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Sports Report for Thursday, 8-15-2024

Thursday, August 15, 2024

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 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

  • Meet The Raiders This Friday… The 3rd Annual Meet the Raiders was supposed to take place last Friday, August 9th at KC Hanna Stadium… The rescheduling of the Union Jamboree caused it to be rescheduled until this 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!

Touchdown Club announces Schedule and Speakers… One sure sign that high school football season is upon us is that the Laurens County Touchdown Club has announced its meeting schedule and the list of speakers for each meeting… The Laurens County Touchdown Club is one of the few clubs still in existence throughout the state and it purpose is simply to help unite the county through the celebration of high school football and its players…The club’s first meeting will be on Thursday, Sept.22nd at  The Ridge at Laurens, located at 301 Exchange Road in Laurens… The club will meet every other Thursday at noon and the tickets are $15 at the door… For more information about the Laurens County Touchdown Club email Gene Simmons gsimmons@clintonymca.org….The schedule and speakers are as follows:

  • August 22        Laurens County High School Football Coaches
  • September 5       Coach Steve Englehart, Presbyterian C. Head Football Coach
  • September 19      Coach Clay Hendrix, Furman U. Head Football Coach
  • October 3        Coach Mike Ayers, Former Wofford College Head Football Coach
  • October 17       Rick Sanford, Former USC Football Great; SC Football HOF
  • October 31         Charlie Wentzky, SCHSL Deputy Commissioner for Football
  • November 21     Chet Tucker, USC Sideline Broadcaster & Don Munson, Voice of the Clemson Tigers
  • December 19    Brian Mance, Former Clemson Great & 2023 South Carolina Football Hall of Fame   ‘Humanitarian of the Year’…This Post Season Banquet will be on Thursday, December 19th – 6:00 pm

 

S.C. Prep Football Media Preseason Poll… The preseason rankings by the S.C. Prep Football Media Poll were released this past Monday… The entirety of that poll by class is below… First-place votes and the team records are in parentheses.

  • CLASS 5A: 1. Dutch Fork (13) 2. Gaffney (3) 3. Summerville 4. Northwestern (1) 5. Irmo 6. White Knoll 7. TL Hanna 8. JL Mann 9. Sumter 10.Hillcrest… Others receiving votes: Spartanburg; Byrnes; Ridge View; Fort Dorchester; James Island; Clover; Carolina Forest; Greenwood
  • CLASS 4A:  1. Westside (17) 2. South Florence 3. Daniel 4. South Pointe 5. Camden 6. Gray Collegiate 7. Hartsville 8. Midland Valley 9. Brookland-Cayce 10. Gilbert… Others receiving votes: Beaufort; AC Flora; Greer; Crestwood; May River; North Augusta; York
  • CLASS 3A:  1. Belton-Honea Path (10) 2. Oceanside Collegiate (6) 3. Dillon (1) 4. Christ Church 5. Chapman 6. Pendleton 7. Silver Bluff 8. (tie) Broome 8. (tie) Powdersville 10. Marlboro County… Others receiving votes: Hanahan; Mountain View Prep; Loris; Keenan; St. Joseph’s; Newberry; Woodruff; Battery Creek; Southside Christian; Aynor
  • CLASS 2A:  1. Chester (9) 2. Clinton (7) 3. Hampton County (1) 4. Strom Thurmond 5. Barnwell 6. Fairfield Central 7. Philip Simmons 8. Saluda 9. Manning 10. Andrew Jackson… Others receiving votes: Cheraw, Ninety-Six, Timberland, Batesburg-Leesville, Marion, Whale Branch, Atlantic Charter, Chesnee, Andrews
  • CLASS A:  1. Abbeville (17) 2. Bamberg-Ehrhardt 3. Lewisville 4. Johnsonville 5. Lamar 6. Blackville-Hilda 7. Calhoun County 8. Lake View 9. Latta 10. Cross Others receiving votes: Hunter-Kinard Tyler; Denmark-Olar; Branchville; McBee; Dixie; Green Sea-Floyds; Hannah-Pamplico; Whitmire; Great Falls; Green Sea Floyds, Ridge-Spring Monetta

Broadcast Notes… We plan on brining you the following contest here on Real Radio WLBG… If it is a varsity football game we will start our broadcast about 6:25 pm with the Friday Night Insiders… Remember all sports broadcast are streamed live on the internet at www.wlbg.com.

  • Friday, August 23rd… Varsity football Hillcrest at Laurens.
  • Thursday, August 29th… JV football Clinton at Laurens, 6:30
  • Friday, August 30th… Varsity football Laurens at Clinton

 

Local Sports Schedules: All schedules subject to change right up to game time.

 

College Sports: For any game mentioned below, click on the score for more details if available.

 College Football

  • FBS AP Top 25 Poll… In case you missed it on the news, the preseason top 25 FBS AP Poll was released the other day… The top 5 teams are Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas and Alabama… Spots 6-10 are occupied by Ole Miss, Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan and Florida State… Clemson checked in at #14… To see the entire 25 teams that made the poll along with their records from last season, click here.
  • AFCA FCS Coaches Poll… About the same time the American Football Coaches Association Poll for the top 25 teams in the FCS Division came out… South Dakota State and North Dakota State hold down the #1 and 2 spots… Looking at teams you will be able to see in our area of the South, Chattanooga comes in at #8, Furman #9 and Western Carolina #19… To see the entirety of this poll and last season’s records for each team, click here.

Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores at the start of the section.   

Atlanta Braves

Braves 13 – Giants 2 … The Braves winning streak is now up to 3 games as they took a 13-2 win over the Giants out in San Francisco last night… The Braves only outhit the Giants 11-9 but the big difference came in homeruns as the Braves had 4 of them to the Giants 1…  Michael Harris II (6) started the Braves off with a big bang as he had a grand slam homer in the first inning where the Braves scored 5 runs and never looked back… Matt Olson (21) and Austin Riley (19) both had solo homers in the game for the Braves while Sean Murphy had a two-run homer in the 8th inning for the Braves… Grant Holmes (1-0) a Conway, SC native got the start and the win for the Braves going 7 innings giving up 2 earned runs on 8 hits while striking out 6 and walking 1… The Braves will finish the 4-game series with the Giants today in an afternoon game that starts at 3:35 pm EDT.

  • 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.
  • Braves Injuries… The casual Brave fan (or non-Brave fan) might ask themselves what has happened to the Braves the last couple of month… Injuries are the short and accurate answer… Click here to go to a posting about all the Brave injuries.
  • 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.

Greenville Drive

  • Drive 4 – Iron Birds 0… There is also good news for Greenville Drive fans as they took a 4-0 win over the Iron Birds up in Aberdeen, Maryland last night… It was a scoreless pitchers battle until the 6th inning where the Drive but a single run on the board and added another in the 7th inning plus 2 insurance runs in the 9th inning… All of the Drive runs were scored playing small ball as they had no homers among their 6 hits.
  • Standings… To see the full standings for the SAL click here.
  • 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

  • NASCAR Penalizes Dillon and Others… Below I mentioned to you that Austin Dillon won the race at Richmond last Sunday playing “bumper cars” at the finish spinning out Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin to take the win… Wednesday (Aug.14th) NASCAR handed out some penalties because of his and others actions at the end of the race… The biggest penalty was that Dillon will not automatically qualify for the field of 16 when the final playoff chase for the title begins in a few weeks… For more on this story including all the penalties that were handed out to Dillon and others as well as an explanation of the penalties by Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, click here… I guess there IS a limit to boys being boys and doing what they must to win…Good!
  • Austin Dillon Wins at Richmond Playing Bumper Cars… Austin Dillon picked up his first Cup Series win in two seasons last Sunday (Aug. 11th) up in Richmond in an overtime race where he played bumper cars as he neared the finish line… As he neared the finish line he hit the rear bumper (intentionally ???) of race leader Joey Logano spinning him out and then swung low (trying to avoid the spinning Logano ???) bumping Denny Hamlin to be sure he did not finish first… Click here to see more details on the this race as well as the order of finish for all drivers in the race…
  • Standings … Kyle Larson (779) still leads the standings for the Cup Series Drivers with Tyler Redick (774) moving up to second spot while Chase Elliott (773) drops a spot to third…. 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 headed north this weekend as racing takes place at the Michigan International Speedway… The Menards Series will race Friday at 6:00 pm, the Xfinity Series Saturday at 3:30 pm and the Cup series Sunday at 2:30…. Click here to see the full schedule for Michigan 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.

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!

 

If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to report scores, please contact me via email at: sports@wlbg.com or text me at 864-981-3470.

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