South Carolina High School League Adjust Some Season Schedules… The Executive
Committee of the SCHSL met yesterday and decided to extend the football season one week and move the playoffs back by a week so that the Championship weekend will be Dec. 12-14 instead of Dec. 5-7 and the championships will still be held at SC State… Now some of the other fall sports also had their seasons extended and some did not… Also, the movement of the state finals has caused the Touchstone Energy Bowl to be pushed back a week and will now be played the same weekend as the Shrine Bowl… The announcement of Mr. Football will still take place at halftime even though there is a chance the recipient could be participating in the Shrine Bowl in Spartanburg at the time of the announcement… The State Newspaper has a nice article about the action that the SCHSL did and did not take yesterday listing the sports that season schedules changed and those that did not and also other things on interest coming out of the meeting yesterday… To go to that article, click here.
Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Volleyball: Clinton 3 – Chester 0… Catching up with the Red Devils last volleyball match before Hellene, the teams traveled to Chester and took a 3-0 win back on 9-24 to run their season record to 9-2 and region record to 3-0… The set scores were a dominating 25-8, 25-21 and 25-16… To see some individual stats for the Red Devils from the match click here… JV: Clinton 2 – Chester 0…. The JV team also took a win before the varsity on that date as they won 2-0 with set scores of 25-6 and 25-12… To see some individual stats for the Red Devils from the match click here… After that match the JV record is 8-2 overall and 2-0 in region play.
- Up Next in Football… The next game on the schedule for the Red Devils is this Friday when they will host the Chesnee Eagles at Wilder Stadium.
- Homecoming… Homecoming has now been set for Oct. 25th when the Red Devils host the Blacksburg Wildcats… More details will be released later.
Laurens HS
- Raider Cheer Classic 2024… The Raider Completive Cheer Team is back in action tonight as they host the Raider Cheer Classic 2024 starting at 6:00 pm… For a little more information about this click here… Go Raiders.
- Volleyball: Westside 3 – Laurens 1… Also catching up with the Raiders last volleyball matches before Helens, they hosted the Westside Rams and fell 3-1… The Raiders took the first set 25-13 but after that the Rams won three sets by scores of 25-15, 25-11 and 25-16… The Raiders fell to 2-8 on the season and 2-2 in region play… To see some individual Raider stats from the match click here… No report on how the JVs did.
- Up Next in Football… Yesterday it was confirmed that barring any further complications, the Raiders will be hosting the Southside Tigers this Friday night in their first region game and it will also be Homecoming.
- This Week in Athletics… If you click here it will carry you to a posting on the Raider Athletic website whet a schedule of athletic events the rest of the week is posted… There is one correction I need to tell you about… The Raider JV football team will NOT be traveling to Southside as the posting says… Tommy Spires informed me that after that posing was made they decided to cancel the game.
- 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
- Up Next in Football… The Crusader’s will travel to Oakbrook Prep for a region game at 7:30 pm this Friday night.
Laurens County Touchdown Club
- 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.
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.
Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas Releases Rosters… Recently the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas released the rosters for their annual game to be played at Spartanburg HS on December 21st… Now there were no local players on the South Carolina Roster from Laurens County… There are players from a few of the schools like BHP, Hillcrest and Westside that appear on the schedule of Laurens or Clinton… If you click here it will carry you to an article / posting in the State Newspaper that list the member of both the South Carolina and North Carolina squads by position as well as the coaching staffs.
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, October 11th … Varsity football host Southside at 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 AP Poll… The latest FBS AP Poll (10-6-24) had some major changes in the top 10 after Alabama’s 40-35 loss Saturday night to Vanderbilt… Texas moved back up to #1 from #2…Ohio State jumped up a spot to #2, Oregon jumped from #6 to #3, Penn State moved up from #7 to #4 and Georgia remains at #5…. Spots 6-10 are occupied by (former spot) Miami (8), Alabama (1), Tennessee (4), Ole Miss (12) and Clemson checks in at #10 (15)… To see the entire top 25 AP Poll click here
- FCS Coaches Poll… The FCS Coaches Poll (10-7-24) continues to have South Dakota State and North Dakota State ranked #1 & #2… In our general area, Mercer moved up to #7and they are the only team you often see on the schedule of some our local teams in 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.
Major League Baseball
- Postseason Schedule… If you would like to see the entre playoff schedule and scores of the completed games to date all the way to the World Series click here… If you would rather see the post season schedule by matchups, click here… If you look at both of those and you are still confused or have questions about the playoff format, click here where they try to explain it and thus answer your questions.
NFL
- Schedules and Scores… For you diehard pro football fans out there if you want to check scores or schedules in the NFL click here… Once you go to this posting on the NFL site you can filter by the week you are interested in.
- Standings… If you are also curious about the NFL standings, click here,
NASCAR
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Takes Win at Talladega in Photo Finish … Ricky Stenhouse Jr. picked up the Cup Series win at the Talladega Superspeedway last Sunday… It was a 3-wide photo finish where he finished just 0.006 seconds ahead of Brad Keselowski, with William Byron’s third, just 0.027 seconds behind Stenhouse… There was a big pileup about 5 laps before the scheduled finish that these drivers managed to escape from… For more information about this click here.
- Playoffs… At the end of the race the top 5 divers still in the running for the Championship Cup are William Byron, Christopher Bell, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin and Alex Bowman in that order… 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 and Xfinity Series will be up in Charlotte, NC racing on the Roval…The Xfinity Race will be Saturday at 4:00 pm and the Cup Series race will be Sunday at 2 pm To see the complete schedule for Talladega 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!
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