Matt Scott named GCHS grid coach
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent Remember the excitement in 2006 when Gadsden City High’s first football team hit the field? Recall the optimism when that inaugural squad, comprised of players from Gadsden High, Emma Sansom and Litchfield, finished with a 9-2 record and a playoff appearance? Fast forward to 2012. Despite making the Class 6A semifinals […]
In & around SEC basketball
Auburn Week 3 recap The Auburn women’s team fell to 13-6 overall and 2-4 in SEC play after dropping two games to Tennessee and Kentucky. Coach Williams-Flournoy and the Tigers need wins and need them soon, or else AU will likely miss the NCAA tournament. Auburn plays LSU next Thursday (Jan. 31). After starting 2-0 […]
Area teams ranked in ASWA poll
BOYS
CLASS 6A
1. Hoover
2. Mountain Brook
3. McGill-Toolen
4. Carver-Mont.
5. Lee-Huntsville
6. Hazel Green
7. Murphy
8. Thompson
9. Opelika
10. Austin
CLASS 5A
1. Wenonah
2. Paul Bryant
3. Sumter Central
4. Homewood
5. Jackson
6. Shelby County
7. Sylacauga
8. Parker
9. Central-Tusc.
10. Spanish Fort
CLASS 4A
1. Madison County
2. Dallas County
3. Douglas
4. Brooks
Panthers’ Troup notches 200th win
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent It took Southside High boys basketball coach Kevin Troup only 10 and a half seasons to eclipse the 200-victory mark. Just past the midway point of the 2012-13 season, his Panthers defeated Class 5A, Area 10 foe Etowah for his 200th win. Five of those seasons were at Emma Sansom, where […]
Sardis ace inks with Cardinals
By Chris McCarthy/Publisher/Editor
“I just play and don’t worry about that stuff.”
Such was Bethany Chamblee’s response to a question concerning her game-high strikeout total as a member of the Sardis High varsity softball team.
Bethany’s team-first mentality was among the many things that impressed the Gadsden State softball coaching staff.
Suffice to say, it was not a coincidence that the Lady Lions’ senior
Former Etowah football standout named Scottsboro coach
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent After years of coaching in the college football ranks, a former Etowah High and Auburn University player is now a high school coach. Patrick Nix was hired last week as head coach at Scottsboro, replacing Swane Morris. Morris headed up the Wildcats for three seasons, winning five games out of 30. […]
Covering the Blue-Gray game….sort of
By Mike Goodson/Sports Correspondent After 57 years of watching the Blue-Gray Classic college football game on television, I finally attended the historic contest this past weekend. Well, kind of. Although the game is no longer the Blue-Gray Classic and is no longer played on Christmas Day, I finally have filled another item on my “bucket […]
Tiger spiker signs with GSCC
By Shannon Fagan/Cherokee County Herald
Cedar Bluff High School senior Audrianna Hargitt recently signed a volleyball scholarship with Gadsden State. She the first Cedar Bluff volleyball player to sign a college scholarship.
“As I look back and realize how I’ve grown as a volleyball player, I never thought this day would come,” Hargitt said. “Now that it has, I have so many
Life around the Dwight Mill Village, part 5
Ed (W.A.) Lewis of the Etowah Historical Society recently brought a booklet to the Vagabond about someone from the Dwight Cotton Mill Village. Called “A USA Mill Town Saga of the 1900’s,” the book was written by Eugene Livingston, who wrote what he remembered about the times, hardships, laughter and love shared between two families, Jim and Ester Livingston and