Local Notes
SCHSL Basketball Brackets… If you would like to see all the brackets for the South Carolina High School League for all the classifications both boys and girls, click here…. NOTE… For all SCHSL playoff games, the tickets will cost $8 each and anyone over the age of two must have a ticket to enter… The only passes that will be accepted are SCHSL passes… No school issued passes of any type will be accepted.
Clinton HS
- Boys: Clinton 54 – Saluda 49… The Red Devil boys’ varsity basketball team opened play in the SCHSL Class AA Playoffs last night hosting the Tigers of Saluda… After a slow start, the Red Devils prevailed by a score of 54-49… The Red Devils were cold in the first quarter as they trailed 8-5 at its end… They started to heat up the offense in the second quarter scoring 13 points while holding the Tigers to just 4 points to take an 18-12 lead into the locker room at the half… The Red Devils put 26 points on the scoreboard in the third quarter to make the score 44-25 heading into the last 8 minutes of the game where the Tigers did try to come back but the Red Devils did not allow them to come all the way back… The Tigers did have 3 players scoring in double-digits and the Red Devils had only one and that was Tushawan Richardson who finished with a game-high 24 points… Terry Smith and Devin Swindler both finished with 8 points, Zy Butler 6, Kylen Calhoun 3, DJ Clark and Owen Glenn 2 while Jarred Willard rounded out the Red Devil scoring with 1 point…… A quick check of the Class AA brackets early this morning shows that High Point Academy took a 68-45 win over Chesterfield last night and they have a #1 seeding going into the playoffs while Clinton had a #2 seeding so I do believe the Red Devils will be traveling to High Point on Friday to take on the Grizzlies… I’ll try to confirm that today and get back to you tomorrow.
- Girls: A reminder that the lady Red Devils will be hosting Landrum Cardinals tomorrow night at 6:00 pm in second round action.
Laurens HS
- Basketball
- Girls: Camden 74 – Raiders 20… The Lady Raider basketball team traveled down to Camden last night to take on the Lady Bulldogs in first round action of the Class AAAA playoffs… Camden came into the game with a 16-6 record averaging 68 points per game and giving up an average of 42 points per game… After the game I think the Raiders may have been asking themselves how did the Lady Bulldogs lose those 6 games as they rolled to a 74-20 win over the Raiders… They led 19-3 after 8 minutes of play and 33-12 at the half and never looked back though the Raiders never stopped trying to come back… The Bulldogs are a quick, pressing team that also rebounded well as they forced the Rides into about 30 turnovers while they had about 15… They had 5 players score in double-digits while the Raiders were led in scoring by senior Zoe Young who finished with 8 points… Ty Jones scored 6 points, Keyorick Yeargin 4 and Nyri Allen 2… Congratulations to the Raiders and Coach Cade for making the playoffs for the first time in several years… As a matter of fact, congratulations to both the Raider varsity basketball team for showing much improvement this year and making the playoffs.
Laurens Academy
- Girls Basketball… The Lady Crusades have advanced to the semi-finals in the SCISA Class AA basketball tournament…They will be taking on Dorchester Academy at Wilson Hall in Sumter tomorrow night at 6:00 pm.
Thornwell
- Girls: Lee Central 76 – Thornwell 6… The Lady Saints traveled over to Bishopville to take on the Lady Stallions of Lee Central last night in the opening round of the Class A playoffs… The Lady Stallion came into the game with an 18-4 record averaging 52.1 points per game while giving up 27-5… The Lady Saints found out that the Lady Stallions were the “real deal” as the Stallions took a 76-6 win over the Lady Saints…. The Stallions held the Saints scoreless until about 4 minutes left in the game when the Saints Jessie Pitts scored the first two points for the Saints… She later added another one and Kendra Wilson also scored for the Saints… This was the first time that the Lady Saints made the playoffs since Thornwell reopened and marked the last time Madi Landrith and Karleigh Porter put on the Saints basketball uniform…. My thanks to Cindy Pitts for helping me cover the saints this season.
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.
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 for game(s) click on it to see details on the game(s).
Men
- DI AP Poll… The latest AP Top 25 Poll (2-16-25) some changes in the top 5 this week… Auburn is still #1 followed by Florida (3), Duke (4) and Alabama (2)… There were also some changes in spots 6-10 as Tennessee (5) now checks in at #6 followed by Texas A&M (8) Iowa State (10), Texas Tech (12) and St John’s (9) …Clemson moved up from #23 to #18 this week… 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 (2-16-25) also had a few changes in the top 5…Notre Dame (2) is the new #1 followed by Texas (3), UCLA (1), Southern Cal (6) and UConn (7)… Spots 6-10 are now occupied by South Carolina (4), LSU (5), Ohio State (9), North Carolina (12) and TCU (11)… 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.
NASCAR
- William Byron Wins Rain Delayed Daytona 500… In case you missed it Sunday night, William Byron was sitting in just the right spot to miss all the wrecking in front of him on the last lap of the rain delayed Daytona 500 to take his second win there in as many years.. For more on this race click here. .
- Driver Standings… After the first race, the top 3 drivers in the Cup Series Standings are Ryan Blaney, William Byron and Austin Cindric… If you click here you will go the NASCAR posting that has the Cups Series standings from top to bottom… Once you get there you can click on tabs at the top of the page to see the driver standings in the Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series.
- Master Schedule… If you click here it will carry you to the NASCAR website where the season schedule is posted and you can look at the Cup Series. Xfinity Series or the Craftsman Truck Series by clicking on their icon at the top of the list… In addition to the date and location, it will also give you race times and TV viewing options.
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