Please see an important note and question about the future of this report in the This and That Section at the bottom of this report.
Local Notes
Clinton HS
- Boys Tennis: Red Devils 6 – Rebels 0… Catching up with the Red Devil boys’ tennis team, last week they defeated Mid-Carolina Rebels at home 6-0 in their first region match of the season… Edwin Orr, Nathan Meade, Matthew Ling, and Jacob King all took wins in singles action… For a little more information on this match click here…By the way, they travel to Mid-Carolina today for a re-match… Go Big Red!
- Golf… I also need to do some catching up with the Red Devil golf team that played Monday at Heddles Hideaway Country Club in Spartanburg for a match that also involved Broome HS, Landrum HS and Union County HS… The Red Devils wound up tied for first with Broome HS as both teams shot a 157… For more details on this match click here.
Laurens
- Baseball: Raiders 8 – Wren 7… The Raider baseball team hosted the Wren Golden Hurricanes last night at Ed Prescott Field in a very important region game… The game was tied 7-7 going into the bottom of the 7th inning when with one out, Jireh Brown singled and reached second on an error by the second baseman… With a 2-2 count Tristen Buzbee than singled driving in the speedy Brown to give the Raiders a walk-off win… The Raiders outhit the Hurricanes 12-7 but both teams also had problems with errors and wild pitches so that only 2 of the Raiders runs were earned and none of the Hurricanes… That was especially true in the 3rd inning when wren scored 6 runs and in the 4th when the Raiders scored 6 runs… Zay Pulley and Buzbee both had 3 hits to lead the Raiders as they both had a double and Buzbee also had a triple and the game winning single… By the way, Buzbee picked up the win pitching… 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: Raiders 13 – JL Mann 7… There is also good news for Raider fans where the softball team is concerned as the Raiders traveled up to Greenville last night to take on the JL Mann Patriots and the ride home was a happy one as the Raiders won 13-7… Mann actually led 6-5 going into the top of the 7th inning where the Raiders scored 8 runs to make it 13-6 Raiders and then the Patriots scored 1 run in the bottom of the inning to make it 13-7… A double play by the Raiders ended the game and preserved the win… The Raiders outhit the Patriots 16-5 but to be honest both teams had problems with errors, wild pitches and hit batters so that only 3 of the Patriot runs were earned and 7 of the Raider runs were earned…All the hits by both teams were singles… For the Raiders Makayden Livingston and Addie Carlisle both had 3 hits and 4 other Raiders had 2 hits each… 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
- Softball: Crusaders 14 – Northside Christian Academy 2… Yesterday I mentioned to you that the Crusader Softball team defeated Northside Christian Academy 14-2 Tuesday at Northside… I also said I did not know any details on the game well I do now… I can tell you that Mackenzie Runyans had 4 of the Crusaders 11 hits in the game and one of them was a triple… I can also tell you that Maddie Loe picked up the complete game win giving up just 3 hits and only I of Northside’s runs was earned…. She struck out 12 and walked just 3… To see more Crusader stats on the game, click here.
Thornwell
- Softball: Saints 20 – Southside 5… The Saints softball team traveled up to Greenville to take on the Southside HS Tigers (a Class 4A team) and they outhit the Tigers 9-1 to take a 20-5 win in 5 innings… Six of the Saints nine hits were for extra-bases with Adrienne Anderson hitting a 2-run homer in the 5th inning, a double and driving in 3 runs… Skyla Bates and Lexi Hazel also had 2 hits each for the Saints… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored 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 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 want to keep up with all that is going on in the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, 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
Women’s March Madness Bracket… For those of you who want to keep up with all that is going on in the Women’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, 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
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).
Baseball
- DIBaseball.com Top 25… In the latest (3-23-25) DI Baseball.com Top 25 poll, the top 5 spots are occupied by Tennessee, Arkansas (3), Georgia (4) and Florida State (5) and Oregon State (6)… Spots 6-10 are occupied by Clemson (7), Texas (8), LSU (2) Oklahoma (10) and Oregon (9)… 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
- Kyle Larson Wins at Homestead-Miami… In case you missed it Sunday; Kyle Larson took the win down at Homestead-Miami… This was his first Cup Series win this season and he took advantage of a mistake by his teammate Alex Bowman who kissed the wall with six laps to go allowing Larson to get by and take the win.… 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, Kyle Larson, Alex Bowman, Tyler Reddick and Christopher Bell… 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.
- Weekend Schedule… To see the NASCAR schedule for this weekend up at Martinsville, click here.
- 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.
Braves… The Atlanta Braves start their regular season on the road this Thursday (3-27-25) out on the west coast with a 4-game series with the Padres.
- Regular Season Schedule… To see the Braves regular season schedule click here.
- Scores… To see the MLB scores by date and see the schedule for future days, click here.
- Standings… To see the standings for all the MLB teams by divisions, click here.
This & That:
As most of you have heard by now, WLBG will be signing off the air sometime on Monday, 3-31-2025.
This will be a bittersweet moment for me as I have strived to bring you local sports to the best of my ability and throw in some college and pro sports also.
As I understand it, the WLBG website will NOT be taken down immediately.
If that is the case, I may still be able to continue to post these sports reports on the website for some time to come if there if you the Laurens County sports fans want me to.
Obviously, I will not be getting paid to do it, but I will try to continue to the end of the high school sports this season if the demand is there. This will also help me to decide if in the future I might try to develop my own website if I can obtain the sponsorship to bring you what you want.
If you don’t mind, please email me at sports@wlbg.com and let me know you would like to see it continue.
That is the only way I have to judge this.
If I don’t seem to generate much interest in this that is fine, I just won’t do it.
In any event I have enjoyed (for the most part) my almost 15 years doing this and meeting some great coaches, players, administrators and you the fans.
Take care and you will still be able to catch me at some athletic contest.
Go Red Devils, Raiders, Crusaders and Saints!
If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to report scores, please contact me via email at: sports@wlbg.com .
