Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Red Devil Football Scrimmages and Jamborees… The following is a list of dates that the Red Devil football team will be involved in a scrimmage or jamboree:
- August 8th… Scrimmage at home vs. Byrnes and BHP starting at 6:00 pm.
- August 12th… Scrimmage at Chapin starting at 6:00 pm.
- August 16th… Clinton will travel to Chapin to participate in a jamboree taking on Blythewood at about 7:30 pm.
- 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!
Laurens HS
- Meet The Raiders August 9th… Another sure sign that we are getting closer to the start of school and football season is close is that the 3rd Annual Meet the Raiders will take place on Friday, August 9th at KC Hanna Stadium and will run from 6-8 pm… The cost is free and in addition to the to the parade of athletes there will be music by the Raider band, Raider gear for sale, food trucks and other activities taking place.
- Raiders at Union… The Raider football team will be in action on Thursday, August 8th as they travel to Union to play a half of football… They will take to the field about 9:00 pm against the hometown Union County Yellow Jackets… This will be your first opportunity to see this year’s team under the direction of Coach Greg Porter. … Go Raiders!
- Century Club Membership… The Laurens District 55 High school Athletics Booster Club is now taking applications for new Century Club membership of renewal of old memberships for the 2024-2025 school year… Asa quick reminder, joining the Century Club gets you two reserved-seat season tickets to Raider regular season home football games (during playoffs your seat is reserved but you must to get in because of SCHSL rules), a reserved parking pass and an “All-Sport” athletic pass that admits two to any Raider regular season home contest in any sport (again SCHSL rules require payment for playoffs). There are other things available to Century Club members… For much more information about the Century Club and who to contact if you have questions, click here… If join quickly you can pick up your membership packet at Meet the Raiders on August 9th… If you would like to join electronically, click here… This is the best way to show your support for the Raiders!
2024 Summer Olympics… The Paris Summer Olympics actually started with some preliminary events on Wednesday, 7-24-24 and will continue through Sunday, 8-11-24…. They official opened with the Opening Ceremony on Friday, 7-26-24… If you would like to go to the official website for the Paris Summer Olympics where there is a wealth of information about the Olympic Games in Paris click here.
- Schedule of Events… On the Olympic website there are several ways to look at the schedule of events… If you click here it will carry you to a posting where you can select the day you are interested in or you can select a sport and see when competition will be taking place in that sport… Either way if you check for earlier dates it will give you the results of the completed contest… One thing to remember, Paris is 6 hours ahead of our time…Example: if it is noon here it is 6:00 pm Paris time.
- Viewing Schedule… NBC is primarily responsible for the viewing of the Olympics on TV… They have a posting on their website that list the viewing schedule not only for “over the air” viewing but also internet or other network viewing of various contest or ceremonies… Click here to go to that posting.
- Medal Count… Also on the NBC Olympic website is a posting that gives the medal count for each country… To go there click here… When you get there you can expand it to see what sport the country won the medals in… At the start they are showing the medal count for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
- Other Olympic Notes
- Olympic Athletes with Ties to South Carolina… There are numerous athletes participating in the Paris Olympics that have ties to the State of South Carolina… The Greenville news has a nice article about this… To read that article, click here.
College Sports: For any game mentioned below, click on the score for more details if available.
PC Notes
- Elton Pollock Gets Contract Extension… Yesterday it was announced that PC baseball coach Elton Pollock has signed a 10-year extension to his contract to… Pollock has completed 20 years at the helm of the PC baseball program and is coming off a season where his team won the Big South regular season title for the first time in school history and was named Big South Coach of the Year… He is a 1995 graduate of PC… For more on this story including comments from Coach Pollock and PC AD Dee Nichols click here.
- Single Game Football Tickets Now on Sale… Very recently PC opened up football ticket sales to include purchasing tickets for single games without having to purchase a season ticket… The Blue Hose will have 6 home games this season starting on September 14th when they host Virginia-Lynchburg at 1:00 pm… They are also scheduled to have 2 night games…. If you want to read more on this and see what the home schedule looks like, click here… If you would like to go directly to the PC website where you can purchase tickets click here.
College Football
ACC College Football Kickoff… Last week the SEC had their SEC Football Media Days out in Dallas… This week it is the ACC’s turn to take center stage as they start their ACC Kickoff event Monday up in Charlotte, NC… The event will started at 1:00 pm with Commissioner Jim Phillips speaking… After that Georgia Tech, Florida State and SMU will be featured… For you Clemson fans I’ll mention that Dabo Swinney and the Tigers do not get their chance until the last day which is Thursday at noon… To see the entire schedule click here… The entire event can be seen on the ACC Network and if you do not have access to the ACC Network you can also watch it on the above mentioned link.
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- Tuesday… The teams and coaches that will take to the podium today are Pittsburg / Pat Narduzzi, Virginia Tech / Brent Pry, California / Justin Wilcox, Stanford and Virginia / Tony Elliott… The action will start at 10:00 am.
- Wednesday… The teams and coaches that will take to the podium today are Miami / Mario Cristobal, Louisville / Jeff Brohm, Boston College / Bill O’Brien, Duke / Manny Diaz and Wake Forest / Dave Clawson… Miami will start things off at 10:00 am this morning
- Thursday… The teams and coaches that will take to the podium today are NC State / Dave Doeren, Syracuse / Fran Brown, Clemson / Dabo Swinney and North Carolina / Mack Brown… Clemson and Dabo Swinney are scheduled to start at noon and the players who are supposed to be there are Barrett Carter (LB), Cade Klubnik (B), Phil Mafah (RB) and R.J. Mickens (S)… Remember if you don’t have the ACC Network available on your TV you can look at it live by clicking here.
Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores.
- Mets 3 – Braves 2 (10)… The Braves losing streak is now up to 6 games as last night they fell to the Mets 3-1 in 10 innings… The game was tied at the end of 9 innings and the Braves were held scoreless in the 10th inning… with 2 out in the bottom of the 10th, the Mets Jeff McNeil singled to right field to drive in the winning run… The Braves actually outhit the Mets 7-3 but they were scattered hits and the Mets did have a 2-run homer in the 3rd inning by Francisco Lindor.
- 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.
- Other Scores… If you would like to see the scores of other MLB games click here.
- 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.
- Wed. Game: Drive 5 – Crawdads 4… … Yesterday the Greenville Drive started out the day completing a suspended game from Wednesday night… It was suspended in the bottom of the 8th inning with the Drive leading 5-4 and that also turned out to be the final score… The Drive scored all of their runs playing small ball as they outhit the Crawdads 10-7…. They won despite giving up 2 solo homers by the Crawdads and committing 4 errors.
- Thur. Game: Drive 7 – Crawdads 6 (11)… In the regularly scheduled game last night, the Drive won by a score of 7-6 but they had to go 11 innings to do so… The game was tied 4-4 at the end of 9 innings and both teams scored a single run n the 10th to make it 5-5… In the 11th inning the Drives Bryan Gonzalez (1&0 hit a 2-run homer to put the Drive up 7-5… The Crawdads scored a run in the bottom of the inning and had the bases loaded with 1 out when Drive turned a double play to win the game… The Drive outhit the Crawdads 11-7 and in addition to Gonzalez to game-winning homer, Ahbram Liendo (3) had a 2-run homer in the 8th inning.
- Season Schedule… To see the Drives season schedule, click here… Once you are there you can go back to look at scores of past games and also see what lies ahead for the Drive.
NASCAR
- Standings … Kyle Larson (749) now leads the standings for the Cup Series Drivers with Chase Elliott (739) second… The rest of the top 5 are Tyler Redick (734), Denny Hamlin (706) and Ryan Blaney moved up 2 spots to # 5… 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… NASCAR is taking a 2 week break I guess for the Olympics and the next racing is scheduled for the weekend of August 10-11 at Richmond.
- 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:
Laurens YMCA Soccer League… Registration is now open through August 21st for a Youth Soccer League at the Laurens Family YMCA… The League will be for youth ages 3 – 12 in appropriate age groupings… The cost is $75 for Y members and $90 for non-members… For more information or answers to any questions you may have, contact Haley Queen at 864-984-2626 or email her at: hqueen@lakelandsymca.org.
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