Bruce Warriors end season strong
Bruce Warriors finished a successful 2017 season last week. Team members are, front, l to r, Chase Mata, Caden Humphries, Jake Baker, Colton Cole, Tristan Jones; center, Sam Schmitz, Reed Newman,...
View ArticleBlues Marathon a big draw, but needs sponsors
Jackson’s highly acclaimed Mississippi Blues Marathon, which annually draws thousands of participants from all 50 states and several foreign countries, has been running for 10 years. There might not be...
View ArticleClark among basketball campers at ICC
The Itawamba Community College men’s basketball program held its annual summer basketball camp May 30-June 1 in the Davis Event Center on the Fulton Campus. Campers learned the fundamentals of the...
View ArticleHall signs to play at North Texas
Kemon Hall, of Calhoun City, has signed to play football with the University of North Texas. Hall recorded 45 tackles, six pass breakups and two interceptions during his one season with ICC. The...
View ArticleArmstrong featured as key player for West Alabama
Former Bruce Trojan Donta Armstrong is featured prominently in the Lindy’s college football preview issue profiling the West Alabama Tigers. Donta Armstrong The Tigers, coming off a 7-4 season, enter...
View ArticleBruce Trojans hosting baseball camp next week
The Bruce Trojans will host a baseball camp next week for ages 7-13 at Odis Logan Field in Bruce Park. The 7-8-year-old camp will be June 12-13, with ages 9-10 on June 14-15 and ages 11-13 June 16-17....
View ArticleGolfing trip of a lifetime on the links of Ireland
DUBLIN, Ireland – So, as this is written, Mississippi State and Southern Miss are about to play in a regional championship in Hattiesburg and your correspondent is roughly 4,400 miles away in Dublin...
View ArticleVardaman softball team wraps up good season
The Vardaman Rams young summer league team finished a strong 2017 season recently. Pictured, from left, front, Madison Easley, Caylee Smith, Anna Catherine Ellison, Lizzy Edmondson, Brooklyn Kellum;...
View ArticleCalhoun Campers at ICC
Itawamba Community College baseball program held its annual summer camp June 6-9 at Roy Cresap Field on the Fulton Campus. Campers learned the fundamentals of the game while competing in various...
View ArticleWildcats win 7-on-7 Championship
Calhoun City Wildcats won the 7 on 7 tournament championship at Lewisburg. The Wildcats lost the first game to Holly Springs, then turned around and beat them, and also Independence, Lewisburg, Grenada...
View ArticleThornberry’s performance was historic
In the recent Fed Ex St. Jude Classic, Ole Miss sophomore Braden Thornberry shot 71 in the first round, 69 in the second. Thornberry, playing for the first time in a PGA Tour event, was warming to the...
View ArticleLocals at Ole Miss Basketball Camp
Calhoun County up and coming basketball players recently attended the Ole Miss basketball camp. From left, Lexie Kirby, Lane Watts and Benson Clements recently attended Basketball Camp at Ole Miss....
View ArticleLocals attend ICC Basketball Camp
Itawamba Community College women’s basketball program held its annual summer basketball camp June 5-7 in the Davis Event Center on the Fulton Campus. Campers learned the fundamentals of the game in a...
View ArticleCalhoun players improve skills at ICC Softball Camp
Nationally ranked Itawamba Community College softball program held its annual summer camp on June 13-15 at the ICC Softball Complex on the Fulton Campus. ICC coaches and players taught campers the...
View ArticleMore wunderkind golfers coming up
Do you remember when a 7,000-yard golf course was considered a ridiculously long monstrosity? Do you remember when a 300-yard drive was considered prodigious? Do you remember when golf pros hit 7-irons...
View ArticleCalhoun Academy makes changes to basketball coaching staff
Calhoun Academy basketball will have new leadership in the coming school year. Casey Moss and her father Mike Moss will coach the girls team with assistance from Gerry Winters. The school didn’t have...
View ArticleNew Bruce Trojans head coach visits with Bruce Rotary Club
Clint Faust, new Bruce head football coach, told the Bruce Rotary Club last week his goal is to restore the tradition to Trojan football he knows still exists. “I’m excited about the opportunity to...
View ArticleCook moving from Ripley to ICC
Calhoun City native Chad Cook is changing jobs. The Ripley High School head football coach is moving to Fulton to join Calhoun City native Sean Cannon’s staff as Itawamba Community College’s new...
View ArticleBiggest Loser is starter for Watermelon Run
Patrick House, who has run 10 marathons and more road races of various lengths than he can count, remembers trying to complete one mile back in the spring of 2010. “I was huffing and puffing and...
View ArticleBramlitt attends MSU basketball camp
Layla Bramlitt, of Bruce, was among attendees at a basketball camp at Mississippi State recently. She is pictured here with Coach Vic Schaefer.
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