Sports
We Mississippians often consider ourselves as a football state and for good reason. Friday nights and Saturday afternoons and nights are special. Our state has produced far more than its share of the greatest football players in the history of...
Eight-year-old Landyn Murphy recently killed this18.5 inch, eight-point buck that weighed in at 240 pounds.
The Capital Gun Club of Jackson began a youth trap league during the summer. The program called AIM (Academics, Integrity and Marksmanship) is a division of the ATA (Amateur Trap Association). One of the members, Dillon...
Most of our hunting endeavors, and fishing too for that matter, involve some type of deception. It may be trying to fool a group of mallards with decoys, it could involve tricking a wary gobbler with seductive yelps from an artificial call...
The Motion '04 (8U) softball team won the ninth annual Indian Summer Classic in Tunica recently. Shown are players (from left, back) Coaches Joseph May, Niles Buchanan, Jody Reno, Chad Davidson; (middle row) Addie Morris, Emma...
Tavyn Lovitt, Madison Ridgeland Academy senior, recently won the Presbyterian Christian School Cross Country Meet in Hattiesburg. She completed the 3K course in 11:30.
St. Andrew's Episcopal School boys and girls swimming teams are comprised of (from left, back) Coach Thatch Shepard; (third row) Dickson Ray, Jack Smithson, Scott Kennedy, Grace Watts, Hughes Walker, Jane Ashley Watson, Maggie...
Madison Ridgeland Academy 2012 sophomore varsity football players include (from left) Ian Dixon, Chase Pennington, Bailey Salvo, Wilson Lutz, Austin Dillon, Hunter Horton, Spencer Thornton, Josh Jordan, Trace Kindred, Isaac Parker...
The Madison Central girls cross country team won the Okatibbee Classic Cross Country Meet recently. All seven runners placed in the top 20, with freshman Rebecca Buteau placing first in the 4K race. Shown are (from left...
Jackson Prep varsity football team members include (from left, back) Will Osborne, Kole Crotwell, Jacob Cokely, Furlow Word, William Townsend, Rusty Burke, Chad Biggs, Will Crosby, Ricky Black (head coach), Nick Brewer, Brent Heavener, Taylor...
The 13-year-old Jackson 96ers won the 13-year-old USSSA Global World Series Championship held in Orange Beach. That first place finish was their fourth of the season. The team finished the year as the number one ranked team in...
The planning committee for the Golf-A-Palooza event includes (from left) Vanda Crowe, Pat Ladnier, Darrel Palmer, Kyle Sephton, Jason Duran, Elizabeth Smith, Glenn Partrick, Linda Gordon, Niki Lowery.
After winning just two games in 2011, The Veritas School hopes to rebound this year on the football field.
The Lions had a slow start, losing their opening match to Kemper Academy, but will have a chance to improve their fortunes...
The Madison Central cross country teams opened up their season with the Mississippi College Choctaw Relays. Girls varsity relay team one placed first in the 10K race. Shown are (from left) Madeline Sawaya, Kayla Lovitt...
Kim Rhode (left) won the women’s Olympic shooting contest recently in London. She first shot a gun at age six. She is shown with Harold McDonald (right) at the Safari Club International Convention in Reno.
IN 2011, THE BRUINS were two games away from playing for the Class 2A state title. If senior Nick Beasley has anything to do with it, St. Joseph Catholic School will be contending for rings this December.
The all-state wide...
AFTER FOUR WINS last year, the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School football team is looking for a stronger year in 2012. Head coach J.J. Plummer is optimistic that a run of bad luck will not faze the Saints this season. Last season, which...
AFTER THEIR SECOND straight loss in the 5A North State championship game in 2011, the Ridgeland Titans are looking to improve their stock in 2012. The Titans went 10-4 last season, going 6-1 in class 5A play. The Titans lost their first two...
AFTER A SURPRISINGLY successful season in 2011, the Murrah Mustang football team is looking to build upon that success in 2012. Led by head coach Zachary Grady, the Mustangs went 6-6 in 2011, winning five district games. Grady and his staff are...
AFTER A RESPECTABLE 7-5 record in the 2011 football season, the Madison-Ridgeland Academy Patriots are looking to take the next step to become more successful in 2012. Second-year head coach Forrest Williams is putting the necessary pieces...
AFTER THEIR FOURTH straight trip to the North State 6A championship game, the Madison Central Jaguars are looking to advance one more round and win a state championship. The Jaguars went 11-3 last season, while going 7-0 in district play.
...JACKSON PREP hasn’t won a state title in three years. Senior tailback Hamel McGraw wants to end that streak.
“I want another shot at it,” he said. “We’re going to take it game by game, but the...
WILL JACKSON ACADEMY (JA) four-peat? Raiders Head Coach David Sykes said the Raiders have never won four back-to-back titles.
But he’s all for making history.
“I don’t think our goals change from year to year...
AFTER A MEDIOCRE inaugural season for the Germantown Mavericks in 2011, the team is looking to move forward and continue to build the football program into a successful one. The Mavericks went 3-7 in their first year in existence, but head...
Jackson Prep received the 2011-2012 MAIS AAA All Sports Trophy, an award Prep has won 17 out of 18 times. Shown are seniors (from left, back) Londyn Steed, Josh Williams, Ryan Buchanan, Lane Fitzgerald; (fourth row) Wirt Dunbar,...
