If you had said before the season began that just one of the eight county basketball teams would win its area championship, it would probably have taken at least a couple of guesses before you predicted the right one. For the first time in school history the RCHS girls basketball team has won its area…
Wadley girls (at Winterboro) vs. Faith Christian Mon., Feb. 5, 3 p.m. Championship Tues., Feb. 6, 5 p.m. Wadley boys (at Winterboro) vs. Faith Christian Mon., Feb. 5, 4:30 p.m. Championship Tues., Feb. 6, 7 p.m. Woodland girls (at Ranburne) vs. Pleasant Valley Mon., Feb. 5, 6 p.m. Championship Wed., Feb. 7, 6 p.m. Woodland…
Three Handley grads spent time in legendary coach’s Alabama program One of the inherent elements of college football is the debates that that sport tends to ignite. Who should be in the playoff? Who should win the Heisman? Who had the best team of all time? Drop one of those questions into a room full…
The Wadley girls’ lost their first two games of the Heflin Hoops Classic by narrow margins before salvaging the week with a win over Weaver. That win was made even sweeter as Wadley star A’Mya Brown scored the 1,000th point of her career just eight games into her junior year. Brown was an all-state honorable…
A total of 13 players from five differ-ent local football teams were respresent-ed when the Alabama Sportswriters Association (ASWA) announced its all-state teams for the 2023 season last week. Clay Central led the way with four players named to the 5A team. RCHS had three players named to the 3A team, while Handley, Ranburne and…
Last week Results (Nov. 17th) BTW 22, Handley 9 St. James 41, RCHS 6 Wadley 81, S. Lamar 27 Standout performances Mo Winston, RCHS: 17 car., 74 yards, TD Jaquez Wilkes, Wadley: 16 car., 187 yards, 3 TD Cortavion Lynch, Wadley: 12 car., 190 yards, 3 TD Frisco Robertson, Wadley: Int. ret. TD, punt ret.…
A week after setting the school record for points in a game, Handley’s offense found much more potent resistance in the defense of Booker T. Washington Friday in Tuskegee, and the result was a 22-9 defeat that gave Handley its earliest playoff exit since a second-round loss in 2019. Big plays in the passing game…
In the battle of the two winningest coaches in the history of Alabama high school football, No. 1 stunned No. 2 as Terry Curtis’s fourth-seeded UMS-Wright team came to Lineville and knocked off Danny Horn’s top-seeded Clay Central 7-0 in Friday’s Class 5A first-round playoff game. The two coaches drummed up a dueling defensive masterpiece…
The last time Wadley and Cedar Bluff met, Wadley lost on a heartbreaking go-ahead touchdown pass in the final minute of a 2015 playoff game. And if there’s such a thing as an exact opposite of a last-second loss, Wadley’s first-round playoff reunion with Cedar Bluff Thursday night was it. The Bulldogs led from start…
Many people love November because they see it as the start of the Christmas season. (Whether that’s actually true is up for debate. I’ll just say that your Christmas season can start whenever you believe it does. The real one starts the day after thanksgiving.) What’s not up for debate is what the month of…