Area Sports

        By JIMMY WIGFIELD MOBILE — Humbled but not flustered by its worst loss of the season, No. 5-ranked Baker recovered to stave off Mary G. Montgomery 5-4 Friday night and moved to the threshold of the 7A Area 1 championship. The Vikings walloped everything but their mothers in Friday’s opener, flattening…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD SEMMES — Baker ace Bryant Durbin grounded Mary G. Montgomery with a masterful two-hit shutout Thursday evening as the No. 5 Hornets took the lead in the 7A Area 1 race with a 4-0 win over the Vikings at Leon Druckenmiller Field. MGM got just four balls out of…

__________________________________________ Caster overcame some serious health problems to become one of the state’s top players __________________________________________     By JIMMY WIGFIELD At an age when most kids were slinging mashed-up peas or Jello off their hands, Micah Caster was learning to splatter shots through hoops. Their dribble involved partially chewed food; his dribble involved a…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD MOBILE — Faith Academy coach Matt Seymour isn’t sure if his baseball team is peaking at the right time but one thing is certain: Opponents are likely to get queasy thinking about playing the Rams in the postseason. No. 6-ranked Faith completed a sweep of No. 3 Saraland with an…

    By JIMMY WIGFIELD SARALAND — Trey McDonald kept a bulging blister from popping open on Faith Academy Thursday evening and brought the Rams closer to popping the champagne on an area championship. McDonald strode to the mound with the bases loaded and one out in the seventh inning and vacuumed up Saraland’s second…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD MILLRY — Seemingly held together by some chicken wire and zip ties, Leroy’s Rob Moseley crunched a two-run double in the seventh inning to break an 0-for-10 slump and help the No. 8 Bears to an 8-3 win over No. 1 Millry Friday and give them the lead in…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD LEROY — Brayden Huebner extricated himself from a bases-loaded predicament in the first inning, went on to strike out 11 with his rediscovered curveball, then delivered an inside-the-park home run to lead No. 8-ranked Leroy to a 12-2 win over No. 1-ranked Millry Thursday evening at Pop Powell Stadium.…

Staff Report Saraland coach Jeff Kelly has been selected as Alabama’s head coach for the 38th annual Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic in December at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Kelly served as Alabama’s offensive coordinator in last season’s 26-17 Alabama victory — its fourth straight in the series — and might be the first person from Alabama to serve as a…

        By JIMMY WIGFIELD BIRMINGHAM — A lot of things went wrong for Vigor in its 69-65 loss to No. 1-ranked Fairfield in the Class 5A state championship game Saturday at Legacy Arena but the most excruciating of all could be what happened the day before the game. Defensive specialist Brandon Purifoy…

          By JIMMY WIGFIELD BIRMINGHAM — Micah Caster’s three-point cloudburst finally dried up and underdog American Christian, with all its backdoor cuts and precise screens and ball fakes, had No. 1-ranked Jackson looking around in the fourth period to see where its deliverance would come from. It came from a 6-foot-4…