Eric is an award-winning writer who has been with the Daily Journal/Messenger since August 2007. He primarily covers athletics at the area high schools while also occasionally covering Clemson athletics.

He is a 2002 graduate of Daniel High School and a 2007 graduate of Clemson University, where he served in various capacities with the Tiger student newspaper from 2005-2007, including Sports Editor.

Recent Stories

• Tigers wary of ‘white meat’
  Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
  In the annals of college football, few coaches have been as memorable, iconic or quotable as “The Legend” himself, Frank Howard.
  
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• Tigers' Potter, Smith shining early
  Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
  With all of the attention focused on Trevor Booker leading into the season, and through the first two games of 2009-10 slate so far, plenty of opportunities have opened up for the rest of the Clemson basketball team. | Read more

• Tigers’ O-line transitions from liability to strength
  Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
  A throwback, old-school coach in the tradition of his mentor, Gene Stallings, among others, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney has left little doubt about the secret to his team’s success. As his offensive line goes, so go the rest of his Tigers.
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• Warriors' Highsmith signs with SWU
  Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
  Even with a season left to go in his high school career, and plenty of yet-unachieved goals laying out on the table for the taking, there’s no shortage of praise for West-Oak High School senior Billy Joe Highsmith. | Read more

• Tigers looking for complete road performance
  Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
  While the memory of an embarrassing loss last month at Maryland may seem like a distant one from a fan perspective, it certainly isn’t for Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney and the rest of his team. | Read more

• Tigers use deep ball early, often in win
  Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
  With all the talk of losing deep-shooting assassins Terrence Oglesby and K.C. Rivers, one of the big questions coming into the season was who on the Clemson basketball team would step up and replace them. | Read more

• Tigers set to tip off much-anticipated season
  Friday, Nov. 13, 2009
  It hadn’t quite hit Oliver Purnell by the time he met with members of the media on Thursday, and it probably won’t until he pulls himself out of bed this morning. | Read more

• Warriors take aim at the next step
  Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
  Prior to the start of the season, the slogan laid out before the West-Oak High School football team was 'Competitors Wanted,' which was not only stressed to the squad, but could also be found on plenty of T-shirts in the stands on Friday nights at Warrior Field.
  
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• Bobcats' Ernst signs with LSU
  Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
  With a lengthy list of accomplishments that rivals any student-athlete in the area, it was only fitting that Seneca High School senior Austin Ernst would have her pick of almost any school in the country to attend.
  
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• Lions' Hoover headed to Anderson
  Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
  For Daniel High School senior Hayley Hoover, it was never a question of if. It was only a matter of where.
  
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