High School Football

November 07, 2009

PREP FOOTBALL: Dadeville cruises to first-round win

DADEVILLE — The No. 8 Dadeville Tigers used the combination of a balanced running game and passing attack en route to a 28-12 win over the West Blocton Tigers in the first round of the Class 3A playoffs Friday night.

PREP FOOTBALL: Valley’s season ends at Vigor

PRICHARD — Mario Richardson broke open a 4-point game with a 4-yard touchdown run with 1:10 left in the game to help Vigor secure a 13-3 win over Valley in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs at Prichard Stadium on Friday night.

PREP FOOTBALL: Gulf Shores slips past Tallassee

TALLASSEE — Mike Smith’s tears rolled down his face.

PREP FOOTBALL: Springwood upset by Escambia

LANETT — Springwood went up early on Escambia in its first home playoff game since 2001, but suffered two key injuries and couldn’t recover in a 46-38 loss that ended the Wildcats’ season Friday night.

November 06, 2009

PREP FOOTBALL: Running back duo leads Central into 6A playoffs

Ucambre Williams saw it coming.

PREP FOOTBALL: Auburn High looks to remain dominant

While the circumstances surrounding Auburn High’s entrance to the playoffs this season might seem familiar, things sure are different this time around.

PREP BLITZ PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Chambers Academy’s Chris and Brandon Ashford

The brothers were both immovable objects and unstoppable forces for the Rebels since transferring from LaFayette before the season.

November 05, 2009

PREP FOOTBALL: AHSAA shakes up regions in reclassification

In the weeks before the AHSAA’s realignment proposal for the 2010-12 seasons, Beulah coach Steve White expressed concern about his team spending the next two years in Class 4A.

PREP FOOTBALL: Beauregard excited for first 5A playoff game

On a fourth-and-goal from the 3, Patrick Lockhart crashed through the line, sacked the quarterback — jarring the ball loose — then picked up the fumble and ran it 90 yards the other way.

PREP FOOTBALL: Tallassee hosts Gulf Shores in first round

Rodney Dollar has been pulling every string he can, asking around, using every connection in the coaching world he can think of to find out what kind of Gulf Shores team will be heading into J.E. “Hot” O’Brien Stadium to take on his Tallassee Tigers on Friday.

PREP FOOTBALL: AHSAA CLASS 3A-5A PLAYOFF CAPSULES

A look at Friday night’s AHSAA Class 3A-5A area playoff games.

November 03, 2009

PREP FOOTBALL: Reeltown moves to top of 2A poll

As if back-to-back region championships and a trip to the state semifinals last year wasn’t enough motivation for Reeltown’s opponents, here’s something else to pile on.

November 03, 2009

PREP FOOTBALL: Lee-Scott ready for Bessemer

Will Garner doesn’t want it to end.

PREP FOOTBALL: Ballard ‘excited’ to host Covenant

The game’s finally here.

PREP FOOTBALL: ICSGA, AISA, 1A-2A Playoff Capsules

ICSGA, AISA, 1A-2A Playoff Capsules

PREP FOOTBALL: Chambers’ Ashford gets ASWA nod

Chambers Academy running back Chris Ashford came up about a yard short of completing a 2-point conversion in overtime and making sure the Rebels’ season — and his high school career — didn’t end last Friday.

November 02, 2009

PREP FOOTBALL: Little movement in Power Poll’s final week

The regular season is over. Which means that this will be the final Opelika-Auburn News Prep Power Poll of this, its inaugural season.

PREP FOOTBALL: George making mark in Europe

As a graduate assistant at Auburn University in the early 1980s, Marcus George got to talking with a master’s student about working overseas.

October 31, 2009

PREP FOOTBALL: Auburn High caps 10-0 season with blowout

TUSKEGEE — Calvin Jenkins came out early in Auburn High’s 49-14 win against Booker T. Washington on Friday.

PREP FOOTBALL: Playoffs to start without Opelika

Seventy-five seconds in Dothan kept Opelika out of the playoffs for the first time since 1997.

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