Alabama High School Sports News

MONTGOMERY a ' Woodie Jackson of Selma, one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in the nation, is one of nine major contributors to prep athletics in Alabama who has been selected to the 20th class of the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame.

Following are updates and statistics of former Columbia-area high school athletes now competing at the collegiate level: Men's Basketball Florida Southern senior forward John Thompson : Scored 24 points and had 10 rebounds, three assists and two steals in 103-61 win over Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa The Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team earned a berth in the NJCAA national tournament Final Four for the sixth straight year with a pair of victories Thursday in the first day of the national tournament in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Who: Central champion Metuchen vs. South champion Palmyra When/Where: Today, 7 p.m., at Toms River South High School How they got here: The No.

Spanish Fort pitcher/first baseman Patrick McGavin among the recruits View full size Patrick McGavin: Press-Register All-Region baseball star from Spanish Fort High School among 10 signees at the University of Alabama.

Several wrestlers return for a Jeffersonville team that won its fourth sectional championship in school history last season.

Sand Rock volleyball player Jennifer Campbell signed a volleyball scholarship with the University of West Alabama on Wednesday.

The South Carolina baseball team has announced its schedule for the 2010 season featuring 25 games against 2009 NCAA Tournament teams as well as 33 home games at Carolina Stadium.

Theodore High softball coach Tyler Murray said that she's the one who filed the anonymous Title IX complaint against Mobile County schools, believing that her team was mistreated in comparison to the football team.

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T.C. Britton, who coached Smiths Station's first football team in 1956, then oversaw considerable building improvements as Lee County Schools superintendent for 24 years, died Thursday morning at age 77, the Opelika-Auburn News reports.

Justin Shade and his Briarwood Christian teammates will battle Carver-Montgomery in the next round of the AHSAA playoffs.

The Kentucky baseball program will take on 15 NCAA Tournament teams from 2009 and host 29 games at Cliff Hagan Stadium, as part of its 2010 schedule, released Tuesday by head coach Gary Henderson.

The 20th annual North Carolina High School Athletic Association state championships in women's dual team tennis will be held Saturday with four titles up for grabs at the Burlington Tennis Center.

The state's private schools start their playoff runs tonight, a week earlier than the public high schools.

MANCHESTER - Dan Favreau fired home a first-half goal as second-seeded Burr and Burton slipped past Essex, 1-0, in a Division I high school boys soccer game at Applejack Stadium on Tuesday.

The Old Tappan boys soccer team lost four one-goal games in regulation and three games in overtime en route to a 4-12 finish during the recently completed regular season.

"Nobody loved Auburn more." That's how John "Stump" Thrower was described Monday afternoon by friends and colleagues.

The Bears, who move into a district with reigning Class 4A champion Ponte Vedra, are loaded with returning talent, including seniors Sam Scalf , Bri Swift , Chelsea Mayo , defender Taylor Gillespie and keeper Lauren Hamilton .

Senior forward Joe Aratari scored the winner 12 minutes into the second half for to lift No.