Sardis girls, Glencoe boys top seeds for county basketball tournament
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy/Publisher Sardis High School will host the 2025 Etowah County Schools varsity basketball tournament from Monday, Jan. 13 to Friday, Jan. 17. Defending champions are the Southside girls and the Sardis boys. This year’s girls seeding has Sardis at No. 1, Hokes Bluff at No. 2, Southside […]
All-Etowah County Schools football team announced
Photo courtesy of Alex Chaney The 2024 All-Etowah County Football Schools football team was released earlier this week by the system’s six head football coaches. Selected as Overall MVP was Hokes Bluff junior quarterback Bryce Whitaker (pictured below at left), who finished the season with 2,056 combined yards passing and rushing while scoring 24 touchdowns. […]
Sardis hitter leads off All-County volleyball team
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy Sardis High’s Vada Willmore was selected Player of the Year for the 2024 All-Etowah County Schools volleyball team by the system’s six head coaches. A junior hitter, Willmore (pictured below) helped the Lady Lions win the county tournament for the first time in 29 years. She finished the season […]
All-County cross country, cheer teams announced
Messenger file photo by Chris McCarthy The cross country coaches for the six teams in the Etowah County Schools System recently released the all-county team for the 2024 season. Making the girls’ team were Lydia Kay, Marlee Tucker, Payton Ridley, Taylor Dortch, Lucy Valentine and Riley Hulsey from Southside and Kenndi Nix, Kenzli Nix and […]
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Coosa backer highlights All-Messenger football
Photo courtesy of Average Joe’s Sports Talk By Chris McCarthy,, Publisher If Clete O’Bryant has not yet decided on a field of study in college, he might consider pre-med. The Coosa Christian senior linebacker (pictured below) made quite a career for himself as a top-notch diagnostician of an opponents’ strategy. “I’m not blessed with a […]
Hokes Bluff, Westbrook have strong showings in holiday tournaments
Photo courtey of Alex Chaney Hokes Bluff went 3-0 at the recent Hilburn-Patterson Holiday Invitational Tournament at Haralson County, Ga. On Thursday, Dec. 26, the Class 4A No. 8 Eagles (14-3) defeated Haralson County by a score of 58-49. For Hokes Bluff, Anthony Gooch shot 55 percent (5-for-9) from the 3-point line on the way […]
Local basketball coach reaches career milestone
Messneger file photo by Chris McCarthy By Chris McCarthy, Publisher Westbrook Christian’s boys basketball coach gave credit where credit was due after reaching the 500th career win mark. “I’m fortunate that the Good Lord has provided me the opportunity to coach for so long,” said Neal Wester following the Warriors’ 79-24 win over Ragland during […]
Area football players make all-region team
By Chris McCarthy/Publisher Photo by Alex Chaney A number of Westbrook Christian and Glencoe football players were recently selected to the Class 3A, All-Region 6 team for the 2024 season. Making the first team were sophomore quarterback Brody Blevins, sophomore linebacker Titus Jones, senior linebacker Noah Wright and sophomore kicker Read Barber from the Warriors […]