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Sports Report for Tuesday, 8-27-2024

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Local Notes

Clinton HS

  • Woodruff 40 – Clinton 36… In a game that went back and forth last Friday night, the Woodruff Wolverines were able to stop the Red Devils on a fourth and one at the Woodruff 17 yd. line with 19 seconds left in the game to take a 40-36 win over the Red Devils… Coach Corey Fountain said before the game that Woodruff was going to a better team than last year and that proved to be the case as they had 479 yds. of total offense 276 of which were on the ground and 203 through the air… After the game he took the blame saying “I did not have our guys ready to execute the way we needed to”… The Red Devils did have 488 total yds. of offense with 369 of them coming on the ground and Tushawan Richardson had 119 yds. passing for the Red Devils going 6 for 14 with 2 TDS both to Devin Swindler… Richardson also led the Red Devil rushing attack with 147 yds. and a TD… Javen Cook had 120 yds. rushing and 2 TDs… Clinton only went 3-6 in Red Zone Chances while Woodruff went 5-5… To see the complete game stat package including a play-by-play accounting of the game click here.

 

Laurens HS

  • Hillcrest 16 – Laurens 0… In the season opener for new Head Football Coach Greg Porter, his former team the Hillcrest Rams took a 16-0 win over the Raiders at KC Hanna Stadium… The Rams led 13-0 at the half and the Raiders were able to hold them to 29 yd. field goal in the second half… The Rams had 128 rushing and 172 passing for a total of 300 yds. of offense to the Raiders 65 yds. rushing and 68 yds. passing for a total of 133 yds… 63 of the Rams 172 yds. passing came on a 63 yd. TD pass in the first quarter that helped the Rams go up 7-0… The Raiders also lost 2 fumbles one of which gave the Rams the ball at the Raider 30 where they only took 2 plays to turn that into 7 points in the 2nd quarter… The Raiders also had a couple of passes intercepted which of course were drive killers…  Nehemias Fernandez had 51 yds. rushing to lead the Raiders and Will Thompson went 6-11 o account for the Raiders 68 yds. passing with Brayden Patterson catching 3 of them… To see the complete game stat package including a play-by-play accounting of the game click here…. The Raiders will travel to Clinton this Friday for at 7:30 for the County Championship 2024.

Laurens Academy

  • Collins Chosen as TD Club Player of the Week… Yesterday it was announced that Laurens Academy sophomore quarterback Ethan Collins was chosen as the Laurens County Touchdown Club’s Player of the week for his performance in the Crusaders 42-25 win at Newberry against the Newbery Academy Eagles in Newberry… Collins threw for 198 yards and three touchdowns completing 13 passes on 20 attempts.  Collins had one additional 47 yard TD called back because of a penalty.  Collins also rushed 10 times for 87 yards and a touchdown…  Additionally he scored three 2-point conversions as well… Laurens Academy Head Football Coach Jolly Doolittle quoted, “Ethan has every intangible a Coach wants in a Quarterback.  He is even-keeled, mentally and physically tough, smart, coachable, disciplined, a leader and an extremely hard worker.”…The Laurens County Touchdown Club will honor Ethan on September 5th at the second Touchdown Club meeting of the year.  The meeting will be at noon at The Ridge in Laurens.  Player of the Week awards this year will presented by Farm Bureau Insurance of Laurens County.
  • Crusaders 42 – Eagles 25 … The Crusaders traveled down to Newberry last Friday night to take on their biggest rivals the Newberry Eagles… The trip back up the road after the game was a happy one as the Crusaders took a 42-26 win…. The Crusaders led 14-0 at the end of the first quarter and 28-0 at the half and held the Eagles scoreless until the 8:19 mark of the third quarter as the Crusaders went on to their second win of the season… The Crusaders had 417 yds. of total offense 219 rushing and Ethan Collins went 13-20 for 198 yds. passing and threw 3 TD passes against 1 interception… He also led the rushing attack with 87 yds. and scored a TD rushing… Caleb Hardy caught one of his TD passes and Anthony Candelas caught the other two… Caleb Hardy also scored a rushing TD as did Elijah Hornberger… Hornberger also had an interception on defense… To see more Crusader stats on this game click here… The Crusaders are scheduled to host Wardlaw Academy this Friday night at 7::30pm at Todd Kirk Field.

Laurens County Touchdown Club

  • Last Thursday at noon the Laurens County Touchdown Club met for the first time this season at The Ridge on Exchange Drive… Garret Murphy was honored for being the clubs first Player of the Week for his role in the Crusaders 56-20 win over Cambridge Academy last Friday night… Mr. Tommy Stribble one of our local area multi-sport officials was also honored as he will be officiating his 700th contest tonight at the Woodruff vs. Clinton football game… I have personally have had the privilege of officiating a few of those 699 contest with him and will tell yo9u you will not find a better official anywhere and he an even better man… He starts is 51st year officiating tonight’s Woodruff vs. Clinton game… After that Coach Steve Englehart of PC briefly spoke and the three local high school coaches too center stage… Click here to see a video of most of that meeting.

Sports Talk Media High School Football Recap… Each week during the football season Sports Talk Media produce a recap show of high school football results from around the state… If you would like to hear that show for last Friday night, click here… It’s usually about 5 minutes long and keeps you updated on football outside our area… Enjoy!

 

High School Football Scores, Schedules and Standings

  • Thanks to scfootballstats.com you can now see last weekend’s scores for all games by classification on Saturday or Sunday and possibly Monday… After that you will see the weeks schedule by classification… You can also see the standings in each region by classification… To see this information, click here.

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 6:20 pm with the Friday Night Insiders… Remember all sports broadcast are streamed live on the internet at www.wlbg.com.

  • Thursday, August 29th… JV football Clinton at Laurens, 6:30
  • Friday, August 30th… Varsity football Laurens at Clinton, 7:30

 

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

Olympics

  • Sports Added to 2028 Summer Olympics… With the Paris Summer Olympics not too far back in the rear view mirror, I wonder how many of you know that the Summer 2028 will be held in Los Angeles July 14 – July 30, 2028… They will be adding back some sports that were left out this year and adding a new one or two… Cricket will be back for the first time since the 1900 Olympics in Paris… Lacrosse is back for the first time since 1948… Baseball and softball which were left out this year after several years of being “in”…Squash and flag football will be making in in for the first time… For more on this click here.

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

 College Football

  • College Football Playoff Information…. Recently there was an article that was on USA Today and the Greenville News about how teams for the expanded college playoffs for FBS teams will be chosen… Playoff ranking dates were also announced and they will start on Tuesday Nov. 5th… The people who are on the selection committee are also listed in that article… The college football playoff dates and game locations are also listed with the National Championship being played on Monday, January 20, 2025 in Atlanta… To read that article click here… By the way, Good Lord willing, that will be my birthday… I’ll gladly accept a ticket to the game if anyone wants to give me one as birthday present!

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

 Atlanta Braves

  • Monday: Braves 10 – Twins 6… The Braves started a 3-game series with the Twins up in Minnesota last night… They scored 8 runs in the first two innings as they went on to take a 10-6 win… There was a rain delay of about 90 minutes in the second inning… They simply outhit the Twins 13-9 and out-homered the Twins 2-0… Matt Olson (23) had a 3-run homer in 1st inning and Travis d’Arnaud (14) a 2-run homer in 2nd inning.

 

Last Weekend… The Atlanta Braves hosted the Washington Nationals in a 3-game series over the weekend

  • Friday: Braves 2 – Phillies 2… The Braves started the series on Friday night with a 3-2 win over the Nationals even though the Nationals outhit the Braves 10-8… all the Nationals hits were singles except for 1 double and the Braves had 2 extra-base hits a double by Whit Merrifield and a solo homer by Michael Harris II (7) in the first inning.
  • Saturday: Braves 4 – Nationals 2… The Braves won game 2 of the series by a score of 4-2 on Saturday… The Nationals took an early 2-0 lead but the Braves jumped ahead in the 6th inning where they scored 2 runs to go up 3-2 and then added an insurance run in the 8th inning when Ramón Laureano hit his 8th homer of the season a solo shot to center field… Orlando Arcia (13) had a solo homer in the 5th inning for the Braves.
  • Sunday: Nationals 5 – Braves 1… Sunday the Nationals avoided the sweep by taking a 5-1 win over the Braves by simply outhitting the Braves 8-3… The only homerun in the game was by Matt Olson (22) who hit a solo shot in the 6th inning to give the Braves their only run.
  • 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.

Greenville Drive… The Greenville Drive finished their 6-game series with the Rome Emperors over the weekend at Flour Field… As a reminder the Drive won 2 of the first 3 games of the series.

  • Drive 2 – Emperors 0… Friday the Drive took a close 2-0 win over the Emperors outhitting them 7-2… all the runs scored were scored playing “small Ball” as there were no homers by either team in the game.
  • Drive 7 – Emperors 3… On Saturday the Drive continued their winning ways against the Emperors as they scored 6 runs in the 1st inning and made them standup as they took a 7-3 win over the Emperors… Again there were no homers by either team but both teams had 2 errors each so that only 4 of the Drives 7 runs were earned and of the 3 runs by the Emperors was earned.
  • Sunday: Drive 3 – Emperors 2…     The Drive finished the series Sunday taking a 3-2 win over the Emperors thus winning the series 5 games to 1… Both of the Emperors runs came on a pair of solo homers by E.J. Exposito while the Drive got their 3 runs on 6 hits playing small ball and had some help due to an Emperors error….
  • Up Next for the Drive… The Drive were off last night and start a 6-game series with the Hot Rods in Bowling Green tonight.
  • 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

  • Harrison Burton Picks Up First Cup Series win of His Career… Last Saturday down at Daytona, 23-year-old Harrison Burton picked up his first Cup Series win of his career passing Kyle Busch in the second overtime of the race and also earning the historic Wood Brothers Racing team its 100th victory…Burton finished just 0.047 seconds ahead of Busch…. Burton is the son of retired driver Jeff Burton who now works as a commentator for NBC Sports… Interestingly, the younger Burton was recently told he would not be back with the Wood Brothers next season but wanted to race to the best of his ability to thank them for giving him the opportunity… Wonder if they will reconsider? For more information as to who was leading at the suspension of the race click here…. If you are not a big fan of NASCAR but like to see cars flying through the air and landing on their roof and spinning around you may want to use the links above to go to the NASCAR site where thy have video of a couple of good ones in the race.
  •  Standings … Tyler Redick (823) continues to hold down the top spot in the Cup Series Driver Standings while Kyle Larson (806) moves up a spot to #2… Chase Elliot (805) drops a spot to #3, Ryan Blaney (755) holds down #4 and William Byron (755) the #5 spot… 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… The NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series will be back down in Darlington this weekend with the Xfinity Race taking place at 3:30 pm Saturday and the Cup series Race at 6:00 pm on Sunday… There appears to be no Truck Series racing this weekend.is splitting up where they race this weekend… The Xfinity Series will race Friday night at 7:30 pm… Click here to see the full schedule 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.

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