Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Volleyball: Clinton 3 – Newberry 0… Catching up with the Red Devil varsity volleyball season, they started their season Monday as they hosted the Newberry Bulldogs… Good news for Red Devil fans as they took a 3-0 win over the Bulldogs… Set scored were 25-22, 25-18 and 25-17… JV: Clinton 2 – Newberry 0… The JV volleyball team also played Monday and the news is equally as good as they took a 2-0 win… Set scored were25-6 and 25-10… Go Big Red!
- JV Football at Laurens Tonight… As they usually do before the Clinton vs. Laurens varsity football game, the Raiders and the Red Devils will be getting together tonight at KC Hanna Stadium in JV football action… Kickoff is slated for 6:30 pm and I do hope you can make it out to cheer on your favorite team… If you can’t, we do plan on bringing you that game here on Real Radio WLBG and streaming on the internet at www.wlbg.com… We plan on going live just a few minutes before the game starts.
Laurens HS
- Girls Tennis: Laurens 4 – Greenwood 3… The Raiders girls’ tennis team defeated Greenwood 4-3 on Tuesday… The match was decided by the #1 doubles team of Sara Beth Field and Ella Sanders defeating their opponents in an eight game pro set 8-4.
Laurens Academy
- Volleyball: Shannon Forest 3 – Crusaders 0… Back on Monday the Laurens Academy Crusaders fell to the Shannon Forest Crusaders by a score of 3-0… Set scores were 25-21, 25-21 and 25-13… The Crusaders are now 8-2 on the season and will host Cambridge Academy today starting at 5:00 pm.
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 Tuesday… 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…. Also you can click here to see varsity volleyball results. .
- Thornwell: To see the Thornwell varsity volleyball schedule and results click here
- PC Sports Calendar… To see the PC athletics sports calendar, click here.
College Sports: For any game mentioned below, click on the score for more details if available.
College Football
- PC Starts Season Tonight… The Blue Hose will get a jump on other area college football teams as they start their season tonight at 7:00 pm when they travel to Mercer to take on the Bears… The game will be available for viewing on ESPN+… For much more about the game, the two teams and the history between the schools, click here... If you don’t have ESPN+ there is a link to live stats on the page I just gave you the link to… Go Blue Hose!
- Clemson Football Schedule, TV Channels, Dates and Start Times… Click here to see what is known at this time for the Clemson football schedule where dates, times and TV viewing is concerned
- South Carolina Football Schedule, TV Channels, Dates and Start Times… Click here to see what is known at this time for the Gamecock football schedule where dates, times and TV viewing is concerned
Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores at the start of the section.
- Braves 5- Twins 1… The Braves were able to pull out the brooms up in Minnesota last night as they took a 5-1 win thus sweeping the Twins in the 3-game series… They started the game off with a solo homer by Jorge Soler (17) and broke the game open in the 7th inning scoring 4 runs and outhitting the Twins 8-7… Chris Sale (15-3) picked up the win going 6 innings and giving up the 1 earned run on 6 hits while striking out 6 and walking 1. .. The Braves start a very important 4-game series with the Phillies in Philadelphia tonight as they trail the Phillies who lead the NL East by 5 games over the Braves who are in second place.
- 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 2 – Drive 0… The Greenville Drive outhit the Bowling Green Hot Rods 2-1 last night up in Bowling Green but still managed to lose to the Hot Rods 1-0… walks, a wild pitch or two to go along with sacrifice flies and a couple of stolen bases did the Drive in.
- 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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