LDHS @ CHS… Last night the Raiders and the Red Devils got together for the last games in their annual meetings during the basketball season.
- G: Clinton 44 – Laurens 37… The Lady Red Devils got some measure of revenge for two earlier loses to the Lady Raiders as they took a 44-37 win… As has often been the case with the Lady Devils they started slow last night but so did the Lady Raiders as Laurens had a slim 2 pint 8-6 lead at the end of the first quarter… The Raiders maintained a 2 point 17-15 lead at the half…. Clinton came out strong in the second half and took a 26-21 lead going into the final period… Laurens struggled offensively as they tried to get shots fall from outside and seemed to all but abandon their inside game until it was too late in the 4th quarter… Clinton made the clutch free throws down the stretch and got the key shots to fall… KT Speaks led Clinton with 14 points and Trevoria Dendy tossed in 10… Others scoring for the Red Devils were DeNaishia Floyd with 7, Cynthia McHam 6, MK Kelley 4, and Shauna Goforth 3…. The Raiders also had 2 players scoring in double digits with Kela Daniels getting 13 and Jadasia Bennett 10… Others scoring for Laurens were Chyna Davis with 5, Bre Nance 3 while both Ke’Ny-Ja Spurgeon & Cali Heisey with 2 each… Rounding out the scoring for the Raiders were Tieisha Jones & Lara Jackson with 1 each…. Clinton improves to 1-5 while Laurens drops to 2-3
- B: Laurens 73 – Clinton 66… Last Friday the Laurens Raiders defeated the Clinton Red Devils in a very convincing fashion scoring over a 100 points and Clinton came out last night intent on making sure that did not happen again… It did not but Laurens still took a 73-66 win but not without a strong fight from the Red Devils… Clinton came out with a zone defense that kept Laurens from getting the easy bucket inside and forced the Raiders to take lower percentage shots from the outside… They also did their best to keep the Raiders out of their running game. Laurens did lead 17-15 at the end of the first quarter and extended that lead to 36-26 at the half… However the Red Devils came out of the locker room on fire while the Raiders came out somewhat out of sync as the Red Devils went up by as much as 5 in the third quarter… However the Raiders came back enough to have a 48 – 46 lead going into the final 8 minutes of the contest… The teams traded baskets with each one leading by a small margin at different time in the last quarter before Laurens finally got the ball inside drawing fouls and making free throws and clutch shots to get the win… The Raiders had 3 p[layers score over ten points and they were Davon Boyce with 22, Kezario Whitmore with 20 & Tye Madden with 13… Other Raiders making into the scoring column were Toby Jackson with 5, Chuck Johnson with 4, E’Nicholas Leake 3 and 2 each for Nick Harvey, Chris Statom & Ladarius Williams…. Shakeam Dowdy had a game high 23 points and three other Red Devils scored in double-digits… They were Tay Cook & Tymori Tribble each with 11 and Jay Fuller with 10… Other getting on the board for Clinton were Jalen Carter with 8, DY Young with 2 and Quay Moses 1… The Raiders improve to 5-1 on the season and will host Spartanburg this Friday while Clinton drops to 1-3 and will travel to Byrnes tomorrow.
Middle School.. There were a couple of middles school contest last night so below are those results
Sanders at Honea Path
- G: HP 42 – SMS 20… The leading scores for sanders were Ja’daija Pinson with 10 and Jada Turner with 6.
- B: SMS 63 – HP 32.. The leading scores for Sanders were De Foster with 20, Dra Copeland with 15 & Zachary Miller 14
Hickory Tavern at Laurens Middle
- G: LMS 31 – HT 6… .
- B: LMS 53 – HT 14… with 11
The local sports schedule for today includes:
Middle School… Girls’ games start at 5:00 pm
- HP @ BSR
Happenings at – Clinton & Laurens YMCA & City of Laurens Parks & Recreation
Clinton YMCA:
- The Clinton Family YMCA is offering Free Basketball Skills Clinics for youth ages 9-12… The clinics will be on Monday December 8th and again on Monday December 15th… They will run from 5:30 – 7:00 pm each day and are FREE… To register, call the YMCA at 833-1555
- Youth basketball & Cheerleading… Registration is now open for youth basketball & cheerleading at the Clinton YMCA… Basketball is open to youth ages 5-12 with 5 different playing divisions based on age… Cheerleading is opened to grades K5 – 6th will be broken into age groups to cheer for the youth basketball teams… Registration deadline is December 11th… For fees schedules, financial aid information, fall-out schedule and other information call the YMCA at 833-1555 or click on the following link: 2014 Clinton YMCA Youth Basketball & Cheerleading Information
Laurens YMCA: Contact Josie Parker at the Laurens YMCA for more information on any of the following… The phone number is 864-984-2626 and her email address is: josie@laurensymca.org. Financial aid may be available also.
- Youth Basketball… Registration is now open for youth basketball at the Laurens YMCA… It is open to youth ages 3-14 and will be divided into age appropriate divisions… The cost is $65 for members and $75 for nonmembers… Registration will close January 4th.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or want to reports scores, please contact me via email at: sports@wlbg.com or text me at 864-981-3470.