All-Messenger football team announced
By Chris McCarthy/Editor By now, Toby Pee’s scrapbook for this past high school football season is no doubt running out of pages. Pee must find room for yet another honor, however, as the Sardis High senior is the Player of the Year for the 2012 All-Messenger football team. The 6’0, 180-pound halfback produced arguably the […]
Sardis’ Pee highlights all-county football team
Sardis High’s Toby Pee recently was selected as overall MVP of the 2012 All-Etowah County Schools football team. The Lions’ senior running back rushed for 1,829 yards and 31 TDs and caught 46 passes for 595 yards and six scores. Pee is a finalist for the Alabama Sports Writers Association’s Class 4A Back of the […]
Area teams ranked in latest ASWA basketball poll
BOYS CLASS 6A 1. Carver-Mont. 2. Hoover (18-0) 3. Blount (16-2) 4. Lee-Huntsville 5. Thompson (20-2) 6. Sparkman (18-2) 7. Mountain Brook 8. Murphy (17-3) 9. McGill-Toolen 10. Tuscaloosa Co. CLASS 5A 1. Wenonah 2. Paul Bryant 3. Spanish Fort 4. Sumter Central 5. Shelby County 6. Parker 7. Homewood […]
In & around SEC basketball
Auburn Week 1 recap
Auburn’s women’s basketball team started SEC play with a home victory over Arkansas and a loss on the road at Missouri. Coach Williams-Flournoy has the Tigers at 12-3 overall and 1-1 in the SEC. The Tigers will face Texas A&M and Tennessee this week.
Auburn’s men’s team kicked off the 2013 SEC season with a home win
Bogle notches 500th victory
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent The 500-victory club among high school basketball coaches is rarified air in the state of Alabama. On the Friday before Christmas (Dec. 21), Gaston High girls coach Tonya Bogle joined that club when her Bulldogs beat Robertsdale in a Christmas tournament. Bogle was presented with a “500-win basketball” plaque last Tuesday […]
Are we “bowled” over yet?
Ole Miss disposed of Pittsburgh, 38-17, this past weekend in the 2013 BBVA Compass Bowl at Birmingham’s Legion Field in the 33rd bowl game of the college football season.
While bowl games produce some interesting matchups such as Saturday’s contest, has the bowl market become too saturated with the 35 games?
The Magic City’s game has struggled at the turnstiles during
Blue Devils trim Southside
By Mike Goodson/Sports Correspondent Etowah ran out to a 14-8 first quarter lead against Southside and never looked back en route to a 48-32 victory in Class 5A, Area 10 action last Tuesday in Attalla. The Blue Devil’s win was bittersweet, however, the hosts played without head coach James Graves, whose father passed away earlier […]
Lady Panthers withstand late Etowah surge
By Mike Goodson/Sports Correspondent Southside opened its Class 5A, Area 10 game against Etowah last Tuesday (Jan. 8) with a three-point bucket and never trailed en route to a 56-45 win in girls basketball in Attalla. Savannah Thomas paced the Lady Panthers with 11 points, followed by Haley Troup with 10, including the game’s first […]
Titans bury Pell City
By Matthew Martin/Sports Correspondent
The Gadsden City’s boys and girls basketball teams both turned in dominating performances against Pell City last Tuesday (Jan. 8) at GCHS.
Combining the Pell City boys’ and girls’ total points would have still come up short, with the Titan boys earning a 55-18 win, while the girls posted a 52-17 victory.
In the girls game, Pell City was