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Rogers golf tourney scheduled this month
PICKENS — The 17th annual Charles F. Rogers Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, May 22.
The tournament, which annually benefits a male and female senior basketball player from Pickens High School planning to attend a university, college or technical school, is set to kick off with a 2 p.m. shotgun start at Southern Oaks Golf
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Course in Easley.
The tournament will follow a captain’s choice format, and entry costs $75 per person or $300 per four-person team.
Hole sponsorships are available for $100, $75 and $50, and prizes will be awarded for first, second- and third-place teams, longest drive and closest to the pin. Entry deadline is May 21.
Lunch will be provided from noon-1:30 p.m.
“Since we established this scholarship fund, we have been blessed with so many supporting us,” organizer Butch Morris said. “We have donated more than $20,000 in scholarship money as well as donations within our community since Charles passed away in 2004.”
For more information, contact Rodney Wakefield at (864) 898-3718 or Morris at (864) 878-0373 or (864) 420-7277. Entry deadline is June 19, and all checks should be made payable to Charles F. Rogers Scholarship Fund.
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By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
POWDERSVILLE — As time wound down in Monday night’s Class 3A Upper State championship matchup between Daniel and Powdersville, 
both teams struggled to get over the gap and take control.
The Lions had hopped out to a 1-0 lead late in the first half, but the Patriots battled back to tie it up in the second.
With just four minutes to go and their first-ever trip to the state championship on the line, the Lions turned to their senior playmaking stalwarts Reece Murphree and Lauren Watrous.
The duo didn’t disappoint, as Murphree found Watrous with a perfect pass, which she sent into the lower left corner of the net to secure a 2-1 win and cement their
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Lions in Upper State championship
By Michael Crouchley
Courtesy The Journal
michael@upstatetoday.com
CENTRAL — After a dominant regular season, the Daniel High School boys’ soccer team hasn’t slowed down in the playoffs.
Following an 11-0 win over Chester in opening-round action on Wednesday, the Lions were able to pick up where they left off in Friday’s second-round home game against Powdersville, beating the Patriots 5-0 and booking their ticket to the Class 3A Upper State championship game.
“You have to give credit to Powdersville, because they’re really hard workers,” Daniel coach Phil Boyer said. “They ran through everything, and full credit to them for pushing us. To be in a really physical, chippy game in a playoff
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Kerwin nabs 300th win
Liberty High School head baseball coach Scott Kerwin hit a major milestone last week, picking up his 300th career win against Greenville Tech at home. Kerwin’s Red Devils took care of business against the Warriors with a 15-0 win. Coaching a young group this season, Kerwin led his squad to a 5-7 mark in region play, including a 5-2 record in their last seven region games. The Red Devils will finish their regular season today (Wednesday) in a matchup with county foe Daniel.
Rogers golf tourney scheduled this month
PICKENS — The 17th annual Charles F. Rogers Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, May 22.
The tournament, which annually benefits a male and female senior basketball player from Pickens High School planning to attend a university, college or technical school, is set to kick off with a 2 p.m. shotgun start at Southern Oaks Golf Course in Easley.
The tournament will follow a captain’s choice format, and entry costs $75 per person or $300
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Green Wave soccer falls to Eastside in round 2
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — 2021 had been a dream season for the Easley Green Wave boys’ soccer team.
The Wave won their first region title in more than a decade this year, then, in the first round of the playoffs, they knocked off defending Class 4A state champion Dreher despite being down two goals at the half.
It seemed like more magic might be on the table on Friday against Eastside, as the Green Wave, after trailing since the third minute of action, tied the game at 1-1 on a Feran Nunez penalty kick
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Pickens’ Cloer recalls hunts
By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier
fter several weeks of action, spring turkey season is winding down in South Carolina. I can vividly remember my Grandpa W.T. Cloer working on his turkey calls.
My family’s sawmill home and Grandpa’s home were next to each other in the little sawmill village 
in the mountains of Northern Georgia in the 1950s.
Grandpa made his calls from cedar, walnut and poplar wood as he and I spent precious time together in his woodworking shop. He always made
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Flame making playoff push
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Coming out of their series with Easley, the Pickens Blue Flame knew they had a 
daunting task ahead. Their only path to the playoffs was winning the remainder of their four-game region slate.
That trek toward the playoffs began over the weekend against Travelers Rest, and
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Pickens’ Howard signs with Hampden-Sydney
PICKENS — The Pickens High School football team added another member to its signing class last 
week, as defensive lineman Peyton Howard signed to play on the next level at Hampden-Sydney College.
Howard was a difference maker on the Blue Flame’s defensive line last season, finishing fifth on the team in
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Lions one win away from perfect region slate after defeating BHP
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
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CENTRAL — The Daniel High School boys’ soccer team has been among the best in the state this season, and the Lions showed no sign of slowing down during a 14-0 victory against Belton-Honea Path on senior night Monday.
“It was a great night for our seniors to get out and play,” Daniel coach Phillip Boyer said. “I told them before the game that senior night is great, but if you don’t play well, that’s what you’ll end up remembering.”
Luckily for the Daniel seniors, it was a night to remember, as seven different seniors managed to score on the Bears, including a particularly impressive day from Xander Smiley, who had a hat trick 20 minutes into the game.
After a few missed opportunities in the early minutes, the floodgates opened for the Lions in the ninth minute on a goal by Luis Lezama. The Lions scored nine more goals in the next 28 minutes to build a 10-0 halftime lead.
In the second half, it was more of the same for Daniel even after some subbing, as the Lions added four more goals to pick up the 14-0 win.
For the Lions (13-4, 9-0 Western 3A), the big win was the latest in a line of destruction in region play, in which Daniel has outscored opponents 70-2.
However, the Lions still have one more test in a trip Thursday to second-place Wren to secure a region championship and a perfect region record.
Daniel handed Wren its worst loss of the season, an 8-0 thrashing, in the first contest between the teams, but Boyer knows that the 12-3 Hurricanes still present a challenge.
“I expect it to be a dog fight,” Boyer said. “I’ve been telling the guys for the last couple of weeks that the first score doesn’t matter, because this is going to be a different game. It’s at Wren this time, and for whatever reason sometimes we don’t play well there, so we’re going to have to work harder because they have nothing to lose.”
Daniel 14, BHP 0
WHS 0 0 — 0
DWD 10 4 — 14
Goals
First half
DWD — Lezama, 9’
DWD — Smiley, 13’
DWD — Smiley, 17’
DWD — Lezama, 19’
DWD — Smiley, 20’
DWD — Tapper, 21’
DWD — J. Lizardi, 28’
DWD — Medina, 31’
DWD — Turner, 34’
DWD — R. Lizardi, 37’
Second half
DWD — Purkerson, 54’
DWD — Kome, 59’
DWD — Daniel, 72’
DWD — Patti, 77’
