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Lions’ Williams captures second XC state championship
By Eric Sprott
Courtesy The Journal
sports@upstatetoday.com
NEWBERRY — With roughly 900 meters to go in the final cross-country meet of her high school career, Ashby Williams assumed she was in a race for second place Friday morning.
As it turns out, the day ultimately belonged to the Daniel High School senior.
After seemingly jockeying for second place with Nora Brahim of Bishop England, Williams quickly made up ground against frontrunner Daya Ross of Wren at the Class 4A State championship meet at The Farm at Newberry College.
Ferociously closing the gap in the final 400 meters, Williams passed Ross as they neared the finish line, as the Lions’ senior
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Red Devils win inaugural Liberty Tip-Off tourney
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — Trailing 25-19 at halftime of its Liberty Tip-Off tournament championship game with Greer Middle College, the Liberty High School boys’ basketball team knew there was still a battle ahead if they wanted to win the tournament’s inaugural crown, with Red Devil head coach Brenden Marcell preaching the importance of playing under control as they prepared to come out of the locker room.
“I told them that the team with the most composure is going to win this game,” Marcell said. “I felt like in the first half we
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God loves unity
When we read, in Matthew 22:36-40, about our Lord being questioned by the Pharisees as to which is the greatest commandment in the law, He answers, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your 
mind. It comes first. The second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. Everything in the Law and the prophets hangs on these two commandments.”
So, Christ is telling us, that if all God’s laws had to be summarized and if He had only one commandment, it would be this: that we are to love God and each
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Blue Ridge Bank opens new Pickens branch
PICKENS — Blue Ridge Bank recently held the grand opening of its new branch at 628 Ann St. in Pickens.
The office will operate from a temporary building while construction is underway on a 3,239-square-foot bank branch on the same lot.
The branch office follows the successful opening of its loan office in Pickens in 2022. Blue Ridge Bank is headquartered in
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McManus, Wilson win Pickens runoffs
By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Voters in the city of Pickens returned to the polls one final time this election cycle to fill two open city council 
seats in Tuesday’s municipal runoff election.
Ray Wilson and John McManus took the open seats on council as 17 percent of registered voters within the city took to the polls to make their voice known.
Wilson will finish the final 36 months of the term for an unexpired council seat previously held by Danny Adams after getting 200 votes compared to opponent Jonathan Holder’s 145 votes.
Meanwhile, McManus took down opponent Ed Leese 179 votes to 164 votes to finish the final 12 months of the term for the seat previously held by Robert Nealy.
The two new members will join sitting council members Cameron Rivers, Floyd Rogers and Allie Winter, while Councilman Donnie McKinney remains suspended from office after being indicted on a charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor in December 2022.
Election results are unofficial until being certified Thursday.
Blue Flame win 17th volleyball state title
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COLUMBIA — Down 24-19 in the third set of Saturday’s Class 4A state championship with May River, the Pickens High 
School volleyball team looked to be in serious danger of falling behind 2-1 in the crucial swing set.
The Blue Flame had trailed for the entirety of the third set, and with the Sharks one point away from taking it, Pickens head coach Mellie Crumpton’s message to her team was clear.
“I told my setters that (Kaylon Chapman) was on,” Crumpton said. “We need to feed her. That’s our team’s thing. If we have
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County volleyball players named all-state
By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — The S.C. Coaches Association for Women’s Sports (SCCAWS) announced its 2024 All-State volleyball teams earlier this month and Pickens County was well represented with four athletes being selected for the team.
Daniel High School’s Zara Russell and Sarah Ulrich, Liberty’s Payton Miller and Pickens’ Kaylon Chapman were all selected for their respective classifications.
Russell and Ulrich were essential to the Lions this season as they won their third consecutive region
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