There were really no surprises.

Catholic survived a tough second road opponent and advanced to the third round with a 9-6 victory over Handley. All photos by Eddie Olszewski.

There is a reason William Johnson and Kerwin Washington schedule each other’s basketball team for an early-season matchup and every fan in Evangel Christian Academy’s gym saw it first-hand on Thursday night.

Mobile Christian 28, Pike Road 10

Isabella Baker can trace her love for track and field back to a dislike for gymnastics.

Throughout the past two years, Caroline Capps has worked hard during the offseason and with her travel ball team to make herself into the type of pitcher that could earn a college scholarship.

Macon East Academy volleyball coach Codi Moon faced a rebuilding effort this year, but the Knights couldn’t have reached the state semifinals without the leadership and effort of Emily Brooks.

The Deontay Wilder (41-0-1, 40 KOs) Training Camp for his rematch versus Luis Ortiz (31-1, 26 KOs) ended on Wednesday after starting in late September. It was quite a contradiction with temperatures in Northport, Alabama setting records with highs approaching 100 degrees at the beginning of …

There are plenty of obstacles to earning an equestrian scholarship.

Trinity senior Prather Anne Hargrove is accustomed to doing things on her own, so when she couldn’t generate enough interest from Alabama or Auburn, she went in a different direction to secure a swimming and diving scholarship.

Coaches don’t often go for moral victories, but LAMP coach Marcus Townsend might settle for one after the Golden Tigers lost a hard-fought battle to Marbury in the LAMP gym in the season opener on Tuesday night.

ESPN Senior Writer Ivan Maisel was the featured speaker at the October 29 meeting of the Montgomery Quarterback Club. The Club honored John Morgan from Lowndes Academy and Easton Wilcoxson from Pike Road High School as Players of the Week. From left to right: Morgan, Maisel, and Wilcoxson. 

Most sportsmen have never seen a CEO in the field, but it's a good bet a CEO has seen you! CEO? No, not that type of CEO. I'm talking about a Conservation Enforcement Officer of the State of Alabama. Theirs is not an easy job, and sometimes it can be nerve-wracking. If they have a reason to …

Presley Miles stole the show, but it was a total team effort that brought the St. James girls the Class 3A state championship in cross country at the Oakville Indian Mounds Park & Museum course in Danville on Saturday.

To advance past the first round of the playoffs, the St. James Trojans were going to have to get physical.

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Catholic 24, Williamson 6

Andalusia defeated Trinity in the first round of the state Class 4A playoffs 24-6. The Bulldogs advance to the second round and Trinity ends the season at 6-5.

It’s not often a president attends a college football game.

Auburn has the week off before a stretch run of three home games that includes Georgia, Samford and Alabama and head coach Gus Malzahn said he likes where his team is entering the final month of the season.

There are other teams playing in the Southeastern Conference this week besides Alabama and LSU.

Evangel Christian Academy coach Kerwin Washington had big ideas about his 2019-20 basketball team after winning the Class A state championship last fall.

Eddie Olszewski's photo gallery of the Saint James and Trinity football game. Saint James won the game 14-7.

ELMORE- Edgewood concluded the regular season at 8-2 after a convincing 56-6 win over Success Unlimited (1-9) at the Wildcats homecoming Friday night.

It was the kind of game that wasn’t going to be settled in the traditional way.

Macon East Academy 48, Abbeville Christian Academy 12

After a week off to prepare for Saturday’s game at Auburn, Ole Miss will visit Jordan-Hare with the conference’s second leading rushing attack but a struggling defense that has the Rebels a 19-point underdog to the Tigers on Saturday.

The hype has already started for next week’s matchup between top-ranked LSU and second-ranked Alabama in Tuscaloosa, but neither coach claims to have heard anything.

Four conference battles are on tap for this week, with the biggest coming in Jacksonville as Georgia battles Florida in a battle of top 10 teams.

Montgomery Academy’s volleyball team completed its mission on Thursday morning, dominating Geraldine in straight sets in the 3A finals at the Birmingham CrossPlex to win the program’s sixth state championship.

ESPN's Tom Luginbill was the featured speaker at the October 22 meeting of the Montgomery Quarterback Club. The Club honored Players of the Week Tate Holley from Trinity Presbyterian School and Tavarious Griffin from Tallassee High School. Kneeling from left to right: Club board members Perr…

Is this Montgomery Academy team a different squad than the one that cruised through the competition on the way to the 2018 Class 3A state volleyball title?

At the beginning of the year, Manuel Guice knew he had a great setter, but he wasn’t sure what the rest of the Alabama Christian Academy volleyball team would look like.

Dove season is already open, with more hunting soon to follow. We sometimes tend to be only concerned with species we can hunt, but non-game species are just as important in the overall scheme of things. You might not have realized it, but Alabama is the fourth most biologically diverse stat…

Catholic coach Sellers Dubberley saw it when his girls walked over to the court to prepare for their consolation match against LAMP on Friday.

Hilsman James couldn’t have asked for a better Senior Night.

Montgomery Academy breezed through the first two rounds of the South Super Regional on Thursday, but the Eagles weren’t finished.

Karen Lee had just watched her team play two of its best matches and lose.

The real test comes next Wednesday.

Macon East Academy 44, Northside Methodist 12

Christian Ivey from Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School and Tray Duncan from Stanhope Elmore High School were honored as Montgomery Quarterback Club Players of the Week at the Club's October 15 meeting. Shown from left to right: Club board members Perry Hooper, Jr, and Kendall Leverette, …

It’s not the first time Catholic has gone 10-0 in the regular season, but it is the first the Knights have been 10-0 and gone to the playoffs.

Catholic 30, Headland 0