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GRADUATION EDITION – Liberty High Class of 2021
Liberty Honors and Awards
The following is a list of awards, honors, recognitions and scholarships recently presented to students at Liberty High School, as provided by the School District of Pickens County.
Valedictorian — Karlyn Annamaria Esuary
Salutatorian — Jeremy James Lawrence
Lula Belle O’Dell Scholarship — Stephanie Jewell
Liberty Community Scholarship — Will Kelly, Luke Proctor
GRADUATION EDITION – Easley High School Class of 2021
Easley Honors and Awards
The following is a list of awards, honors, recognitions and scholarships recently presented to students at Easley High School, as provided by the School District of Pickens County.
Valedictorian — Bennett Todd Freeman
Salutatorian — Brooklyn Olivia Marling
Best of the Senior Class, representing top 10 percent of Class of 2021 — Lily Addicott, Abby Allen, Hannah Ballantyne, Zoe Barnes, Charlotte Bostick, Madison Burgess, William Byrd, Kelly Carver, Jobey Faneytte, Bennett Freeman, Rachel Fuller, Kaitlin Fuller, Hannah Ison, Megan Jarisch, Averi Jones, William Kyle, Olivia Lashchenko, Caroline LeCroy,
GRADUATION EDITION -D.W. Daniel Class of 2021
Daniel Honors and Awards
The following is a list of awards, honors, recognitions and scholarships recently presented to students at Daniel High School, as provided by the School District of Pickens County.
Valedictorian — Vivian Dong
Salutatorian — Adrienna Davis
A’s in 4 English Courses — John Davis, Kayla Forrester, Sydnee Greenlee, Jakub Jerzmanowski, Grace Nammouz, Phillip
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Police still seeking answers after man found shot to death
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The death of an Easley man last week is being investigated by the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office as a homicide.
Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the victim as Heyward “Trey” Delno Price III, of 207 Shade Tree Circle.
Price was found dead at his home on Shade Tree Circle the morning of May 10, according to a release issued by sheriff’s office Chief Deputy Chad Brooks the following day.
The body was found with a “visible injury that is characteristic of a gunshot
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The Next Step
County’s seniors set to receive diplomas Saturday
COUNTY — The School District of Pickens County’s Class of 2021 will mark the end of a tumultuous final two years of
high school when they receive their diplomas in graduation ceremonies at their schools’ football stadiums on Saturday 
morning.
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced a transition to fully online learning to close out last school year and students this year have dealt with masks and social distancing requirements, among other
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Upcountry Fiber created as rural broadband service provider
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS – A partnership between two utility cooperatives will create a new internet service provider that will bring high-speed broadband internet to Pickens County, including areas that are challenging to serve and have little internet access.
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative (BREC) and West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative announced on Tuesday the creation of Upcountry Fiber and an investment of more than $150 million.
The partnership will cover more than 1,800 square miles and will be broken into multiple projects rolling out over a forecasted five-year rollout in both
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Lions’ comeback cut short at state
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COLUMBIA — Down 3-0 in the first half, the Daniel High School boys’ soccer team was in uncharted territory against Brookland-Cayce during Saturday afternoon’s Class 3A state championship match.
The Lions, who had outscored opponents 127-20 over the course of the season, responded the only way they knew how, scoring just before halftime to cut into the deficit.
Then, just minutes into the second half, the Lions scored
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County baseball, soccer players named all-state
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — South Carolina all-state teams were announced for boys’ and girls’ soccer and baseball last week, and Pickens County was well represented, with nine players on the three teams.
The most impressive selection of the bunch was Easley High School senior Kasten Harvey. Harvey, who was named to the all-state team as a pitcher/shortstop, also earned Region I-4A Player of the Year honors and was named the South Carolina Class 4A Player of the Year.
The honors come for Harvey after a dominant year on the mound and in the batter’s box. On the season, Harvey is
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second on the team in batting average (.395) and RBIs (25), while leading the team in home runs (3) and stolen bases (20).
Just as impressively, Harvey has been a force on the mound for Easley after taking over a spot in the rotation midseason. In eight games, including five starts, Harvey has pitched 28 scoreless innings for the Green Wave, giving him a perfect ERA of 0.00. In that time, he’s picked up 47 strikeouts and three complete game shutouts, while opponents have hit just .122 against him.
Harvey isn’t the only dominant pitcher on the staff, as senior Josh Woody was also named to the all-state team for the Green Wave. Woody has served as the ace of the Easley rotation, and for good reason, sporting an 0.80 ERA in 11 appearances, including 10 starts, this season. Woody leads the Green Wave in strikeouts with 69 this season in 61.1 innings pitched and, like Harvey, has three complete-game shutouts.
The final Green Wave player named to the all-state team was senior catcher Ben Freeman. Freeman has proven to be among the toughest outs in the state this year, with a team-leading .451 batting average and he makes the most of those at-bats, also leading the Green Wave with 34 RBIs and 15 extra-base hits.
While Easley was the only dominant team in Pickens County on the diamond, both Daniel soccer clubs proved to be ahead of the competition on the pitch, with three boys and three girls each being named to the Class 3A all-state teams.
Starting with the boys, senior Luis Lezama, junior Ezra White and senior Tipton Wright were all named to the all-state team for the Class 3A Upper State champions.
Lezama, Daniel’s second-leading goal scorer with 19 on the season, was a force for the Lions all year, but was especially dominant in the playoffs. Lezama had seven goals and two assists in the Lions’ run to the state championship match. Lezama also finished tied for third on the team in assists with 11.
White was the man who made the Daniel offense go all season with his own brand of stellar ball control and scoring. Daniel’s leading goal scorer with 20, White also finished the year with the team lead in assists with 21.
The last of the Lion boys’ all-state selections, Wright also earned a spot in the North-South All-Star Game after his spectacular season. Wright was fourth on the Lions in goals scored with 15 and second on the team in assists with 13.
On the girls’ side, junior Katie Hudson and seniors Reece Murphree and Lauren Watrous were named all-state from the Upper State champion Lions.
Although Hudson had just two goals and two assists on the season, those numbers don’t tell the story of how she was a quintessential part of the Lions’ identity on defense. Daniel, which only gave up 11 goals over the course of the season, was one of the most dominant defensive teams in the state due to the play of Hudson on the back end.
On the attack, there was no one more important to the Lions than Murphree. Murphree finished the season second on the team in goals scored with 24, but her greatest impact came from her passing. Murphree had a team-high 34 assists for Daniel on the year, more than 20 more than her next-highest teammate, showing deft touch whenever the Lions were on the break. Murphree was also named as a participant in the North-South All-Star Game.
Last but not least for the Lions was Watrous. The team leader in goals with 25, Watrous hit shot after shot for the Lions on the season, including two in the biggest moments of the year. Tied at 1-1 with Powdersville in the Upper State championship, Watrous drilled a shot off a pass from Murphree to send Daniel to the state title match. Then, in the state championship, she put up the equalizer off a Courtney Smith corner kick to get the Lions back in the game. Like Murphree, Watrous will also be a participant in the North South All-Star Game.
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