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The Handley Lady Tigers are one win away from the state final four.
When the Handley Lady Tigers step onto the court against Trinity in the Southeast Regional semifinals on Monday in Montgomery, they’ll have something that none of the players who took that same court a year ago had – experience. Read more
There’s nothing on Devontae Houston’s recruiting profile that tells you he should be a star on the college level. Read more
The Southern Union softball team continued its rapid compilation of victories to start the season as they won four of five games in Dothan last weekend to raise their record to 8-1. Read more
The RCHS and Handley boys basketball teams both went on the road Tuesday night for a subregional matchup, and both teams came home empty handed, putting an end to their seasons. Read more
Over the past two seasons Talladega has gone 47-13, won a state championship and is among the top contenders to win it all again in 2020. Read more
Handley's record-setting running back and Randolph County player of the year for 2019 has made it official. Read more
The Southern Union Bison snapped a six-game conference losing streak with a 88-79 win over Marion Military Institute last Thursday. The win was the first in conference play for the Bison. Read more
For the second straight season Wadley’s girls waited until their final regular season game for their first win of the year. And for the second straight season the team on the other side of that win was RCHS. Read more
Aaron Everett first set foot on the campus of Southern Union State Community College when he was still a rising star on the University of Tennessee baseball team. Read more
It’s been a happy 24 hours for the Handley Tigers basketball team. Read more
Woodland has its area tournament schedule, while Wadley and RCHS know who their opponents will be as the final week of the regular season concludes Friday. Read more
For Handley girls head coach Courtney Screws, the philosophy for success is simple. Find what your team does well, and build your game plan around it. Read more
The county tournament is behind us, and we have reached the home stretch of the high school basketball regular season. Read more
How fast a football player can run can be somewhat anecdotal. Handley head coach Larry Strain knows this truth all too well. Read more
2019 was a great year for the big boys up front in Randolph County. All-County teams tend to be dominated by skill players who put up gaudy statistics, but this year five linemen and two more players known primarily for their defense account for seven of the 10 spots on the first team. Read more
Heflin sweeps Woodland Read more
Win in blowout fashion. Lose in blowout fashion. Read more
Woodland got its first area win of the season and Wadley continued its strong start with a pair of wins over Ranburne and Reeltown as the teams closed out the 2019 portion of their schedules. Here’s how those games went. Read more
Of course it was Ranburne. Of all the teams to end Woodland’s perfect start to its season, it would have to be the purple-clad rivals to the north. Ranburne beat Woodland’s girls 54-43 in a Friday the 13th contest in which Woodland missed 23 free throws. Read more
Handley led early and led late, but they couldn’t hold the lead at the end as Auburn rallied in the final minute to claim a 60-58 victory over the Tigers in Roanoke last Thursday. Read more
Danny Horn talks sincerely about having good players and great assistant coaches and how he doesn’t do much of the coaching work anymore. Read more
Wadley trailed by four at halftime, but the Bulldogs turned the game around in a dominant third quarter on their way to a 51-42 win over RCHS Monday in Wadley. Read more
You can't accuse the Clay Central Volunteers of making it easy. But they most definitely made it. Read more
There's a philosophy that exists in the sports world, maybe more so than anywhere else, that the brand supersedes all else even when the use of that brand flies in the face of the most basic logic and human reasoning. Read more
When Danny Horn took over the Clay Central football program prior to the 2018 season there was at least one aspect of his wildly successful run at Clay County that he wanted to recreate at his new school. Read more
Two weeks ago Woodland’s boys basketball team snapped a losing streak that covered all or part of four seasons. On Monday they almost made it two wins in a row. Read more
After Clay Central’s 34-28 loss to Mortimer Jordan in week six of the regular season, Central head coach Danny Horn was in no mood to linger on the field. The team gathered for the traditional post-game prayer, after which Horn emphatically told his players in no uncertain terms to go straig… Read more
For the first time all season a team figured out how to run the ball against RCHS’s vaunted defensive front, and that proved to be costly to RCHS in a season-ending 27-20 loss to Walter Wellborn in the third round of the state playoffs Friday. Read more
No one will describe Handley and Oxford’s girls basketball teams as being in midseason form after the Tigers defeated the Yellow Jackets 47-37 Thursday in Roanoke. Read more
Randolph County came into Friday's third round playoff game against Walter Wellborn allowing just 38 rushing yards per game to opposing offenses. But Wellborn and starting quarterback Jett Smith found a way to pile up 224 yards on the ground in a 27-20 Wellborn victory. Read more
