Titan greenhorns will play early and often
By Gene Stanley/Correspondent
Gadsden City High won’t just be young this football season.
The Titans will also be inexperienced.
“What I mean is that we’ll have some juniors and se-niors that didn’t play last year,” coach Matt Scott said. “We’ve got a bunch of sophomores and freshmen, so we will be both young and inexperienced.
“But we don’t look
Southside set to slide up region ladder
(Editors note: this article was published after Southside head football coach and athletic director Marty Smith resigned his positions on Aug. 21)
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
Marty Smith said it’s no secret what his Southside High football team will hope to accomplish this season – and there are a couple of good reasons.
One, the most experienced group of
New Etowah coach has large roster at his disposal
By Gene Stanley/Correspondent
Besides knowing that Drew Noles is a good coach, Etowah High has another advantage in the program’s latest coaching change.
Noles is already very familiar with the Blue Devils and the rest of Class 5A, Region 7, from having to compete against them at Boaz for the past 16 years.
“I am familiar with the region,”
Senior-laden Sardis ready to take the next step
By Gene Stanley/Correspondent
Sardis High has grown into a team that expects to make the state playoffs each year, as the Lions have played in the postseason in seven of the past eight seasons.
With a roster loaded with 22 seniors, Sardis appears ready to take another step and advance a game or two into the postseason.
“I hope
Eagles looking to hang with region heavyweights
By Gene Stanley/Correspondent
Hokes Bluff High experienced a rare down year in 2012. Will that trend continue in 2013?
Time will tell, but coach Mike Robertson doesn’t think this season will be quite as difficult.
Playing in what he dubbed the “SEC Central” can make a good team look bad.
“We were a good team (last year) to have
Intangibles a big part of 2013 Yellow Jackets
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
If there’s one word that Lee Ozmint likes to use to describe this season’s Glencoe High football team, it’s ‘speed.’
Another is ‘strength.’
Then there’s ‘competitive.’
“We’re going to be pretty inexperienced, which can be a recipe for disaster or for success,” Ozmint said. “It will depend on a number of things, including character, heart
Former Warrior standout to lend a hand in 2013
By Matthew Martin/Sports Correspondent
Westbrook enters the 2013 high school football season having to replace 14 seniors from last year’s squad.
One of those graduated players is former quarterback Jonathan Ford, a Birmingham Southern signee who accounted for 2,000-plus yards in 2012.
Westbrook coach Tony Osborne is looking to senior Jake Kilgo to replace Ford.
“The biggest question has
Young but seasoned Patriot squad set to go
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
In 2012, West End High had a very young football team.
Now, strike the word ‘very’ and say the Patriots are a young squad.
Last year, West End had six seniors and five juniors. In 2013, there are again six seniors but nine juniors – and the eighth-graders and freshmen from a year ago are
Morris once again at the helm of the Bulldogs
By Gene Stanley/Sports Correspondent
The first time Swane Morris became head football coach at Gaston High, it took him a season to show a lot of improvement.
Morris’ first edition of the Bulldogs in 2001 went 1-9 and Morris’ second team finished 7-4. Gaston never again missed the playoffs during his nine-year tenure.
Morris left Gaston following the 2009 season