Ashlyn Saxon went back into our bound volumes and pulled out these gems from years past. 

The pandemic has slowed the prep sports scene to a near standstill, but the newspaper work here at the New Albany Gazette must go on. Since we are a bit short on manpower, I am trying to be of help in whatever capacity possible. 

Lexie Kent and Luke Bolen were able to get some closure on a shortened high school tennis season as they went out winners in the North All-Stars win over the South in Jackson. The duo along with Coach Suzy Bowman participated in the MAC 2020 All-Star Tennis Tournament on July 16 at the Parha…

I had the pleasure of furthering my education or lack of knowledge in the newspaper business this week as I trained for extra "stuff" to do. I must admit that I was in a complete fog as we wrapped up that initial training session. 

NEW ALBANY - New Albany Golf teammates Andrew Fennell and Caroline King have been working on their game this summer on the Coca Cola Junior Golf Tour. 

Cotton States Baseball League is winding down after another successful summer. Gazette intern Ashlyn Saxon took these photos from some recent Cotton States high school and college games at BNA Bank Park.

New Albany Schools Twitter social media account issued a press release on Monday, July 20, regarding a positive Covid-19 case that had been confirmed within multiple athletic teams/groups. Below is the official press release by New Albany Schools:

The decision that was approved last Tuesday by the Executive Committee of the MHSAA quite possibly could not be the final verdict, but it was a welcome start for all of us involved with prep sports. 

The Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) recently had a meeting of their Executive Committee to discuss the fall sports seasons. The committee offered the following proposals for now with possible revisions to come depending on the circumstances surrounding the coronavirus.

This week's feature for our sports is a fishing story by Kevin Tate, a weekly contributor to the Daily Journal of hunting and fishing articles. Since I no longer fish, I thought it would be best to use a story by an expert outdoorsman that actually does. 

Don Hinton will retire as Executive Director of the Mississippi High School Activities Association, effective December 31, 2020.

Fast-paced, rod-bending action repeated over and over as long as the crickets or red worms last is only half the appeal for finding a few bream beds to monitor throughout the summer. The other half of the payoff arrives in the form of the fish fries that follow.

The Mississippi High School Activities Association's Executive Committee met last week to discuss the fall sports seasons and for that matter, all of the upcoming sports seasons I would guess. What resulted from the meeting was a "wait and see" decision as the state of Mississippi navigates …

NEW ALBANY - Lindsay Hall and Mallory Russell, former Ingomar Lady Falcon and Northwest Lady Ranger teammates will take their basketball careers to the next level at Blue Mountain College.

Work is currently ongoing at the Myrtle Hawk football field despite the coronavirus situation. Workers have installed the scoreboard, bleachers, pressbox and walkways as well as the dirt work for the actual field. 

We have now reached July and there is still not a definite answer to the question of whether or not we will have fall sports and if so, when will they begin? Many local school districts are saying that they hope to begin in early August, so we will see how things progress there. In the meant…

NEW ALBANY - Ashley Connolly has seen a lot of things during her volleyball career as player, club coach and high school coach, but nothing can compare to what she recently experienced with the coronavirus pandemic. 

NEW ALBANY • The right arm of Easton Williams helped the Tupelo Thunder pick up their third win of the early portion of the season at the Cotton States Baseball League on Saturday.

Here are our 2020 spring sports teams from Ingomar for softball, baseball, golf and archery. 

Last week I shared in both my column and feature about the Dudy North wiffle ball field as well as the fields that I grew up playing on that were located on the farms of the Simpsons and Yates families. My family actually had a field of dreams for our sons as well, we had a multi-purpose fie…

NEW ALBANY - The New Albany Tennis trio of seniors Lexie Kent and Luke Bolen plus Coach Suzy Bowman will get together on the courts for one final match at the MAC 2020 All-Star Tennis Tournament in Jackson on July 16. 

After more than eleven weeks of no play due to the COVID-19 pandemic, student athletes in the New Albany School District have returned to school campuses to begin preparing for the 2020-2021 athletic seasons. Following an announcement from the Mississippi High School Athletics Association (M…

NEW ALBANY - The sport of wiffle ball is alive and flourishing in New Albany as the Dudy North Wiffle Ball League recently celebrated their one year anniversary with a tournament. The league has supplied area teenagers and young adults with their own version of a "Field of Dreams" with its p…

We are featuring a truly unique sport this week in our local Dudy North Wiffle Ball League that plays their game down on South Central here in New Albany. 

The rising temperatures and recent threats of hurricanes and tornados serve as reminders that the days of summer are fast approaching. In fact, some days when you check the temperature, it would seem as if they are already here, but officially that will occur on June 20. 

NEW ALBANY - Caryl Vogel, coach of New Albany boys soccer team, recently accepted the head coaching position at Blue Mountain College for their new men's soccer program that is expected to begin in 2021. 

Here's our West Union Spring Sports Teams for 2020. 

NEW ALBANY - Sports are now back or in the process of coming back here in New Albany and Union County as local schools were given the green light to resume activity on June 1. 

NEW ALBANY - The coronavirus has not slowed down baseball for the Cotton States Baseball League that is played in New Albany. In fact, the league has seen exponential growth according to commissioner Sam Creekmore. 

The month of June held a greatly different significance for me during the first 35 years of life as I was involved in the dairy business. 

New Albany had a total of 10 teams that took part in the abbreviated 2020 spring sports season. We want to recognize all these athletes and their teams with an extra tribute in photos since their season ended in mid-March. 

BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss. - Blue Mountain College announced today the hiring of Caryl Vogel to lead the men's soccer program that is expected to start play in 2021-22.

The MHSAA Executive Committee met Thursday to consider and implement return to activity guidelines for member schools during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Mississippi.

The situation with the coronavirus has brought about many temporary and also permanent changes in our lives. Which ones will come and which ones will go will be a work in process in the days, weeks and months to come. 

We are saluting our spring sports teams that saw their seasons cut short due to the coronavirus. This week we feature Myrtle.

NEW ALBANY - The decision on Thursday reached by the Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) has been met with open arms by local Gazette coverage coaches. 

We are saluting our spring sports teams that saw their seasons cut short due to the coronavirus. This week we feature East Union. 

This week I am taking a look back at the spring sports scene that could have been for 2020. I wrote a piece for the Daily Journal a few weeks ago with other sports writers in which we mentioned one particular event we missed. 

BLUE MOUNTAIN - Blue Mountain College announced today that Saltillo High School's Matthew Reeder will lead the inaugural Topper Women's Soccer program that will begin play in the Southern States Athletic Conference of the NAIA in 2021-22.Reeder, a BMC alum, began his coaching career at Salti…

Editor’s note: The coronavirus pandemic shut down our local Gazette sports and Dennis shares some of the things that quite possibly could have taken place had we been able to play our seasons...

Four players from Union County made the Daily Journal All-Area team for 2019-20. Zach Shugars from Ingomar was named to the first team. Mitchell Shettles of New Albany, Annie Orman of West Union and Kinsley Gordon of Myrtle were named to the third team.