May 08, 2013 | 
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Two losses to Saks in the Class 3A, Area 8 tournament brought the softball season to a close for Piedmont. The Wildcats, seeded No. 2, defeated No. 3 Piedmont 6-2 on April 30. Playing in the elimination bracket Thursday, the Bulldogs defeated Weaver 10-0 in five innings then lost to Saks 4-1. Piedmont finished the season 16-12.
Knock, knock: After one-year playoffs hiatus, Saks hoping it can reopen the door
Aug 23, 2011 |
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May 20, 2013 |
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Faith Christian's Sydney Nordan made the North squad for the All-Star Sports Week soccer game July 16 in Montgomery.
May 18, 2013 |
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Although White Plains was able to overcome its mental mistakes against second-ranked Good Hope to pick up a win over Straughn on Friday afternoon in the first round of the elimination bracket of the Class 3A state tournament, it was unable to overcome similar mistakes against seventh-ranked Saks on Saturday morning, falling 7-2.
May 18, 2013 |
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Taylor West’s last pitch for Saks High School didn’t close out another state championship. It didn’t even happen on a softball diamond.
It came minutes after seventh-ranked Saks committed nine errors in losing 6-0 to No. 5 Winfield in a state-tournament elimination game Saturday at Lagoon Park. This time, she spoke with her voice and not her right arm.
After making her way to the team huddle, with her left shoe on and right shoe off, she threw her team a riser.
“You all need to keep your heads up,” the senior told her now former teammates, piercing an awkward silence. “Nobody expected us to even be here.”
May 18, 2013 |
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Saks came out swinging the bats early and put pressure on White Plains, and three early errors helped Saks eliminate the Wildcats 7-2 in Saturday’s early action in the state softball tournament.
Seventh-ranked Saks (33-15-1), the defending Class 3A champion, will play Winfield in a noon elimination game on Lagoon Park’s Field 5. No. 6 White Plains finished its season 33-15.
May 18, 2013 |
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The second time playing in the Calhoun County Gridiron Showcase was much more forgiving for Ohatchee head coach Nathan Wehunt.
Last year, he took the head coaching job days before the spring game.
This year, his Ohatchee Indians were able to pull out a 20-7 win over the Pleasant Valley Raiders before the scoreboard was wiped clean for the junior varsity in the fourth quarter. At the sound of the final buzzer, the Ohatchee junior varsity team was up 8-0 over Pleasant Valley’s junior varsity team.
May 17, 2013 |
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Mental errors on the base paths and a physical error in the field cost Saks its second round game against top-ranked Pisgah, 1-0.
May 17, 2013 |
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Sixth-ranked White Plains came out aggressive at the plate after struggling in their Class 3A state tournament opener Friday and stayed alive with a 7-1 victory over Straughn.
The victory followed a 2-0 loss to No. 2 Good Hope earlier in the day.
May 17, 2013 |
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Jacksonville High grad Jake Lyons, a senior tennis player at Spring Hill, has received one of the top NAIA academic honors for the second straight year. Lyons received a Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athlete award. He is one of 94 men's tennis players nationally to receive the honor.
May 17, 2013 |
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Ragland’s bats turned cold as morning went to afternoon, resulting in a 2-0 loss to top-ranked Kinston 2-0 in a winners' bracket game in the Class 1A state tournament.
May 17, 2013 |
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It’s what was written in the scorebook as “unearned” that earned seventh-ranked Saks its 2-1 win over fourth-ranked Winfield in the Class 3A state tournament Friday afternoon.
May 17, 2013 |
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Sixth-ranked White Plains pitcher Anna Snider threw a complete-game two-hitter, but the Wildcats managed just three hits in a 2-0 loss to No. 2 Good Hope in their Class 3A state tourney opener Friday.
May 17, 2013 |
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Fourth-ranked Ragland put together rallies in the sixth and seventh innings Friday morning to get past third-ranked Sumiton Christian 6-5 in the first round of the Class 1A state tournament.
May 17, 2013 |
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In the Calhoun County Gridiron Showcase, Saks used a strong running game to rush past Weaver.
May 16, 2013 |
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The best thing in Thursday’s opening day of the state softball tournament happened with little fanfare. It’s recorded wrong in AHSAA.com’s official pitch-by-pitch account. “Now batting: (8) #21 Tymeria Mackey,” the entry says of Wellborn’s leadoff hitter in the top of the fifth inning against Lexington. Two entries later, “Mackey hits a single.”
The batter was actually a pinch-hitter named Megan Butcher. Those who know her story are no doubt delighted the little-used senior in her first year of softball got her moment on the state’s biggest stage, as Wellborn was making its first state-tourney appearance in softball since 2001.
May 16, 2013 |
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Cherokee County’s offensive slump continued Thursday, as the Warriors were unable to get anything going against Alabama Christian in a 3-0 loss. The defeat eliminated Cherokee County from the Class 4A state softball tournament.
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