Edgewood Academy’s baseball team has been operating under a new motto this season: life is bigger than baseball. It means that everything the team does is for a higher purpose, it means becoming great men, great fathers and great husbands.
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For Holtville softball, the 2026 season was nothing short of historic.
A true power hitter is rare, equally as rare as an elite infielder with the IQ and athleticism to consistently make the play; Every coach hopes to find their ace in the circle, that player who can generate strikeouts and easy put-outs in key …
Former Elmore County Panther Sean Darnell is poised to play on college baseball’s biggest stage — at Troy’s first-ever Super Regional. Darnell graduated from ECHS back in 2022, after which he continued his baseball career at Wallace-Dothan Co…
The fall cannot come fast enough, and thankfully, the Reeltown football team gave fans a taste to hold us over through the summer.
There’s a lot more to coaching than just standing on the sidelines, yelling instructions to players, making substitutions and running practice. That part — that’s the easy stuff.
There’s a certain type of player that can change a team and its energy as soon as he steps onto the pitch. The ability to exert so much energy and enthusiasm that it spreads throughout the team like a virus. For Elmore County’s boys soccer team, that player was Tate McNeely.
Every team needs a leader — someone to step into that role and take charge, whether to fire up morale or delegate responsibilities, even just to be a resource for fellow team members.
The way the Reeltown softball team played Thursday might be the best they’ve played all season. At least that’s how coach Travis Spraggins walked away feeling.
Tallassee baseball announced last week its own standout, rising senior Brue Milner, will participate in the upcoming AHSAA North-South All Star baseball game. The selection is a huge honor for Milner and any athlete who participates, as an op…
Last week, six Tallassee anglers competed in the 2026 Alabama Student Angler Bass Fishing Association Lake Pickwick Classic. Pickwick is located in northwest Alabama on the Tennessee River, running 50 miles from the Pickwick Landing Dam in Te…
To be the best, you have to go against the best.
There is no loss more painful than the last one — the one which forces you to say goodbye to the season and welcome a new chapter. Even when the loss is painful and the end is inevitable, heart matters.
Earlier this year, things were shaken up in the world of Tallassee athletics as news broke that football coach Lawrence “L.A.” O’Neal would be departing for Park Crossing. Shortly after, the Tallassee school board confirmed the hiring of Gree…
It came down to the wire for Tallassee softball last week, as the Tigers fought to clinch a spot in the regional tournament. In the Class 4A Area 5 tournament, Tallassee faced a difficult path to finishing in the top two spots.
Softball is, of course, a team sport. Although, when a softball player steps into the batter’s box or steps up to the rubber in the pitcher’s circle, she is all alone.
Elmore County’s softball team clinched a spot in the regional tournament next week after it finished in second place behind Beauregard in the AHSAA Class 5A Area 6 tournament.
In big moments, the best teams deliver.
The road trip down south did not faze the Reeltown baseball team one bit in the second round of the Class 2A playoffs.
Greatness doesn’t happen overnight. It requires years of practice and hard work, hours upon hours spent with your nose to the grindstone.
