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Two Saturday’s ago a sleepy little dirt circle racetrack in the northeast corner of Randolph County came to life after lying dormant for the better part of two years.
Former Handley and Southern Union baseball standout Chase Hall will make the trip to Omaha this week as a member of the Auburn Tigers team that will participate in the College World Series. Read more
Maybe the old adage is true and the defenses were ahead of the offenses. Maybe the coaches calling the offensive plays didn’t want to get too elaborate with their selections. Or maybe the three teams on the field Friday in Wedowee were just so evenly matched that a stalemate was inevitable. Read more
As the Handley Tigers took the field for Friday’s spring jamboree at Notasulga, the team showed an evident difference in one very important aspect of high school football – size. Read more
f defense and punts are your favorite features of football, then Saturday’s spring scrimmage between Stanhope Elmore and defending 5A state champions Clay Central was a dream come true. Read more
The last great image we have of high school football is of Central of Clay County walking off the field at Jordan-Hare Stadium having conquered Vigor in a thrilling 43-42 state championship win, giving first-year head coach Danny Horn a storybook ending in his return to Clay County. Read more
RCHS made a statement with its bats in game one, got a shutdown pitching performance in game two, and then bowed out of the East Central regional when both aspects of its game failed to make an impact in game three. Read more
The Handley Lady Tigers softball team saw their season come to a close late Thursday night in Tuscaloosa. Handley dropped a pair of games in the weather-plagued West Central Regional of the Alabama High School Athletic Association tournament. Read more
Eight teams go in, only two come out. One team will go undefeated. One team will only lose once. The other six will go home. Read more
Losing the first game of the area tournament is never a good omen. Especially when that loss is a 1-0 decision in which the only run scored on a passed ball in the bottom of the seventh inning. Read more
For the first time in over a decade the Wadley softball team did not advance beyond its area tournament as the Lady Bulldogs lost their first two games and were eliminated from the 1A, Area 8 tournament last Tuesday. Read more
Two gold medals came home to Randolph County after the high school state track and field competitions in Cullman and Gulf Shores last week, while Handley had the best team performances of the weekend. Read more
The big question for Handley entering its second-round playoff series against Trinity Friday was how they would perform offensively against the vaunted Trinity pitching, well, trinity of Trace Bright, Dalton Lovrich and Will Aaron. Read more
Handley entered its area tournament Tuesday on a four-game winning streak thanks to an 8-6 win over Woodland in the regular season finale for both teams Friday. Read more
Handley will face one of its toughest opponents of the season in its quest to advance beyond the second round of the state playoffs for the first time in school history. Read more
Wadley held a lead in both games of its first-round playoff series against South Lamar Friday, but the Bulldogs ultimately lost both games to see their season come to a close. Read more
In one of the least dramatic first-round playoff series in recent memory Handley needed a total of seven innings to dispatch Greensboro by scores of 18-0 and 14-0 Monday. The first game went the required five innings, but the coaches agreed to end the second game after just two innings as Gr… Read more
Area tournament play begins next Tuesday for all four county softball teams. RCHS will be the lone county school to host its area tournament as the other three teams will have to travel. Here are the schedules, locations and first-round matchups for all four tournaments Read more
All four county softball teams got in some final regular season tuneups as the area tournaments begin next week. Here's how the week went for all four teams. Read more
Prior to the 2018 season, when Dylan Brooks was about to enter his sophomore season for the Handley Tigers, his head coach offered a lofty appraisal of the potential of his wiry, athletic defensive end. Read more
With Wadley going through its second search for a head football coach in as many years, principal Lori Carlisle wanted to find someone who would be a long-term presence in the position. Read more
The baseball playoffs are upon us, and Handley, Wadley and RCHS will play first-round series starting this Thursday. Read more
There are players in the county who can score, and there are players who can rebound. There are players who can handle the ball, or pass it, or shoot the three, or defend, and there are some who can do more than one of those things. Read more
The Handley Tigers stretched their winning streak to five in a row last week and Monday of this week thanks to wins over Saks, Munford and Ranburne. Read more
Handley built a 12-3 lead over the first six innings before RCHS put up a 5 spot on the seventh to put a scare into the home-standing Lady Tigers, but Handley eventually held on for the 12-8 win Monday in Roanoke. Read more
Wadley saw its record fall to 4-5 with a pair of non-area losses. The Bulldogs lost 16-2 to Ranburne in their final game before spring break last Tuesday, then dropped a 9-5 decision to Beulah on Monday. Read more
If it were just another game it would have been one to forget. Read more
RCHS picked up five wins in seven games last week, which started with a key 11-3 area win over Beulah on Tuesday and ended with a 16-1 romp over Saks in the Piedmont tournament at Choccolocco Park in Oxford Saturday. Read more
Woodland stumbled out of the gate in area play last week as Ranburne issued three straight losses to the Bobcats. Read more
The Handley Tigers continued their midseason surge with a big series win over area foe Elmore County last week. The Tigers then followed that up by winning two of their next three to get their record to 8-9. Read more
Wadley moved to 2-0 in area play with an 8-4 win over Winterboro Thursday. Read more
