Local Notes
Laurens Academy
- Collins Chosen as TD Club Player of the Week… Monday 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.
Thornwell
- Volleyball: Saints 3 – McCormick 0… Last night in volleyball action at Thornwell, the Saints defeated the McCormick Chiefs 3-0 in varsity action… Set scores were 25-8, 25-10 and 25-9… The JV team also took a win as they defeated the Chiefs 25-2 and 25-10… This was the first region win for the Saints.
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.
SC Prep Football Media Poll… The latest SC Media Prep football poll came out yesterday… To see the entirety of that poll click here… Some of the highlights are as follows:
- 5A: Dutch Fork and Gaffney are #1 & #2
- 4A: Laurens region foe Westside still is #1… Daniel a future opponent of the Red Devils is #3 and A.C. Flora who the Raiders will play in a couple of weeks is #8.
- 3A: BHP who the Raiders will play in a couple of weeks checks in at #1, Woodruff #7 and Chapman a future Red Devil opponent at #9.
- 2A: Hampton County is #1 and Clinton dropped from #2 to #4 with the loss to Woodruff last Friday.
- 1A: Abbeville still hold down the # 1 spot and is the only team close by in the top 10.
- Entire Poll… Again to see the entire top 10 in each classification and other teams that received votes, click here.
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.
- School District 55: To see the sports schedule for this week at LDHS, click here.
- School District 56: To see the sports schedule for this week at CHS and CMS, click here
- Laurens Academy: Click on each of the following to see their schedule: Varsity Football, Middle Scholl Football and Varsity /MS Volleyball. .
- Thornwell: To see the Thornwell varsity volleyball schedule and results click here
- PC Sports Calendar… To see the PC athletics sports calendar, click here.
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.
- Braves 8- Twins 6 (10)… The Braves took an 8-6 win over the Twins in Minnesota last night, but they had to go 10 innings to do it… The game was tied 4-4 at the end of 9 innings and the Braves scored4 runs in the top of the 10th inning and then held the Twins t just 2 runs in the bottom of the inning to take the win… Michael Harris II had a 2-run homer for the Braves in the 2nd inning his 11th of the season.
- 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.
- Hot Rods 9 – Drive 4… The Drive started a 6-game series with the Bowling Green Hot Rods on a down note last night as they lost 9-4… The Hot Rods broke the game open in the 6th inning scoring 5 runs which put the Drive down 9-4 and neither team could score the rest of the way.
- 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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