By Gary Lloyd The Trussville City Board of Education on Monday approved the name of the new football stadium and field. Once it’s constructed, the new high school football stadium will be called Hewitt-Trussville Stadium. The field will be called Husky Field. School board member Danny Garrett said Trussville City Council members, Athletics Director Karen Johns, students and parents were polled about a new n ...

Hewitt-Trussville finished the season as runner-up for the AHSAA Class 6A state championship Saturday, losing the best-of-3 series to Pelham. The Huskies posted the best record (34-13) and best finish in school history this season. To view additional photos or to purchase copies online, please go here.                               ...

By Gary Lloyd Here are three videos from Saturday’s AHSAA Class 6A state championship series between Pelham and Hewitt-Trussville. Pelham won two games 3-2 and 1-0 to claim its second state championship in school history, the first coming in 2004. It was the first time Hewitt-Trussville reached the final series, making the semifinals one other time, in 1978. [caption id="attachment_6266" align="alignleft" w ...

By Gary Lloyd They both had a tinge of red in their eyes, the sparkle of a tear or two forming. First-year Pelham head baseball coach Sean Anderson told first-year Hewitt-Trussville head coach Jeff Mauldin congratulations on a great season. Mauldin told Anderson he was proud of him, happy for him. They’re both first-year coaches at their respective schools because Mauldin left Pelham a year ago to take the ...

By Gary Lloyd MONTGOMERY -- Hewitt-Trussville couldn’t get right against the lefties. No. 10 Hewitt-Trussville managed just five combined hits in the two losses against No. 5 Pelham in the AHSAA Class 6A state championship baseball series in Montgomery. In Game 1, Pelham senior Thomas Lowery, a UAB signee and series most valuable player, pitched a complete game three-hitter, allowing just one earned run whi ...

By Gary Lloyd MONTGOMERY -- The run is over. No. 10 Hewitt-Trussville fell 1-0 in a pitchers’ duel against No. 5 Pelham at Riverwalk Stadium this evening, falling two games to none in the Class 6A state championship series. Hewitt-Trussville finishes the 2013 season with a 34-13 record, the most wins in school history. “I’m hurting for our kids,” said first-year Hewitt-Trussville head coach Jeff Mauldin, wh ...

By Gary Lloyd Former Pinson Valley golfer John Michael O’Toole is a national champion. O’Toole was part of the Central Alabama Community College golf team that locked up the NJCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship at The Rawls Golf Course in Lubbock, Texas, on Friday. The national title is the seventh for Central Alabama’s men’s golf program, and its first since its three consecutive championships from 199 ...

By Gary Lloyd MONTGOMERY -- To win its first Class 6A state baseball championship tonight, Hewitt-Trussville is going to have to buck the trend. Hartselle just defeated three-time defending state champion Spanish Fort to claim the Class 5A championship. Hartselle won the series, two games to none. In Class 4A, Charles Henderson swept Brooks. In Class 3A, Trinity Presbyterian swept Mars Hill Bible. G.W. Long ...

By Gary Lloyd MONTGOMERY -- Their backs are against the wall...again. No. 10 Hewitt-Trussville lost a heartbreaker in Game 1 of the AHSAA Class 6A baseball championship series 3-2 to No. 5 Pelham on Friday night at Paterson Field. Today, the series shifts to Riverwalk Stadium for a 4 p.m. Game 2. Hewitt-Trussville (34-12) will have to win that game to force a decisive Game 3 at 7 p.m. First-year Hewitt-Trus ...

By Gary Lloyd MONTGOMERY -- The coaches didn’t have many words. The game was that good. No. 5 Pelham got a walk-off RBI single by Alex Urban that scored Fletcher Johnson to give the Panthers a 3-2 Game 1 win over No. 10 Hewitt-Trussville in the Class 6A state championship. “What a game,” said first-year Pelham head coach Sean Anderson. The hit came off junior relief pitcher Michael Busby, who has been rock ...