It’s about eight months until the softball seasons begin at Laurens District and Clinton high schools, but that doesn’t mean the two teams aren’t holding summer workouts.

ANDERSON – Clinton’s uphill bid for a state championship in Dixie Youth Triple-A Minors came to an end on Tuesday as Pineview eliminated the all-star team, 16-10.

One more hot morning in Abbeville, and it will be time for Laurens County’s high school football teams to hunker down and wait for time to put on the pads and pop some leather.

While Clinton Dixie Youth was staying alive in its state baseball tournament in Anderson, Laurens Little League was being eliminated in Taylors on Monday.

MONCKS CORNER – Phoebe Carles, a rising senior on Clinton High School’s golf team, captured the S.C. Girls’ Junior Match Play Tournament at Berkeley Country Club last week.

Brad Rachels is as hot as the fireworks left over from the Fourth of July.

Often it has been said that it’s always darkest just before dawn.

After a lengthy period of highway safety, Laurens County has seen three fatal traffic accidents in a month and two in consecutive days, both near Clinton.

ANDERSON – Hilton Head needed nine innings to send Clinton’s Triple-A Minors team into the elimination bracket of the Dixie Youth state tournament on Saturday.

A traffic accident involving a van and a tractor-trailer in the westbound lane of Interstate 26 took the life of a 21-year-old Leesville man on Friday.