Sports

Pirates and Wildcats Meet Again

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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.

Pickens Pirates Big Win Over Holy Spirit Tuesday Night

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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.

Aliceville vs Pickens Academy (Boys)

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.

Lady Pirates Varsity Team Fall to Tuscaloosa Academy

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.

Gordo Goes 0-3 for the Week

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

Gordo Goes 1-2 for the Week

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.

Green Wave Overpowers Bulldogs 56-6

Gordo Offense on the move, Jase Neel (8), Logan Ellis(50), CJ Lark (2), Ford Hewitt (9), Andre Perez (58).

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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.

Pirates Seniors Heading Out With a Bang!

Pirates Senior football players, preparing for the coin toss before Friday nights last home game.

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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...

Pickens County Beats South Lamar 28-12

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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.

Green Wave Roll Against Vincmont 42-14

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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.

Pirates Defeat Holy Spirit

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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.

Gordo Survives Oakman 32-27

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.

Green Wave Pounds the Patriots 61-18

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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.

Lady Pirates Fall to Holy Spirit Lady Saints

Pirates battling it out against Holy Spirit

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.

Cross-Country Returns to Pickens Academy

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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.

Yellow Jackets Lose to Bears 13-55

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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

Lady Waves defeat ACA for first win since 2019

Gordo Girls Basketball Team

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.

Lady Jackets lose first game of season to Red Bay

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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.