Everybody knows you can’t win a baseball game with one player. It takes a whole team; all nine batters in the lineup, all four infielders, all three outfielders, not to mention a pitcher and a catcher. Every single player has to do their job,…
The Elmore County Panthers hosted Class 5A Area 6 opponent Beauregard on Tuesday night, beating the Hornets for their first win of area play, 4-3. ECHS followed up Tuesday’s win by sweeping Beauregard in the three-game area series with 6-5 an…
With the 2025-26 school year coming to a close, senior student-athletes are making their commitments to continuing their athletic careers at the next level. At Elmore County High School, four student-athletes signed their NLIs.
When Tra’Mel McCoy first stepped onto the wrestling mats at Tallassee High School, he was just an eighth grader with little to no experience with the sport. It didn’t take much time before John Mask, Tallassee’s wrestling coach, knew that he …
Wetumpka’s Juliana Eldridge is one of the premier high school wrestlers in the state, and she’s leading the charge for girls wrestling in and around Elmore County. For that reason, and of course her undeniable success on the wrestling mats, Eldridge is the first-ever Elmore County Girls Wres…
With area play on the horizon, the Elmore County baseball team refused to lose any momentum to the break as they went out to Oxford to try their luck in a spring break experience tournament. ECHS played four games in two days, winning 3-of-4.
Baseball is a game of momentum, and after a winless skid to start the season, the Tallassee Tigers are quickly building steam to make a playoff push. For that reason, the Tigers refused to take any days off even during spring break.
The Elmore County Panthers took a leadoff on area play last week, facing Class 5A Area 6 opponent Valley. The Panthers (6-9) faced Valley last Thursday, winning 21-8.
The Elmore County baseball team ran the gauntlet last week, with three games against high level opponents. On Thursday, the Panthers faced the Holtville Bulldogs for a rivalry game, winning 7-2 after seven innings of stiff competition.
Competition is not simply a desire to win basketball games. For the best athletes, competition is about striving to become the best version of themselves, pushing limits, constantly working, constantly learning, from games to practices, to how they go about rest, recovery and even how they refuel.
Tallassee’s head football coach and athletic director Lawrence “L.A.” O’Neal has confirmed that he has been offered and accepted a head coaching position at Park Crossing High School in Montgomery pending board approval. The Montgomery school…
Tallassee’s boys and girls soccer teams picked up wins last Monday night in a non-area competition at Holtville. Monday’s game was the second time the Tigers have faced Holtville. With its wins, Tallassee has now swept the two-game series.
After the shocking release of the Alabama High School Athletics Association 2026-2028 reclassification in Dec. 2025 – and the subsequent division of public schools’ and private schools’ championship pathways – the AHSAA announced realignment …
There was an all-star reunion in Eclectic Saturday morning as nearly 250 children gathered with parents and friends for opening day of the Eclectic Youth Baseball and Softball season.
Stanhope Elmore’s Kelvin Stokes has been coaching basketball for nearly 25 years. In that time, he’s won a state championship, had multiple former players go on to Division I careers and touched countless lives through teaching discipline via…
Basketball has been part and parcel of Heaven Bailey’s identity since she was about two years old, when her father walked in and found her dribbling a basketball. From then on, Bailey and the game of basketball have been inseparable.
