Sports Talk Media Network Morning Sportscast and Sports Talk Media High School Football Recap… To listen to these bonus sports broadcast, click here to go to the Between the Lines posting where the latest of these can be heard.
Varsity Football Results from Last Friday Night… If you missed it on my sports Report for Monday, 9-18-23, click here to see a summary of how the four county football teams did last Friday night and when available more stats on the game… A possession-by-possession summary was added to the Laurens at Union game on Monday, 9-15-23.
Clinton HS
- Zay Johnson Named to Shrine Bowl Team… Yesterday it was announced that Clinton’s Zay Johnson was named to the roster for the South Carolina team that will participate in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas on Saturday, December 16th at Spartanburg HS… Zay is a senior on the Red Devil varsity football team who was picked as a defensive back and also plays wide receiver… If you would like to see the list of other players named to the South Carolina and North Carolina team, click here to go to the State Newspaper where there is an article about this.
- Girls Tennis: Clinton 5 – Woodruff 1… Catching up with the Lady Red Devil tennis team. Last Thursday they traveled to Woodruff and came home with a 5-1 win over the Wolverines… Chandler Dailey, Libby Dailey, Kimora Wesley, Carly MacMillan and Addy Derrick all took one-sided wins in singles action… For more details on this match click here… The team is now 3-1 overall and 1-0 in region play.
- Updated: JV Football: Clinton 38 – Chapman 20… The Red Devil JV football team traveled up to Chapman HS last night to take on the Panthers … The Red Devils led 26-0 at the half and then withstood a second half comeback attempt by the Panthers to take a 38-20 win to remain undefeated on the season… Both Jaydon Glenn and Noah Garrett had pick-sixes for the Red Devils while Rhett Gillian, KJ Vance and AZ Simmons and Angelo Cromer all had rushing TDs… Coach Glenn commented after the game “Tonight we made plays when we needed to make them, our defense and special teams created some offense for us and that was extremely helpful. Our kids are improving and working hard!”
Thornwell
- Travious Quarles TD Club Player of the Week… Monday it was announced
that Thornwell Charters’ Travious Quarles has been selected as the Laurens County Touchdown Club Player of the Week for his performance in the Saints 34-20 win over Clear Dot Academy in Clinton on Friday, 9-15-23… Quarles is a junior RB/DB… Quarles ran the ball 16 times for 102 yards in Thornwell’s win… Quarles had 1 reception for 13 yards and made 5.5 tackles on defense… He also broke up 2 passes and had one interception for the Saints… Head Coach Charlie Washington states “we tried our best to minimize our mistakes. Things from practice this week started to click, and understanding was clear… The Game was well played as a team.” Coach Washington stated, “Travious Quarles was big factor in our win Friday night… He will be honored this Thursday when the TD Club meets at The Ridge at noon… In addition to the local high school coaches reporting on their games, the featured speaker will be Newberry College Head Football Coach Todd Knight.
Updated Middle Football Results From Last Thursday Night.
- Updated: Laurens MS 42 – Thornwell 12… The LMS Tigers opened their season last night on the road taking a 42-12 win over the Thornwell Saints over at Thornwell… Damajia Crooks had 4 rushing TDs for the Tigers while Wells Rhodes and Kevin Bryson each had one… Two-point conversions were added by Trent Williams, Logan Bragg and Mason Young… For the Saints Brian Veal scored on a 2 yd. run that was set up by a 72 yd. kickoff return by Elijah Washington… Washington also scored on a 35 yd. TD pass from KJ Thompson near the end of the game.
SC Prep Football Media Ranking… The latest rankings for the S.C. Prep Football Media Poll released Monday, Sept. 18. First-place votes and the team’s record are in parentheses.
- CLASS 5A: 1. Summerville (23) (4-0) 2. Hillcrest (5-0) 3. Byrnes (4-1) 4. TL Hanna (4-1) 5. Gaffney (3-2) 6. Fort Dorchester (2-1) 7. Spartanburg (3-2) 8. Lexington (4-1) 9. White Knoll (5-0) and 10. Sumter (3-2)… Others receiving votes: Boiling Springs, Dutch Fork, JL Mann, Ashley Ridge, River Bluff, Chapin and Clover.
- CLASS 4A: 1. South Florence (18) (5-0) 2. Northwestern (5) (3-1) 3. Irmo (4-0) 4. James Island (5-0) 5. Hartsville (4-1) 6. South Pointe (3-2) 7. Westside (3-1) 8, Midland Valley (5-0) 9. West Florence (3-1) and 10. Greenville (3-2)… Others receiving votes: Lucy Beckham, Ridge View, AC Flora, Indian Land, and Airport
- CLASS 3A: 1. Daniel (19) (4-0) 2. Belton Honea Path (4) (4-0) 3. Dillon (3-1) 4. Gilbert (4-0) 5. Chapman (4-1) 6. Clinton (4-1) 7. Crestwood (4-1) 8. Chester (4-1) 9. Broome (4-1) and 10. Manning (4-0)… Others receiving votes: Camden, Philip Simmons and Loris
- CLASS 2A: 1. Gray Collegiate (18) (5-1) 2. Abbeville (2) (4-1) 3. Oceanside Collegiate (2) (4-1) 4. Marion (5-0) 5. Hampton County (1) (5-0) 6. Saluda (4-0) 7. Fairfield Central (4-1) 8. Silver Bluff (3-1) 9. Strom Thurmond (3-1) and 10. Woodland (3-0)… Others receiving votes: Landrum, Ninety-Six and Andrew Jackson
- CLASS A: 1. Lewisville (22) (4-1) 2. St. Joseph’s (1) (5-0) 3. Calhoun County (5-0) 4. Christ Church (3-2) 5. Whale Branch (3-0) 6. Bamberg-Ehrhardt (3-1) 7. Latta (5-0) 8. Hunter-Kinard-Tyler (4-0) 9. Lake View (3-1) and 10. Blackville-Hilda (4-1)… Others receiving votes: Cross, Southside Christian, Denmark-Olar, Wagener-Salley, C.A. Johnson and Whitmire
High School Football Scores, Schedules and Standings
- Thanks to scfootballstats.com you can now see last weekend’s scores for all games by classification on Saturday or Sunday and possibly Monday… After that you will see the weeks schedule by classification… You can also see the standings in each region by classification… To see this information, click here.
Broadcast Schedule: Below is a list of dates, times and teams that we plan on broadcasting live on Real Radio WLBG… And as usual you can hear it live on 860AM, 104.1 FM and the internet at www.wlbg.com… If it is a varsity football game, coverage will begin about 6:05 pm with the Friday Night Insiders program.
- Thursday, 9-21-23: Thornwell at Hickory Tavern (KC Hanna Stadium) 5:00
- Friday, 9-22-23: Laurens at TL Hanna at 7:30
Local Sports Schedule: All schedules subject to change right up to game time.
- School District 55: To see the sports schedule for this week at LDHS, click here.
- School District 56: To see the sports schedule for this week at CHS and CMS, click here
- Laurens Academy: To see the varsity football schedule click here… To see the varsity & middle school volleyball schedules click here… To see the middle school football schedule click here.
- Thornwell: To see the Thornwell football schedule click here… To see the volleyball schedule click here… To see the cross country schedule click here.
- PC Sports Calendar… To see the PC athletics sports calendar, click here.
College Sports:
- College Football Scores and Upcoming Games by Weeks… For those of you college football fans who are looking for a quick way to find scores for each week of the college football season and upcoming games listed by each week, I have made it easy for you… Just click here… This link will carry you to the NCAA website where college football game and scores are listed week by week… Once you get there, there are numerous ways you can filter the schedules and results on the site… You can filter by week, by paying division (FBS, FCS, DII and DII as well as by week, conference and other ways… I use it a lot and hope you will enjoy using it.!
- FBS AP Rankings… The latest AP Ranking (9-17-23) for the FBS Division still has Georgia at #1 and Michigan #2… Texas moved up a spot to #3 while Florida State moved down a spot to #4… Southern Cal moved remains # 5 last…Spots 6-10 are occupied by Ohio State, Penn State, Washington, Notre dame and Oregon… Clemson continues to be out of the top 25 and would be #26 … To see the entire top 25 click here.
- FCS Coaches Poll… The latest FCS Coaches Poll (9-17-23) for college football still has South Dakota State and North Dakota State listed as 1 & 2 in that order… The only team from South Carolina in the top 25 is Furman who is listed at #7 up a spot from last week’s #6… To see the entire top 25 in the Coaches Poll click here.
Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores.
Atlanta Braves
- Phillies 7 – Braves 1… The Braves started a 3-game series with the Phillies in Atlanta last night with a 7-1 loss extending the Braves losing streak to 4 games… Not to worry though as the Braves have already captured the NL East Title and also last night when the Cardinals beat the Brewers that gave the Braves a bye in the first round of the playoffs… The Phillies outhit the Braves 7-4 and 4 of their hits were homers… The braves had 1 homer in the game and that was by Ozzie Albies (31) a solo shot in the first inning.
- Braves Schedule… If you would like to see the Braves schedule and results after the games are finished, click here… Where the games can be seen on TV as well as start times and other information is available there also.
- MLB Standings… If you would like to check on the standings for both the American and National Leagues, click here.
Greenville Drive…. As you may recall, the Greenville Drive won the SAL League Southern Division Championship last Thursday night taking a 6-3 win in game 2 of the best of three series… That means they started a best of 3 series this weekend with the Hudson Valley Renegades for the SAL Championship.
- Sunday: Drive 2 – Renegades 0… In the first game of the series the Drive scored 2 runs in the top of the 6th inning up at Hudson Valley and made them hold up as they took a 2-0 win… The Drive did it playing small ball as there were no homers in the game… The Drive will return home tonight night for game 2 and if they lose game 3 will be Wednesday night at Flour Field.
- Drive Schedule… The Drive will return home to play the Crawdads in game 2 of the Division series Thursday night and the “if needed” game will be Friday night at Flour Field… To see the Drive’s schedule, click here.
- Standings… To see the standings for the South Atlantic League both the North and South Divisions, click here.
NASCAR
- Denny Hamlin Wins at Bristol… Denny Hamlin took the checkered flag in the Cup Series Race at Bristol this past weekend finishing 2.462 seconds ahead of Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell finished third…Click here for more information on the race.
- Playoff Standings… William Byron and Martin Truex Jr. are now atop the leader board in the Chase for the Cup and the number of drivers remaining in the chase is now down to 12… Michael McDowell, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano were the four drivers eliminated from the chase after the race… To see the complete standings for the playoffs, click here.
- NASCAR on TV This Week… The Cup Series Race will take place at the Texas Motors Speedway this Sunday at 3:30 pm… There will be TV viewing this week of past races, practices, qualifying and other items on TV… To see the TV schedule, click here.
- Schedule… To see the NASCAR season schedule and results for completed races click here… Once there you can filter by the month and the series that you want to check on.
This & That:
- Laurens County TD Next Meeting September 21st … The Laurens County Touchdown Club kicked off the 2023 season on Thursday, August 24th… The club meets bi-weekly at The Ridge (City of Laurens Parks and Recreation headquarters) at noon for a lunch… Each week the high school coaches will talk about their recent games and upcoming opponents… After the first meeting, there will also be quest speakers… To see a list of who those speakers are scheduled to be for each meeting click here… The TD Club will close out its season on Wednesday, December 6th with its Post Season Awards Banquet… For more information on how to join the club or become a sponsor click here… To go to another part of our website where links to videos of this seasons past meetings, click here… See you there!
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