In & around SEC baseball
Week 8 review
Auburn
The Tigers won a pivotal series over SEC West foe Ole Miss last weekend. After losing the first game of the series, Auburn rallied and won the next two games. The Tigers have 18 come-from-behind victories this season. Auburn improved to 28-19 overall and 9-15 in conference play. Head coach John Pawlowski’s team travels to Gainesville this weekend
Local soccer squad wins state
The Gadsden-area Lady Fusion U-12 01 Black soccer team won the Alabama Youth Soccer Association state championship last weekend in Decatur.
In the championship game against Birmingham Legends, the Lady Fusion took a 2-0 lead into halftime. The Lady Fusion then scored early the second half to go up 3-0. After surrendering a goal midway through the second half, the Lady
Area athletes medal at state meet
Several local student-athletes turned in medal-winning performances on May 3-4 at the Alabama High School Athletic Association’s Class 1A-2A-3A state track and field meets at Selma and the Class 4A-5A-6A state meets in Gulf Shores. Glencoe sophomore Thomas Ozmint won the area’s lone first-place medal with his time of 43.10 seconds in the 300-meter hurdles […]
Etowah’s Bush signs with Cardinals
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
Darius Bush possesses some really good assets, assets that have combined to hand the Etowah High senior a basketball scholarship at Gadsden State Community College.
Bush was in one of those quandaries that college coaches hate. GSCC men’s basketball coach Todd Ginn wanted to sign Bush but wasn’t sure if he had the room available.
That
Five new members inducted into Southside Wall of Fame
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Members of the Southside Athletic Foundation gathered May 5 to add names to Southside High School’s Wall of Fame with the induction of five new members into the SHS Hall of Fame.
In doing so, the hall of fame added more than names and statistics. Southside High athletic director and head football coach Marty Smith said when he
Another lost opportunity to debate Accountability Act
I learned a lot of values from my dad. He served in the state legislature for 26 years, and one of the most important values he practiced as a legislator and that he passed on to me is that our government should operate honestly and out in the open so that the taxpayers can see what they are getting for
150th Civil War Tour at downtown Gadsden
Recently, the Vagabond was part of a 150th Civil War presentations and tour. On May 2, participants met at the Center for Cultural Arts and took a bus to see where the Sansom Crossing took place at Black Creek and where John Henry Wisdom’ began his ride.
On the afternoon of May 2, 1863, 150 years ago to the day, Colonel
Be part of ‘Impact’
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
Impact Gadsden grew from a desire to reach out to the community, Sheila Freeman, discipleship and children’s ministry director at First United Methodist Church of Gadsden, said.
“We had wanted to put together a day of outreach and service to the community,” she said. It’s an idea that has grown beyond anything Freeman and FUM Senior Pastor Harvey
Relay for Life slated May 17
By Donna Thornton/News Editor
The American Cancer Society Relay for Life officially gets underway at 6 p.m. May 17, at Crosspoint Community Church, but more than 30 teams of churches, businesses and families/friends have been at work raising money to support the ACS’s patient services and research programs for months in preparation for the event.
Regions Bank Branch Manager Jason Battles is