Local Notes
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- Friday, 3-21-25… Baseball host Westside at 6:30 pm
Clinton HS
- Softball: The Red Devil softball team was scheduled to host the Mid-Carolina Rebels last night but as of this posting I have not received any information on this game… If I find out anything I’ll be sure to pass it on to you…
- Softball up Next… The Red Devils will travel to Mid-Carolina Rebels Friday.
- Baseball: Mid-Carolina 3 – Clinton 0… The Red Devil baseball team opened its region schedule last night hosting the #1in in preseason rankings for Class AA Mid-Carolina Rebels… It was a game that featured pitching as the two teams combined for only 4 hits in the game… Unfortunately the Rebels had 3 of those hits and that plus 5 Red Devil errors and a couple of hit batters enabled the Rebels to take a 3-0 win over the Red Devils… As a matter of fact, all the Rebels runs had errors, hit batters or walks figuring into the scoring of the runs… The Red Devils only hit was by Brett Young… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored, click here
- Baseball up Next… The Red Devil varsity baseball team is now 4-3 overall and 0-1 in region play on the season and will travel to Mid-Carolina Friday night (3-21) for a 7:30 pm rematch with the Rebels
- JV Baseball: Clinton 4 – Mid-Carolina 3… The Red Devil JV baseball team played the Rebels before the varsity game last night and the news is better as the Red Devils took a 4-3 win to run their record to 5-1… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored click here.
Laurens
- Softball: Laurens 10 – Westside 9… The Raider softball team hosted the Westside Rams in region action last night…It was a game that went back and forth but good news for Raider fans as the Raiders took a come-from-behind 10-9 win scoring the 2 winning runs in the bottom of the 7th inning… The game saw the two teams combine for 19 hits (the Raiders had 10 of them) and 9 errors (the Raiders had 5 of them)… The Raiders trailed 9-8 going into the bottom of the 7th inning and Addison Trevino led off for the Raiders drawing a walk… The next Raider was out on a fly ball… Ashlyn Messer then drew a walk to put runners on first and second base… Makayden Livingston then stroked a single to left field but the left fielder misplayed the ball and that allowed Trevino and Messer to score as the Raiders took the walk-off win…The Rams did have 2 homeruns in the game but the Raiders countered with a pair of homers themselves… Addison Trevino had 2-run homer in the 1st inning and Myleigh Robertson had a 3-run homer in the 4th inning… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored click here.
- Softball up Next… The Raiders are 5-3 overall and 3-0 in the region and will travel to Westside tomorrow for a rematch between the two teams.
- Baseball up Next… The Raiders are scheduled travel to Westside today for a 6:30 pm game.
- JV Baseball… The Raider JV baseball team opened up its season yesterday traveling over to Union to take on the Yellow Jacket JV team in a doubleheader of baseball.
- Game 1: Raiders 14 – Union 1… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored click here.
- Game 2: Raiders 17 – Union 0… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored click here.
Laurens Academy
- Baseball… According to their master schedule on the LA website, they were supposed to be traveling to Spartanburg Christian Academy yesterday and I am not sure if they did or not but the only thing I know for sure is that no score has been reported to me.
- Baseball up Next … The Crusaders are scheduled to travel to WW King Friday.
- Softball: Spartanburg Christian Academy 8 – Crusaders 0… The Crusader softball team hosted the Spartanburg Christian Academy Warriors yesterday and the only thing I can tell you about that game is that the Warriors took an 8-0 win… I think I will be able to get more information about that game today and if I do so I will pass it on to you tomorrow.
- Softball up Next… I believe the Crusader softball team will traveling to WW King Friday
Thornwell
- Baseball: According to their schedule on MaxPreps, the Saints will travel to Whitmire today.
- Softball: Whitmire 21 – Saints 3… The Thornwell Saints softball team hosted the Whitmire Wolverines yesterday in region action and the Wolverines came into the game with a 6-1 record with some of their wins being against much larger schools… When they headed back to Whitmire their record was 7-1 as they took a 21-3 win over the Saints in 5 innings… The Wolverines only led 6-2 going into the top of the 4th inning where they broke the game open scoring 11 runs and added 4 more in the 5th to take the win… The Saints actually outhit the Wolverines 8-6 but the Saints had 13 errors, issued 9 walks, had a couple of wild pitches and hit batters that the Wolverines used to help score their runs… Camden Nelson and Skyla Bates led the Saints in batting with 2 hits each and one of Bates was a double… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored click here.
- Softball up Next… The Saints are now 2-1 on the season and will be traveling to McCormick on Friday.
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 on the LA website: Softball and Baseball … To see the MaxPreps schedule and results for the teams click on one of the following you are interested in: Softball…. Baseball
- Thornwell: To see the Thornwell schedules and results click on their MaxPreps pages click on one of the following you are interested in:: Baseball… Softball
- 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.
Men’s March Madness Bracket… For those of you who missed the March Madness Announcement show last night if you click here it will carry you to the NCAA website where the official bracket is located… The bracket is interactive so you can click on games of interest for more information…Of interest to local fans:
- Clemson is a # 5 seed in the Midwest Regional and will take #12 seed McNeese in Providence, RI… They will play Thursday (3-20) at 3:15 pm.
- Wofford is a #15 seed and will take on #2 seed Tennessee in the Mideast Regional in Lexington, KY… They will play Thursday (3-20) at 6:50 pm.
Women’s March Madness Bracket… Again for those of you who missed the March Madness Announcement show last night if you click here it will carry you to the NCAA website where the official bracket is located… The bracket is interactive so you can click on games of interest for more information…Of interest to local fans:
- South Carolina is seeded #1 in Regional #2 in the Birmingham area… They will take on Tennessee Tech on Friday at 4:00 pm
College Polls… In the polls below 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’s Basketball
- DI AP Poll… The latest AP Top 25 Poll (3-169-25) some changes in the top 5 this week… Duke is still #1 followed by Houston (2), Florida (4), Auburn (3) and St Johns (6))… There were also some changes in spots 6-10 as Tennessee is now #6 followed by Alabama (5), Michigan State (7), Texas Tech and Louisville (13)… Clemson dropped from #1o to #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’s Basketball
- DI AP Poll… The latest AP Top 25 Poll (3-17-25) had no changes in the top 5… UCLA is still #1 followed by South Carolina, UConn, Southern Cal and Texas… Spots 6-10 are also the same as last week as #6 is TCU, Duke, Notre Dame, NC State and LSU … 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.
Baseball
- DIBaseball.com Top 25… In the latest (3-16-25) DI Baseball.com Top 25 poll, the top 5 are Tennessee (2), LSU (1), Arkansas, Georgia (5) and Florida State (6)… Spots 6-10 are occupied by Oregon State (8), Clemson (10), Texas (11), Oregon and Oklahoma (12)… To see the entire top 25 in this poll click here.
Softball
- ESPN/USA Softball Poll… In the latest (3-16-25) ESPN/USA Softball Top 25, the top 5 a little change compared to last week as Oklahoma is still #1 followed by Texas, LSU (4) Florida (3) and UCLA… Spots 6-10 are occupied by Texas A&M, Tennessee, Oregon, Florida State (10) and Arizona (11) and South Carolina (9) are tied for 10th place… To see the entirety of this poll click here.
Pro Sports: For more information on the game(s) below, click on the scores at the start of the section.
NASCAR
- Josh Berry Wins at Las Vegas… In case you missed it Sunday; Christopher Bell did NOT win the Cup series race in Las Vegas Sunday breaking his 3-race winning streak… Instead the race was won by Josh Berry who picked up his first career win in the Cup Series… He has won twice at Las Vegas but those wins were in the Xfinity Series… For more on this race including the order of finish for the entire field, click here.
- Driver Standings… After this race, the top 5 drivers in the Cup Series Standings are now William Byron, Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman… 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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