The Laurens Commission of Public Works answered the call for assistance from another public power city this weekend.

Laurens Academy captured a second straight S.C. Independent School Association (SCISA) Region 2 volleyball championship in the tournament hosted by the Crusaders on Saturday.

Sunday, Oct. 14 – men’s golf – Presbyterian at Elon Phoenix Invitational, Burlington, N.C.

The Presbyterian College women’s golf team is set to host the 1st annual Blue Hose Match Play Tournament from Oct. 14-16 at The Patriot Golf Club (par-72, 6,121 yards) in Ninety Six.

The general difference in the football game at Bailey Memorial Stadium on Saturday – and it wasn’t much – was that Hampton, a first-time caller, could run the ball and Presbyterian could not.

NEWBERRY – The Region 3-3A road has not been kind to the Clinton Red Devils.

BLACKVILLE – Laurens Academy quarterback Thomas Lowry threw six touchdown passes, but it was far from enough to prevent powerful Jefferson Davis Academy from running away in the second half of an 83-44 win over the Crusaders.

GREENVILLE – Mistakes lose football games. Eliminating mistakes wins them.

A man wanted in Laurens County on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and abuse of a vulnerable adult has been apprehended in Mississippi.

Led by Eric Newton, Clinton’s boys’ cross country team won the so-called “pre-region meet” in Region 3-3A, installing the Red Devils as a favorite when they host the official meet on Tuesday afternoon at 5.

Team Laurens County welcomed Dale Satterfield, the City of Clinton’s public works director, to the team at Tuesday night’s County Council meeting.

Previews of Laurens at J.L. Mann, Clinton at Newberry, Laurens Academy at Jefferson Davis Academy and Hampton at Presbyterian College.