Clinton Girls Win in Overtime
December 9, 2020Clinton, 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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K&L Gates continues to bolster firmwide litigation practice with addition of Charleston partner
December 7, 2020Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Paul M. Eckles as a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution practice. He joins K&L Gates’ Charleston office from the New York…
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Raiders Prevail at Clinton
December 6, 2020No 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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LA’s Lowry, Kirk Named County’s Best
December 3, 2020During 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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COVID Puts a Stop to PC Women’s Basketball
November 30, 2020Coaches 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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Touchdown Club Announces All-County Team
November 24, 2020Perhaps 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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Pioneer Football League Announces Plans for Spring Schedule
November 23, 2020The 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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New Coach Brings Hope to LDHS Girls’ Basketball
November 22, 2020Aianna 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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Musgrove Mill Golf Club
November 20, 2020Consistently ranked among Golfweek’s “100 Best Modern Courses in America” and holding the #2 spot for the best in Upstate South Carolina, golf enthusiasts from across the country (and the…
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Four New Starters for Class 4A
November 18, 2020For 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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CHS Girls Enter Hoops Season with High Expectations
November 18, 2020Four 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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State coaches induct Simmons into Hall of Fame
November 16, 2020For 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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Laurens Academy Eliminated from Football Playoffs
November 15, 2020At 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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LDHS Releases Winter Sports Schedules
November 13, 2020Laurens District High School is forging ahead with winter sports, though there may be changes depending on the effects of the coronavirus. Athletics director Tommy Spires released schedules for basketball…
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Clinton’s James named Player of the Week
November 12, 2020Another 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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PC’s Johnson Named to Preseason All-Conference Team
November 10, 2020Presbyterian 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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Let’s Play Ball – Clinton YMCA Basketball Registration is Open
November 10, 2020The 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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Columbia Fireflies no longer a New York Mets affiliate
November 10, 2020The Columbia Fireflies will have a new Major League affiliate from 2021 forward. The team’s new affiliate will be announced at a later date. The New York Mets announced that…
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Blue Hose to Open Basketball Season on Dec. 2
November 10, 2020A 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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Crusaders Advance with Win over Patrick Henry
November 8, 2020Laurens 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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Football Season Ends Prematurely at Laurens District High
November 5, 2020As 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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Crusaders to Host Playoff Game
November 4, 2020Laurens 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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Clinton ‘Jack of All Trades’ Is County Player of the Week
November 4, 2020Junior 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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First Things First for Red Devils in Union
October 29, 2020A 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 Girls Fall in Upstate Tennis Finals
October 28, 2020Clinton 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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The Man Behind the Broadcasts
October 28, 2020In 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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Clinton Comes Through in Woodruff Rivalry
October 24, 2020The 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 Tries to Keep Playoff Hopes Alive
October 22, 2020Clinton 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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Raiders Fill in a Schedule Blank
October 21, 2020Teams 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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LA Lowry is county’s Player of the Week for the 2nd time.
October 19, 2020Seven 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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Raiders Dominate Aiken
October 18, 2020Head 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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Just Say Something announces winners of the 4th Annual Red Ribbon 5K at Sugar Creek
October 15, 2020Just Say Something, a community-based organization, kicked off Red Ribbon Week (October 23rd-31st) with the 4th Annual Red Ribbon 5K in Sugar Creek. The Sunrise Red Ribbon 5K at Sugar…
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Spartanburg County to host NCAA National Championship events in 2024, 2025
October 15, 2020An NCAA National Champion will be crowned in Spartanburg for the first time ever as part of three NCAA events awarded to Spartanburg County on Wednesday. As announced by the…
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Laurens-Clinton Rivalry May Not Be Renewed this Year
October 14, 2020The 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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Laurens County Sports
October 13, 2020Round-the-clock coverage of sports in the county. Event coverage, photos and videos, schedules of Laurens, Clinton, Presbyterian College, Laurens Academy. Thrill of victory. Agony of defeat. The human drama of…
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Clinton High sporting events rescheduled
October 13, 2020Clinton High School announced the relocation of two sports events to Wednesday, Oct. 14. A volleyball match against Chapman (JV/V), postponed last week, will begin at 5:30 at the Red…
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S.C. Black Belt Hall of Fame revamps for future
October 9, 2020By Alex Junes-Ward The South Carolina Black Belt Hall (SCBBHOF) was restructured in Sept. 2020 with new organizational elements added on the model of the S.C. Athletic Hall of…
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Sixth annual Dustin Johnson World Junior Golf Championship set for March 5-7, 2021
October 7, 2020Early applications encouraged as event officials expect field to fill quickly The dates are in place for the next installment of one of the world’s leading junior golf competitions, as…
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Midlands karate instructor named to board of Black Belt Hall of Fame
October 7, 2020By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Midlands karate instructor Rick Vitali was named to the board of directors of the S.C. Black Belt Hall of Fame (SCBBHOF) in mid-Sept. “Rick’s being…
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West Ashley High welcomes new head boys’ basketball coach Ben Kettering
September 25, 2020West Ashley High School has named the 2019–2020 New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) Coach of the Year, Ben Kettering, as its next head boys’ basketball coach. Kettering…
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City of Clinton Breaks Ground on Future Recreation Complex
September 22, 2020You don’t have to live in Clinton, SC to know it’s a sports town. The Red Devil reputation is widely known. Tuesday, the city of Clinton took the next step…
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Waldrop Inc. announced as the Official HVAC & Plumbing Provider of the Greenville Drive
September 21, 2020Upstate’s Premiere Heating, Cooling & Plumbing Company Will Be Featured Prominently at Fluor Field for Years to Come The Greenville Drive announced that Waldrop Inc., a mainstay of the Greenville…
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TD Bank selects local nonprofit MIRCI as the recipient of TD Bank Touchdowns Program
September 21, 2020This football season, TD Bank will partner with the University of South Carolina Gamecocks to help support, local nonprofit, MIRCI – Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc. The TD Bank Touchdowns…
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Just Say Something kicks off October with their 4th annual Sunrise Red Ribbon 5k Run
September 17, 2020It is that time of the year again! Just Say Something is starting off the month of October with our 4th annual Sunrise Red Ribbon 5k. This Friday, September 18th…
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Richland Library’s annual Pigskin Poets moves online
September 16, 2020Are you ready for some football? Richland Library is teaming with the Gamecocks for Pigskin Poets from 10:30 – 11 a.m., Saturday, September 19 on our Facebook Page. Marking its…
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Furman to begin construction of Davis Faxon Training Facility at REK
September 3, 2020Furman is set to begin construction this fall on the new Davis Faxon Training Facility at REK. This 100% donor-funded facility, which will be utilized by both the Paladin men’s…
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PGA of America announces new 2021 PGA Championship Director
August 31, 2020Ryan Ogle will lead the Championship at The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort The PGA of America has named Ryan Ogle as the new Championship Director for the…
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Clinton YMCA Youth Soccer
August 31, 2020Clinton YMCA Soccer Practice begins next week! There are limited spots still available in all age divisions ( 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 year olds).
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CrossFit864
August 30, 2020Lifeguard
August 25, 2020Lifeguards needed at indoor swimming pool. Must be Certified. Variety of times available. Inquire at the front desk of the Clinton YMCA or call 833-1555.
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