BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy came out strong in the first game against the South Lamar Stallions Tuesday night. The Pirates were the first to score a run at the bottom of the second when Kaden Craft singled on a line drive, driving in Dalton Crowe.
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Pirates celebrated their six graduating seniors with a solid night of baseball against Pickens County High School.
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Lady Pirates celebrated Senior Night Thursday night and came out with a solid win against the Lady Tornadoes.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
The Pirates welcomed Hubbertville to Pirate Nation Friday night. The top of the first inning brought in the first Hubbertville run.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Pirates played a double header Thursday night against Pickens County High School’s Tornadoes.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Lady Pirates traveled to Reform Tuesday night. Pickens County Tornadoes struggled with the Lady Pirates, coming up short for an area win. The Lady Pirates racked up eight runs in the first inning alone.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Pirates beat Berry Wildcats Friday night for three big wins this week. Bery scored first in the top of the first inning. The bottom of the first, Aaron Kirk flies out to center field, bringing in Ace Gregory.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Pirates played Holy Spirit Saints twice this week, coming out with a big win both times
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Lady Pirates met Berry Wildcats for a second matchup this season. The first matchup was a loss of 11-12 to Berry and the Lady Pirates were hoping for a win tonight. The Lady Pi- rates played a hard game which went into an extra inning but came up short in the eighth inning for the Lady Pirates.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy’s Varsity boys won big over Holy Spirit’s Varsity Saints Tuesday night. The Pirates were ready and on fire Tues- day night when the Saints marched into Pirate Territory. The Pi- rates scored eight runs on the Saints in the bottom of the first inning. The Saints were able to secure two runs in the bottom of top the second inning.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy ‘s Varsity Pirates fall to University Charter at home. University Charter pulled ahead early in the game by scoring 3 runs in the top of the first inning.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Lady Pirates welcomed Lamar County, Monday night. Lamar County took an early lead, scoring four runs in the top of the first inning.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy’s Varsity boys battled Hubbertville hard Friday, coming up short in the seventh.
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
BY Thomas Wilkins
Sports Correspondent
The Thursday night game united two teams on a cool autumn evening. The Aliceville Yellow Jackets and the Pickens Academy Pirates faced off in Aliceville. The Yellow Jackets took an early lead with seniors Javier McGraw, Damarion Brewer, and Taylor Gardner dominating the Pirates, resulting in a score of 76-28.
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy’s Lady Pirates traveled to Knight’s country Monday night. The game started with TA scoring 10 in the first period. Lizzie Noland from the Pirates racked up 7 points in the first period to match that. In the second period The Pickens Academy’s ladies were only able to earn 3 points to the Knight’s 16 bring- ing the score to 26-10 at halftime. The third period wasn’t much better for the Lady Pirates who were only able to earn 6 to TA’s 9.
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
BY Harold Trull
Sports Correspondent
South Lamar 45 Gordo 37
The Gordo Lady Wave took on South Lamar on Monday, December 9th, but came up short against the Stallions 45-37. Gordo outscored the Stallions 13-8 at the end of 1st quarter. In the 2nd quarter, the Stallions came back to outscore Gordo 15-10 as the game was tied 23-23 at the half.
Winfield 49 Gordo 19
BY Harold Trull
Sports Correspondent
Gordo 53 South Lamar 34
Gordo went to South Lamar on Monday, December 9 to take on the Stallions and came home with a 53-34 win. Gordo (2-1) got off to a hot start scoring 14 in 1st quarter and 16 in the 2nd quarter. Gordo Defense held the Stallions to only 14 first-half points taking a 30- 14 lead at halftime. In the 2nd half, Gordo outscored the Stallions 14-12 in the 3rd and 9-8 in the 4th to finish off the Stallions 53-34.
Photo by Melanie Harvell Pirates: Tyler Shires, John Henry Robbins, Ryder Turnipseed and Rilee Reed prior to the Husky Challenge in Trussville
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Photo Courtesy of Sheila's Photos
BY Harold Trull
Sports Correspondent
The Gordo Green Wave travel to Carbon Hill Friday night and had no problem with the Bulldogs as Gordo took the win 56-6. Carbon Hill never got a first down against the Green Wave Defense until 49 seconds left in the 1st half.
With Gordo being up 42-0 at the half the Green Wave starters got to get a little rest in the 2nd half as the younger guys got there chance to show what they can do for 2 quarters.
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BY Thomas Wilkins
Correspondent
The Aliceville Yellow Jackets suffered a loss to the Sulligent Blue Devils, ending with a score of 28-0.
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Pirates Senior football players, preparing for the coin toss before Friday nights last home game.
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Friday night Pickens Academy’s 9 Senior football players, 5 Senior cheerleaders and 2 Senior band members left it all on the field for the very last night they got to perform/compete/cheer at McGee-Hughes- Wright Field. While they still have at least one more game this is officially it as far as being their last performance at home. There’s just something about that last time you get to walk out onto that field as a Pirate...
BY GREG REAVES
Correspondent
The Pickens County High Tornadoes (4-6) hosted the Red Raiders of Marion County (4-5) in a 1A Region 5 football contest Friday October 25, 2024, at Reform. The Tornadoes won a close game 22-16.
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BY GREG REAVES
Correspondent
The Pickens County Tornadoes (3-5) defeated the South Lamar Mus- tangs (1-6) 28-12.
Behind a strong rush- ing attack the Tornadoes improved to 3-5 overall and 3-2 in region play.
The strong rushing per- formance was led by Willie Windham with 118 yards on 14 carries. Calvin Hill added an- other 112 yards on13 carries.
The Mustangs scored first in the opening quar- ter with a 32-yard touch- down run. The PAT was no good.
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BY Harold Trull
Sports Correspondent
Gordo travel to Vinemont Friday night for the first ever meeting between the two schools and came home with a 42-14 win.
The Green Wave took to the air against the Ea- gles as Jase Neel had 5 touchdown passes on the night and CJ Lark was on the receiving end of 4 of those. Vinemont had no answer for the Green Wave passing attack.
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BY Thomas Wilkins
Correspondent
The Aliceville Yellow Jackets celebrate their Homecoming Friday night with a football game against the Vincent Yellow Jackets from Shelby County, with the visiting team Vincent managing a 25-yard field goal to make it a 3-0 lead
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
“Awesome game Pirates! Y’all outlasted 11 Saints and 4 Refs!” This was the first comment I saw about the Pirates Friday night game against Holy Spirit, Saturday morning when I woke up. I found it to be an accurate representation of the game Friday night. The boys from Pickens County traveled to Tuscaloosa determined to bring home a WIN and they did just that.
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BY Thomas Wilkins
Correspondent
The Aliceville Yellow Jackets ran out the clock and won the game 15-14. This brought their record to 3-3 for the season and will play their homecoming next week against the Yellow Jackets of Vincent their record is 4-1.
BY GREG REAVES
Correspondent
The Pickens County Tornadoes (2-5) traveled to Hubbertville to take on the Lions in a 1A Region 5 football game on Friday October 4, 2024. The Tornadoes lost to the Lions 28-14.
BY Harold Trull
Sports Correspondent
Gordo and Oakman gave the fans a great game Friday night at Gordo. Back and Forth all night as the two teams traded blows for 4 quar- ters in a big Region 5 contest as the winner would take over 2nd place in the Region. The Green Wave defense had a hard time stopping the running game by the Wildcats in the 1st half as Tyler Thomas carried the ball, but the 2nd half the Green Wave defense stepped up and held the Wildcat offense to only 7 points in 2nd half.
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
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BY Harold Trull
Sports Correspondent
Before the start of the game Friday night Gordo honored Jack Plowman at the 50 yard line as his parents Heath and Chrissy Plowman were the Honorary Captains. Jack passed away on September 10th at the age of 16 after his battle with cancer. May God blessed this family through the days ahead.
End of the Game Sportsmanship
BY Thomas Wilkins
Correspondent
The Yellow Jackets from Aliceville made the 53-mile journey up the road to face off against the Knights of Tuscaloosa in a football match. Excitingly, both teams have maintained perfect records this season.
Pirates battling it out against Holy Spirit
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy traveled to Holy Spirit Thursday night to battle for their 2 nd area game.
The teams were well-matched and battled each other hard but the
Lady Pirates came
up short. Scores for the match were as follows: Set 1 Pirates 25-18, Set 2 Holy Spirit 25-19, Set 3 Holy Spirit 25-19, Set 4 Pirates 25-14, Set 4 Holy Spirit 16-14.
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BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy Lady Pirates beat Greene County Lady Wildcats Monday night. Scores were as follows: Set 1 was 25-16, Set 2 was 25-10 and Set 3 was 25-16.
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BY Harold Trull
Sports Correspondent
Gordo took their first road game Friday night and it didn't turn out as they had hoped as Winfield took down the Green Wave 28-7.
Ryder Turnipseed
BY Melanie Harvell
Sports Correspondent
Pickens Academy at- tended their first Cross Country meet, in several years, Saturday afternoon at The University of Montevallo. Cross Country re- turned to The Academy with the transition to AHSAA this year. The team is small but making great strides. Saturday afternoon, two middle school boys ran 2 miles. 4 Varsity girls and one Varsity boy ran.
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BY Thomas Wilkins
Correspondent
The Aliceville Yellow Jackets lost their 2nd game of the year to the Bears of Sipsey Valley. It was the Bears' Home- coming, and they started off quickly in the 1st Quarter. Two touch- downs in the first and 4 more in the second quarter made it Yellow Jackets 0, Bears 41 at Halftime. In the second half, the Aliceville Yel- low Jackets scored twice and an extra point, but the Bears pre- vailed 55-13. The Al- iceville Record is 1-2 for the season, but op- ponents for the Yellow
Coach Jeremy Pate and William Parker celebrate after PA’s Elite 8 win. (Photo Courtesy of Tammy Fikes)
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
brian@pcherald.com
Drake Lowery (22) goes up for two of his points during PA’s 49-30 win over Coosa Valley.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
brian@pcherald.com
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
brian@pcherald.com
Britney Fitch heads up the floor in PA’s Elite 8 win.
BY BRIAN HAMILTON
Managing Editor
brian@pcherald.com
The Gordo Lady Waves win their first game in two years with a 49-43 win over American Christian Academy on Senior Night last Thursday.
GORDO - The Gordo Lady Wave defeated American Christian Academy 49-43 on Thursday for their first win of the season on senior night.
The Gordo fans filled the stands, showing support for seniors Emily Bryant, Taylor Clegg and Kaylee Quimby and the rest of the Lady Wave.
Destiny Weston (32) is tied up by Red Bay’s Kylie Lindley (33), while Madeline Ledbetter (21) looks on.
ALICEVILLE - If you were looking for high flying offense in Aliceville Friday night between the Aliceville Lady Jackets and Red Bay Lady Tigers, you were in the wrong place. Red Bay’s defense stifled Aliceville for most of the game, but once the Lady Tigers got ahead by about 10 points, and most of the second half, they began to stall, taking over a minute on most possessions. The Lady Jackets won the first matchup 48-45 at Red Bay, but on Friday night, the shots were not falling and Aliceville suffered its first loss of the season to fall to 4-1.
Rafe Brown (15) puts up a jumper during the second half
CARROLLTON - The Pickens Academy boys defeated South Choctaw on Thursday night for the second time this season, as the Pirates jumped out early and never trailed, winning 56-47. “We’ve only played about eight or nine games and everybody else has played 15 or more, so we’re still trying to find our stride and I think we’re getting better the more we play,” Pickens Academy Coach Jeremy Pate said. “I am proud of these boys because they get after it and they hustle.
Aliceville defenders try and stop Red Bay’s Jaylen Vinson (10) on a drive to the basket
ALICEVILLE - Aliceville was able to defeat the Red Bay Tigers 39-38 on Friday night in a thrilling finish. With the Yellow Jackets leading 38-36, Ty Williams went to the line with nine seconds left and converted one-of-two three throws to go ahead 39-36. The Tigers rebounded the second miss and headed up the floor with roughly seven seconds left. Aliceville gave Red Bay the layup and Landon Glover took what the defense gave him. The buzzer sounded as the ball went through the net.
