When this week began, the Eupora Lady Eagles were still waiting to get their softball season started after their weekend tournament was rained out.
“We were in for a big day on Saturday,” head coach Amir Hunt said. “We had our big softball classic and meet the Eagles that night and it all got rained out. We had five teams coming and I hate that we didn’t get to play them.”
— Robbie Robertson
FIRST WEEK GOES WELL FOR WOLVERINES
There were no big surprises in week one of practice for the East Webster Football team.
“It was a traditional first week of practice,” EWHS head football coach Ron Price said. “We went the first few days in shorts and then put pads on on Wednesday. We had our first team scrimmage on Saturday and that went well. We made a few careless mistakes. As far as attitude and effort, we are excited about the potential. I think we are talented. But it’s the same story as last year, we are talented but just lacking experience.”
— Robbie Robertson
SILVER JOINS EW COACHING STAFF
Former East Webster High School baseball and football standout Cody Silver has returned to Cumberland as an assistant coach.
EW Athletics Director Doug Wilson confirmed that Silver had been hired as an assistant baseball and football coach. Silver, a 2012 graduate of East Webster, played two years of baseball for East Mississippi Community College before completing his degree at Mississippi State University.
— Austin Bishop
KOSY’S HARMON TABBED TOP 2021 RECRUIT
Accolades for his football and basketball prowess is nothing new for Kosciusko High School’s Antonio Harmon. After all ,he received his first NCAA Division I college football scholarship offer as a freshman, when Mississippi State did the honors.
Harmon is ranked the No. 1 football recruit in the state for the class of 2021 by 247 Sports, a recruiting website. He is currently tabbed as the no. 77 nationwide recruit.
The 6-foot-4, 200-pound junior wide receiver/defensive back has SEC offers from Ole Miss, MSU, LSU, and Georgia, as well as instate school, the University of Southern Mississippi, and other schools across the nation. Many more offers are expected.
Last year he caught 18 passes for 445 yards and six touchdowns, averaging 24.7 yards per reception. The versatile Harmon also recorded two defensive touchdowns — one interception and one fumble return — and scored twice on kick returns.
— Austin Bishop
SIX INDUCTED INTO MAIS COACHES HOF
Three former Winston Academy coaches – Les Triplett, Barry Gray and David Blount – were among six men inducted into the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools Coaches' Association Hall of Fame Saturday in ceremonies at the Rankin County campus of Hinds Community College.
“The first thing I thought about when I found out that I would be inducted was all the people who have helped me,” said Triplett, the long time activities director for the MAIS. “It's really not about me. It's the people God put in front of me and behind me to push me.
The other members of the Hall of Fame Class 2019 are long time Meridian High School and Lamar School football coach Mac Barnes; MAIS football official, Prentiss Christian Board of Directors member and MPSA Executive Committee member James Russell Dumas; and Central Delta Academy and Indianola Academy basketball standout Mike Sibley who once scored 64 points n a game. There are now 90 members of the Hall of Fame which began with the 2002 class.
— Laurence HIlliard
