Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Red Devils 56 – Landrum 22… The Red Devils took care of business Friday night in their first ever football game with the Landrum Cardinals up in Landrum taking a 56-22 win to go 2-0 in the region… The game was close at one point in the first quarter as the Red Devils only led 14-10 before pulling away to the win… Chris Boyd had 142 yards on kickoff returns and scored on at least one of them… The Red Devils Javen Cook tallied 122 yards rushing and had at least 1 TD run… Tushawan Richards had 203 rushing yards and threw for 148 yards on 6 completions with DJ Clark catching one of them for a TD and he also rushed for a TD… Brett Young also had a pick-six for the Red Devils… There is a score tracking summary on MaxPreps and if you would like to see that, click here… If I can get more stats on the game and a play-by-play accounting of the game that is usually in with the game’s stat package I will bring it to you later…
Laurens HS
- Wren 55 – Laurens 3… The Raider football team traveled up tow Wren HS last Friday to take on the Golden Hurricanes who are ranked #8 in Class 4A… Hurricane Helene did record breaking damage in the Laurens area a couple of weeks ago and the Wren Golden Hurricanes did about the same amount of damage to the Raiders as they took a 55-3 win with a running clock in the second half… The Hurricanes rolled up about 339 yard of total offense (265 yards rushing) while the Raiders had just over 158 yards of total offense… Wren more often than not started their drives with excellent filed position… The Hurricanes put 14 points on the scoreboard in both the first and second quarters in route to the win… The Raiders had trouble finishing drives due to penalties, a fumble that was returned for a TD and a pick-six…. Nemo Fernandez was the leading rusher for the Raiders with 51 yards compared to Wrens Reece Price who finished with about 97 yards and 3 TDs… The bright spot for the raiders was Kevin Franklin’s 43 yard field goal in the 2nd quarter… The Raiders return home to host the #1 ranked Westside Rams this Friday night at KC Hanna Stadium.
- 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
- Football: Laurens Academy 36 – Newberry 6… The Crusaders raced out to a 36-6 lead over the Newberry Eagles last Friday night at Todd Kirk Field and then with a running clock in the second half, they made that standup as they took a 36-6 win… The Crusaders mainly used an air attack to defeat the Eagles as Ethan Collins went 19 for 22 for 276 yards and 4 TDs… The Crusaders had 166 yards rushing with Garrett Murphy getting 120 of those yards and scored 1 TD… Murphy also caught 3 of the 4 passing TDs and had 5 catches for 111 yards… Anthony Candelas had 92 yards on 3 catches and scored the other passing TD…. To see more Crusader stats on the game, click here… The Crusaders will host the Richard Winn Eagles in another region game this Friday night… The Eagles defeated the Crusaders 56-20 at Richard Winn earlier in the season in a non-region match so the Crusaders will be looking for revenge.
- Crusader Volleyball Playoff Results…The Crusader volleyball team started its participation in the SCISA Class 2A Volleyball Tournament last Friday… Below are the results reported to me…If you would like to see the bracket for the Class 2A portion of the tournament, click here… Good Luck to the Crusaders!
- Friday: Laurens Academy 2 – Lee Academy 0… Set scores were 25-9 & 25-9
- Saturday: Laurens Academy 2 Charleston Colligate 0… Set scores were 26-24 & 25-7
- Monday, 10-21-24… The Crusaders will take on Kings Academy out of Florence for the Class 2A Championship tonight at 6:30… The match will take place at Cardinal Newman HS whose address is 2945 Alpine Rd., Columbia, SC 29223… Admission is $12 for adults and $5 for students… Good Luck to the Crusaders!
Thornwell
- Up Next in Volleyball… The Saints will host Whitmire Monday at 5:30 and Calhoun Falls on Tuesday at 5:30 to close out the regular season… Wins in those matches will clinch them a playoff spot… Go Big Dogs!
Laurens County Touchdown Club
- The Laurens County Touchdown Club will be met last Thursday at noon out at The Ridge on Exchange Drive… The latest TD Clubs Players of the week were honored and along with the local coaches, the featured speaker was Mike Ayers former Wofford coach and South Carolina Football Hall of Fame member…. Check back early tomorrow for more information on this meeting including a link to a video of the meeting.
- 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…. Results from last week:
- Dixie 24 – GCO 6…This game was played on Wednesday at GCO… No other details available.
- Whitmire 6 – Hickory Tavern 0… This was a scoreless game that had several turnovers until the Wolverines scored with about 5 minutes left in the game to take a 6-0 win,
- Laurens MS 54 – Ware Shoals 6… The LMS Tigers traveled to Ware Shoals yesterday and the ride back was a happy one as the Tigers took a 54-6 win over the Hornets.
- Sanders 30 – Thornwell 0… No other details on this game.
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 25th … Varsity hosts Westside 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.
Area FBS Football Coach’s Salaries… The Greenville news recently had a couple of articles about FBS football coach’s salaries on their website… Thought you might be interested in seeing how much sawn Beamer and Dabo Swinney make… I’ll tell you here it’s not chicken feed!
- SEC Coaches’ Salaries… The first article I saw is one that compares the salaries of the SEC coaches… Shane Beamer ranks 14 out of the 16 coaches in the SEC with a salary of almost $6.5 dollars. … Click here to see that article
- Dabo Swinney’s Salary Among Top FBS Coaches… The other article was one that compared the salaries of top FBS coaches across the country… Clemson’s Dabo Swinney checked in at #2 in that article at $11.13 million… Kirby Smart of Georgia topped Dabo with a salary listed at $13.28 million… To see that article click here.
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.
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
- Joey Logano Wins at Vegas… Joey Logano took the checkered flag out in Los Vegas in the Cup Series race Sunday to punch his ticket into the final 4 competing for the Cup Championship… He only led the last 6 laps and finished 0.662 ahead of second place finisher Christopher Bell… For more information about this race, click here.
- Playoffs… Logano now leads in the points to make the final 4 and to see how the remaining 7 drivers rank who are still in the chase for the championship rank, click here.
- Schedule This Week… The NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series are headed down to the Homestead—Miami Speedway this weekend with the Xfinity race taking place on Saturday at 3:30 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.
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