All-star tournaments for local youth baseball teams in four different age groups will begin Monday, with tournaments being played in Roanoke, Wedowee, Ashland and Lineville. Roanoke will host the 4-team “Major” tournament with the oldest age group of 11 and 12 year-olds. The 9 and 10 year-olds will also play in a four-team tournament beginning…
We all have the subjects in school that become our favorites, and many times some form of those subjects becomes the focal point of our adult lives. For me, the two topics that always held my attention were sports and history. I was decent in math and can get caught up in the magic of…
With a virtual revolving door of head football coaches over the past dozen seasons, maybe a coach who has been there for nearly a decade can steady the Woodland football program. Woodland has named long-time assistant coach Charles Wood to take over the program. Wood steps into the lead role after serving as an assistant…
I published a story earlier this week that said that Handley’s Breydan Watkins set the county’s career home run record among varsity softball players when she hit her 36th career long ball this past season. Turns out that was not correct. When I originally looked back on the career numbers of RCHS’s Talee Sims, who…
RCHS entered its second appearance in the 3A state tournament Thursday seeking the school’s first win on the state’s biggest stage. They’ll leave Oxford with that quest unfinished as they dropped both games to end their season. The silver lining is that all but one of the players on this team will be back next…
Woodland’s state tournament run ended in its third game of the day Tuesday, and in the end it was old nemesis Maplesville that landed the final blow to the Lady Bobcats’ season. Maplesville followed a demoralizing trend that haunted Woodland throughout the day. The Lady Red Devils scored seven of their 10 runs with two…
This is a story about two county teams that will be playing in this year’s state softball tournament. So don’t fall asleep or get distracted when you read the next sentence. RCHS has just one senior on its team, and Woodland has just two. For a pair of programs that are relative newcomers to the…
(Editor’s note: There is a correction to this story with information that came to light after this article was published. That story with the corrected information can be read here.) When Handley’s Breydan Watkins hit a two-run home run against Talladega in a 16-0 win in the team’s area tournament earlier this month, she not…
The first two home runs that RCHS sophomore catcher Hannah Parmer hit in the Class 3A North Regional in Albertville, she had to exert maximum effort on inside-the-park trips around the bases. The third home run Parmer hit may as well have been a victory lap. Parmer’s three-run shot over the fence in left field…
It’s a safe bet that Woodland pitcher Railey Williams will have a long, restful slumber tonight, and it will most likely begin on the bus ride home. And she can do it knowing that her team team’s next game will be in the state tournament after the Lady Cats knocked off Fayetteville 5-0 in the…