Lee Academy’s Clegg brings unselfish attitude to MAIS All-Star Game, helps team win
Hayes Clegg played many new positions for the first time in his football career as a senior at Lee Academy and that earned him a spot in the MAIS All-Star Game at Jackson Prep last Friday.
The Coahoma County boys and girls basketball teams both improved to 6-1 on the 2018-19 season with victories at Madison Palmer High School this past Friday night.
DECATUR — Tough encounters awaited Coahoma Community College’s Mighty Tigers at the East Central Shootout in Decatur, Mississippi. They had two of their biggest tests of the season against No. 20 Pearl River Community College and East Central Community College.
Those of you who saw the Southeastern Conference title game Saturday will probably agree with me that Alabama played the worst game the Crimson Tide has played in at least three years.
And yet they won the title.
That is the mark of a good team.
JACKSON — Elgton Jenkins, a 2014 Clarksdale High School graduate and senior center for the Mississippi State football team, has been named the 2018 Entergy/Kent Hull Trophy winner signifying the top offensive lineman in Mississipi.
The 6 foot, 4 inch, 310 pound Clarksdale native was chosen by a panel of NFL scouts working the state.
Coahoma County High School boys and girls basketball teams have won three consecutive games each, with two victories in their own Thanksgiving tournament and one in the Clarksdale High School Thanksgiving tournament.
Color McGriff McGone! Gifts are not required on Thanksgiving, but Matt Luke gave me and all Ole Miss fans a big gift the Friday after Thanksgiving when he fired Rebel defensive coordinator Wesley McGriff.
I hate to see anyone lose their job, especially in these hard economic times. But, I’ll make an exception in McGriff’s case.
Lee Academy’s girls basketball team is undefeated to open the 2018-19 season after winning its home opener 48-27 against DeSoto School on Tuesday night.
The Coahoma Early College High School boys basketball team improved its record to 6-1 by winning two out of three games during recent holiday tournaments.
The Tigers lost to Coahoma County 54-53 in the championship game of the Red Panthers Thanksgiving tournament.
Mississippi State University senior Elgton Jenkins is no stranger to changing positions on the offensive line and it all goes back to his days of playing for the Clarksdale Wildcats.
