Spring Sports Update

By: Tim Lambert

The AHSAA will offer girls’ flag football as a sanctioned sport in the fall of 2021. Funding will be provided by the Atlanta Falcons, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation and NFL FLAG. The season will wrap up in December with a title game at the Super 7 State High School Football Championships in Birmingham.

Athens boys’ basketball coach Charles Burkett is headed to Central-Phenix City. Burkett spent the last season as the Golden Eagles’ coach where the team went 9-14.

Athens High’s Tyre Patterson was named as an honorable mention member of the Class 6A All-State boys’ basketball team. West Limestone’s River Helms was 4A second team. The girls’ teams included Athens’s Caroline Bachus on the 6A second team and East Limestone’s Jirah Rogers on the 5A first team. Lindsay Lane’s Henry Woodall was also named to the North All-Star cross country team.

Ardmore’s David Jenrath for committed to Tennessee Valley Prep Sports Academy’s football team.

Results highlights over the last month:

Baseball

ABS 10-4, Rogers 0-1

ABS 13, Woodville 3

ABS 7, Lindsay Lane 6

ABS 7, Shoals Christian 6

Ardmore 10, Madison Academy 1

Ardmore 11, Lee 1

Athens 5, East Lawrence 1

Athens 6, New Hope 4

Athens 10, North Jackson 0

Athens 18, Austin 14

Clements 6, Tanner 3

East Limestone 10, Mae Jemison 0

East Limestone 13, Mae Jemison 2

East Limestone 19, ABS 1

East Limestone 11, Lee 1

Elkmont 4, Lexington 2

Elkmont 3, Lindsay Lane 1

James Clemens 7, Priceville 1

James Clemens 14, Huntsville 4

James Clemens 6, Russellville 3

James Clemens 10, Vestavia Hills 1

James Clemens 6, Hazel Green 5

James Clemens 1-2, Oak Mountain 0-7

James Clemens 10, Hazel Green 0

James Clemens 6, Buckhorn 1

James Clemens 5, Grissom 1

Lindsay Lane 1, Decatur Heritage 0

Lindsay Lane 6, Fairview 1

Lindsay Lane 10-10, ABS 3-0

West Limestone 1, Lindsay Lane 0

West Limestone 12-12, East Limestone 3-2

West Limestone 8, Brooks 7

West Limestone 7, Lindsay Lane 5

West Limestone 3, Lauderdale County 1

Softball

ABS 2, Lindsay Lane 0

ABS 15, Woodville 1

ABS 10, Tanner 0

Ardmore 6, Deshler 1

Ardmore 7, Fort Payne 5

Ardmore 17-14, Lee 0-0

Ardmore 14, East Limestone 1

Ardmore 7, East Limestone 2

Athens 8, Rogers 0

Athens 11, Giles County 1

Athens 17, Columbia 2

Athens 7, Buckhorn 1

Athens 11, Hazel Green 1

Athens 9, Danville 0

Clements 14, Colbert Heights 13

Clements 13, Tanner 6

East Limestone 3, Elkmont 2

East Limestone 16, Mae Jemison 0

Elkmont 10, Lexington 3

Elkmont 13, Clements 0

Elkmont 10, Colbert Heights 2

Lindsay Lane 15, Decatur Heritage 14

Lindsay Lane 15, Woodville 0

West Limestone 9, Clements 0

Soccer

Ardmore VB 3, East Limestone 1

Athens VB 2, Hazel Green 0

Athens VG 3, Mars Hill 0

Clements VG 6, Tanner 3

Clements VB 2, Whitesburg Christian 1

Clements VG 2, Elkmont 1

East Limestone VB 6, West Limestone 3

East Limestone VG 10, West Limestone 0

East Limestone VG 5, Clements 0 (county tournament finals)

East Limestone VG 9, Ardmore 0

East Limestone VB 6, West Limestone 5

East Limestone VG 6, West Limestone 0

East Limestone VB 3, St. John Paul II 2

Elkmont VB 4, Hazel Green 4

Elkmont VB 11, ABS 1

Elkmont VB 8, Clements 0

Elkmont VB 1, Whitesburg Christian 0

James Clemens VG 4, Florence 0

James Clemens VG 8, Austin 1

James Clemens VG 10, Austin 2

Tanner VB 12, Clements 2

Tanner VB 8, Ardmore 1

Tanner VB 6, Ardmore 0 (county tournament finals)

Tanner VB 13, East Lawrence 3

Tanner VB 3, Elkmont 2

Tanner VB 6, Ardmore 6

West Limetone VB 3, West Point 0

West Limestone VB 4, Ardmore 3

West Limestone VG 2, Ardmore 1

Golf

Clements defeated Lindsay Lane. Ardmore teams won the Limestone County tournament. Elkmont’s Jeffrey Payne was the boys’ low medalist

Tennis

ABS VG 9, Red Bay 0

ABS VG 6, Lindsay Lane 3

James Clemens VG 6, Florence 3

ABS VG 5, Lexington 4

Track and field

Florence Pre-Sectional: Shamekia Carter, Athens-1st (100 meters), Athens boys’ 4×800 and girls’ 4×100 relay teams-1st; Alex Kuntz, Elkmont-1st (800 meters); Sydney Freeman, James Clemens -1st (1600 meters), James Clemens boys’ 4×100 relay team-1st, Cadence Huntsinger, James Clemens-1st (long jump, triple jump), Ephraim Rollingson, James Clemens-1st (100 meters), Tyler Gohlich, James Clemens-1st (1600 meters).

Falkville Invitational: Jolie Green, ABS-1st (1600 meters).

Sparkman Senator Classic: Whitney Prise-Cook, Lindsay Lane-1st (100 meter hurdles).

By: Tim Lambert

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