Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Volleyball: Clinton 3 – Mid-Carolina 2… Catching up with the Clinton Red Devil volleyball team, I do believe that their match at home last Thursday with the Mid-Carolina
Rebels was their final regular season match… This was a tough match for the Red Devils but in the end they won by a score of 3-2… The Red Devils won the first set 25-21 but the Rebels came back and won the next 2 sets by a score of 25-16 in each of them… With the Red Devils now facing a loss, they came back and took the 4th set by a score of 25-19 forcing a fifth and deciding set which they won 15-6 to take the 3-2 win. - Region Champions… Now congratulations are due to the Red Devil varsity volleyball team as they captured with an undefeated region record… They await the start of the SCHSL Class AA Playoffs that will begin one week from today (Halloween)… Congratulations and Good Luck to the Red Devils… Go Big Red!
Pitts Named to Touchstone Energy Bowl Roster… The Touchstone Energy Bowl (North-South All-Star Game0 will be held in Myrtle Beach again this year on Saturday, December 21st… Unlike the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas, one of our Laurens County football players has made the roster for the North Squad… That person is Cal Pitts one of the outstanding senior offensive linemen on the Red Devils football team… This is quite an honor and congratulations to Cal!
- North Roster… Now if you want to see the entire North Roster click here… You will find that opponents of both Clinton and Laurens High School have place members on the squad.
- South Roster… If you would like to see who made the South roster, click here.
- Mr. Football… A quick reminder that at halftime they will be awarding the 2024 SC Mr. Football Awards whose finalist are yet to be announced…. Several of the past winners are playing in the NFL now… For more on this award, click here.
- More Information… If you would like more information about the Touchstone Energy Bowl click here… It will carry you to the homepage on their website and if you can’t find the answer to a question you might have, it has information on how to contact them.
- JV Football on the Road… The Red Devil JV football team will be on the road taking on the Blacksburg Wildcats at 6:00 pm
Laurens HS
- Volleyball… Doing some catching up with the Raider varsity volley ball team and how they did in 2 matches earlier this week… The Hurricanes took a 3-0 win over the Raiders by set scores of
- Wren 3 – Laurens 0… On Monday the Raiders hosted the Wren Golden Hurricanes… Set scores were 25-15, 25-14 and the third set score was 25-10.
- Fountain Inn 3 – Laurens 1… On Tuesday the Raiders traveled to Fountain Inn to take on the Fury… The Fury won the first 2 games 25-17 and 25-17… The Raiders did not quit and came back to take the 3rd.set 27-25…The Fury came back and took a close 25-20 win in the 4th set to make the final score 3-1.
- Today… The team will close out its season on the road as they travel to Greenville to take on the Southside Tigers..
- Girls Tennis: Laurens 6 – Westside 0… Monday the Raider girls’ tennis team hosted the Westside Rams and improved their playoff chances by taking a 6-0 win… Sorry, no other information available on this match other than it helped to improve the Raiders chance of making the playoffs next week.
- 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.
- JV Football on the Road… The Raider JV football team will be on the road taking on the Rams of Westside HS today at 6:00 pm
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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 2 seniors Olivia Suttles, Cadie Wilson and Maggie Collins … Congratulations to the Crusaders for the 3-peat!… Can we say 4-peat?
- Photo Slideshow… I took a few pictures while at the championship match and if you would like to see them, click here to view a slideshow containing them.
Thornwell
- Up Next for Volleyball… The Saints now await the final outcome in region standings as there are a few makeup games to be played by other schools in the region this week… It’s possible that there may be a tie between the Saints and another region team for a seeding spot in the playoffs and if that is the case the tie-breaking match will most likely be played early next week as the SCHSL Playoffs are set to begin Thursday of next week on Halloween, October 31st.
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.
- Laurens MS 52 – Hickory Tavern 8… One of the middle school game to report on from yesterday afternoon and that id the Hickory Tavern Panthers taking on the Laurens MS Tigers at Laurens MS… The tigers won the toss and elected to receive and Mason Young returned the opening kickoff 55 yds. for the score with Lagan Bragg adding the 2-point conversion to make it 8-0 with just seconds off the clock and the Tigers then rolled on to a 52-8 win over the Panthers… Two main things to know about the game… One is that the Tigers scored every time they had the ball and number 2 is that the Tiger offensive and defensive line were more than the Panthers could handle…The Tigers led 44-0 at the half and there was a running clock in the second half…
- Young also scored on a pair of passes from Logan Bragg one a 10 yd. pass and the other a 15 yd. pass.
- KB Bryson scored on a 41 yd. run and also on a 34 yd. pick six.
- Mason Dial also caught a 35 yd. TD pass from Bragg.
- Logan Bragg also had a 46 yd. TD run in addition to the TD passes he threw.
- The Panthers only score came at the end of their last possession of the game 45 yd. run by #51 whose number and name were not on the Panther roster that I have.
- MS Games Today according to master schedule:
- Dixie at Thornwell (5:30)
- Gray Court-Owings at Ware Shoals (5:30)
- Whitmire at Sanders (LMS field at 5:00)
SC Prep Football Media Poll….Here are the rankings for the S.C. Prep Football Media Poll released Tuesday, Oct. 22… First-place votes and the team records are in parentheses… Teams in bold are new teams in the rankings for this week and arrows up and down show which teams moved up and down from last week.
- CLASS 5A: 1. Dutch Fork (13) (7-0), 2. Northwestern (1) (9-0), 3. Gaffney (1) (6-0), 4. Summerville (8-0), 5. Irmo (8-0), 6. Sumter (8-0), 7. Spartanburg (5-1) ↑ 2, 8. Hillcrest (5-1) ↑2, 9. JL Mann (4-2) ↓ 2 and 10. Greenwood (5-1)… Dropped out: Boiling Springs… Others receiving votes: TL Hanna, River Bluff Boiling Springs; Catawba Ridge; Ashley Ridge
- CLASS 4A: 1. Westside (15) (6-0), 2. Daniel (5-1), 3. South Pointe (6-2), 4. South Florence (6-2) ↑ 2, 5. Hartsville (6-1-1) ↑ 2, 6. May River (6-1) ↓ 2, 7. North Augusta (5-1) ↑ 2, 8. Wren (5-1), 9. Seneca (6-1) ↓ 4 and 10. AC Flora (7-2)… Dropped out:.. None Others receiving votes: Gray Collegiate, Bishop England, Greer, Hilton Head Island, Camden.
- CLASS 3A: 1. Belton-Honea Path (9) (7-1), 2. Mountain View Prep (6) (7-0), 3. Loris (7-1) ↑ 1, 4. Dillon (6-2) ↑ 2, 5. Marlboro County (6-1) ↓ 2, 6. Woodruff (5-1) ↓ 1, 7. Oceanside Collegiate (5-3) ↑ 1, 8. Orangeburg-Wilkinson (6-2) ↑ 1, 9. Keenan (6-3) ↑ 1 and 10. Swansea (5-3) ↓ 3… Dropped out: None… Others receiving votes: Powdersville, Newberry, St. Joseph’s
- CLASS 2A: 1. Batesburg-Leesville (7-0) (10), 2. Saluda (6-0) (5), 3. Fairfield Central (7-1) ↑ 1, 4. Barnwell (7-1) ↑ 2, 5. Clinton (5-2), 6. Strom Thurmond (5-1) ↑ 1, 7. Hampton County (6-2) ↓ 4, 8. Manning (7-1), 9. Philip Simmons (6-2) and 10. Woodland (6-2)… Dropped out: Landrum… Others receiving votes: Central, Timberland, Chesterfield, Cheraw, Andrews, Landrum.
- CLASS A: 1. Abbeville (5-1) (15), 2. Lewisville (7-1), 3. Blackville-Hilda (6-1), 4. Lake View (7-1), 5. Bamberg-Ehrhardt (4-2), 6. Lamar (6-2), 7. (tie) Hunter-Kinard-Tyler (6-1) ↑ 1, 7. (tie) Cross (5-2), 9. Dixie (6-1) and 10. Branchville (7-1)… Dropped out:.. None Others receiving votes: Hannah-Pamplico, Baptist Hill.
- For More Information, Click here to go to a posting on the State Newspaper website.
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 (10-20-24) had some changes in the top 10 this week… Texas dropped out of the top spot and fell to #5 with their loss this past weekend…. Oregon moved up to #1 followed by Georgia, Penn State, Ohio State and Texas… Miami, Tennessee, Clemson, Iowa State and …. 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 (10-20-24) had some shakeup in the top 3… North Dakota State moved up a spot to #1, Montana State came in at #2 and last week’s #1 South Dakota state dropped to #3… 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.
This & That:
This & That:
College Football Fan Challenge Oyster Roast… The Laurens County Chamber of Commerce Oyster Roast will be held on Thursday, Nov. 7th… As in the past there will be steamed oysters, low country boil and chicken gumbo as well as both a silent and live auction and other entertainment…Tickets $50 and you need to get them fast as this event has a limited number of tickets and they usually sell out fast… For more information click here and it will carry you to a posting on the Chamber of Commerce website where there is more information and a short video…. Click on events and select Oyster Roast… Tickets can be purchased at the Chamber of Commerce office during normal business hours… The office address is 291 Professional Park Rd, Clinton, SC 29325 or call them at 864-8332716
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