We won the games in Silverdale and Clifton<u>,</u> but we lost to Jenson after a turnaround in the fourth quarter and two overtimes.
You should put a comma before but only when but is connecting two independent clauses. You must leave it out if it does not connect two independent clauses.
The definition of Blight as I recall it is to suffer over some event or
wrong or be affected by something that has happened. The poem is about a
man who is thinking about a woman, and it is causing him blight, as
seen in the poem. "stern agony, and shroud, and pall" "Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart" are the only two that actually express any "blight" in the excerpt at all.