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Sylvania, AL · Education
Rome News-Tribune
Senior-less Model girls team still expecting big season
Even after 21 seasons of leading the same program at the same high school, there’s still a learning curve, and there’s still a chance to encounter first-time situations. For Sally Echols, veteran leader of Model High Lady Blue Devil basketball team, the 2026-27 season provides an opportunity for both. It will be the first time she has a varsity roster without a senior. So while there’s a lot of girls looking to her to learn about the game at this level, Echols will be learning how to deal with so much youth and inexperience. However, it’s not like nobody wearing the light blue and white uniforms will know anything about winning. In 2025-26, Model had basically a sophomore-senior roster that went 18-10, finished runner-up in its region tournament and advanced to the second round of the state playoffs. Some of those making up the now-junior class were significant contributors in both the frontcourt and the backcourt. “A lot of tradition here,” said Echols, who led the program to 10 region championships and had 14 teams win at least one game in the state tournament. That includes the 2009 squad that played for the championship. Echols could possibly write her own
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WAFF
Athens community says goodbye to historic Ferman Elmore Field
ATHENS, Ala. (WAFF) - Athens City Schools is preparing to replace an aging school building with a new facility. Community members gathered Sunday at Ferman Elmore Field for one last walk before it makes way for construction. Ferman Elmore Field was built in 1936. It has hosted football games, band...
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Old School Match-Up leads AHSAA Game of the Week in the First Round of the Playoffs
MONTGOMERY – (November 6, 2026) The second season for all teams, but the two that played Thursday (Orange Beach and Charles Henderson), begins Friday. The slate is wiped and every team has their destiny in front of them. The AHSAA Game of the Week highlights two of those schools in a showdown that should be intense. Muscles Shoals (6-3) is on the road at Oxford (7-2) in a first-round game broadcast statewide on WOTM-TV and Alabama Public Television tonight at 7:00 p.m.
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Boaz Rallies From 21-0 Deficit, Stops 2-Point Try to Edge Gardendale 28-27 in OT
BOAZ, AL — Boaz trailed Gardendale by three touchdowns midway through the second quarter. Then the Pirates scored 28 unanswered points and made one final goal-line stand in overtime. Boaz stopped Camaree Gooden short of the goal line on a 2-point conversion try to beat Gardendale 28-27 on Friday...
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Spain Park Tops Buckhorn 38-28 to Set Up Class 6A Rematch at No. 1 Prattville
NEW MARKET, AL — Nash Davis threw for 183 yards and three touchdowns, and eighth-ranked Spain Park beat Buckhorn 38-28 on the road Friday night in the first round of the Class 6A state playoffs at Tommy R. Ledbetter Stadium. The win lifts the Jaguars to 7-4 and sends...
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Playoff football: Jags hold off Buckhorn
Spain Park High School’s football team beat Buckhorn 38-28 on Friday night at Tommy Ledbetter Stadium in New Market in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs. Spain Park led 28-7 in the third quarter and held off a Buckhorn rally with a drive that took more than six minutes off the clock.