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By JIMMY WIGFIELD Mobile Christian has been better known for its skill players under coach Ronnie Cottrell but if a Blue Map is hoisted in December, his big men will be doing the heavy lifting. A goal-line stand by the defense and the offensive line’s consistent push in a 21-7 spring-game win over St. Stanislaus…

By JIMMY WIGFIELD While new Theodore coach Steve Mask hasn’t made sweeping alterations to one of the state’s premier Class 6A programs, the team’s two best defensive players could see major changes in their duties this season. Linebacker Navontay Richardson and four-star linebacker/safety Bobby “Cameron” Pruitt could see significant snaps on offense. Richardson, the Bobcats’…

By JIMMY WIGFIELD Those who think it was a mirage that Mary G. Montgomery won six straight football games last year may have no choice but to rub their eyes, discard the past and consider a new reality. After the Vikings’ starting offense made a Mississippi playoff team go nearly prostrate in the first quarter…

This is an opinion piece By JIMMY WIGFIELD Saraland’s defense didn’t treat last week’s spring football game against Enterprise as a glorified practice. It was a platform from which to issue a warning. “I think today, the effort was on another level,” defensive coordinator Brett West said after a 35-7 victory. How good the Wildcats…

By ARTHUR L. MACK Faith Academy boys basketball coach Chad Applin has resigned to take the job at Spanish Fort High School. Applin, who coached the Rams for seven years, took over for Jimbo Tolbert, who left for the Gulf Shores job. Applin said the opportunity to coach at Spanish Fort was too good to…

By ARTHUR L. MACK Hundreds of students, faculty, guests and Mobile County Public School System employees joined school board president Sherry McDade at the ribbon cutting of B.C. Rain’s on-campus stadium Tuesday. “B.C. Rain has been here for many, many years and they have played at many different stadiums,” McDade said. “Now, they have their…

By ARTHUR L. MACK Faith Academy has named Joey Nieves its new boys basketball head coach. Nieves, who is coming from Pace, Fla., is taking over for Chad Applin, who apparently resigned to take a new position elsewhere. Efforts to reach Applin were unsuccessful but in a Facebook post, the school said: “We would also…

  By JOHN VELLA Highly recruited Theodore linebacker Cameron Pruitt got some looks on offense Thursday night as the Bobcats and Jackson played to a 21-21 tie in a spring game at C.A. Douglas Field. Theodore returning starting quarterback Cameron Rigby connected with Pruitt on several big plays as the four-star recruit showed his athleticism on…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD Anyone hoping Saraland might get too full of itself and just go through the motions on game days were likely bitterly disappointed with what happened in Thursday’s spring game. The defending Class 6A state champions dispatched Enterprise 35-7. The starters won the first half 21-0. That was no slouch…

By JIMMY WIGFIELD JACKSONVILLE, Ala. — Amid a stampede of cowbells wielded by the 1,300 partisan Etowah fans packed into Rudy Abbott Field, a rumbling coming from the other direction was audible. In the shadow of Mount Cheaha, the highest point in Alabama, a UMS-Wright avalanche seemed imminent and it had the potential to finally…