South Alabama 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 and 6 yards and Demetris Johnson ran for a TD for the Wolves, who had 18 penalties for 129 yards. “It’s always good to win…

  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 a minute into the fourth quarter. “We had some new faces tonight, including our quarterback, who did a great job in managing the game for…

        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 and still be disappointed by how they played. Roberts was efficient if not spectacular, throwing for a touchdown and running for two others, and No.…

    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 Murphy, the former bully of Mobile high school football that nowadays might not be favored against 11 octogenarians. Even the most virulent Murphy haters back…

  ____________________ 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 quarterback involve some apprehension even if his nickname rhymed with ammo? Before last season started, Roberts was asked to compare himself to Lacey, the Texas…

  ____________________ “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 that we orchestrated a recruiting effort? If that evidence exists, show it.” Former MGM coach Zach Golson ____________________     SEMMES — An empty chair…

    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 McDade and Commissioners Donald Stringfellow and Dr. Reginald Crenshaw voted in favor while Commissioners Lonnie Parsons and Johnny Hatcher voted against it. Golson was under…

      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 quash nausea or doubt because neither existed. “We weren’t panicked,” Seymour said. That’s because the Rams had lost back-to-back games only once this season and…

__________________ 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 their hosanna. After that, defending state champion Helena didn’t have a prayer. “The last thing we say after our prayer every day is ‘Keep swinging,’”…

        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 had in those four years, the Vikings ran over Ocean Springs 43-20 in the spring game and demonstrated they were unfazed by the week’s tumultuous…