The Coahoma County girls and boys maintained their standings at the top of the division with three wins last week — two being in the division and one a non-district contest.
The Red Panthers (21-2, 10-0) won at home against South Delta, 68-9, on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
The Coahoma Early College High School boys and girls picked up two division wins at home during the past week to remain in second place in their division.
The Tigers (18-5, 6-2) defeated Madison Palmer High School from Marks, 66-38, on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
The Coahoma Early College High School boys earned a 66-46 victory in a district game at Independence on Tuesday night.
The Coahoma Early College High School boys and girls both maintained their second place standings in the district with victories at home Friday night against Water Valley.
The Tigers won 59-23, while the Lady Tigers won 69-24.
The Lee Academy boys and girls varsity teams both dropped district games at Bayou Academy on Tuesday night.
The Colts (6-11, 0-5) lost 75-30, while the Fillies (9-8, 0-5) lost 53-44.
Anna Byrd led the Fillies with 18 points, while Emily Moser finished with 12.
The Lee junior high boys lost 58-32.
The Lee Academy boys and girls remained winless in district play with losses to North Delta on Tuesday night.
The Colts (6-8, 0-4) came up just short with a 63-60 loss.
Phillip Brownlee and Brett Wilson scored 14 points each followed by Seth Campbell with 13.
The Fillies (7-7, 0-4) lost 63-33.
Although the back-to-back 2A basketball state champion Coahoma County Red Panthers are 4-0 in district play, they were given one of their biggest tests of the season in the Pontotoc tournament on Saturday and fell to Forest Hill from Jackson, 69-58.
The loss gave the Red Panthers an overall record of 13-2 on the season.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oxford, a former employee at a Clarkdale bank was recently sentenced to two years in prison for embezzling funds from Southern Bancorp Bank.
Students from West Bolivar High School watch as SafTCart employee George Malone, second from left, puts together a manifold during the students’ visit to the Clarksdale plant on Feb. 26.
Malone has been an employee at SafTCart for close to 19 years. At left is Andy Ellis, the IT director for SafTCart who was giving the tour.
Jackson, Miss.—Three Coahoma County students were among 67 K-12 students who were recognized at the Mississippi Capitol last week for high achievement in the arts and writing.
They were among the thousands of Mississippi students who took part in the 2018 Promote the Vote activities.
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