Blue Devils defeat BCHS Jaguars 42-6
The Barbour County High Jaguar football team dropped their season opener at home in the rain Friday night to the Notasulga Blue Devils 42-6, spoiling the return debut of Head Coach Steve Fryer.
The Barbour County High Jaguar football team dropped their season opener at home in the rain Friday night to the Notasulga Blue Devils 42-6, spoiling the return debut of Head Coach Steve Fryer.
It was a disappointing game for the Eufaula High School Tigers when the team suffered a loss in their second game of the season. Playing on their home field, the Tigers came up short by a score of 35-14 against Russell County Friday night.
Eufaula High School head football coach Jerrel Jernigan will serve as the South All-Star head coach for the upcoming 66th AHSAA North-South All-Star Football Game. The game is scheduled for Friday night, December 12 at Mobile’s Hancock Whitney Stadium.
The Barbour County High Jaguar football team is getting ready to kickoff the 2025 season with a home opener this Friday night against the Notasulga Blue Devils of Macon County. The team will have a lot of new faces and a new head coach.
The resignation of Robin Tyra from several positions in the Barbour County School System prompted board members to approve several personnel actions during their meeting Monday night.
Robin Tyra was hired at Barbour County back in May as head football coach, athletic director, head soccer coach and head track coach, as well as a Physical Education teacher. He has not coached football for the last two years with the exception of two Barbour County games in need when head coach Derrick Levett was not able to coach because of injuries sustained in a car accident. Tyra will also serve as the Abbeville athletic director and a physical education teacher.
Boston Brown, a junior at The Lakeside School, committed to play baseball for Auburn University on Friday, August 1.
Thirty years ago the Dixie Academy Rebels became the school’s second football team to win the 1A Alabama Independent School Championship Title. The team, coached by Mack Williams, defeated the Patrician Academy Saints 14-6 to claim the title. To celebrate the milestone of the team’s accomplishments in 1995, Coach Williams and several team members gathered at Abercrombie’s Fish Camp in Clayton Saturday night for a reunion. The 1995 Dixie Academy football only lost one game during the season. The year’s record was Pike Liberal Arts 14-12; Greenville Tornadoes 26-8; Ashford Academy Falcons 70-6; Abbeville Christian Generals 44-12; Sparta Warriors 50-8, Edgewood Academy 38-12; Coosa Valley Academy 50-6; Calvary Christian Academy, their only defeat, 613; Bullock Memorial Spartans 50-0 and another shutout to their rival team, Lakeside Chiefs 42-0.