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Clinton sets 2025 football schedule, looks to rebound

The Darkhorses went 2-8 last season; they'll play Lakewood this year for the first time since 1982

Mike Duprez

Clinton has set its 2025 football schedule.
Clinton has set its 2025 football schedule. / File photo

Traditional power Clinton, decimated by transfers, tumbled to a 2-8 record last season after going 15-1 and reaching the 2-A state championship game in 2023.

The Darkhorses have released their 2025 schedule as they seek a reboot as a 4-A school in a new 3-A/4-A conference with Heide Trask (3-A), Pender (3-A), South Lenoir (3-A), East Duplin (4-A) and Southwest Onslow (4-A).

Clinton is playing Lakewood for the first time since 1982.

Here is the schedule:

Aug. 22 – at Lakewood

Aug. 29 – Midway

Sept. 5 – Wallace-Rose Hill

Sept. 12 – at East Bladen

Sept. 19 – at Whiteville

Oct. 3 – at Pender

Oct. 10 – South Lenoir

Oct. 17 – East Duplin

Oct. 24 – Heide Trask

Oct. 31 – at Southwest Onslow

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MIKE DUPREZ

Mike Duprez became a freelance sports journalist for Scorebooklive.com several months after retiring from the newspaper business. A native of Oakland, California, Duprez moved around as a child due to his father’s service in the United States Marine Corps. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. Duprez, who lives in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, had 30 years of experience in newspapers as well as other endeavors before retiring at the end of 2021. He covers stories in both North Carolina and South Carolina for Scorebooklive.com.

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