Union baseball coach Dustin Hamrick may finally be getting some things to break his way.
The Yellowjackets enter the season with four seniors. To add to the excitement, the Yellowjackets moved out of the division with Enterprise and Clarkdale, giving Hamrick and the Yellowjackets cause for excitement.
This is the season that Union fast-pitch softball coach Jacob Casey has been waiting for since he took over the program six years ago.
Casey enters the season with five seniors, many of whom have started since the seventh and eighth grade. And of those five seniors, four have already signed to play junior college softball.
For the last two years, Newton County has fielded a “young” fast-pitch softball team.
But after two straight years and nine starters back from last year, the Lady Cougars can no longer be considered young, despite having only one senior in the starting lineup.
Newton County Academy baseball coach Kelly Alderman might have two of the best baseball players in Class AA this season. It’s just the other seven that he’s anxious to find out about.
Union tennis coach Bryan Norman has seen plenty of players depart in the last two season.
After years of disappointments and close calls, the Newton County tennis team finally reached the top of the mountain, winning the school’s first-ever state championship in tennis.
The Newton County Academy tennis team reached the pinnacle of tennis as they won both the boys and girls Class AA state championships last year.
Head coach Pete Mazzella will have to reload if he’s going to make another title run this year with the loss of six seniors, four of whom are playing college tennis this season.
The Union Jr. High baseball game at Stringer and the Union High School softball game at NE Lauderdale have been cancelled for today, March 1.
Union’s softball game tonight has been moved to tomorrow due to the rain. Game time are JV at 5:30 and Varsity at 6:30.
The No. 10 ranked East Central Community College Lady Warriors lost a pair of softball games to No. 2 Jones County Junior College in MACJC conference action Wednesday, Feb. 28, on the JCJC campus in Ellisville.
The East Central Community College women’s tennis team improved its spring 2018 record to 3-1 with a 5-4 win over the No. 25 ranked Hinds Community College Lady Eagles, while the ECCC men fell short in their quest for the season’s first victory in a 6-3 loss to the No. 24 Hinds men.
