Friday, 4-4-25
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
- Softball: Clinton 16 – Newberry 2… The Red Devil softball team hosted the Newberry Bulldogs yesterday and its good news for Red Devil fans as they took a 16-2 win over the Bulldogs in 5 innings… The Bulldogs only had 4 singles in the game while the Red Devils had 13 hits 5 of them for extra bases… Halleigh Luke and Me-Me Smith both had homers in the game while Kamryn Campbell, Cat Willkie and Sierra Templeton all had doubles… Templeton picked up the win giving up the 2 runs (only one was earned) on the 4 hits while striking out 5 and walking just 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.
- Up Next in Softball… The Red Devils will be hosting the Columbia Capitals today at 5:30 in region action
- Up Next in Baseball… According to their schedule on MaxPreps, the Red Devils will be hosting the Columbia Capitals today at 6:00 pm in region action.
- Tennis: Clinton 5 – Woodruff 1… The Red Devil boys’ tennis team made-up a rain postponed match with Woodruff yesterday… Good news for Red Devil fans as they took a 5-1 win over the Wolverines… All 5 of the singles matches were won by Red Devils and those players were Nathan Meade, Edwin Orr, Jacob King, Matthew King, and Cooper Stinson… For more details on this match click here….The Red Devils are now 4-0 overall and 2-0 in region action and will travel to Blue Ridge Monday (4-7) in non-region action.
Laurens
- Up Next in Baseball… The Raider baseball team is scheduled to travel to Emerald HS today to take on the Vikings in region action.
- Softball: Fountain Inn 10 – Laurens 0… The Raider softball team traveled up to Fountain Inn HS yesterday to take on the Fury… For the second time this week the Fury took a win over the Raiders in region action this time by a score of 10-0 in 5 innings… The Fury simply outhit the Raiders 10-4 scoring 6 runs in the 1st inning… No Raider had over 1 hit and the Raiders had a runner at third base only twice in the game but could not get the Clutch hit to bring them home… To see the box score of the game click here and to see the scorecard to see how the runs were scored click here
- Up Next in Softball… The Raiders will be traveling to Wren HS Tuesday (4-8) to take on the Golden Hurricanes in region action.
Laurens Academy
- Up Next in Baseball… The Crusader baseball team will be hosting the King Academy today.
- Up Next in Softball… The Crusader softball team will be hosting the King Academy Friday
Thornwell
- Up Next in Baseball… According to their schedule on MaxPreps, the Saints baseball team will travel to Ware Shoals for a rematch with the Hornets this Friday at 7:00 pm
- Up Next in Softball … The Saints softball team is scheduled to travel to Ware Shoals for a region game with the Hornets at 5:00 pm 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 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.
- Gamecocks Punch Their Ticket to Final Four… The USC Gamecocks punched their ticket to Final Four in Tampa this weekend by surviving two still challenges from Maryland and Duke in the Birmingham Regionals this past weekend … The defeated Maryland 71-67 on Friday and Duke 54-50 on Sunday… click on the scores for more information about these games…. They will now face conference foe Texas Friday at 7:00 pm in a game that can be seen on ESPN…. The Gamecocks have beaten the Longhorns 2 out of 3 times they have faced each other this season…. A third win will be a challenge…. Go Gamecocks.
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 (3-30-25) ESPN/USA Softball Top 25, the top 5 had a little change compared to last week as Texas is still #1 followed by Florida (4), Oklahoma (2), Texas A&M (5) and Oregon (6)… Spots 6-10 are occupied by Tennessee (10), LSU (3), UCLA (7), South Carolina (11) and Florida State (8)… 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
- Driver Standings… After this race, the top 5 drivers in the Cup Series Standings are now William Byron, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliot, Christopher Bell 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.
- Weekend Schedule… To see the NASCAR schedule for this weekend down at Darlington, 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…. Click on the score to go to the Braves website for a recap of the game.
- The Braves remain winless and had the night off before starting a series at home against the Marlins tonight.
- Regular Season Schedule… To see the Braves regular season schedule click here… Once you get there you can go backwards to see completed games in previous month(s) or ahead for future dates.
- 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.
Greenville Drive… The Greenville Drive will start their season on Friday, 4-4-25 hosting the Bowling Green Hot Rods.
- Schedule… To see the Drive schedule click here.
This & That:
As most of you know by now, WLBG will be signed off the air about 3:15 pm on Monday, 3-31-2025.
That was 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 but don’t look for the sports report until 8:00 am weekdays or perhaps a little later (I’ll be sleeping later and not getting up at 3:00 am like I have been doing).
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 .
