By MONTE DUTTON Mylayja Thompson (5) and Nah'shia Wright gave it their all. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. One successful season ended at Clinton High School on Saturday, and another stayed alive in Columbia. West-Oak (19-6) found its shooting touch in the latter half and knocked Region 4 champion Clinton out of the Class 3A …
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Girls become women … and win
Malayja Thompson (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges It was the fairer sex that was better at playing basketball on Wednesday night. At Clinton High School, the girls’ team was winning its first-round playoff game over Southside. A couple miles away and across the railroad tracks, Presbyterian was polishing off UNC Asheville. However, in far Asheville, northward …
Clinton boys ousted by Southside, 49-46
Tushawan Richardson draws lots of attention. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges An odd boys’ basketball game broke out at Clinton High School on Tuesday evening, where Southside knocked the Region 4-3A champion Red Devils out of the playoffs. The game was frantically and inefficiently played. Both teams played hard but sometimes to cross purposes. At the …
Devils, Crusaders, Hose roll
Mylayja Thompson (Monte Dutton photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges The latest high-school basketball results were about par for the course. Clinton won big. Laurens Academy won. Laurens High and Presbyterian College didn’t. John Gardner’s CHS girls pounded Chester (3-12, 1-6), 64-16, for their ninth consecutive victory. McKenzie Clark and Mylayja Thompson each scored 11 points, and Bryanna Belton …
Raiders can’t reach Riverside
Zoe Young led the Raiders with 15 points. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges What happened at LDHS on Tuesday night wasn’t surprising. Riverside had already swept the Raiders in Greer. Region 2-4A is a tough track. The basketball games were similar other than the former being contested by girls and the latter by boys. Riverside won …
Crusader girls breeze, boys sneeze
Rylee Ballard encounters resistance. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Where girls’ basketball was concerned on Friday night at Laurens Academy, it was a jubilee. Head coach Jason Marlett was honored for winning 200 games at the helm of the Crusaders, who crushed Wardlaw, 55-16. Near the end of the third quarter, LA’s Olivia Huck scored her …
Clinton finds flaws in Cyclones
By MONTE DUTTON The Red Devils ransacked Chester. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Clinton girls’ basketball coach John Gardner said, “It’s been a crazy week.” The Red Devils and the Chester Cyclones played a pair of crazy Region 4-3A varsity basketball games at CHS on Tuesday night. They were crazy in good ways for Clinton and …
Greenwood teams invade to mixed results
(Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges A heap of basketball teams crossed the lake on Wednesday as Greenwood visited Laurens and Cambridge Academy took a trip to Laurens Academy. Greenwood swept the Raiders for the second time, and once again the girls took on more lake water than the boys. The Crusaders were water tight across the …
More than one way to topple Union
By MONTE DUTTON Tushawan Richardson fueled a Clinton comeback with 37 points against Union County. (Monte Dutton photos) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges The basketball played by boys and girls is not the same. There are small differences. No games, played back to back, ever differed more than the ones played at the varsity level on Friday night at …
Blue, Green, Purple & Red 