Sports Report for Tuesday, 9-3-2024

Local Notes

Clinton HS

Volleyball: Woodruff 3 – Clinton 0… Last Thursday the Red Devil volleyball team hosted the Woodruff Wolverines and lost 3-0… The JV team also lost to Woodruff 2-0… No other details on these matches… The JV and varsity teams will travel to Laurens tonight to take on the Raiders with JV action starting at 5:30 and varsity at 7:00.

Clinton HS & Laurens HS

Clinton 35 – Laurens 8… As most of you probably know b know the Red Devils took a 35-8 win over the Raiders last Friday night at Wilder Stadium to win the fourth Laurens County Championship in as many years… The game was fairly close until just before the end of the first half as the Red Devils only led the Raiders 14-8 after Laurens actually led 8-7 at the end of the first quarter… The Raiders had the ball at their own 10-yard line and with 56 seconds left in the half they fumbled, and the Red Devils recovered it… The Red Devils took needed only 1 play to score from the 10 yd. line and with the extra point the score stood 21-8 Clinton and the Raiders were never able to get back in the game… The Raiders had 4 fumbles in the game and lost all 4 of them and the Red Devils also had an interception and they scored 21 points off the Raiders 5 turnovers.
Some Stats
- Rushing, Passing & Total Yards
  - Clinton: 327, 82, 409
  - Laurens: 163, 8, 171
- Leading Rusher: Number, Yards, TDs
  - Clinton: Javen Cook: 15-89-3Tds
  - Laurens: Nemo Fernandez: 15-87-1 Td
- Leading Passer: Comp.-Attempts-Yds.-TD-Int.

Clinton: Tushawan Richardson: 4-8-82-1-0
Laurens: Will Thompson: 1-8-8-0-0
Complete Stats… To see the complete stat package including a play by play accounting of the game click here
Up Next… Clinton will travel to Newberry this Friday night while Laurens will travel to BHP

Laurens Academy

Volleyball: Crusaders 3 – Cambridge Academy 0… Catching up with the Crusader volleyball team, last Thursday they defeated the Cambridge Academy Cougars 3-0 at home to run their season record to 10-2… Set scores were 25-20, 25-14 and 25-14… They will be back in action again today as they host the Community Christian Academy Ambassadors out of Martinez, Georgia today at 6:00 pm… The Ambassadors are 8-0 on the season
Patriots 32 – Crusaders 20… The Laurens Academy Crusaders hosted the Wardlaw Patriots last Friday night in their home opener taking on a team that historically they have had trouble defeating… Well that proved to be the case again last Friday as the Patriots took a 32-20 win… The Patriots actually led 14-8 about a minute before the half nut Wardlaw struck and led 16-14 at the half… With about 2 minutes left in the third quarter the Patriots led 32-20 which was the final score.
- Scoring for the Crusaders… All the Crusader scoring came on the ground as Garrett Murphy had 2 TDs and Caleb Hardy 1…Ethan Collins had a two-point conversions
- Team Stats
  - Wardlaw had 229 yds. rushing and 60 passing for 290 total
  - Laurens Academy had 300 yds. rushing and 140 passing for 440 yds.
- Individual Stats Leaders
  - Wardlaw
    - Passing: Colt Bailey: 4-6-60 yds., 0 TDS and Interceptions
    - Rushing: Colt Bailey: 20 for 198 yds. and 3 TDs
  - Crusaders:
    - Passing: Ethan Collins 16-23-140 yds., 0 TDs and 2 interceptions
    - Rushing: Garrett Murphy 27 for 196 and 2 TDs.
- More Stats… To see more stats on the game click here.
- Up Next… The Crusaders are now 2-1 on the season and will host Oakbrook Prep this Friday at 7:30 pm

Thornwell

Volleyball: Saints 3 – Chiefs 0… last Thursday the Thornwell Saints volleyball teams traveled over to Calhoun Falls to take on the Blue Flashes… Good news for Saints fans as they took a 3-0 win in varsity action and 2-0 win in JV action… Set scores for the varsity match were 25-15, 25-17 and 25-7… For the JV match set scores were 25-8 and 25-6… Both teams are now 2-0 in region play… The teams will be back in action as they travel to Whitmire today to take on the Wolverines.

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, September 6^th… 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

FBS Football Scores… If you would like to see the scores for FBS schools this past week, click here… Once you get there you can filter and sort several different ways and you can also click on the next week to see the FBS schedule.
FCS Football Scores… If you would like to see the scores for FBS schools this past week, click here… Once you get there you can filter and sort several different ways and you can also click on the next week to see the FBS schedule.

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

Atlanta Braves… The Braves finished their 4-game series with the Phillies up in Philadelphia over the weekend… As a reminder the Phillies won the first game Thursday 5-4.

Friday: 7 – Phillies 2… The Braves rebounded on Friday to take a 7-2 win… They outhit the Phillies 9-7 and out homered them 3-2… Orlando Arcia (15) had two solo homers in the game and Sean Murphy (8) also had a solo homer.
Saturday: Phillies 3 – Braves 0… Saturday the Braves outhit the Phillies 6-5 but that is not what counts as the Braves could bit get the clutch hit and the Phillies had a pair of homeruns as they took a 3-0 win over the Braves
Sunday: Phillies 3 – Braves 2 (11)… Sunday the Phillies took a 3-2 win over the Braves in 11 innings thus winning the series 3-1… The game was tied 2-2 and the Braves had the bases loaded in the top of the 9^th inning with 2 out but just could not get the timely hit to take the lead… The Phillies took the walk-off win when in the bottom of the 11^th inning with 2 out, Nick Castellanos had an RBI single up the middle to drive in the winning run.
Up Next… The Braves have tonight off and start a 3-game series tomorrow night in Atlanta with the Colorado Rockies.

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… The Braves are currently 74-63 on the season and 7 games behind the Phillies in the NL East… They have no games remaining with the Phillies and in order to win the division they will have to have some help… They still have a chance to make it into the playoffs as a wildcard but they have stiff challenges for that spot from Arizona and San Diego for that spot with about a month to go in the season.

Greenville Drive… The Greenville Drive finished their series with the Bowling Green Hot Rods up in Bowling Green over the weekend… As a reminder, the Hot Rods won the first three games of the series.

Friday: Hot Rods 7 – Drive 0… The Hot Rods took a 7-0 win over the Drive on Friday by simply outhitting the Drive 10-1 and e Drive errors also aided the Hot Rods.
Saturday: Hot Rods 6 – Drive 2… On Saturday the Hot Rods only outhit the Drive 6-5 but the Hot Rods took a 6-2 win over the Drive… The Hot Rods had 2 homers in the game while the Drive had a single homer by Nelly Taylor (1) and 6 walks, a wild pitch and a balk by the Drives 3 pitchers aided the Hot Rods scoring.
Sunday: Drive 6 – Hot Rods 1… The Drive avoided being swept in the series by the Hot Rods Sunday when they took a 6-1 win… All the runs by both teams were scored playing small ball as there were no homers in the game.
Up Next… The Drive will have the night off and will be back in action tomorrow night as they start a 6-game series at Flour Field against the Winston-Salem Dash… This will be the last series of the season for the Drive.
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

Chase Briscoe Wins at Darlington… Sunday down at Darlington in the last “regular season” race Chase Briscoe took the win finishing well ahead of the second place driver Kyle Busch… For more information as to who was leading at the suspension of the race click here.
Playoffs… now that the regular season is finished, the 16 Cup Drivers that have made the playoffs and are in the Chase for the Cup Championship are now locked in… Spots 1-5 are occupied by Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick. William Byron and Ryan Blaney…. Spots 6-10 are occupied by Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano and Austin Cindric… Spots 11-16 are occupied by Daniel Suarez, Alex Bowman, Chase Briscoe, Harrison Burton, Ty Gibbs and Martin Truex Jr.… To see the final standings for all the drivers in the Cup Series click here.
Schedule This Week… The NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series will be over at the Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend with the Xfinity Series racing Saturday at 3:00 pm and the Cup Series Sunday at 3:00 pm also…. 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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