South Alabama Sports

    Staff Report THEODORE — Trey Garner threw four touchdown passes as Class 7A Fairhope extended its winning streak to five games by ripping Class 6A Theodore 31-7 at C.A. Douglas Field Friday night. Garner completed 9 of 17 passes for 222 yards, including touchdown passes of 41 yards to Fisher Southall, 18 and 43 yards to Byron Martin and 44 yards to Andres Hunt. “That’s the best football team we’ve played all year,” said Pirates coach Tim Carter,…

    T.R. Miller coach Ronnie Cottrell was frustrated that his Tigers couldn’t get anything going offensively against UMS-Wright Friday night. (Allison Terrell/Call News)   By JIMMY WIGFIELD BREWTON — Blink and you might have missed UMS-Wright running another play on Friday night. Blink — as T.R. Miller did first, last and everywhere in between — and you get beaten decisively, as the No. 3-ranked Class 3A Tigers were. The Class 5A Bulldogs (3-2) used their frenetic pace to dominate…

  By JASON BOOTHE LEROY — Ja’Kavien “Caveman” Collins ran for three touchdowns and passed for another to lead No. 2-ranked Class 1A Leroy to a 44-14 win over Class 2A Washington County Thursday night. Collins scored on runs of 37 and 2 yards and 1 yard and connected with Jacory Yelder on a 73-yard touchdown pass. Timothy Parnell also came up big for the Bears (6-0) with a 65-yard scoop-and-score. Josh Reed added a 6-yard scoring run in the…

      By JOHN VELLA BAY MINETTE — Kam Smith and Thomas White each ran for more 100 yards to pace No. 4-ranked Mary G. Montgomery to a 45-0 win over Baldwin County Thursday night at Lyle Underwood Stadium. Smith ran for 106 yards on eight carries and a pair of touchdowns on runs of 4 and 76 yards. White added 100 yards on 11 carries for the Vikings (6-0), who had 288 yards on the ground. MGM has…

        By JIMMY WIGFIELD MOBILE — Mobile Christian shoved No. 1-ranked Jackson into an uncomfortable corner. Then the Aggies shoved back. With star receiver Keeyun “Red” Chapman and left tackle Jaquan Brown missing with knee injuries, highly rated cornerback and receiver Jamarrion Gordon out due to concussion protocol and five-star running back and Alabama commitment E.J. Crowell slipping and sliding, twisting his ankle and being held to 65 yards in the first half, the Aggies relied on…

    Staff Reports THEODORE — Crishon Overton tossed a 14-yard touchdown pass to Demarcus Beckham with 31 seconds left to complete a 91-yard drive as Theodore rallied past St. Paul’s 42-41 Friday night at C.A. Douglas Field. Overton overcame three first-half interceptions, was 10-of-16 passing for 116 yards and scored on a 13-yard run while Beckham also returned a kickoff 70 yards for a score. Kendrick Able had 213 yards in 24 carries and scored on runs of 29,…

      AUBURN — So far, Hugh Freeze is driving it right down the middle of a wide fairway, no mulligans needed. But Freeze has a history of hitting into plugged lies in bunkers and having a hard time extricating himself. We’re about to find out starting next week, when Auburn goes to Oklahoma to open SEC play, if Freeze and the Tigers are new and improved enough to avoid the hazards he has often gotten entangled in since…

            By JIMMY WIGFIELD SPANISH FORT — Saraland coach Jeff Kelly got what he asked for. Unfortunately for Spanish Fort, so did the Toros. The No. 3-ranked Spartans buried Spanish Fort under a barrage of big plays Friday night as Saraland demolished the Toros for the third straight season 54-7 atop The Hill. Jamison Roberts completed 9 of 12 passes for 254 yards and three touchdowns, all of them to Deshawn Spencer, who also returned…

      DAPHNE — Can a football team be considered great if it committed 18 penalties and still won? When one of the penalties is for tackling too hard, it might not matter. In Mary G. Montgomery’s 41-31 victory over Daphne Friday night, Vikings linebacker Devin Pettway swallowed Jamir Alcius on a pass in the flats, then threw him down like he had just picked up a sack full of poisonous snakes. While Hulk Hogan would have been proud…