Area Sports

    By ARTHUR L. MACK MOBILE — Junior quarterback Anthony Gill completed 16 of 26 passes for 177 yards and three touchdowns and No. 2-ranked Class 4A Vigor overcame numerous penalties to beat Blount 28-7 in the annual Battle of Prichard at Ladd-Peebles Stadium Saturday night. Zy Wilson grabbed two touchdown passes of 32…

  Staff Report Thaddeus Wilder completed 11 of 18  passes for 239 yards and two touchdowns to Jakenyon Allen in their Williamson debuts after transferring from Mary Montgomery in the No. 1-ranked Class 4A Lions’ 33-0 romp over Class 6A Baker Friday night. Wilder capped off the scoring with a 30-yard touchdown strike to Jacob Massey…

        By JIMMY WIGFIELD SEMMES — The standard at Saraland is so mountainous that the Spartans could solidly beat a team in a higher class, watch quarterback Jamison Roberts complete 18 of 22 passes for 234 yards, dig their fingernails into the dirt to avoid falling off a cliff at one point…

    SARALAND — Imagine an alternate universe in which Saraland doesn’t play in the Super 7, or the Super 8 or the Super 9 or whatever colloquialism it will be known by. Even more inconceivably, imagine the Spartans going 0-10 and scoring only 12 points all season. Actually, it did happen last year to…

  ____________________ Read this story in this week’s Call News along with the annual preseason football preview on all local teams available on Aug. 19. ____________________     By JIMMY WIGFIELD SARALAND — Few realized what would happen when Jamison (Jamo) Roberts fulfilled his promise to “let it rip.” Wouldn’t succeeding K.J. Lacey as Saraland’s…

  ____________________ “Where is the evidence that my coaches or I initiated contact with these students to persuade them to choose MGM? Where are the messages? Where are the phone calls? Where are the promises of playing time? Where are the payments, jobs, housing arrangements, transportation, gifts, benefits or other inducements? Where is the evidence…

    By ARTHUR L. MACK MOBILE — The Mobile County School Board on Wednesday narrowly upheld a recommendation that former Mary G. Montgomery head football coach Zac Golson be transferred to another school. Mobile County Public School System Superintendent Chresal Threadgill made the recommendation and the board approved it 3-2. School Board President Sherry…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD JACKSONVILLE — Faith Academy coach Matt Seymour could have been alarmed when his No. 1-ranked Rams were shut out for only the second time all season in the opener of the Class 5A state championship series against defending champion American Christian on Thursday. But there was no urge to…

__________________ The indomitable Myleigh Dobbins, a free-swinging attitude and an astute move by coach Donna Sunnycalb to change the order led the Spartans to the top of Class 6A softball _________________   By JIMMY WIGFIELD OXFORD — Inches away from playoff death Tuesday evening, Saraland’s softball players resuscitated themselves with a line that had become…

        By JIMMY WIGFIELD SEMMES — After six depressing months in which it seemed the brakes had been pressed on the progress Mary G. Montgomery’s football team had made in the last four years, the Vikings mashed the accelerator once again on Thursday night. Unveiling perhaps the most inexperienced team MGM has…