LAURINBURG — Weather permitting, Saturday’s edition of The Laurinburg Exchange will be delivered Monday. The office is currently without power.

CAMERON - The Fighting Scots (4-3) came into their first matchup ever against the Union Pines Vikings (2-4) with a lot of matters out of their control. Injuries have plagued the Scots’ depth at multiple positions, the Vikings were coming into Thursday’s game off a bye week, and the Scots were playing on a short week due to Hurricane Ian forcing the game to move from Friday to Thursday.

LAURINBURG — The City of Laurinburg is under a state of emergency in advance of Tropical Storm Ian.

LAURINBURG - The Lady Scots tennis team (0-8) fell for the eighth time this year, going down against the Pinecrest Patriots (11-2) 0-9 on Wednesday afternoon.

LAURINBURG - In the Lady Scots’ (9-6) last three contests, two of them ended up going to five sets. The script would continue Wednesday night as the Lady Scots defeated the Union Pines Vikings (10-7) in five sets. The set scores were 25-27, 25-22, 25-13, 14-25, and 15-12.

LAURINBURG — The Scotland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a badly decomposed body that was found Tuesday evening.

WEST POINT, G.A. - The Knights continued their AAC Conference schedule against the Point University Skyhawks in West Point, Georgia. Although the Knights remained in the match in all three sets, they weren’t able to capitalize on a set victory and fell at the hands of the Skyhawks in 3-0 fashion.