Sports

BCHS to get a new head football coach

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.

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Dixie’s championship team enjoys reunion

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.

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