For a team that had reached the state title game by gallivanting through the open field and scoring at will, the 1A championship game presented a different challenge for the Wadley Bulldogs. But, as most champions are, these Bulldogs were fully equipped to meet that challenge and win it. The result was the Bulldogs’ first-ever…
The Wadley Bulldogs are heading back to Birmingham. Wadley continued on its playoff path of destruction in Friday’s state semifinal game against Hackleburg as the Bulldogs won 69-31 and punched their ticket to the 1A state championship game next Thursday at 3 p.m. at Protective Stadium in Birmingham. It will be Wadley’s second trip to…
It’s safe to say the Volunteers of Clay Central had not faced a defense this season nearly as stingy as what they encountered Friday in Montgomery. The defensive performance in a battle between the two top-ranked teams in Class 5A resulted in a 21-9 Central loss to Montgomery Catholic in the 5A state quarterfinals. For…
In every Wadley game this season there has been a snowball, a seemingly exponential accumulation of Bulldog points as inevitable as gravity. In the Bulldogs’ 55-22 win over Meek in the second round of the Class 1A playoffs that snowball came amid a storm of Meek special teams miscues in the second quarter. Wadley flipped…
A series of special teams plays helped put RCHS in a deep first-half hole, and the Tigers were overwhelmed in the third quarter as they fell to Trinity 65-42 in the first round of the Class 3A state playoffs Friday in Wedowee. The Wildcats recovered an early onside kick on their way to a 16-0…
The regular season ended with a thud for the three local teams that took the field Friday night, with two of those teams taking losses to close out their seasons, and the other with a shot at redemption in the first round of the playoffs next week. Ranburne’s season ended with a 40-7 loss at…
If Friday’s game against Booker T. Washington was the final game the Handley seniors play at Wright Field, it’s one they’ll never forget. The Tigers rallied from 11 points down in the second half and staved off Booker T. Washington’s desperate attempt at a comeback of their own for a dramatic 44-40 win. The victory…
Woodland head coach Kevin Smith is going to have to find someone who can cook a LOT of steaks. The first-year coach made a promise to his team that if they scored 50 points AND pitched a shutout that he would treat the team to a steak dinner. After Woodland dominated Fayetteville 54-0 Friday, coach…
Handley scored the game’s first two touchdowns and the only touchdown for either team in the second half. But in between all of that, Tallassee scored 28 unanswered points. Those 15 minutes of domination covering the final minutes of the first quarter and a 21-0 second quarter were enough to get Tallassee to a 31-22…
Central Clay County’s 29-7 victory Friday night over Elmore County and Citronelle’s 14-7 triumph over UMS-Wright made Coach Danny Horn the winningest football coach in AHSAA state history. UMS-Wright’s Terry Curtis started the season as the AHSAA’s winningest coach but heading into this week’s games, he and Horn were deadlocked with 357 wins each. Horn’s…