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  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Vigor coach Jairus Jackson sucked in a deep breath when he walked off the floor Wednesday following a 63-48 victory over Charles Henderson that put the No. 4-ranked Wolves in the state tournament. He hadn’t been benching 300 pounds but it felt like it. “That’s a lot of weight…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Clarke County was decisively stopped only 32 minutes away from reaching the pinnacle of high school basketball in Alabama Tuesday but coach Barry Coleman vowed to return with an even better team to seek its place on a statewide stage. The Bulldogs (16-14), an unlikely candidate to reach the…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Baker’s leading scorer Desmond Williams didn’t see it coming when he got poked in the eye and had to leave the game late in the first period Tuesday but Enterprise’s eyes were wide-open. With Williams at the hospital with a bulging bandage on his left eye, the…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — McIntosh never established its inside game Monday and the state tournament, which at one point looked so close, turned out to be as far away as a jump shot from the cheap seats. No. 2-ranked Georgiana beat the Demons 74-55 Monday in a Class 1A South Regional final…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — To say Chauncey Dixon is Leroy’s tower of power is perhaps an understatement given what happened after the tower collapsed in the third period against Elba Monday. Dixon, the Bears’ 6-3 junior center, was enjoying a dominant performance with 13 points and 14 rebounds and had helped Leroy to…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Micah Caster’s early foul trouble might have kept No. 1-ranked Jackson from disposing of Andalusia in the first half. But Caster, the Aggies’ leading scorer, shoved the No. 9 Bulldogs toward the exits at Garrett Coliseum when the season weighed on his shoulders. Caster’s long 3-pointer off a…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Jazmine Jones made sure there would be a tomorrow for herself and her Jackson teammates, scoring the first six points of overtime to lead the No. 4-ranked Aggies past Orange Beach 54-48 Monday in the Class 4A girls South Regional semifinals. Jackson (29-4) plays T.R. Miller (22-4) for…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — UMS-Wright fought back from a 12-point deficit to tie it late but Escambia County’s Stephen Williams made sure the Bulldogs got no further. The 6-9 senior center scored on back-to-back lay-ins to break the tie and finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Blue Devils to…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — In his first season at UMS-Wright, coach Terry Canova took his girls team to Brewton and broke T.R. Miller’s 56-game home winning streak, although he was blissfully unaware of the feat. “I had no idea at the time,” Canova said. “It’s probably a good thing or we’d have…