By Coley Lauminick Amber Hammonds is Hewitt-Trussville’s table setter. In Friday’s Class 6A, Area 12 championship against Gardendale, she didn’t disappoint. Hammonds was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBIs in the No. 6 Lady Huskies’ 12-4 championship win over Gardendale. Senior Kimberly Mullins was 4-for-4 with one RBI and a run scored. Mullins was named tournament MVP. [caption id="attachment_6091" ...

By Gary Lloyd Hewitt-Trussville will play its spring football game Thursday against Bob Jones at Bob Jones High School. Kickoff will be at 6 p.m. Hewitt-Trussville posted a 4-6 record last season and missed the Class 6A state playoffs for the first time since the 2006 season. [caption id="attachment_6088" align="alignleft" width="300"] Hewitt-Trussville’s Hal Riddle will begin his 12th season as the Huskies ...

By Gary Lloyd The Trussville City Board of Education on Monday approved Mike Dutton as the new Hewitt-Trussville boys’ basketball coach. Dutton, 68, takes over for Zane Arnold, who resigned last month after one season as the Hewitt-Trussville coach. Hewitt-Trussville posted a 15-16 record last season. Dutton was the head basketball coach at Pinson Valley from 1987-1989, Oneonta from 1989-1991, again at Pins ...

By Gary Lloyd Colby Wingard threw his hat off. The Pinson Valley senior right-hander wasn’t mad. In fact, he was probably fairly happy. His fastball was working, and his curveball was moving OK except for leaving it hanging on a few occasions. Wingard tossed a complete game six-hitter in Pinson Valley’s 4-0 Game 1 win over No. 5 Southside-Gadsden on Friday in the Class 5A quarterfinals, most of which was pl ...

By Gary Lloyd The Hewitt-Trussville boys’ track and field team placed 13th and the girls 15th in the AHSAA State Championship Meet in Gulf Shores on Saturday. Auburn won the boys’ Class 6A championship and Hoover won on the girls’ side of Class 6A. Individually, Spencer Nezat took second in the shot put and committed to the University of Louisiana-Lafayette after the meet. Michael Snow, who placed 15th in t ...

By Erik Harris Tenth-ranked Hewitt-Trussville has talent, experience and confidence. But sometimes those qualities aren’t enough to win championships. To go the distance and earn a ring, you must have that fighter’s mentality that won’t let you quit when things get tough. Rather the Huskies will hoist the AHSAA championship trophy later this month is yet to be seen, but with a nerve-racking series win over ...

By Gary Lloyd Time for a rematch. No. 6 Pinson Valley drilled Moody 10-0 in the third round of the Class 5A soccer playoffs Saturday at Willie Adams Stadium and will face No. 7 St. Paul’s in the state semifinals Friday at John Hunt Field in Huntsville. The game will start at 3:30 p.m. Pinson Valley fell 6-1 in the state semifinals against St. Paul’s last year. “We got embarrassed,” second-year Pinson Valley ...

By Gary Lloyd Both Hewitt-Trussville soccer teams were eliminated in the Class 6A quarterfinals Saturday night at the Trussville Civic Center. The No. 10 girls’ team fell to No. 4 Mountain Brook 2-1. Lacy LeMaster scored the Lady Huskies’ only goal, finding the net with five minutes to play in the game. The girls finish the season with a 17-4-1 record. The No. 10 boys’ squad dropped its quarterfinal game to ...

By Gary Lloyd The road that dead-ends with a state championship ring continues for Pinson Valley. The No. 10 Indians scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning and held No. 5 Southside-Gadsden at bay in the bottom of the frame to win the decisive third game of the Class 5A quarterfinal series 4-3. Pinson Valley (32-12) will play Friday in the semifinals against the winner of the Homewood-Hartselle ser ...

By Gary Lloyd Four-time PBA50 Player of the Year Tom Baker, of King, N.C., converted a spare and then bowled a nine-count on his fill ball in the 10th frame of the championship match to win the PBA50 Greater Birmingham Open by one pin Wednesday at Lightning Strikes in Trussville. Baker defeated Bryan Goebel of Shawnee, Kan., 227-226, in the title match for his 10th career PBA50 Tour title and his first sinc ...