Local Notes
Schedule Changes Due to Weather…. The threat of bad weather from tropical storm / hurricane Helene is causing high school and middle school football schedules to be adjusted… Below is what I know about some of those changes at the time of this posting
- Laurens HS… The Raiders are now set to host the Lexington Wildcats tonight at 7:00 pm (NOT 7:30)… We will not be having a Friday Night Insiders program tonight but we are planning on starting our normal pregame show at 6:20 pm from KC Hanna Stadium… As for the JV game scheduled for tomorrow, I do believe it has been cancelled and will not be made up… If that changes I’ll let you know… By the way, Homecoming is now rescheduled for October 4th when the Raiders host Fountain Inn.
- Clinton HS… The varsity game is still on for Friday night with Union County is still on as is Homecoming… If that changes I will let you know… However the JV football game at Union has been moved up to tonight at 6:00 pm on the campus at Union County HS.
- Laurens Academy… The Crusaders are still planning on hosting Newberry Academy this Friday night… If they are forced to change that they will make the game up on October 18th which at this time is scheduled to be a bye week for the Crusaders.
- Middle School Football… Not all the coaches got back to me yesterday when I reached out to them about schedule changes… What follows is from the ones that did:
- Hickory Tavern will be at Thornwell today at 5:50 pm
- Sanders will play at Ware Shoals today at 5:30
Clinton HS
- Up Next for Red Devil Football… The Red Devils return home this Friday night for their last non-region game with the Union County Yellow Jackets… It is also Homecoming.
Laurens HS
- Homecoming Parade Photos… The Homecoming Parade was held on Monday, 9-13-2024… The Raider band, class representative, cheerleaders, and athletic team members all participated in the parade… To see a slideshow of some photos taken at the parade click here.
- Fall Ticketing Information and Other Need to Know Venue Information… The Raiders have released information concerning tickets and other rules and regulations you need to know about before you go to any athletic events on campus this fall… This information also includes a parking map… Please check this out to save you some problems before you go… Click here to see that information.
Laurens Academy
- Garrison Vaughn TD Club Player of the Week… Monday it was announced that Garrison Vaughn has been chosen as this week’s Laurens County Touchdown Club’s Player of the week for his contributions in the Crusaders 52-36 win over WW King at Todd Kirk Field last Friday night… This win was the Crusaders first the Knights in several years and they are now 4-2 on the season… The junior who plays on the offensive line helped the Crusaders amass 448 yards of total offense… He also plays on defense where he had 10 total tackles including 6 tackles for loss and had a huge blocked punt on special teams… Head Coach Jolly Doolittle stated; “Garrison is everything you want in an offensive and defensive lineman. He is tough and relentless, smart and precise, and an unselfish leader on the team.”… He will be honored at the club’s next meeting which will be on Thursday, Oct.4th at noon at The Ridge on Exchange Drive where the guest speaker will be Coach Mike Ayers, former head football coach at Wofford College and South Carolina Football Hall of Fame member,
Laurens County Touchdown Club
- The Laurens County Touchdown Club held its most current meeting last Thursday, 9-19 at The Ridge on Exchange Drive… Nemo Fernandez of Laurens and Javen Cook of Clinton were honored as the last two weeks Player of the Week… Coach Clay Hendrix of Furman was the featured speaker… If you would like to see a video of that meeting, click here.
- If you would like to see information about the Laurens County Touchdown Club such as how to join, meeting dates, sponsors and guest speakers click here.
- If you would like to see a video of the (9-5-24) meeting of the TD Club click here.
SC Prep Football Media Poll… Here are the rankings for the S.C. Prep Football Media Poll released Tuesday, Sept. 24. First-place votes and the team records are in parentheses.
- CLASS 5A: 1. Dutch Fork (17) (4-0), 2. Gaffney (1) (4-0), 3. Northwestern (1) (5-0), 4. Summerville (4-0), 5. Irmo (5-0), 6. Sumter (5-0), 7. JL Mann (3-1), 8. Hillcrest (4-0), 9. White Knoll (3-1) and 10. Boiling Springs (3-1)… Others receiving votes: Spartanburg, River Bluff, Greenwood, James Island, West Florence, Dorman
- CLASS 4A: 1. Westside (19) (4-0), 2. Daniel (3-1), 3. Richland Northeast (5-0), 4. South Pointe (3-2), 5. May River (4-0), 6. South Florence (3-2), 7. Seneca (5-0), 8. Camden (3-2), 9. Wren (3-1) and 10. Hartsville (2-1-1)… Others receiving votes: North Augusta, Gray Collegiate, Hilton Head Island, Bishop England, Fountain Inn
- CLASS 3A: 1. Belton Honea-Path (10), (4-1) 2. Mountain View Prep (5) (5-0), 3. Marlboro County (2) (4-0), 4. Dillon (2) (3-1), 5. Woodruff (5-0), 6. Loris (4-0), 7. Aynor (4-1), 8. Oceanside Collegiate (2-3), 9. Pendleton (2-2) and 10. Orangeburg-Wilkinson (4-1)… Others receiving votes: receiving votes: Swansea, Powdersville, Newberry, Keenan, St. Joseph’s Broome, Fox Creek, North Charleston
- CLASS 2A: 1. Saluda (8) (4-0), 2. Batesburg-Leesville (5) (4-0), 3. Clinton (1) (3-2), 4. Hampton County (3) (4-1), 5. Fairfield Central (1) (4-1), 6. Barnwell (1) (4-1), 7. Strom Thurmond (3-1), 8. Chesterfield (5-0), 9. Andrews (4-0) and 10. Woodland (4-0)… Others receiving votes: Mullins, Philip Simmons, Manning, Academic Magnet, Landrum, Liberty
- CLASS A: 1. Abbeville (17) (3-1), 2. Lewisville (1) (3-1), 3. Blackville-Hilda (4-1), 4. Bamberg-Ehrhardt (3-2), 5. Lake View (3-1), 6. Dixie (4-0), 7. Lamar (3-2), 8. Branchville (1) (4-0), 9. Cross (3-2), 10. Hunter-Kinard-Tyler (3-1)… Others receiving votes: Hannah-Pamplico, McBee, Williston-Elko, Latta, Baptist Hill
Middle School Football… To see the middle school master school football schedule click here… Please remember these schedules can change right up to game day without my knowing about it.
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 27th… Varsity football host Lexington, 6:20 pm.
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 AP Poll… The latest FBS AP Poll still has Texas as #1 and Georgia #2… Ohio State is still #3, Alabama #4 but Tennessee moved up a spot to #5… Spots 6-10 also had changes and are now occupied by Ole Miss, Miami (FL), Oregon, Penn State and Utah… Clemson moved up to #17… To see the entire top 25 AP Poll click here
- FCS Coaches Poll… The FCS Coaches Poll continues to have South Dakota State and North Dakota State ranked #1 & #2… In our general area, Mercer moved up to #13 and UT Chattanooga dropped out of the top 25… To see the entire FCS Coaches Poll click here.
- 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
- Braves 5 – Mets 1… The Braves started a 3-game series with the Mets in Atlanta last night and if they want to have any chance at making the playoffs as a wildcard team, they need to win the series… Well they made a good start toward that goal last night as they took a 5-1 win over the Mets… The Braves put 3 runs on the scoreboard in the 3rd inning and added a couple more runs later on in route to the win… They outhit the Mets 10-4 and out-homered them 2-1… One of Michael Harris II 3 hits was a solo homer (16) in the 4th inning and Marcell Ozuna (39) also had a solo homer in the 5th inning.
- 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.
- Riley Out for the Season… A quick note for Braves fans… As you may or may not recall, Austin Riley had his right hand fractured back on August 18th when it was hit by a 97 mph fastball thrown by Angel’s right-hander Jack Kochanowicz… At the time it was hoped he would be able to be back by the time postseason started but that will not be the case as doctors recently said it had not healed enough and put him out for the season… To read more about this click here.
NASCAR
- Kyle Larson Dominates at Bristol… Kyle Larson led 462 of the 500 laps in the cup series race at Bristol last Saturday… He finished more than 7 seconds ahead of second place finisher Chase Elliott … For more information as to who was leading at the suspension of the race click here.
- Playoffs… At the end of the race the field of 16 eligible for the title was cut to 12… Ty Gibbs, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski and Harrison Burton were eliminated… … Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell and Tyler Reddick now are the top 3three in the playoff standings. .. To see the current standings in the playoff portion of the Cup Series click here… To see the final standings for all the drivers in the Cup Series Playoffs click here.
- Schedule This Week… The NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series and the Trick series will be out at the Kansas Speedway this weekend… The Truck Series will Race Friday night at 8:30 pm, the Xfinity Series Saturday at 4:00 pm and the Cup series will be Sunday at 3:00 pm… To see the complete schedule for Bristol including practices and TV availability, click here.
- 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.
This & That:
T-Ball at the Laurens YMCA…The Laurens Family YMCA will be offering T-Ball this fall for ages 3-5 years old… The cost will be $75 for Y members and $90… Registration is now open but will close on October 15th… You can register at the Y during normal business hours… If you have any questions, contact Haley Queen at 864-984-2626 of email her at hqueen@lakelandsymcs.org… Batter Up!
If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to report scores, please contact me via email at: sports@wlbg.com or text me at 864-981-3470.
