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...]
Rebel Rewind: Vestavia Girls Hope to Add Another Title
By Lee Davis Most people in athletics are cautious when they use the word “dynasty,” but there may be one brewing in Vestavia Hills. The Lady Rebels girls soccer team broke Oak Mountain’s two-year stranglehold on the state 7A soccer title last season by winning their first blue trophy since 2007. The fact that Vestavia was chosen as the number one girls high school soccer … [Read more...]
Madden-McFarland
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Conger Madden Jr. of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura Carson Madden, to Carlton Reid McFarland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Keith Miller and Mr. and Mrs. James Carlton McFarland, all of Birmingham. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Conger Madden and the late Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Carson Edwards, all of … [Read more...]
Ross-Sartain
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Lynn Ross of Vestavia Hills announce the engagement of their daughter, Meagan Rebecca, to William Allen Sartain, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Allen Sartain of Decatur. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas James Ross of Orlando, Florida, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Dalbert Marsh of Enterprise. Miss Ross is a 2009 graduate of … [Read more...]