TUPELO – The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal recently honored four area athletes for their athletic achievements.
HOUSTON – The Houston Hilltoppers football team has been working extremely hard this summer, getting ready for a “special” football season.
This week I would like to tell you a story of a special young man that I encountered in my teaching/coaching career.
HOUSTON – The Houston Touchdown Club will create a football program book that will feature our team and coaches.
HOUSTON – The Houston Hilltopper football team and Head Coach Ty Hardin have added two new coaches to the staff.
STARKVILLE • Luke Hancock committed to Mississippi State during the fall of his freshman year at Houston High School.
I played high school sports in the early to mid-80s. During those years, there were very little summer activities, workouts/weightlifting, basketball leagues, and baseball games, that went along with high school sports.
HOULKA – Houlka High School has hired two new coaches this summer. Both are graduates of Houlka High School. Stephanie Turner has been hired as Head Softball Coach for both slow-pitch and fast-pitch. She replaces Ryan Winter who resigned in May. Jonathon Huffman was hired as Head Baseball Co…
HOUSTON – Houston Hilltoppers baseball completed the 2019 baseball season with a 19-14 overall record and an 8-2 divisional record, which placed them second in division 4-3A. The Toppers were faced with heavy graduation losses from the 2018 season.
On Saturday June 1, at Jesse Bynum Field in Corinth, a trio of Houston Hilltopper senior baseball players participated in the North Mississippi Coaches Baseball Association All-Star Game. These players represented their school by playing on the 3A/5A West Team. The East defeated the West 7-2…
TUPELO – Several area athletes won awards and gained recognition at the 2019 Daily Journal Spring Sports Banquet in Tupelo on Tuesday, June 4.
I played football, basketball, and baseball as a high school athlete in 1982-1984. I was extremely busy during the school year.
HOUSTON – Houston Lady Hilltoppers and Hilltoppers basketball teams will be heavily involved in Northeast Mississippi Summer League play during the month of June.
VARDAMAN – The Vardaman Rams completed the 2018-19 football season with an overall record of 4-7 and 3-1A divisional record of 3-5. The Rams failed to make the playoffs. They played a very challenging schedule as six of their seven losses were to playoff teams.
HOUSTON – Houston High School Hilltopper senior baseball players Blaize Gann, Brylee Poteete, and Kevin Diaz participated in the Northeast Mississippi Baseball Coaches Association All-Star Game on Saturday, June 1, at Jesse Bynum Field in Corinth. These players played for the 3A/5A West Team…
VARDAMAN – The Vardaman Lady Rams Fast-Pitch Softball Team won the first-ever Calhoun County Schools Fast-Pitch State Championship. They also won the first state championship for the school since 1969.
As a young boy growing up, I would sit in front of the television and keep stats of all the major sports games. At that point, in my young life I wanted to be a sports writer/reporter. As a teenager, my friends called me a sports encyclopedia. I knew all the stats for almost every player in …
During the 2018-2019 school year, Head Coach Ty Hardin’s Houston Hilltoppers broke many school records with their accomplishments. The Hilltopper Football Team broke a school record with eleven wins, and almost every school record on offense and defense.
The 2018-2019 sports season was a season of youth and experience for Houlka High School Athletics. I interviewed three coaches and all three’s first words were: “We were extremely young.” All teams however, improved a great deal throughout the season.
You can hear the cheers of joy from parents all across Joe Brigance Park. Recently, the five-field complex was full of parents and young athletes ranging in ages from 3-16.
The Houston Lady Toppers came up just short in an old fashioned pitcher’s duel in game one of the Class 3A softball North finals on Friday night, falling 3-2 to South Pontotoc in eight innings.
HOULKA – The Houlka Wildcats relied on a late hitting surge Saturday to defeat the visiting Okolona Chieftains in baseball action, 11-7.
HOUSTON- Lights-out pitching and aggressive hitting helped the Lady Hilltoppers dominate Eupora in softball action Monday.
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SMITHVILLE – The Smithville Lady Seminoles were firing on all cylinders Tuesday night. A complete game shutout from Tristin Price, along with back to back home runs helped secure an 11-0 division win over the Houlka Lady Wildcats.
As of this week Kevin Diaz signed a full scholarship to play football at Phillip Andover Academy outside of Boston, MA. Phillips Andover is the #1 academic/professional prep school in the United States. Famous Alumni such as George W Bush, George H Bush, John Kerry, John F. Kennedy, Jack Lem…
First-year head coach Brian Goodman and the Houston Hilltoppers’ baseball team has played nothing short of a difficult schedule so far.
VARDAMAN – The Rams baseball team lost 10 players to graduation and will look to fill out the diamond with new talent.
HEBRON – The Eagles will be young but that is not always a bad thing, if underclassmen will get hungry and work hard for a starting spot.
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OKOLONA – With basketball season in the books, it’s now baseball season in the little city that does big things, Okolona head coach Martavious Ford, in his first season, is expecting big things.
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The Vardaman Lady Rams have been on the steady climb since head coach Josh Hegwood took over the program. And with fast-pitch season upon, Hegwood believes that this may be his most talented team to date.
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HOULKA – Boo Griffin has returned home to Houlka from Vardaman, and he is now at the helm of the Wildcats baseball program.
HOULKA – With fast-pitch season upon us, Ryan Winter and the Houlka Lady Cats are ready to take another step forward.
The Houston Lady Hilltoppers achieved their ultimate goal last season. The captured the state championship, and with the title win, the Houston softball culture has changed.
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