Local Notes
Clinton HS
- JV Football: Clinton 36 – Chesnee 31… The Red Devil JV football team traveled up to Chesnee last Thursday to take on the Eagles and it was a close back and forth game but in the end, the Red Devil prevailed by a score of 36-10…The Red Devils led 16-15 at the half but trailed 22-23 at the end of the third quarter and came back to take the win… Zy Butler led the Red Devils in scoring as he had 2 rushing TDs and also caught a TD pass… Both Owen Glenn and Javien James each had a rushing TD… The team is 5-1 on the season and will host Landrum this Thursday at 6:00 pm at Wilder Stadium… Go Big Red!
- Clinton 46 – Chesnee 21… The Red Devils got back on the field tonight at Wilder Stadium last Friday night hosting the Chesnee Eagles in the first region game for both teams… Good news for Red Devil fans as they prevailed by a score of 46-21 to improve their record to 4-3 overall and 1-0 in region play… The Red Devils took the opening kickoff and went 61 yds. in 6 plays and scored on a 30 yd. pass from Tushawan Richardson to Devon Swindler and Rhett Gilliam added a 2-point conversion to make it 8-0 Clinton with 9:23 left in the first quarter…
- The Red Devils scored the first 4 times they had the ball to lead 29-7 at the half and only punted 1 time and that was early in the third quarter.
- The Red Devils had 276 yds. rushing in 36 carries while the Eagles had 263 in 46 carries… The Red Devils finished with 178 yards passing to the Eagles 67… I’m sure Coach Fountain was not pleased with the 10 penalties for 90 yds. for the Red Devils while Chesnee had 5 for 43 yards.
- Javen Cook led the Clinton rushing attack with 129 yds. in 16 carries and scored 2 TDs…Richardson went 9-14 for 178 yds. and completed 3 TD passes and had no interceptions…. Devin Swindler, Chris Boyd and Noah Garrett each caught a TD pass.
- To see the full stat package and a play-by-play accounting of the game click here… The Red Devils will travel up I-26 this Friday to take on the Landrum Cardinals.
Laurens HS
- Volleyball… The raider volleyball teams will be hosting the Emerald Vikings tonight starting with JV action at 5:20… Go Raiders!
- Laurens 45 – Southside 0… There was a lot of celebrating at KC Hanna Stadium last Friday night as it was Homecoming and the Raiders picked up their first win in the Gregg Porter era as they defeated the Southside Tigers 45-0… The offense had been the big problem for the Raiders to date in the season as they had only scored 31 points in the first 5 games and none of them at home but Friday night they scored 25 points in the first quarter, added 7 more in the second and 13 in the third quarter to take the win… Will Thompson started the scoring for the Raiders on a 5 yd. run to cap a 60 yd. drive in 5 plays with Brock Franklin adding the PAT at the 10:32 mark of the first quarter.
- In the first half the Raiders scored 5 of the 6 times they had the ball with 4 TDs, a made field goal and the only time they did not score in the first half was a missed field goa.
- The Raiders had 360 total yards on offense with 231 yds. on the ground while the Tigers finished with 126 yds. 65 on the ground.
- Javaye Suber led the Raiders rushing with 67 yds. in 4 carries and Nehemiah Fernandez was close behind with 62 yds. in 7 carries… Denari Lee-Jackson had 1 rushing TD among his 51 yds. and Will Thompson carried it in 3 times on short yardage situations… Thompson went 10-16 in the passing department with no interceptions or TDs for 129 yds.
- To see the full stat package and a play-by-play accounting of the game click here… The Raiders will travel to Wren this Friday night to take on the Golden Hurricanes who are ranked in the top 10 in Class 4A and coached by former Raider defensive coordinator Anthony Frate.
Homecoming Results… There was also a celebration at halftime as the Class Princes and the Homecoming Queen were crowned…. Congratulations to all the following!
- Miss Freshman – Mo’Riyah Williams
- Miss Sophomore – Marley Benson
- Miss Junior – Carrie Bartley
- Miss Senior – Maddie Benson
- 2024 Homecoming Queen – Za’Kiah Davenport
- 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
- Crusaders 50 – Oakbrook Prep 20-… The Crusader’s will travel to Oakbrook Prep for a region game last Friday night and led 50-12 at the half and when the final horn sounded they came home with a 50-20 win to run their season record to 5-2 and 1-0 in region play… The Crusaders rolled up 553 yards of total offense with all but 72 of the yards coming on the ground… Garrett Murphy led the rushing attack with 320 yards on 16 carries and scored 4 TDs… Mason Cooper finished with 109 yards rushing and 1 TD… Ethan Collins went 10 for 12 for the 72 yards rushing and threw 1 TD to Spires McCameron… To see more Crusader stats for this game click here…. The Crusader schedule shows them hosting Newberry Academy this Friday.
- Crusaders Sweep Region Tournament… Both the middle school and varsity volleyball teams were in action Saturday as the Crusaders hosted the Region Tournament… Good news for Crusader fans as both teams won the region tournament and they had also captured the regular season crowns… The varsity team defeated the Our Lady of the Rosary in first round action 25-17 and 25-16… In the championship match they faced off against Community Christian… Community Christian won the first set 25-19 but the Crusaders rebounded to take the next two sets by scores of 25-15 and 15-3 to claim the Region Tournament Championship… The middle school team also defeated Community Christian in the finals of their portion of the tournament but I don’t have any other details… Congratulations to both teams!
- Up Next … The Crusaders have one regular season match they need to makeup and they will do that tomorrow when they travel to Cambridge Academy
Thornwell
- Volleyball: Thornwell 3 – SCSDB 0… The Saints volleyball team traveled up Spartanburg last night to take on the Hornets of the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind in region action…. I imagine the ride back was a good one since the Saints took a3-0 win… Set scores were 25-120, 25-8 and 25-8… The Saints are still in the running for a playoff spot and according to their schedule on MaxPreps they will be traveling up to the Simpsonville area to tyke on the Green Upstate Owls today at 6:30… The Saints will be looking for revenge since they lost to the Owls 3-0 earlier in the season
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.
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 18th … Varsity football at Wren 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 (10-13-24) had some changes in the top 10 this week… Texas is still #1 with Oregon moving up a spot to #2… Penn State is #3 followed by Ohio State and Georgia…. Spots 6-10 are occupied by Miami, Alabama, LSU, Iowa State and Clemson checks in at #10 (15)… To see the entire top 25 AP Poll click here
- FCS Coaches Poll… The FCS Coaches Poll (10-14-24) continues to have South Dakota State and North Dakota State ranked #1 & #2… In our general area, Mercer moved is 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.
- Other Scores… If you would like to see the scores of other MLB games click here.
- Standings… To see the MLB Standings click here.
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
- Kyle Larson Wins at Charlotte… Kyle Larson took a one-sided win racing on the “Roval” this past Sunday up in Charlotte inn the Cup Series Race… He finished almost 2 seconds ahead of second place finisher Christopher Bell… For more information about this race, click here.
- Playoffs… At the end of the race, the field of drivers competing for the Cup Series Championship was reduced from 12 to 8… To see who those 8 drivers are, click here.
- Schedule This Week… The NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series will be head out to Los Vegas this weekend with the Xfinity race taking place on Saturday at 7:00 pm and the Cup Series race on Sunday at 2:30 pm…To see the complete schedule for Los Vegas 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.