Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Catching Up with Clinton HS Sports Awards… Ove the next several days I will be attempting to bring to you the names of student-athletes who won various awards at the Clinton HS Sports Awards Ceremony held just before school let out this year.
- Girls Basketball: As a reminder the Lady Red Devils went19-6 overall this past season and won the region with a perfect 8-0 region record… They won their first-round playoff game defeating Southside 43-18 but lost their second-round game to West Oak 47-39 at home.
- AAA Girls Basketball All-State Team… Mylayja Thompson
- Region IV Player of the Year… Mylayja Thompson
- ALL-Region IV Team… Mylayja Thompson, Ry’Daijia Mars, McKenzie Clark and Bryanna Belton.
- Region IV Coach of the Year… John Gardner
- Local team Awards… To see the master list of student-athletes who won the “local” team awards, click here. This list will include JV team awards.
- Girls Basketball: As a reminder the Lady Red Devils went19-6 overall this past season and won the region with a perfect 8-0 region record… They won their first-round playoff game defeating Southside 43-18 but lost their second-round game to West Oak 47-39 at home.
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- Boys Basketball: As a reminder the Ted Devil boys’ basketball team was under the direction of 1st year head coach Dontavious Glenn… They finished 17-8 overall and 8-0 in region play winning the region… The Red Devils fell to Southside 49-46 in first round of the playoffs.
- AAA Boys Basketball All-State Team… Tushawan Richardson
- Region IV Player of the Year… Tushawan Richardson
- ALL-Region IV Team… Tushawan Richardson, Devin Swindler and Kadon Crawford.
- Region IV Coach of the Year… Dontavious Glenn
- Local team Awards… To see the master list of student-athletes who won the “local” team awards, click here. This list will include JV team awards.
- Boys Basketball: As a reminder the Ted Devil boys’ basketball team was under the direction of 1st year head coach Dontavious Glenn… They finished 17-8 overall and 8-0 in region play winning the region… The Red Devils fell to Southside 49-46 in first round of the playoffs.
- CHS Athletic Booster Club… It’s not too early to think about joining the CHS Athletic Booster Club for next season… To learn more about the booster club and its benefits, click here… That will carry you to a form where more information is available and you can also print out and use that form to join the booster club… They really do help all the sports put the “Go” in Go Big Red!
College Sports: For any game mentioned below, click on the score for more details if available.
College Baseball
- South Carolina Baseball Team Adds and Loses Through Transfer Portal… Since Pail Mainieri took over the Gamecock baseball program a few weeks ago there has been a lot of movement into and out of the Gamecock baseball team through the transferee portal… The most recent count show 11 additions and 8 leaving… Most notably two Clemson baseball players have announced their intents to “change sides” in the rivalry… Nathan Hall and Nolan Nawrocki are the Tigers headed to South Carolina… I strongly suspect that Monty Lee’s staying at South Carolina as associate head coach has something to do with that…. Click here to go to an article in the State Newspaper which list those coming to and leaving the Gamecocks.
College Football
- Clemson Refuses to Move Date of South Carolina Game…. Some of you may have missed the story about Clemson refusing to move the South Carolina game from Saturday, Nov. 30 to Friday, Nov. 29 in prime time… The ACC and ESPN requested that the Tigers do that and Clemson refused… The ACC and ESPN offered the Tigers several incentives to do that but they said no… Their refusal more than likely has something to do with the lawsuit filed by Clemson against the ACC over exclusive media rights that the ACC has over the Tigers (and all other ACC schools) athletics… Personally, I think that Dabo’s wife and the other coaches wives told them they better not do that and mess up their Black Friday shopping day…LOL… For more information on why Clemson (and Florida State) are suing the ACC, click here.
- Update on Clemson vs. ACC Lawsuits… Clemson lost its appeal to have a countersuit filed by the ACC against it in a North Carolina court… To read more about that click here…. My opinion, the only ones who will come out smelling like roses in this whole mess are the lawyers… surely Clemson, the ACC and fans will not.
Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores.
Atlanta Braves… For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores.
- D-backs 1 – Braves 0… The Braves and the D-backs finished their 4-game series out in Arizona last night with the Braves losing a tough one as they fell to the D-backs 1-0… The D-backs outhit the Braves 6-5 but that1 hit difference is what won the game as the D-backs Eugenio Suárez (9) had a solo homer in the 5th inning… Austin Riley and Marcel Ozuna were the only 2 Braves with more than 1 hit as they had 2 each with one of Riley’s being a double… Max Fried (7-5) took the loss going 6 innings giving up the 1 earned run on 5 hits while striking out 7 and walking 3… The teams split the series winning 2 games each… The Braves start a 3-game series with the Padres tonight at 9:40 EDT in San Diego their last series before the All-Star Game break.
- Season Schedule… If you would like to see the Braves season schedule, click here… It should also show where the game will be televised if it is televised.
- Standings… To see the MLB Standings click here… Once you get there you will see the standing by league (American or National) and also by division.
- Game 1: Drive 10 – Emperors 0… The Greenville Drive and the Rome Emperors played a doubleheader of 7 inning games last night down in Rome making up a game that was rained out on Tuesday… In the first game the Drive took a 10-0 win by simply outing the Emperors 14-0… That is the 5th time in franchise history that the Drive have pitched a combined no hitter as Dalton Rogers, Jeremy Wu-Yelland and Zach Fogell worked together to accomplish the no hitter while striking out 10 and walking 4… Allan Castro led the Drive at the plate going 3-3 with 4 RBIS and 2 of his hits were homers…The Drive had 2 more homers in the game and click on the score at the start of this section to see who hit them.
- Game 2: Emperors 4 – Drive 3… The Drive probably wish they could have had a few of those hits and homers in the second game as they fell to the Emperors 4-3… The Drive led 3-1 going into the bottom of the last inning (the 7th) where the Emperors scored 3 runs playing small ball… The winning run was scored on a bases loaded walk with 1 out… The Drive had only 3 hits in the game and were aided by 2 Emperor errors… Allan Castro (10) did have a solo homer in the game for the Drive.
- Schedule… If you wish to see the Greenville Drive schedule and results of completed games, click here.
- Standings… To see the standings for the South Atlantic League (SAL) click here.
NASCAR
- Alex Bowman Wins Rain Shortened Chicago Race… For some strange reason NASCAR seems to think they can set up a street race in Chicago and not have problems… For the second year the weather played havoc with the Cup Series Race as it rained more than it did not… The race Sunday was scheduled for 75 laps but was cut to 58 laps to get the race done by 8:20 pm CDT… I guess they needed that much time to get the streets ready for Monday work traffic… In the end, Alex Bowman held off Tyler Redick by 2.863 seconds… Hus last win was 80 races ago and this win puts him in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs… Click here to go to the NASCAR website where there is much more about this including the final race results.
- Standings … Kyle Larson continues to hold down the top spot in the Cup Series Driver Standings with 672 points while Chase Elliott is in second with 660 points… The rest of the top 5 are Tyler Redick (648), Denny Hamlin (629) and Martin Truex Jr. (601)… Click here if you would like to see the entire driver standings and once at the NASCAR site you can also click on links to see the standings in Xfinity and Truck Series using tabs in the upper right corner of the posting.
- Schedule This Week… This week the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Truck races will be held up at Pocono… The Truck Series Race will be Friday at 5:30 pm EDT and can be seen on FX1… The Xfinity Race will take place at 3:00 pm EDT Saturday and can be seen on USA and the Cup Series race at 2:30 pm EDT Sunday and it will be carried on USA also. …To see the schedule for practices and races click here.
- NASCAR on TV this Week… NASCAR has several things being televised this week including race practices and qualifying, the race itself and assorted other things… To see the TV schedule for each day of the week click here.
This & That:
Summer Camps at Clinton YMCA… All of the summer sports camps through the Clinton YMCA have now concluded.
Basketball Camp…. The LDHS varsity basketball staff and players in association with the City of Laurens Parks and Recreation Department will be conducting a basketball for youth age 9 through 8th grade July 22-25… The camp hours will be from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm each day… This will be an excellent opportunity for the young player to improve their skills and basketball knowledge form experienced coaches… The first 3 days (Monday-Wednesday) the camp will take place at The Ridge and the last day (Thursday) the action will move to LDHS… You may register for the camp at The Ridge and if you have any questions contact them at 681-7275.
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