Local Notes
Clinton HS & Laurens HS
- JV Football Clinton 6 – Laurens 0… The Red Devil JV football team took a hard fought 6-0 win over the Raiders last night at KC Hannah Stadium… The Red Devils went 63 yds. in 14 plays with Graydon Watkins tossing a 4 yd. TD pass to Zydarrion Butler with 7:35 left in the first quarter and made that stand up as they went on to the win… The two-point conversion failed… Both teams were able to move the ball but just could not finish the drives… In the Raiders case, penalties and some high snaps to the quarterback were often Drive killers… Both teams defense did step up at times to stop the other team… The raiders Caleb Gilchrist intercepted a Red Devil pass in the endzone to keep the Red Devils off the board early in the third quarter and at the end of the game with about 2 minutes left the Red Devils stuffed the Raiders on fourth down to get the ball back and run out the clock… Clinton is now 1-0 while the Raiders fall to 0-1.
- Raiders Travel to Clinton… Unless you have just come out of a coma, been returned from and alien abduction from outer space or just don’t care about sports (why are you reading this in that case), you know that the Raiders will be traveling to Clinton tonight to take on the Red Devils in the “County Championship” … Both teams lost their season opener last Friday as the Red Devils lost to Woodruff 40-36 at home and the Raiders lost to Hillcrest 16-0 at home… The Raiders are looking to break a 3-game losing streak to the Red Devils and the Red Devils want to be able to hold up 4 fingers when the game is over… They expect a large crowd so plan on getting there early… I hope you can come out and support your favorite team but if you can’t, we do plan on brining you the game here on Real Radio WLBG and streaming live on the internet at www.wlbg.com… We will start our coverage at 6:20 with the Friday Night Insiders.
Laurens Academy
- Crusaders at Home Tonight… The 2-0 Laurens Academy Crusaders will have their home opener tonight at Todd Kirk Field as they host the Wardlaw Patriots in a non-region matchup… The Patriots are 1-0 on the season having defeated King Academy last week 32-8… The Patriots are a team that historically the Crusaders have had trouble with and they hope to turn that around tonight… A big crowd at Todd Kirk Field could help then make that happen… Go Crusaders!
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.
- Friday, August 30th… Varsity football Laurens at Clinton, 7:30
- Friday, September 6th… Varsity football at BHP, 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
- Mercer 63 – PC 10… The Blue Hose opened their football season last night down at Mercer taking on the Bears… There is an old saying sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you… well last night the Bear got PC as the Bears took a 63-10 win over the Blue Hose after a 90 minute weather delay before the game started… Mack Mikko had a 24 yd. field goal in the 1st quarter and Ty Englehart threw a 24 yd. TD to Cincere Gill in the 4th quarter… PC travels to Greenwood to take on Erskine next Saturday.
- Wofford 21 – Gardner-Webb 20… The Wofford Terriers opened their season last night at Garner-Webb and scored 10 points in the 4th quarter to take a come-from-behind 21-20 win.
- Coastal Carolina 55 – Jacksonville State 27… Coastal Carolina also opened its season last night down at Jackson State and took a 55-27 win over the Gamecocks rolling up 552 yds. of total offense.
- 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.
- Phillies 5 – Braves 4… The Braves started a 4-game series with the NL East leading Phillies last night up in Philadelphia losing by a score of 5-4… The Braves led 4-0 going into the bottom of the 6th inning where the Phillies put 3 runs on the scoreboard and then added 2 more runs in the 7th inning to come back and take the 5-4 win… Both teams had 7 hits each and both teams had 2 homers… For the Braves Matt Olson (25) had a pair of homers in the game as he had a 2-run homer in the 3rd inning and a solo homer in the 6th inning… He was the only Brave with more than one hit.
- 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 6 – Drive 4… The Greenville Drive had a similar fate last night as they fell to the Bowling Green Hot Rods in Bowling Green 6-4 after leading 4-1 going into the 6th inning… In that inning the Hot Rods scored 5 times and made it holdup as they took the win outhitting the Drive 12-6… Miguel Bleis (7) did have a 2 run homer for the Drive in the 3rd inning.
- 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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