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Bishops come back to snap Daniel’s state title streak
By Ian Taylor
Courtesy The Journal
itaylor@upstatetoday.com
COLUMBIA — When the South Carolina High School League realigned its classifications last summer, one of the many moves was sending Daniel High School up to Class 4A.
A ramification of the shift was that the Lions’ boys’ soccer team could not defend its three straight Class 3A state titles, and it meant that a fourth straight would have to be
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Lions drop Upper State to Seneca
CENTRAL — Down 1-0 in the Upper State championship series against rival Seneca, the Daniel High School baseball team hosted the Bobcats on Thursday hoping to force a 
third game in the series.
Both sides fought to pull ahead with things knotted at 1-1 after five innings, only for the Bobcats to pull ahead by scoring two runs in the sixth inning. Daniel looked to respond but left two runners stranded at the corners to end the inning and fared no better in the
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SDPC graduation set for Saturday
CLEMSON — More than 1,100 Pickens County high school seniors will cross a stage into their future at graduation ceremonies at Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum on 
Saturday.
The 312 members of Pickens High School’s Class of 2025 will open the day with their commencement at 9 a.m. Led by valedictorian Kaylen
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Fury eliminate Pickens softball
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Facing off with Fountain Inn with their season on the line, the Pickens High School softball team sent the top of its lineup to the batter’s box in the bottom of
the seventh inning looking to pull off one more comeback as they trailed the Fury 3-2 on Saturday afternoon.
Kylie Thornall managed to reach base on a walk for the Blue Flame, but the team just
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Late surge sends Daniel to Upper State championship
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
FOUNTAIN INN — With a trip to their first Upper State baseball championship since 1997 on the line, the Daniel High School baseball team traveled to Fountain Inn on Saturday for game three of their series against the Fury.
Tied at 2-2 after five innings, the Lions looked like they were going to have to sweat out the clinching game. However, the Daniel bats came to life in the sixth with the Lions
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Prisma breaks ground on new Behavioral Health hospital
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — As a psychiatrist and emergency physician, Dr. Karen Lommel said she sees firsthand “the devastation of untreated mental illness, but also the lifesaving value of access to the right treatment at the right time.”
The chair of psychiatry for Prisma Health in the Upstate, Lommel spoke Monday morning at the groundbreaking for Prisma Health’s behavioral health hospital, a $138 million facility being built at the intersection of S.C. Highway 153 and Old Easley Bridge
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Monument to Vietnam vets rolls into Pickens County
LIBERTY — The wait is finally over this week, as the Pickens County Veterans Affairs office welcomed the Wall That Heals to Pickens County on Tuesday.
The traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica arrived in Easley on Tuesday, May 13, with an official escort from Rock Springs Baptist Church.
The escort traveled down U.S. Highway 123 to Deer Wood Farms, located at 765 Breazeale Road in Liberty. Community members and local businesses were encouraged
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