BLUE MOUNTAIN–Blue Mountain College will hit the road for first-round action in the final TranSouth Athletic Basketball Championships. The Toppers will go to McKenzie, Tenn., for a 7 p.m. Thursday game against the Bethel University Wildcats. BMC finished the season with an 8-20 overall record and an 0-10 mark in the conference. Bethel, ranked No. 15 in the latest NAIA [...]
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Division tournaments begin today in Div. 1-1A
Ten Tippah County basketball teams will begin a quest for a state title this week. Division tournaments, the first phase of the MHSAA State Basketball Tournament, begin today. At Booneville High School, Blue Mountain, Falkner and Pine Grove high schools will play in the Div. 1-1A Tournament, which begins this evening at 5:30 p.m. [...]
NEMCC Lady Tigers’ fifth straight division win sets up showdown with ICC
BOONEVILLE–Brian Alexander continues to lead the Lady Tigers to the top of the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) North Division rankings with his fifth consecutive division win Monday night in Moorhead. Alexander’s squad defeated the Lady Trojans (7-8, 2-4) at Mississippi Delta Community College’s Trojan Arena last night 63-56 to move to 8-6 overall [...]
Vance named MACJC Player of the Week
BOONEVILLE–Northeast Mississippi Community College sophomore guard Acie Vance of Ripley is known for being key in the clutch. Vance’s last-moment heroics helped the Tiger basketball team secure a 78-68 win over Holmes Community College on Thursday, January 24. He sealed the win with a pair of three-pointers with less than two minutes to play to ice the [...]
Lady Tigers win, Lady Eagles fall short at By His Grace Girls Classic
ECRU – Ripley turned up its defense in a battle of ranked teams on Saturday night, topping Itawamba AHS 45-39 in the By His Grace Classic at North Pontotoc. The Daily Journal’s No. 1-ranked Lady Tigers beat No. 6 IAHS without coach Katie Bates. Bates gave birth to a son, Bo, on Friday. Assistant coach [...]
NEMCC: Boyd leads Lady Tigers over Coahoma; Coburn’s 27 not enough for Tigers
CLARKSDALE–Talisha Boyd led the way for the Lady Tigers with 14 points and seven rebounds to help defeat the Coahoma Community College(CCC) Lady Tigers 69-47. For the Tigers, Tadarius Coburn hit a game-high 27 points and nine boards in the Tigers 75-63 loss. Boyd, a 5-10 sophomore, went 6-of-9 from the floor and made 2-of-4 from [...]
More experienced Eagles double wins
PINE GROVE—The Falkner Eagles don’t currently have a record above .500, but they are twice as good as they were last year. Friday, the Eagles (8-9) doubled last season’s win total with a 68-49 Div. 1-1A win over the Pine Grove Panthers. They moved to 3-3 in league play. Coach Jake Walker, who is in [...]
Three make-up games set for Thursday
FALKNER–Three make-up basketball games are set for Thursday, Jan. 24. The division games were postponed last Tuesday, because of winter weather. Falkner hosts Thrasher and Pine Grove travels to Blue Mountain in Div. 1-1A. Both Falkner squads, the Pine Grove Lady Panthers and the Blue Mountain Cougars need wins to stay near the top of [...]
Lady Eagles move to first place
FALKNER–Leading scorer Brianna Williams scored 31 points, Ambreka Peterson added 17 and Rayanna Edgeston,10, and the Falkner Lady Eagles moved to the top of the Div. 1-1A girls’ with a 70-48 win over the Jumpertown Lady Cardinals, Tuesday. It was Falkner’s second consecutive division win, moving them into a three-way tie for first place [...]
BASKETBALL: Blue Mountain travels to Biggersville, weekend’s schedule
BIGGERSVILLE–Tonight the Blue Mountain Cougars will look to tighten things up in the Div. 1-1A race when they travel to face the league leading Biggersville Lions. Biggersville won their first meeting of the season, 87-83 at Blue Mountain, Dec. 18. Since that meeting the Lions (14-5, 6-0 in 1-1A) have gone 3-2 with a loss [...]
