Wadley punched its ticket for the playoffs, Woodland kept its hopes of a region championship alive, and RCHS got knocked out of the No. 1 spot in the state in a big Friday night of high school football in the county.
The Woodland Bocats won their fourth straight game and secured their first playoff berth since 2014 with a 47-6 dismantling of Talladega County Central Friday on a wet homecoming night in Woodland. The Bobcats led from start to finish in a game that was never in doubt. Read more
RCHS survived an offensive explosion by both teams in Wedowee Thursday, while Handley cleared a major hurdle in its quest for the region championship with a win over Cherokee County. Read more
The RCHS Tigers rolled to exactly 500 yards of offense and held Fayetteville to minus-19 yards rushing in another physically dominant performance for RCHS that led to a 41-0 victory. Read more
There’s another hurricane heading our way, with forecasts calling for heavy rain from Hurricane Delta to arrive in our general area sometime Friday night. For that reason several teams (Handley, RCHS, Ranburne) will be playing on Thursday to stay ahead of the weather. Read more
Apparently all Clay Central needed was to get back into its region. After venturing into the toughest of waters in its week five non-region game and suffering its first loss in 14 games, Central found its remedy in a 46-7 region victory over Talladega Friday. Read more
With their playoff hopes likely on the line, Ranburne put a scare into LaFayette Friday. But the Bulldogs never got the big play that they needed late, and Ranburne fell 21-14. Read more
This is starting to turn into the kind of season Woodland hasn't seen in a long, long time. Read more
RCHS has found its formula for success in 2020, and the Tigers keeping practicing that formula to perfection. Read more
For three and a half quarters the state championship rematch between Clay Central and Pleasant Grove looked like a celebration of revenge for the Spartans. But Central put up a fight at the end and sent a message before finally losing for the first time in 15 games. Read more
A strange brew of defense and penalties and missed opportunities led Handley and Lanett to duel to a 0-0 tie after four quarters of football. Read more
Woodland senior quarterback Brock Edwards has seen the years come and go as a member of the Bobcats varsity football program. And each year that he has been a part of that program, Woodland has lost to Ranburne. Read more
You don't need me to tell you that things have been weird so far this football season. For starters, it's week five of the high school football season, which means that the local high school football teams will be halfway done with their regular seasons before the SEC plays its first snap. Read more
The RCHS Tigers are showing that winning definitely has its rewards. Read more
The Woodland Bobcats got back into the win column and got their offense jump-started in the process with a 33-14 victory over Donoho Friday in Anniston. Read more
Handley did what it was expected to do in its game on Friday, then got a healthy dose of the unexpected Tuesday morning. Read more
For the past two weeks Danny Horn’s Clay Central Volunteers have had a relatively easy road. Blowout wins against Elmore County and Beauregard gave Horn a chance to empty his bench in the second half while simultaneously putting his team atop the region standings. Read more
Wadley’s 15-12 loss to Winterboro was just about as evenly matched as a football game can be. Both teams turned the ball over twice. Both teams scored exactly two touchdowns. Wadley had 50 more yards of total offense, but that can be attributed to field position as much as anything. Read more
RCHS continued to punish its opponents with an overwhelming ground attack as the Tigers bashed Horseshoe Bend 33-12, while Ranburne found itself on the wrong end of a 46-18 loss to B.B. Comer in 2A, Region 4 action last Friday. Read more
Woodland won, Wadley lost, and the 1A Region 5 race is just getting started. That's the takeaway from an eventful Friday night in the region that features two of the four county teams. Read more
In an extreme contrast of offensive styles, RCHS’s run heavy approach outgunned Ranburne’s pass-happy methods to send the Tigers to a 42-27 victory over the Bulldogs in Ranburne Friday. Read more
It was the third quarter of a back-and-forth ballgame against one of Handley’s chief competitors for region supremacy. Every play had meaning, each snap could potentially mean the difference in the ballgame. It was the type of game that Handley junior linebacker and fullback Nate Pike lives for. Read more
Through three games last year Woodland was 0-3 and had been outscored 104-27. Read more
Clay Central got eight touchdowns from seven different players as the unbeaten and top-ranked Volunteers cruised to a 55-6 win over Elmore County. Read more
Wadley's 14-12 win over Victory Christian Friday had a lot of what you might expect from a team playing so many young players. Everything that should have been difficult was, and everything that should have been easy wasn't. Read more
Leading up to Friday’s region opener against Munford, Handley head coach Larry Strain said that the Lions were the team to beat in 4A, Region 4. After Handley overcame a mistake-filled first half to come away with a 38-28 win, it begs the question. Read more
Wadley got its first win of the season, and got to see the start of a feel-good family legacy Friday with a 39-8 win over Talladega County Central. Read more
A game that wasn’t originally on Ranburne’s schedule could end up costing the team dearly when it comes to its chances of success this season. Read more
J.D. Till’s kickoff return late in the third quarter put RCHS ahead and turned out to be the game-winning points in a 28-14 win over LaFayette Friday in Wedowee. Read more
Clay Central held off a strong challenge from Sylacauga Friday, but the Vols were able to come away with a 27-22 victory in what may prove to be a crucial region matchup. Read more
The Handley football team gathered along its sideline to hear head coach Larry Strain's post-game comments after the Tigers' 38-28 win over Munford. As they settled in, from somewhere in the stands a voice screamed out exactly what every Handley fan was thinking in that moment. Read more
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