By Lee Davis The Alabama High School Athletic Association’s state Class 7A track meet may have been conducted at Gulf Shores, but it definitely had the look of Hoover. That’s because the Bucs swept both the boys and girls championships on the weekend of May 5-6. Hoover’s boys totaled 104 points to win their sixth title in eight years, easily outpacing runner-up Auburn’s 89 … [Read more...]
Child Star: Spain Park’s Annabelle Widra Is So Good, So Young
By Lee Davis As Annabelle Widra chalks up one victory after another as the starting pitcher for Spain Park’s highly ranked softball team, there’s just one problem: She really doesn’t know her way around the school very well. “I’ve only been in the school a few times – when my brother was going there,” she said. “I’d probably get lost if I had to find a classroom … [Read more...]
Weekend Work: Bucs, Eagles Sweep Rivals; Rebels Advance; Jaguars, Patriots, Lions Eliminated
By Lee Davis The Alabama High School Athletic Association’s baseball playoff format normally calls for two games on Friday with a third game on Saturday, if necessary. Last week, as far as Over the Mountain schools were concerned, most teams – for better or worse – wound up getting Saturday as a day off. Hoover and Oak Mountain only needed two games to clinch their … [Read more...]
Early Trendons: Spartans’ Watford Earns National Honor
By Lee Davis More than a month has passed since Mountain Brook won its third boys state basketball championship in five years, but the Spartans are still raking in the awards. Sophomore forward Trendon Watford was named to the MaxPreps boys basketball sophomore All-American team last week. Watford, a key player in Mountain Brook’s successful title run, previously had been … [Read more...]
No. 3 With a Bullet: Hawkins’ Jaguars Near Top of National Polls
By Lee Davis In 10 years, Spain Park coach C.J. Hawkins has built the Jaguar softball program into one of the best in the nation. The latest Max Preps poll ranks Spain Park as the country’s third-best team. To fully put the rise to glory in perspective, there was a time when softball wasn’t even the number three girls sport at the school. That changed when Hawkins came from … [Read more...]