South Alabama Sports

    By ARTHUR L. MACK PRICHARD — Jabarrius “Chicken” Garror broke the state sack record while Demetris Johnson rushed for 144 yards on 23 carries and two touchdowns as No. 1-ranked Vigor routed Valley 37-7 in the first round of the Class 4A playoffs at Wolfpack Stadium Friday night. Garror picked up his state-record sack with 4:25 left in the third quarter, giving him 64½for his career. The previous record of 63 set by Spanish Fort’s Cole McConathy from…

          By JIMMY WIGFIELD DEATSVILLE — Marbury repeatedly ducked at an axe swung at its neck until the Bulldogs finally snatched it away and struck Citronelle with two unrecoverable blows in the fourth quarter Friday night. The Wildcats forced seven turnovers — five coming in Marbury territory — and didn’t take advantage of any of them. Yet Citronelle clung to a 6-3 lead and was only 6:25 from advancing to the second round of the playoffs…

___________________________ Using the career standard, Roberts stands atop a mountain of numbers. Considering 2026 only, Roberts has more TD passes and a higher QB rating than all the other top prospects and done it without a receiver the magnitude of Ryan Coleman-Williams or Deshawn Spencer. ___________________________   There is a strong chance that Thompson’s Trent Seaborn will be chosen the state’s newest Mr. Football in January. Considering his excellence since starting as an eighth grader and the fact that he…

      By ROBERT LADNIER THEODORE — Kam Smith ran for 141 yards and three touchdowns and caught a TD pass as Class 6A Mary G. Montgomery beat Theodore 35-13 Friday night to close their season on a six-game winning streak. “(This win) means we got better and better all throughout the year,” said MGM coach Alex Page, whose team finished 7-3 and would have made the playoffs if not for being on probation. “We had to jump on…

    By JOHN VELLA MOBILE — Jeremiah Johnson rushed for 125 yards, including a 64-yard touchdown run, to lead Davidson to its only victory this season, a 21-20 win over B.C. Rain 21-20 Thursday night. The Warriors avoided their first winless season in school history while the Red Raiders (0-10) finished with their third winless season in school history (2007 and 2018). Darryl Blackmon tossed a pair of TD passes for Rain — 49 yards to Braylon Fogg and…

        By JIMMY WIGFIELD SARALAND — Considering that Saraland had led at halftime by scores of 45-3, 35-0, 40-10, 36-8, 50-0, 49-0 and 42-14 in the previous seven games, the fact that Auburn managed to tie the Spartans 13-13 at intermission Thursday night with a backup quarterback who couldn’t throw should have set off alarm bells. Instead, coach Jeff Kelly turned it into a moment of psychological brilliance. “What we had watched on tape, they did none…

      By JIMMY WIGFIELD MONTGOMERY — Officials with the fledgling Gulf States Independent Athletic Association said Thursday that they don’t want the organization to be viewed as a counterpunch to the Alabama High School Athletic Association but revealed they are drawing interest from a vast number of private and public schools. Newly appointed GSIAA Executive Director Glynn Lott, who has coached multiple sports for 32 years at Macon East Academy, said at a press conference at the Cramton…

AUBURN — By necessity, Auburn fans are a patient lot, for they have had to be and must continue to be. As such, they clung to some positives after a 38-17 loss to No. 18 LSU (and, even more distastefully, Lane Kiffin) on Saturday. First, it had been a week since the Tigers had defeated No. 1-ranked Georgia in Athens and, despite the fact that Auburn changed back into its mediocre costume, nobody was screaming for first-year coach Alex Golesh…

    By ROBERT LADNIER MOBILE — UMS-Wright quarterback Max Fowler ran for pair of second-half touchdowns to lead the No. 3-ranked Bulldogs to a 20-17 win over No. 2-ranked McGill-Toolen Friday night. Fowler scored on an 11-yard run in the third quarter and a 1-yard plunge in the fourth for UMS-Wright (8-1, 7-0), which won the private school Class AA Region 1 title. Fowler was 16-of-26 passing for 209 yards and hit eight receivers. Richard Scott ran for 89…

    By ARTHUR L. MACK MOBILE — R.J. Gardner’s 6-yard touchdown run with 20 seconds left lifted Alma Bryant to a 24-21 win over host Davidson Thursday night and put the Hurricanes in the playoffs for the first time since 2013. Gardner’s decisive score was set up by Makai Vongsengphachanh’s 44-yard pass to Kaleb Burrell, who caught the ball after it was tipped several times. Bryant (3-7, 2-4 6A Region 1) rallied after Micah Spivey had hit Kingston Butler…