Monthly Archives: February 2022
Teens charged with attempted murder
EASLEY — Two 17-year-old girls face attempted murder charges after a shooting incident in Easley last week.
The Easley Police Department received a report of shots fired at the intersection of Ross Avenue and Preston Street at 4:59 p.m. 
Wednesday, Feb. 16, according to Sgt. Ashley Anderson, the department’s public information officer.
The incident involved three vehicles, she said.
“From one vehicle, the firearm was discharged into another vehicle,” Anderson said. “There was only one
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Clemson man shot to death
By Norm Cannada
Courtesy The Journal
ncannada@upstatetoday.com
CLEMSON — Clemson police are continuing to investigate a shooting that left a 24-year-old man dead at an apartment complex early 
Saturday morning.
A 911 call came in at 1 a.m. Saturday that a white man was “possibly shot and lying on the ground in the Village Green Apartment Complex,” at 1108 Tiger Boulevard, according to a Clemson Police Department news release.
An incident report obtained by The Journal on Monday listed the incident types
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Lifesaving learning
EMS class offers unique opportunity for students
It was a busy afternoon in Dr. Janice Racoosin’s EMT class at the Pickens County Career and Technology Center one day recently.
They had a patient who had been impaled, and students were working to get his intestines back where they belonged.
Another group was working on burn victims, while others were dealing with a patient in cardiac arrest.
Fortunately, all of the “patients” were mannequins.
But the learning that was taking place was for real.
And during the remainder of the school year, they’ll be taking turns helping care for real live patients as
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Family pleads for help to find missing man
By Rocky Nimmons
Publisher
rnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — A Pickens family is asking for the community’s help in finding a loved one reported missing earlier this month.
Boyce Anthony “B.A.” Morris Jr. left his home on Reece Mill Road around 5:30 p.m. Feb. 13 on foot, not wearing shoes and without clothes that would aid and protect him in the elements. At the time of his disappearance, Morris had been sick and not been feeling well, according to his mother, Lynn Morris.
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Renaissance Faire coming to Liberty
LIBERTY — Three businesses in downtown Liberty will be expanding their theme and putting on a festival next month.
The Renaissance Faire will be held from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, March 12, in downtown Liberty.
The businesses are Stormrest Games, Taylor’s General Store and The
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Daniel boys in Upper State semis
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
UNION — Trailing 55-54 with less than 30 seconds left in overtime of a second-round playoff matchup at fifth-ranked Union County on Friday night, the fate of the Daniel High School boys’ basketball team’s state championship hopes rested in the hands of Bobby Taylor.
Taylor, an all-state senior playing in what could have been his final game in the blue and gold, passed out of his initial touch before an errant pass nearly went over his head. With the ball back in his possession, he knew the game was going
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Easley girls win first playoff game since ‘05, fall in round 2
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — When Ivan Raymond took over an Easley High School girls’ basketball program that had gone 10-86 over the previous five years in May 2019, playoff basketball must have seemed like a distant dream to the Green Wave.
Last Wednesday night, that dream became a reality as the Easley girls took on Eastside in their first playoff game in 15 years, thrashing the Eagles in a 57-38 win.
“We knew this was big for our girls,” Raymond said of the Green Wave’s playoff win. “They’ve worked so hard. They spend five days a week either lifting or in the gym. The commitment they made didn’t show in year one, didn’t show in year two, but they kept going and now it’s showing.”
Easley senior forward Kylie Nabors has seen the program move from the doldrums to where it is now and attributes the change to the hard work of her teammates and their head coach.
“It’s turned around a lot, and a lot of that credit goes to Coach Raymond,” Nabors said. “He’s put
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Blue Flame girls advance for first time since 2012
PICKENS — The curtain came down last week on the Pickens High School Lady Blue Flame girls’ basketball season, but not before the team traveled to 
Greenville High School for the first round of the playoffs and defeated the Lady Red Raiders in their home gym — the program’s first postseason win since 2012.
“I am extremely proud and honored to coach such an amazing group of young ladies,” Pickens coach Rikki Owens said. “They are the toughest little group I have ever coached, and they should be proud of themselves for the legacy they have left behind for future Lady Blue Flame players.”
The 2021-22 season ended for the Pickens girls on Friday in Blythewood when the Lady Blue Flame
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Lady Lions’ season finishes with loss to Fairfield Central
By Michael Crouchley
Courtesy The Journal
michael@upstatetoday.com
CENTRAL — In the final five minutes of Thursday’s first-round playoff game, the Daniel High School girls’ basketball team cut Fairfield Central’s lead to three points on three separate occasions.
“As soon as we would go two steps forward, they would hit a shot and we would go five steps back,” Daniel head coach Cosandar Griffin said after the 33-28 loss that ended the Lions’ season. “It was disappointing to see, but I
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Green Wave drop playoff heartbreaker
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Going 7-1 down the stretch and hosting their first playoff game since 2012, the Easley Green Wave boys’ basketball team seemed like a team 
capable of making a playoff run when it took the court against Laurens on Thursday night.
However, without senior all-state guard Kain James, the Green Wave watched a seven-point lead evaporate in the fourth quarter in a season-ending 39-35 loss.
James, Easley’s leading scorer, missed the game with an illness, according to head coach
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