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
- Raiders Previewed Today… Every year WSPA TV channel 7 does a short preview of area football teams… The Laurens Raiders will be featured today (8-1) on their 6 pm newscast… The Clinton Red Devils will be featured on Friday, 8-16 in their 6:00 pm newscast.
- 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… If you can’t make it over, we do plan on brining you that contest here on Real Radio WLBG.
- 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.
- 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!
Laurens Academy
- Crusaders in Jamboree August 9th… The Crusader football team will be participating in a jamboree at Wardlaw Academy on Friday, August 9th… The exact time and opponent have not been announced and when they do, I’ll update this.
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… The total medal count for the top 3 countries as of 5:00 am this morning… Click on the link above to get more details.
- USA: 5 gold, 13 silver, 12 bronze for a total of 30
- France: 8 gold, 10 silver, 8 bronze for a total of 26
- China: 10 gold, 7 silver, 3 bronze for a total of 20
- Other Olympic Notes…
- Women’s’ Basketball in Action Today… If I am reading the schedule correctly, in women’s basketball Team USA is scheduled to be taking on Belgium… If you click here it will take you to the NBC broadcast schedule and think you will be able to see that game today at 2:45 pm EDT on the USA Network or streaming live at a link on the website.
- Women’s Gymnastics Strike Gold… Above I mentioned that the latest gold medal for the USA game when the women’s gymnastics team won… They finished almost 6 points ahead of second place Italy and almost 7 points ahead of third place Brazil… The Greenville news has a series of stories that give more information about this and each of the individual gymnast… Click here to go to that article.
College Sports: For any game mentioned below, click on the score for more details if available.
PC Notes
- 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 Media Poll has Florida State #1… In case you missed it on the news last night, the ACC Media Poll was released yesterday and the 170 media voters picked Florida State to finish first again this year with Clemson coming in second.. Florida State was picked to finish first by 81 media voters and Clemson only had 55 voters pick them as finishing first… If you would like more information on this including the predicted order of finish for all the 17 ACC schools, click here.… I have a feeling the Tigers will prove them wrong or at least I hope so.
Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores.
- Braves 6 – Brewers 2… The Braves finished their series with the Brewers yesterday afternoon in Milwaukie on as positive note as they took a 6-2 win thus winning the series 2-1… The Brewers scored their 2 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning and the Braves tied the game with a pair of runs in the 4th inning… They took the lead scoring a pair of runs in the 7th inning than added 2 insurance runs in the 8th to make the final score 6-2… Something happened in the game yesterday that had not happened for the Braves since 1998… In the 4th inning Matt Olson and Travis d’Arnaud hit back-to-back solo homers and again in the 8th inning they repeated that feat marking the first time since 1998 that a pair of Brave teammate fit back-to-back homers in a game… The last time this happened for the Braves was back on June 13, 198 when Javy Lopez and Andruw Jones teamed to do this against the Blue Jays…
- 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.
- Drive 12 – Blue Rocks 0… The Greenville Drive must have left their bats out on the concrete steps of the dugout yesterday afternoon because last night they were hot pounding out 14 hits in route to a 12-0 win over the Wilmington Blue Rocks at Flour Field… Mickey Romero led the Drive going 4 for 5 driving in 5 runs while scoring 3 runs himself as he had a double and a pair of homers to give him 9 homers on the season… Miguel Bleis (4) and Jhostynxon Garcia (15) also homered in the game for the Drive.
- 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.
Carolina Panthers
- Fan Fest at Clemson Thursday (8-1)… For those of you who have missed the Carolina Panthers not holding their training camp at Wofford this year there will be a little bit of makeup for that as the Panthers will be holding a Fan Fest at Clemson today… This is a ticked event where the tickets will cost you $5 with the proceeds going to Panther Charities… There will be entertainment, fireworks and a chance to win Super Bowl tickets… To read more about this event and get a ticket, click here to go to the Panthers website where there is more information and a link to purchase tickets… Gates will open at 5:30 pm.
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 which is being sponsored by Angela Marlett State Farm… 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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