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By JIMMY WIGFIELD Deshawn Spencer is the type of receiver who gives any quarterback confidence because if the football is thrown anywhere around him, no matter the coverage, there is a 99.999999% likelihood he’ll make the catch. Just ask Saraland coach Jeff Kelly and new Auburn coach Alex Golesh, who over the weekend threw a renewed scholarship offer at Spencer, who eagerly took it in. “I’ve seen it with (Spartans quarterback) Jamison (Roberts) and years ago as a…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD AUBURN — New Auburn coach Alex Golesh promised Tigers fans on Monday a renaissance for their tattered football program and vowed to waste no time doing it. “What you’re going to get from me, from our staff and, as we get rolling, our players is the hardest-working, toughest, grittiest program in the entire country,” Golesh said during his introductory press conference. We’re going to find wins in every single margin we can find. We’re…
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AUBURN — Although it has been the favorite in every Iron Bowl since 2007, wasn’t Alabama supposed to lose to Auburn Saturday night? Wasn’t the Crimson Tide supposed to be too soft? Have no running game? See its playoff hopes and Kalen DeBoer’s job buried under a mountain of Charmin at Toomer’s Corner? Wasn’t Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson supposed to play like Homer Simpson, panicking and turning it over, as he has against defenses with plentiful NFL Draft…
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By DARRON PATTERSON MOBILE — Sammy Dunn said he learned a lot from Vigor’s first game against Williamson and he used every bit of that knowledge in a thrilling 28-21 win over the No. 1-ranked and previously unbeaten Lions before a frenzied crowd at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in the Class 5A semifinals Friday night. The next stop for No. 2 Vigor (12-2) is the 5A state title game Thursday at 7 p.m. against Moody (12-2) at Birmingham’s Protective Stadium. Williamson finished…
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By JIMMY WIGFIELD SARALAND — Jamison Roberts went from haltingly banging the wrong key on a piano to a maestro orchestrating Saraland’s once-again unstoppable offense Friday night in about as much time as it would take him to hum a few bars of “Golden.” “I’m done hidin’, now I’m shinin’ … we’re goin’ up, up, up … gonna be, gonna be golden.” After struggling with hands that felt like chilly, dry bricks, Saraland’s 24-karat quarterback suddenly…
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By ARTHUR L. MACK PRICHARD — Vigor’s defense throttled No. 5 Central-Clay County’s running game while Sammy Dunn and Demetrius Johnson made crucial plays with their legs as the No. 2 Wolves earned a 14-0 win in the Class 5A quarterfinals at Wolfpack Stadium Friday night. Johnson rushed 17 times for 92 yards while Dunn rushed 14 times for 89 yards, many of the yards coming after he was unable to find receivers. Dunn, who was 9-of-19 passing…
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_________________________ The Spartans scored on nine of 10 possessions, with Roberts’ non-injurious interception in the first quarter marking the only time he seemed ordinary. Another completion was flagged because of an ineligible receiver downfield; presumably, Roberts could have completed passes to both if he had been given two balls. Saraland didn’t punt. The sublime execution and play calling allowed the Spartans to convert five first-and-10s, a first-and-15, a first-and goal at the 14, a second-and-7, a pair…
Read the Full StoryMOBILE — Steve Mask jokingly called his retirement announcement on Thursday a funeral service. Perhaps he said that so he’d laugh to keep from crying, which he’s been known to do. But Mask’s retirement could be another marker that the funeral — not for the Hall of Fame coach but for high school football as we have known it — might be closer than some might want to admit. Mask, 69, who won four state championships at…
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TUSCALOOSA — The Heisman moment and the championship moment were unfurled at the feet of Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson and the Crimson Tide offense Saturday evening. The No. 4-ranked team in the country was going to push the ball off the goal line without a running game and drive 94 yards in the last seven minutes for the touchdown to beat No. 11 Oklahoma and its NFL-caliber defensive line. Or Simpson was going to skillfully steer Alabama about 75…
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By ROBERT LADNIER SARALAND — Second-ranked Saraland scored on three of its first four possessions of the second half to rally for a 35-31 win over visiting No. 8-ranked Spain Park in the second round of the Class 6A playoffs at Spartan Stadium Friday night. Quarterback Jamison Roberts put the Spartans ahead for good on a 1-yard run with 4:35 remaining to send Saraland (11-0) into the Class 6A quarterfinals next Friday at Pike Road. Roberts completed 22 of 25…
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