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Cedar Bluff setter Raveen McElrath sets a ball for teammate Audrianna Hargitt during their volleyball match with Spring Garden on Wednesday. Cedar Bluff volleyball team outlasts Spring Garden in five games
CEDAR BLUFF – One of the things Cedar Bluff volleyball coach Tiffany Rieger worked with her team on during the off-season was fundamentals. Rieger, herself a former volleyball player, knows i...
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Cherokee County, Piedmont move up in latest ASWA football rankings
After capturing decisive victories thanks to solid second-half performances last week, the Cherokee County Warriors (1-0) and Piedmont Bulldogs (1-0) moved up a spot in their respective classes in...
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Tuesday Volleyball Action: Sand Rock downs West End
SAND ROCK – Karlie Anderson posted 11 kills and five digs and Logan Smith added 28 assists to lead Sand Rock past Class 2A, Area 11 rival West End on Tuesday. The scores were 25-14, 25-17 and ...
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Week 1 Football Stats
Below are football statistics from coaches around the area after Week 1. Some schools only partially reported. Coaches, if you do not see your stats, please send them in to The Herald every Monda...
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Monday Volleyball Roundup: Spring Garden earns first victory
CROSSVILLE – Tara Mullinax posted 10 kills, four assists, a pair of digs and a pair of blocks to lead the Spring Garden Lady Panthers to their first victory of the season Monday at Crossville. T...
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Four area football players recognized by ASWA for outstanding Week 1 efforts
Defense seemed to the be the name of the game last weekend in Cherokee County area football action. Three players were honored for their Week 1 defensive showings by the Alabama Sportswriters Asso...
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Shannon Fagan: Getting off to a good start
Last week was fun, wasn’t it? Three solid days of high school football action that had a little bit of everything. I can’t think of a better way to begin the season … except for ...
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Power running game lifts Piedmont past Hokes Bluff
by Shannon Fagan
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PIEDMONT – All it took for Piedmont senior running back Jamaal Johnson to get fired up Saturday night was getting his bell rung by Hokes Bluff defender Dakota Hallmark late in the second quarter. ...
Sand Rock volleyball takes three of five matches at Albertville Tournament
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ALBERTVILLE – The Sand Rock Lady Wildcats played in their first volleyball tournament of the season Saturday at Albertville, taking three of five matches played. The Lady Wildcats (7-4) lost their...
Sand Rock's Kyser comes up big, leads Wildcats to season-opening victory against Pleasant Valley
by Shannon Fagan
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SAND ROCK – Early in the fourth quarter on Friday, with his team trailing by three points, Sand Rock football coach Russell Jacoway saw the look in Justin Kyser’s eyes. Kyser told his coach to giv...
Gaylesville falls at Class 4A Douglas
by Lionel Green, The Sand Mountain Reporter
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DOUGLAS – With coaches and players from the inaugural 1970 Douglas football team watching from the stands, the Eagles capitalized on turnovers and fended off the Gaylesville Trojans 24-12 in their ...
UPDATED: Ranburne runs past Spring Garden
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Piedmont-Hokes Bluff game rained out, rescheduled for Saturday night
Collinsville 'D' comes up big against Coosa Christian in 41-20 victory
by Chris McCarthy, The Gadsden Messenger
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GADSDEN – A 19-point loss doesn’t include many positives, so Teddy Helms framed his team’s season opening loss to Collinsville last Thursday as a wake-up call. Coosa Christian (0-1) committed five...
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U.S. Open: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Mardy Fish advance; Richard Gasquet ousts Nikolay Davydenko
Five-time champion Roger Federer has breezed into the third round at the U.S. Open, serving 15 aces in beating 104th-ranked Andreas Beck of Germany 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
Thu Sep 02 22:31:18 -0500 2010
Pryor, Buckeyes make short work of Marshall
Terrelle Pryor tossed three touchdown passes, Brandon Saine rushed for 103 yards and two scores and No. 2 Ohio State rolled over error-prone Marshall 42-7 on Thursday night in a tuneup for a big date with Miami.
Thu Sep 02 23:01:13 -0500 2010
Utley's slam, six RBIs rally Phillies past Rockies
Chase Utley drove in six runs and hit a grand slam to cap a nine-run seventh inning Thursday night as the Philadelphia Phillies overcame a four-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 12-11.
Thu Sep 02 23:04:31 -0500 2010