Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Football Season Tickets… Season tickets for Red Devil football are now on sale through this Friday (August 9th) at the ticket office in the gym at Clinton HS… A season ticket will cost you $70 and will include a reserved parking pass… The ticket will let you get into any regular season football game and that includes varsity, JV and middle school games… Ticket sales will start at 8:30 am each day and conclude at 1:30 pm… Senior citizens age 62 and above may also pick up their senior passes at those times also… If you have any questions call Mrs. Kathy Schumpert (864-938-1981) or Louie Alexander (864-938-1982)…. Click here to go to the CHS website where there is more information about this.
- 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… The scrimmage at home vs. Byrnes and BHP was originally moved to BHP and then cancelled… I do not believe it will be made-up
- 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… Look below for more information.
- Chapin Jamboree Information… Advance tickets for Clinton’s participation are on sale at the Clinton HS ticket office in the main gym at Clinton HS and they are only $5.00 each with Clinton getting to keep all the ticket sales money… You can also buy them at the gate the night of the jamboree but they will be $7:00 each and Clinton will get only a small part of those proceeds… Obviously it will be better for Red Devil fan to get their tickets ahead of time… For more information on this, click here…. Go Big Red!
- 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 at Union… The Raider football was supposed travel to Union to play a half of football last night… Hurricane Debby caused that jamboree to tonight with everything on the same schedule…. 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… We were able Wednesday to secure a spot in the press box so that we do plan on brining you this half of football starting about 9:00 pm…
- Ticket Information for McDonald’s Kickoff Classic at Union… Tickets are available for $10 each and can be purchased at the gate and at Chris Callahan State Farm on west Main in Laurens … A clear bag policy in in force at the stadium and there are some other things you need to know about before you go… For more information about the McDonalds Kickoff Classic click here.
- Meet The Raiders Postponed… The 3rd Annual Meet the Raiders will supposed to take place tonight (Friday, August 9th ) at KC Hanna Stadium… The rescheduling of the Union Jamboree has now caused it to be rescheduled until next Friday, August 16th. It 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 16th… 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 Crusaders will be taking on Cathedral Academy out of Charleston and kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 pm… I’m sure the Crusaders would love to have a large number of fans follow them down… The address for Wardlaw is 1296 Columbia Rd, Johnston, SC 29832… Go Crusaders!
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: 30 gold, 38 silver, 35 bronze for a total of 103
- China: 29 gold, 25 silver, 19 bronze for a total of 73
- France: 14 gold, 19 silver, 21 bronze for a total of 54
- Some Other Olympic Notes… USA Today is doing a pretty good job of covering the Olympics and if you click here it will carry you to their website where Olympic news is covered… Once you get there, you will find a number of stories about the games and results but also “back stories” from the Olympics about the athletes competing.
- Yesterday Highlights… For some highlights from yesterday’s action (8-8-24) click here.
Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores at the start of the section.
- Brewers 16 – Braves 7… The Braves finished the series with the Brewers in Atlanta yesterday afternoon losing by a score of 16-7… That means the Braves were swept by the Brewers in the 3-game series and the Braves losing streak is now up to 5 games… The Brewers did it by pounding out 20 hits 6 of which were homers while the Braves had just 10 hits 2 of which were homers… The Brewers led 8-0 before the Braves finally got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the 3rd inning… The Braves two homeruns were a 3-run homer by Austin Riley (17) in the 3rd inning and a solo homer by Marcell Ozuna (33) in the 7th inning… The Braves will start a 3-game series with the D-backs out in Arizona tonight as part of 10-game road trip out west.
- 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.
- Debby 1 – Dash & Drive 0… The Greenville Drive and the Winston-Salem Dash were supposed to play the third game of their 6-game series last night up in North Carolina but Hurricane Debby forced it to be postponed with no makeup date announced yet.
- 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 getting back to action this weekend after a two week break… The Action will be taking place up at the Richmond Raceway with the Truck Series racing at 7:30 pm Saturday night and the Cup series racing at 6:00 pm on Sunday…. Click here to see the full schedule for Richmond including practices and qualifying.
- 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.
Panthers
- Patriots 17 – Panthers 3… For the casual Carolina Panther fans out there, the Panthers played their first preseason game last night up in Foxborough, Mass. and lost to the Patriots by a score of 17-3… Panthers rookie head coach Dave Canales wanted to take a look at some of the younger players in game action so very few starters played very much if at all… Click on the score at the start of this section for more information about the contest.
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.
Fall Baseball at City of Laurens Parks and Recreation… Registration is now open through August 23rd at the City of Laurens Parks and Recreation for Fall Baseball… There will be three age groupings: 5-7 coaches’ pitch, 7-9 kids’ pitch and 9-11 kids pitch… The cost for each registrant is $50… You can register can the City of Laurens Parks and Recreation offices at The Ridge on Exchange Drive in Laurens during their normal business hours… If you have any questions call them at 864-681-7275… Batter Up!
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