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
- Girls Basketball: The Lady Red Devils will be hosting Landrum Cardinals tonight at 6:00 pm in second round action of the Class AA Playoffs… The Cardinals come into the game with a 15-13 record and finished second in their region with a 9-4 region record… The Cardinal defeated American Leadership Academy Monday night to earn the right to take on the Red Devils tonight… They are averaging 43.4 points per game while giving up an average of region 37.9 points per game while the Red Devils are averaging 46.5 points per game and giving up 28.3 points per game… They are led in scoring by their junior guard Kylie Fortner who is averaging 17.8 points per game… If you would like to see the Cardinals schedule and results, click here… One last thing: Go Big Red!
- Boys Basketball: The Red Devils will be traveling to High Point Academy to take on the Grizzlies at 6:00 pm tomorrow night.
Laurens HS
- Four Sign at LDHS… Yesterday afternoon at LDHS four student athletes signed letter of intent to continue their academic and athletic careers at four different institutions in South Carolina… Laura Gregory and Maryah Hernandez will continue their cheerleading at two different schools… Laura will be cheering on the PC Blue Hose while Maryah will be doing the same for the Newberry Wolves… Both are members of the competitive cheer team at LDHS since it was started by Coach Erin Patterson two years ago… The team was able to qualify for the state tournament this year… Leyden Gentry is signing with Coker University to continue hos wrestling career… His career at LDHS is not quite over as he has qualified for the Individual State Wrestling Tournament in Florence starting tomorrow in Florence in the 150-pound weight class where he finished #1 in the recent Upper State Qualifier… Ja’Mauri Williams will continue his football career at Erskine College playing for the Flying Fleet… He has played defensive back and some linebacker for the Raiders where he has been a member of the All-Region Team for the past two years… He is planning on playing the same positions at Erskine… I am trying to get two video interviews audited and put up on YouTube, but I am having trouble with my video editing program… If you would like to see the interview done with Williams and Gentry, click here… If you would like to see the interview done with Gregory and Hernandez, click here… Congratulations and good luck to these fine young student athletes.
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 the Lady Raiders of Dorchester Academy at Wilson Hall in Sumter tonight at 6:00 pm… The 17-7 Lady Crusaders will be taking on the 14-7 Raiders who are averaging 41.2 points per game while giving up 35.7 while the Crusaders are averaging 41.3 points per game while giving up 30.9… They like the Crusaders finished first in their region with a 3-0 record… If you would like to see the Raiders schedule, click here… Good Luck to the Crusader!
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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