Area Sports

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD BIRMINGHAM — After his team had thrashed nearly everything that got in its way the last two months, Jackson coach Anthony Hayes was on a knee during a final timeout Tuesday evening asking his players if they could stop Brooks from yanking a possible second state championship from their…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD BIRMINGHAM — Brooke O’Mary was the smallest player on the floor but made the biggest shot of the game. The 4-foot-11 O’Mary chased down a missed three-pointer in overtime and laid it in to give Brilliant the lead with 37 seconds remaining and the Tigers went on to defeat…

    By EDUARDO MAGAÑA Clarke County High School football coach Rob Carter was arrested Friday afternoon in Niceville, Fla., after being placed on administrative leave earlier this week, according to the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department. Carter is being investigated for having an improper relationship with a student, according to two sources with knowledge of…

By ARTHUR L. MACK Baker defensive coordinator Eric Scott, who directed one of Class 7A’s best defenses in 2024, was promoted to head coach Friday, the school announced. Baker athletic director Daniel Kertis said Scott, who has served as an assistant coach for the last four years, was named as head coach, succeeding Juan Johnson,…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — When Fairhope’s Jackson Gulley wasn’t bending the rim with one of his six dunks, Jackson Robertson was tickling it with three-pointers Wednesday to put Daphne in a predicament it couldn’t overcome. Gulley scored 23 points, including 10 in the fourth period, and Robertson added 15, including a pair…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Top-ranked Park Crossing went on an 18-6 run in the third period to take control of the game and went on to defeat McGill-Toolen 61-38 Wednesday in the Class 6A South Regional girls final at Garrett Coliseum. The Yellow Jackets (23-6) — who came into the game with…

  By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — McGill-Toolen’s Ethan Stokes remembered his first basket of Wednesday’s regional final against Park Crossing with astonishment. “I went up and I got hit,” he said, “and I was like shocked. They knocked me to the ground and I was like, ‘Wow, this is going to really be more physical…

        By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Just when it seemed Jackson was being dragged into a minefield and a slow tempo it doesn’t like, Roderick Hamilton airlifted the Aggies out of early trouble Tuesday night and sent them back to Birmingham to pursue a second straight state championship. Hamilton made four 3-pointers…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — When Lee Riley first met with his players after he took the job as Vigor’s coach last summer, his players belabored last year’s loss in the state championship game. “When I first got the job, that was the first thing they were talking about,” he said. “How…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — When Vigor’s Sealediah Brown stroked a perfect three-pointer from the right wing on the first shot of the game, she and 6-foot-4 center Jamonica Chambers felt that it was going to be a prosperous day for the Wolves. With Brown airing up five 3-pointers and drawing defenders away…