Clinton in one of the major sports. Led by K.D. Mosley, who scored…

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During the virus-slowed, football season just passed, Laurens Academy was the only county team to have a winning record, make the playoffs and complete the season. Thus the Laurens County…

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Coaches sometime say that an injured player is “listed as day to day.” This year, with COVID-19 in the air, a season can be game to game. Presbyterian College put…

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Perhaps the most important memory of high school football in 2020 is that there was a season at all. Only Laurens Academy was unimpeded by the coronavirus. The Crusaders had…

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The Pioneer Football League announced Monday its intent to put together a schedule for the spring of 2021. The schedule will include the conference’s nine schools, as well as incoming…

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Aianna Kelly, the first-year girls’ basketball coach at Laurens District High School, is a young woman of inexhaustible enthusiasm. Her positive outlook may come in handy as the Raiders enter…

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For Joshua Chavis’s second season as head boys’ basketball coach, the Laurens Raiders are playing for the first time in Region 2-4A and enter the season with only one returning…

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Four of the five starters return from a Clinton High girls’ basketball team that reached the third round of the Class 3A playoffs last season. One, senior De’Shanti Watts, was Region…

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For 30 years, Clovis Simmons has coached tennis at Clinton High School, and not just one team but the girls in fall and the boys in the spring. She’s won…

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At Holly Hill Academy, the Raiders were more a tide. They ebbed ahead, and Laurens Academy flowed back. Holly Hill won, 50-36, because the game had a second ebb. Thomas…

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Another versatile Red Devil earned Laurens County Player of the week. Bryson James rarely left the field at Wilder Stadium in Clinton’s 38-6 victory over Strom Thurmond in the final…

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Presbyterian College junior guard Trinity Johnson has been selected to the Big South Conference Women’s Basketball Preseason All-Conference Second Team, the league announced on Tuesday as a part of its…

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The Clinton Family YMCA is offering open registration for ‘Youth Basketball’ for four (4) playing divisions  through the December 7th registration deadline. All teams and age groups are “co-ed” this year.…

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A young Presbyterian College men’s basketball team will open its season on Dec. 2 in Florida against the University of Jacksonville. Second-year head coach Quinton Ferrell has a young team,…

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Laurens Academy has won eight games in the last nine weeks. The latest, a 30-14 victory over Patrick Henry, put the Crusaders in the second round of the SCISA 8-man…

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As it turned out, football season at Laurens District High School ended last week when Gilbert defeated the Raiders 49-21. On Wednesday, the team went on quarantine due to positive…

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Laurens Academy has the only football team in the county to qualify for the playoffs. Patrick Henry and the Crusaders, both 7-3, kick off at LA’s Todd Kirk Field on…

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Junior Jykorie Gary is a leader of the Clinton Red Devils. He hardly ever leaves the field, playing offense, defense and special teams. Gary led the Red Devils with 12…

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A road football victory at Union County on Friday night will not nail down a Class 3A playoff slot for the Clinton Red Devils, but it’s all they can do.…

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Clinton High School advanced to the Upstate finals of the Class 3A girls’ tennis playoffs, but its Region 3 nemesis, Chapman, won by a score of 4-2.All three of the…

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In the past 31 years, Thomas Johnson has missed one Clinton High School football game. He has never visited Wilder Stadium. Johnson runs the Red Devils’ broadcasts from radio station…

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The Clinton Red Devils kept flickering playoff hopes alive in defeating Woodruff 33-14 on Friday night at Wilder Stadium homecoming. The Red Devils fulfilled every expectation when the game was…

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Clinton must win its final two Region 3-3A games in order to make the football playoffs. It’s a long shot, but the Red Devils are improving. In its most recent…

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Teams have had to play musical chairs with football scchedules this year due to COVID-19. On Oct. 30, Laurens and Clinton have had to postpone the county championship game. At…

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Seven times the Laurens County Touchdown Club has named a Player of the Week. Thomas Lowry of Laurens Academy is the first to win it twice. The senior quarterback/defensive back…

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Head coach Daryl Smith was pleased with the consistency and improvement Laurens showed in a 34-6 victory over Aiken. Unfortunately, while winning a non-region game, the Raiders were inexplicably eliminated…

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The restrictions of COVID-19 could prevent the Laurens at Clinton football game from being played this year. On Oct. 30, Clinton must make up a region game at Union County…

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