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Sports Report for Monday, 12-23-2024

Monday, December 23, 2024

Local Notes

Clinton HS

Basketball

  • Up Next… The Red Devil MaxPreps schedule shows that the varsity teams will be hosting Newberry today… The action will start at 11:00 am when the JV girls’ teams take to the court… The JV boys will play next followed by the varsity girls about 2:00 pm and the varsity boys about 3:30 pm.

Laurens HS

Basketball

  • Freshman Basketball: The raider 9th grade boys’ basketball team participated in a Christmas Tournament up in Greenville County this past weekend and the MaxPreps schedule shows they were to have played 3 games, but I only have scores on two of them.
    • Friday: Easley 47 – Laurens 28… On Friday the Raiders fell to Easley by a score of 47-28… simply put, the Green Wave held the Raiders to single digits in every quarter but the third (11) as they led 22-12 at the half and pulled away for the win… Kam Moore scored 10 points for the raiders and Sy Westfield had 9.
    • Saturday… The MaxPreps schedule for the team shows that the Raiders were to play two games on Saturday, but I only have the score for one of them… The one score that I do have is that the Wren Hurricanes defeated the Raiders by a score of 56-41… The Raiders led 13-12 at the end of the first quarter but trailed 25-22 at the half… The Raiders stayed close in the third quarter but were outscored 16-7 in the fourth quarter as the Hurricanes pulled away for the win… No individual scoring details on this game.
  • Up Next… Both the boys’ and girls’ team will next see action when they participate in tournaments after Christmas.

Laurens Academy

  • Girls: Laurens Academy 44 – Greer Middle College 34… Saturday the Lady Crusaders traveled up to Taylors to take on the Greer Middle College Blazers… The trip back most likely seemed a little shorter than the one going up because the Crusaders took a 44-34 win…. I don’t have a lot of details about the game other than to tell you that Braylee Burke led the Crusaders with 15 points and Sadie Bruyere had 9 points… Coach Marlett was also quick to point out that Abby Howard had 5 points which gave the Crusaders a big lift when they needed it in the second half and she also made some key defensive plays… The Crusaders are 5-3 on the season and according to their schedule on MaxPreps will be back in action on Saturday, January 4th when they travel to Ware Shoals to take on the Hornets in a 10:00 am game.
  • Boys… last Friday and Saturday the Crusader boys’ basketball team was down in Newberry participating in a Holiday Tournament.
    • Friday: Laurens Academy 55 – Wardlaw 45… Friday the Crusaders started their participation in the Tournament by taking a 55-45 win over the Wardlaw Patriots… The Crusaders only led by 1 (23-22) at the end of the first half but came out of the locker room after the break and put 20 points on the scoreboard while holding the Patriots to just 8 points and then going on the win… The Crusaders gad 4 players scoring in double-digits and were led by Garrett Murphy’s 14 points… Braydon Burke and Garrison Vaughn both scored 13 points and Chesney Watkins had 11 points.
    • Saturday: Newberry Academy 47 – Laurens Academy 31… The results from Saturday are not what I like to report as the Newberry Academy Eagles took a 47-31 win over the Crusaders… I don’t have any scoring details on this game… I will tell you that previously the Eagles had defeated the Crusaders 36-11 so the Crusaders had a better showing against the Eagles this time and that the Crusaders are 4-5 on the young season.

Middle School Basketball… All games start at 5:00 pm unless otherwise noted with girls’ game first followed by boys’ game… Note: coaches very often change schedule without telling me… To see the season master schedule click here… NOTE…Dixie and Thornwell do NOT have middle school girls teams this season so the 5:00 pm start will be for the boys’ game…. There are no games until after the Christmas break.

Laurens County Touchdown Club   

  • TD Club Announces All County Team… Wednesday (12-18-24) the Laurens County Touchdown Club released the names of the 30 football players who made the All-County Team for 2024… The Red Devils have 17 players on the team, the Raiders 7 and the Crusaders 6… If you would like to see the complete list of players who made the team, their position and school click here… Also on the list are the names of the four players who won the Lakelands FCA Charter Award for each of the three high schools and Presbyterian College… Finally the names of the 3 players who have been nominated for the Player of the Year Award were released… In alphabetical order they are: Garrett Murphy (LA), Tushawan Richardson (CHS) and Javaye Suber (LDHS)… The All County Team will be honored at the Annual Awards Banquet on Wednesday, 1-8-25 at The Ridge… Look below for more information about that… Also at that time, the Player of the Year and Coach of the Year will be named.

 

  • Information… 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.… The Club’s next meeting which is the Annual Awards Banquet will be on Wednesday, January 8th at The Ridge…  The featured speaker for the January 8th Annual Awards Banquet will be former Clemson football great Brian Mance…  Mance was named the 2023 South Carolina Football Hall of Fame “Humanitarian of the Year…”The TD Club will recognize its All-County team selection as well as Coach of the Year, Player of the Year and the Lakeland’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes Character award winners from each High School as well as Presbyterian College.

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: Basketball…. Also you can click on the following to see their schedule on MaxPreps: Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys.… You can also click here to see the master basketball schedule for the Crusade teams.    .
  • Thornwell:  To see the Thornwell varsity basketball schedules and results click on one of the following: Varsity Girls, Boys… Also Master Schedule that includes middle school games 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.

Bowl Schedule for Today 12-23-24

 

Bowl Schedule for this past Weekend… Click on the two teams involved for final scores

 Friday, Dec. 20

Saturday, Dec. 21

  

  • 2024-25 Entire College Football Bowl Schedule & Information… After the selection Committee filled out the College Playoff Brackets other teams were quickly chosen for the myriad of bowl games  that are going to be held between now and the National Championship game on Monday, Jan. 20th next year… If you click here, you will go to a posting on the NCAA website where the list of bowls is posted along with when they will be held, times, TV availability and after they are over the final score…  Bowls in South Carolina or involving team from South Carolina include:
    • Myrtle Beach Bowl, Monday, 12-23, Costal Carolina vs. UTSA, 2:30 pm on ESPN
    • Citrus Bowl,  Tuesday, 12-31, #15 South Carolina vs. #20 Illinois in Orlando, 3:00 pm on ABC
  • 2024-25 College Football Playoff Bracket…  The four teams that will get a bye in the first round of the college football playoffs due to the fact they are the 4 highest rankings of the five major football conferences that won their college conference are Oregon, Georgia, Boise State and Arizona State… To see the entire playoff bracket click here… Clemson will open play on Saturday, Dec. 21st at Texas taking on the Longhorns.

College Basketball… In the polls the number in parenthesis (?) indicates their rank in the last poll if it is different from the present one… If there is a score given or game(s) click on it to see details on the game(s).

Men

  • DI AP Poll… The latest AP Top 25 Poll (12-16-24) one change in the top 5… Tennessee is still #1 followed by Auburn, Iowa State then Kentucky moves up a spot to #4 while Duke drops a spot to #5… Clemson dropped from #16 to #25… To see the remainder of the top 25 click here.
  • DI Scores… To see the scores foe last night and also for the previous couple of days click here… You can also look ahead to the next few days to see who will be playing.
  • Standings by Conference… To see the conference standings for each of the DI conferences, click here… It’s a long list so if you want to see say the SEC standings, you have to scroll down a good bit.

Women

  • DI AP Poll… The latest AP Top 25 Poll (12-16-24) had a couple of changes in the top 5…UCLA is still #1but South Carolina moved from #3 to #2… The rest of the top 5 are Notre Dame (8), UConn (2) and LSU (4)…To see the remainder of the top 25 click here.
  • DI Scores… To see the scores foe last night and also for the previous couple of days click here… You can also look ahead to the next few days to see who will be playing.
  • Standings by Conference… To see the conference standings for each of the DI conferences, click here… It’s a long list so if you want to see say the SEC standings, you have to scroll down a good bit.

Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores at the start of the section.

 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,

 

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