Local Notes
Laurens Academy
- Crusader Volleyball Team Wins Class 2A Championship…The Crusader volleyball team traveled down to Cardinal Newman HS in the Columbia area last night to take on the Kings Academy Lions out of the Florence area… When the last volley was over, the Crusaders were able to celebrate their third State Championship in as many years as they took a 3-0 win over the Lions… The Crusaders dominated the first set taking a 25-10 win… The Crusaders continued to control the tempo of the match in the second set as they rolled to a 25-14 win… To their credit, the Lions did not go quietly into the good night as they fought back in the third set and took a brief lead and kept the match closer but the Crusaders would not be denied as they took a 25-19 win and the celebration was on… The Crusaders finish the season with a great 28-3 record… It was a great way to send out the Crusades 3 seniors Olivia Suttles, Cadie Wilson and Maggie Collins … Congratulations to the Crusaders for the 3-peat!… Can we say 4-peat?
Clinton HS
- Chris Boyd TD Club Player of the Week… Monday it was announced that Chris Boyd has been chosen as the Laurens County Touchdown Club’s Player of the Week for his performance in the Red Devils 56-22 win over the Landrum Cardinals last Friday night… The junior defensive back, wide receiver and special teams player had 5 catches for 80 yards including 1 touchdown… On special teams he had 142 yards of kickoff returns including one of 71 yards for a touchdown… On defense he had 6 solo tackles and broke up 2 pass attempts… Coach Corey Fountain said “Chris Boyd works hard every day and is the ultimate competitor on the offense and defense side of the ball. His work ethic on the practice field translates to his play on the field. He gives everything he has every time he steps onto the field. He is not only a great player but also a great person.”… He will be honored at the Club’s next meeting on Thursday, October 31st at The Ridge on Exchange Drive…
- Updated JV Football: Clinton 52 – Landrum 14… The Red Devil JV football team hosted the Landrum Cardinals last Thursday night and rolled to a 52-14 win…. The Red Devils led 28-7 at the half and never looked back… Zy Butler scored 3 TDs in the game 2 rushing and 1 receiving… Owen Glenn also had 3 TDs on the night 1 rushing and 2 receiving… Javien James also had 2 rushing TDs while Graydon Watkins had 1 receiving… Coach Glenn commented “This was a solid performance by our team, each player came out and executed our game and everyone did well… Everyone contributed to our win… Our defense played well and the offense operated consistently throughout the night… So proud of how our kids are growing and improving each week. It’s been fun to watch… #FAMILYON1”… The team will travel to Blacksburg this Thursday night for a 7:00 pm contest.
Laurens HS
- 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.
Thornwell
- Volleyball: Whitmire 3 – Thornwell 0… The Saints volleyball team hosted the Whitmire Wolverines last night and I hate to have to report that they fell by a score of 3-0… Set scores were 25-16, 25-11 and 25-23.
- Up Next in Volleyball… The Saints will host Calhoun Falls on Tuesday at 5:30 to close out the regular season… The saints still have a good chance at making the playoffs so come out and cheer them on if you can… Go Big Dogs!
Laurens County Touchdown Club
- The Laurens County Touchdown Club met last Thursday, 10-17-24 at noon out at The Ridge on Exchange Drive… The three latest TD Clubs Players of the Week were honored and they were Garrison Vaughn of Laurens Academy, Logan Martin of Laurens HS and Tushawan Richardson of Clinton HS… Along with the local coaches, the featured speaker was Mike Ayers former Wofford coach and South Carolina Football Hall of Fame member…. To see a video that was shot at 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.
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 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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