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Easley falls to top-ranked Lions despite historic night from Brown
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — Coming off a 34-point loss to Daniel in 2020, Easley wasn’t seen to be on the same level as the defending Class 3A state champions, and yet through one half of Friday’s season opening matchup, the Wave were tied 14-14 with Daniel.
Looking to go the distance with the Lions, the Green Wave faltered behind a cavalcade of second-half mistakes, leading to a 54-21 loss.
“We just made a lot of mistakes,” Easley head coach Jordan Durrah said. “We didn’t come out
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Lions bounce back in second half to top Easley in opener
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — The top ranked Daniel Lions were outplayed by the Easley Green Wave throughout the first half of the teams’ season-opener on Friday night and needed a last-second score to even make it a 14-14 tie going into the locker room.
According to defensive end Jahiem Lawson, the Daniel coaching staff stressed at halftime that the Lions needed to relax.
“We just came out too fast,” Lawson said. “Coach sat us down at halftime and talked to us a bit. Told us to cool down and come back right
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Pickens County Library System eliminating most overdue charges
COUNTY — The Pickens County Library System and Library Board of Trustees announced last week that the library system will be going fine free on most materials on Sept. 1.
Certain specialty items such as Adventure Passes and “Library of Things” items will continue to accrue fines, according to a news release.
The change is part of an institutional movement from libraries nationwide, guided by the recommendations of the American Library Association, in an effort to increase free public access to
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County parents speak out on virus concerns
EASLEY — On the day students returned to the classroom after a week of virtual learning due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the first nine days of the school year, Monday night’s Pickens County School Board meeting was a hotbed of virus commentary.
A stream of parents appeared before the board during more than an hour of public comment, with concerns ranging from
the physical health and safety of their children if they attend in-person classes to the emotional and social health of their children if they don’t.
A few parents asked people to stop looking at things from one side or another and start working together.
“We’re embroiled in a lot of controversy, and all that time and attention could be put
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Pickens pummels Carolina during jamboree
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — For the Pickens Blue Flame, it was more disappointing than anything that they couldn’t take the field last week after the spectacular 28-0 showing they had against the Carolina High School Trojans at the Easley jamboree.
“It just sucks that we’re off for a week,” Pickens head coach Chad Smith said following the win at the Aug. 13 jamboree, which came
just hours after the School District of Pickens County announced extracurricular activities — including the Flame’s planned season opener against Liberty — were canceled for last week. “I think we’re ready to play, and hopefully we’ll come back and the kids will be in shape and just keep up the momentum.”
The new-look Blue Flame offense was unstoppable outside of a couple of fumbles, rushing for 162 yards and keeping the Trojans on their heels
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Green Wave down Devils with balanced attack, smothering defense
By Eugene Jolley
Courier Sports
news@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The Easley football team had a successful final preseason tuneup on Aug. 13, blanking county foe Liberty 28-0 in the
final half of the Easley jamboree.
Against the Devils, the Green Wave were clicking on all cylinders.
Liberty was bottled up on the first drive by end Joey Plummer and linebacker Noah Pierce.
After another defensive standoff, Easley drove 37 yards in four plays to go up 7-0. Quarterback A.J. Brown hit tight end Ethan Swann and receiver Chris Clemons to set up back Myles Martin’s 11-yard scoring run. Reeves Dacus’ kick made it 7-0 with 4:58 left in the first quarter.
Charlie Taylor, Pierce and Luke Peeples had big plays in the next series,
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Lions top Greenville in back-and-forth jamboree battle
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — For 24 minutes at the Aug. 13 Easley jamboree, the state’s top-ranked Class 3A football team edged out one of the top teams in Class 4A, but with just six seconds left against the Greenville Red Raiders, the Daniel Lions’ win looked like it might turn
into a tie.
A 59-yard pass from Red Raider quarterback Prometheus Franklin III to Josh Sapp set Greenville up with one last shot at the end zone from the Lions’ 18. With the game on the line, Franklin went back to Sapp, only to have the pass broken up Daniel’s Misun Kelley to secure a 7-0 Lion win in the team’s final preseason tuneup before this Friday’s
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HS football season kickoff pushed back
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — The 2021 high school sports season was set to kick off
this week, however, after the School District of Pickens County’s decision to go virtual, fans of the four county high schools will have to wait another week to see their teams in action.
On Friday, the Pickens County School Board held an emergency meeting about the
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School district goes virtual as COVID surges
By Andrea Kelley
Courtesy The Journal
akelley@upstatetoday.com
EASLEY — The School District of Pickens County announced Friday its schools would temporarily shift to virtual instruction after a surge of COVID-19 cases in the first two weeks of classes.
The Pickens County School Board called an emergency meeting Friday and met in executive session for more than an hour before making the announcement.
Darian Byrd, the district’s director of communications and virtual learning, presented data comparing cases in the 2020-21 school year with the ongoing
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