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Sports Report for Tuesday, 1-7-2025

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Local Notes

 Clinton HS

  • Basketball: The Red Devils are hosted the Razorbacks of Walhalla last night.
    • Girls: Razorbacks 40 – Red Devils 33… The Lady Red Devil took on the #1 ranked team in Class AAA last night when they took to the court against the Lady Razorbacks… Walhalla came into the game with a 12-3 record averaging 51 points per game while giving up 38 points per game… The Razorbacks came out hot to start the game and the Red Devils did not as Clinton was down 12-0 in the first few minutes of the first quarter and that put them in a hole they just could not climb out of as the Razorbacks took a 40-33 win… The score was 16-9 Razorbacks at the half as both teams suffered a poor shooting second quarter… The two teams tied each other in the second half as the Razorbacks took the win… The Razorbacks Kami Roach was the top scorer in the game as she had 14 points 12 of them from behind the three-point line… The Red Devils were led in scoring by by Emma Patterson, Malayja Thompson and McKenzie Clark who all scored 6 points each… Symiah Floyd scored 5 points, Nah’shia Wright 4, Bryanna Belton 4 and Kemaria Shelton 2 … The Red Devils are now 10-3 on the season.
    • Boys: Red Devils 76 – Razorbacks 57… The news is better where the boys team is concerned as the Red Devils took a 76-57 win over the Razorbacks… The Red Devils jumped out to a 13-7 lead after 8 minutes of play and led 37-20 at the half… Walhalla did outscore the Red Devils 19-16 in the third quarter, but the Red Devils took the fourth quarter 23-18… The Red Devils had two players scoring in double-digits as Devin Swindler had a game-high 27 points scoring 16 of them in the fourth quarter and Tushawan Richardson finished with 17 points… Nyterian smith contributed 7 points, Jared Willard 6, Cristian Jones 5, Kylen Calhoun 5, Zy Butler 4, Jaydon Glenn 3 and Dirkus Clark 2… The Red Devils are now 5-4 on the season
    • Up Next… The Red Devils will be traveling to Fairfield Central this Friday night (1-10-25) as they open region play.

Laurens HS

  • Sub Varsity Games… The Raiders 9th grade boys and JV teams traveled to Southside last night to take on the Tigers… The only information I have on those games is the final scores and its good news for Raider fans as the 9th grade boys team took a 40-28 win and the JV boys took a 30-28 win in a game that saw the lead go back and forth in the fourth quarter…If I get more details on those games I will pass them on to you later.
  • Up Next… The Raider varsity basketball teams will be hosting Southside tonight starting with girls’ action at 6:00 pm… We do plan on brining you those games on Real Radio WLBG and streaming live at www.wlbg.com.

 

  • Wrestling… This past weekend the ra9der wrestling team travelled to Rock Hill to participate in the Bearcat Invitational… There were 46 teams from all classes and the Raiders finished a very respectable 11th…Indian Land finished first with 179.5 points to the Raiders 120.5… Dakota McCall finished 2nd in the 144-pound weight class to lead the Raiders.

 

Laurens Academy

  • Up Next… The Crusader will be traveling to King Academy tonight for non-region games starting with girls at 6:00 pm.

Thornwell

  • Basketball
    • Up Next… According to the schedule on MaxPreps, the Saints will travel to McCormick this Friday (1-10-25) for more region games.

 

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 starting at 6:00 pm… 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 about Brian Mance… The featured speaker at the Awards Banquet will be Brian Mance… He is a former Clemson football great…  Mance was named the 2023 South Carolina Football Hall of Fame “Humanitarian of the Year…. If you would like to read more about him and his struggle to overcome physical problems, click here.

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.

 Four Teams Left in College Playoffs… College Football Playoffs are now to just 4 teams… They are #4 Penn State, #5 Notre Dame, #3 Texas and #6 Ohio State… Later this week that will be cut to 2 teams remaining… The Football Semifinal games are as follows: (click on each matchup for more information about each game.)

 

  • 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.
  • 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.

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 (1-6-25) had no changes in the top 5… Tennessee is still #1 followed by Auburn, Iowa State, Duke and Alabama … There were some changes in spots 6-10 as Kentucky (10) is now #6 followed by Marquette (8), Florida (6), UConn (11) and Texas A&M (13)…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 (1-6-25) also had no changes in the top 5…UCLA is still #1 followed by South Carolina, Notre Dame, UConn and LSU (4)… LSU checked in at #6 followed by UConn, Maryland, Ohio State (10) and Oklahoma (9)… 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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