By Bill Plott – AHSAA A coach with multiple talents, Tommie Larry Strain is one of 12 individuals in the Class of 2026 set to be inducted into the Alabama High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. The induction banquet will be tonight, March 23, at 6 p.m., at the Montgomery Renaissance Hotel and Convention…
With winter sports in the books for the 2025-26 school year the AHSAA has released its realignment for both the winter and spring sports for the next two years. The combined release is a reminder of the separation of public and private schools when it comes to championship competition. For years the AHSAA has had…
The Woodland Lady Bobcats are ranked No. 9 in Class 1A in the initial ASWA softball polls released today. Woodland is off to a 5-2-1 start to the season, with its two losses coming to 4A Handley and 5A Albertville. The tie was also against Albertville. Woodland returns seven starters from a team that went…
One day after RCHS broke into the win column with a late rally against Donoho, Woodland followed suit and knocked off RCHS for the Bobcats’ first win of the year. The early part of the season had been a struggle for both teams as RCHS got off to an 0-5 start, and Woodland lost its…
The Handley Tigers got a two-hit shutout from Kaleb Powell and made quick work of Cleburne County in a 10-0 win Wednesday at French Park in Wedowee. The game was part of RCHS’s annual week-long early-season, multi-team event that will include all four county teams over the next few days. The win is the second…
When you play on a stage as large as the state final four in Legacy Arena in Birmingham, you expect everything about the game play itself to be top of the line. It turns out that was not the case in Wadley’s Class 1A state semi-final game against Brantley Monday. Later that night, in between…
It’s not often that specific time stamps can tell the story of a high school basketball game, but the Wadley Bulldogs will be left to wonder what might have happened if not for what took place at the 1:54 mark of the first quarter and the 5:44 mark of the the third quarter. Wadley’s first-ever…
If you always thought the idea of a Southern Union football team was a little too far fetched, you may have the opportunity to be proven wrong in the not so distant future. The concept of junior college football returning to the state of Alabama has gained what some consider to be legitimate steam. Earlier…
The Wadley Bulldogs finally conquered a season-long nemesis and in the process advanced to the state final four for the first time in school history with a 53-49 win over Winterboro in the Class 1A Northeast Regional championship game Tuesday morning at Jacksonville State University. After losing to Winterboro in three previous meetings this season,…
The Handley Lady Tigers got their first win of the 2026 softball season and first under new head coach Lon Hurst, and they had to sweat out a seventh-inning threat from Woodland to do it. Handley won 6-5, but Woodland will be left to wonder what might have been if not for a couple of…