Author Archive | Melissa Meador

RIDGELAND – Nettleton struck first in the second game of the Class 3A fast pitch state championship series but St. Patrick picked up where it left off on Friday, pounding out 20 hits for a 15-6 win to repeat as champions. “I really liked the way we came out today and played harder. We just [...]

For the Monroe Journal Aberdeen School District conservator Bob Strebeck confirmed that coach Roy E. Hazzle will not return as Aberdeen High School’s basketball coach for the 2013-2014 school year. “He has not done anything wrong. We’re going in the direction the district needs to move in by having a fulltime coach who can teach [...]

MOOREVILLE – Nettleton’s sixth straight trip to the MHSAA 3A fast pitch softball state championship came through a familiar foe in rival Mooreville. The Lady Tigers took a decisive Game 3 13-7, pounding out 20 hits on the road on Tuesday night to win the North state championship. “There’s not enough words to say how [...]

OKOLONA – Some of the Amory assistant coaches clearly remember a 2011 beatdown in the spring football game by Bruce – the same season the Panthers turned around in the fall and reached the 4A North title game. After a 32-6 loss to Okolona, the Panthers will have plenty to learn from in this year’s [...]

ELLISTOWN – East Union pitcher Cody Bo Dillard did it all on Monday night in getting his team to the MHSAA Class 2A North state finals. The senior lefty picked up his second win against Hatley of the series and hit a fourth-inning grand slam for good measure in the Urchins’ 11-1 deciding Game 3 [...]

HATLEY – Each of the first two games of the MHSAA Class 2A baseball quarterfinals between East Union and Hatley has featured a dominating pitching performance. After a shutout from Hatley’s Russ Johnson in the first game, it was East Union’s Cody Bo Dillard who shut down the Tigers and got plenty of run support [...]

By BRANDON SPECK Daily Journal ELLISTOWN – A nerve in Russ Johnson’s pitching arm has irritated him all season. The Hatley senior and Itawamba CC signee did all the irritating Friday night, in a 3-0 win at East Union to open a best-of-three MHSAA Class 2A baseball quarterfinal series. Johnson (5-2) struck out six in [...]

By Dennis Clayton New Albany News-Exchange MYRTLE – Game three of the North 1A Championship went into the eighth inning before the contest was decided on Bailey Bogue’s hit that drove in the winning runs for the 9-8 win. Smithville had briefly taken the lead 8-7 in the top of the eighth only to see [...]

SMITHVILLE – West Union pitcher Brittany Taylor kept the Smithville offense off balance for the first time in the Class 1A softball playoffs, and three costly errors carried the Lady Eagles to a 5-3 North state series opening win. The Lady Noles took a 2-0 lead after the first inning after capitalizing on a pair [...]