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Reeves recalls struggle for equality with MLK By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
Elmore County Commissioner Earl Reeves remembers a time Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. showed him what the civil rights leader’s commitment to non-violent protest was all about.
During a program to commemorate Black History Month, Reeves told a gathering at God’s Congregation Holiness Church Thursday he took part in a rally with King in Montgomery and felt threatened by police. “I remember times when we used to hold rallies in Montgomery when Dr.
King was at the church in Montgomery on Dexter Avenue,” Reeves said. “I was a young man and I was sitting there when the police came around on horseback with whips and Dr. King was there and we were praying. With me being a young man, I told Dr. King, ‘If he hits me with that whip,
I’m going to take this brick and knock him off that horse.’” Reeves said King’s response was, “Son, put that (brick) down and sit down.” Reeves said black people faced many indignities during protests and See REEVES • Page A6
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Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded nearly $2,000 to enable the Tallassee Police Department to upgrade its equipment. According to city officials, the department plans to use the funds to outfit police officers with severe weather clothing, including high-visibility rainwear. “Police are important first responders during times of severe weather,” Ivey said. “I am pleased to help the Tallassee Police Department purchase basic but essential items to protect officers and increase their visibility to the public during severe weather.” This is just one of many grants the city has received to fund its departments. Since taking office in 2016, the city has been awarded over $1 million in grant funding from various sources. Last year, TPD was awarded a $50,000 zero-match grant from the Department of Homeland Security. See IVEY • Page A2
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With family, friends and fellow members of Boy Scouts of America present, Scout Master James Davis pins an Eagle Scout badge on John Burgess.
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in Tallassee. To become an Eagle Scout, Burgess completed a project to give the playground at FUMC a new look with improved safety features. He and other members of Tallassee’s Boy Scout Troop 59 repaired fencing around the
playground, replaced and repaired some of the equipment and added landscaping. Eagle Scout is the highest achievement or rank attainable in the Boy Scouts program. Burgess earned 28 merit badges during his climb to Eagle Scout and one bronze medal. “John Burgess is unique in the recent history of Troop 59,” BSA member Michael Bird said. “He progressed through the entire scouting program with the same troop without ever ceasing his activity or membership.” Bird said Burgess has always been precocious. “John has always seemed older than his real See BURGESS • Page A3
Tallassee’s historic Mt. Vernon Theater has announced its upcoming schedule, starting with the classic movie “Gone With The Wind” on March 23 at 1 p.m. This year marks the film’s 80th anniversary. Tickets are $5 and will not be sold online. On March 15 at 7 p.m., the McCraney-Cottle Arts Council will present a Night of 50s Music. Featured artists include the rock-a-billy group The Martini Shakers and the doowop group The Four Voicemen. Kenneth Loomis will also be featured as Elvis. Cars from the 1950s will also be on display. Tickets are $15 each. On March 16, RAM:CORPS will take the stage at 7 p.m. Produced by Kenn Hughes, RAM:CORPS is a unique explosion of music and theater with intense choreographed musical experiences featuring trumpets, mellophones, trombones, baritone horns, contras, saxophones and a drumline. Tickets are $10. On March 17, Christian children’s performer Miss Pattycake will take the stage at 3 p.m. Miss Pattycake is a brightly See THEATER • Page A2
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Mr. Roger Edwin Anderson, a resident of Tallassee, Alabama, passed away Monday, February 25, 2019, at the age of 69. Funeral services will be Friday, March 1, 2019, at 11:00AM at Jeffcoat Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jay Woodall officiating, Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. Mr. Anderson is survived by his children, Jason Edwin Anderson (Melissa), Annie Laura Steel (Mathew); grandchildren, Carlee Anderson, Jacob Anderson and Jacquie Aldridge; sister, Peggy Anderson and several nieces and nephews who will miss him dearly. He is preceded in death by his parents, Cecil Edwin Anderson and Effie Mae Henderson. The family will receive friends Friday, March 1, 2019 at 10:00AM until service time at Jeffcoat Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Community Hospice, 1526 Gilmer Avenue, Tallassee, Alabama, 36078 or www.chal.org/. Online condolences are available at: www.jeffcoatfuneralhome.com. Jeffcoat Funeral Home Directing Tallassee, Alabama
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Mrs. Hilda G. French, a resident of Tallassee, Alabama, passed away Friday, February 22, 2019, at the age of 86. Funeral services will be Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 1:00pm at Jeffcoat Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Derek Gentle officiating. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery, Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. Mrs. French is survived by her children, Kathy Lynn Sisk, Lee Ann Sciulli (Joey) and Rex Allen French; grandchildren, Kellie Pope (Jason), Jessica Langley, Emma Iser (J, R.), Hanna Messineo (David); Great grandchildren, Amelia McCay age 10, Keller Pope age 5, Lizzie Pope age 2, Raygen Langley age 10, Sarah Kathryn Langley age 6, Lucas Jernigan age 3, Ethan Iser age 7 months and Jacob Messineo age 2; and several nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by
her husband of nineteen years, Mr. Rex P. Jackson; husband, John P. French, parents, Leona B. and Leelus Gaither, brothers, Herman and Boots Gaither and her sisters, Anna Bell Tew and Aletha Thompson. Hilda was a great, wonderful, and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother who will be greatly missed. She was the Executive Secretary for the Tallassee Mills for 35 years, a member of First Baptist Church of Tallassee, where she loved her Sunday school class and an avid fan of Alabama Crimson Tide football who enjoyed watching them play. She was known for her fried fish and hushpuppies and being one of “The Greatest Generation”. The family will receive friends Monday, February 25, 2019, from 5:00pm until 7:00 pm at Jeffcoat Funeral Home.
Mr. Charles “Ned” Ogburn, Jr. Mr. Charles “Ned” Ogburn, Jr., a resident of Tallassee, Alabama, passed away Saturday, February 23, 2019, at the age of 68. Memorial services will be Thursday, February 28, 2019, at 11:00am at River Road Baptist Church with Rev. Josh Cullars officiating, Jeffcoat Funeral Home directing. Mr. Ogburn is survived by his son, Travis Ogburn (Leslie) and his grandchildren, Casey and Ethan Ogburn. He is preceded in death by his wife, Mrs. Lea Ogburn and his son, Michael Ogburn. Ned loved his family, friends, fishing and the Crimson Tide. The family will receive friends Thursday, February 28, 2019, from 10:00am until service time at River Road Baptist Church.
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Little Free Library moves next to pool By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
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Top: After receiving the Eagle Scout pin, John Burgess awarded his parents, Liz and Dave, with the BSA Parent Pin at First United Methodist Church. Above: Burgess, center, speaks to the crowd.
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In an effort to raise awareness, the Little Free Library in East Tallassee has relocated next to the municipal swimming pool. Alabama Power Service Organization (APSO) initially dedicated the Little Free Libraries in the summer of 2017. But after minimal activity there, it was moved, according to Alabama Power’s Melinda Emfinger. Because Tallassee is divided into two counties, the Tallassee APSO group requested two Little Free Libraries so everyone in town has the opportunity to “take a book, return a book.” The idea is simple — a Little Free Library is a “take a book, return a book” free book exchange. The libraries come in many shapes and sizes but the most common version is a small wooden box of books. Little Free Library book exchanges have a unique, personal touch as people share their favorite books with their community. Little Free Library kits are available for online purchase. However, for those DIY folks, Little Free Library offers free building instructions, online
resources and ongoing support for each project. According to Emfinger, every part of the two Little Free Libraries was built in Tallassee. Employees from Tallassee’s Alabama Power office built the Little Free Libraries and Alabama Power employees from Yates dam set the poles and mounted the little libraries. Little Free Library is a nonprofit organization which inspires a love of reading, builds community and sparks creativity by fostering neighborhood book exchanges around the world. Through Little Free Libraries, millions of books are exchanged each year, profoundly increasing access to books for readers of all ages and backgrounds. The Alabama Power Foundation was created in 1989 with funds donated by Alabama Power shareholders and volunteer contributions. No ratepayer dollars are used. “Anything that we fund in the community, we raise those funds ourselves,” Emfinger said. The foundation’s assets have grown to more than $125 million and are used to support a variety of grants and initiatives across Alabama.
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age and credits his parents for giving him the opportunity to learn about the world on his own while allowing the maximum level of support for his every endeavor or interest,” Bird said. “He is a natural leader among his peers.” Bird also spoke of Burgess’ charisma. “John loves music and excelled in his band instrument as well as his voice,” Bird said. “John has the confidence that any one of us in this (room) wishes we had. His demeanor, which I could even call swagger, draws people to him like magnet. I witnessed it many times. Most recently was this semester when attended the show choir competitions. The audience applauds politely for other soloists or cool choreography. John, all he has to do is look like approaching a microphone without even singing a note, the audience explodes with applause while cheering and whistling loudly. They haven’t even heard him yet but his confidence comes across so clearly.” Burgess praised his parents, Dave and Liz Burgess, for their guidance. “My mom was always there to push me and guide me in a direction that I needed to go,” Burgess said, “and my dad was there to guide me. They really were enthusiastic about Scouts, and made me stay with it no matter what was going on in my life.” After receiving the Eagle Scout pin, Burgess awarded his parents, Liz and Dave, with the BSA Parent Pin. Burgess also awarded Scoutmaster James Davis
with the Mentor Badge. For his project, Burgess chose FUMC, which he has attended since birth, because it has been home to Troop 59 for 50 years. Burgess spent many hours raising funds for his Eagle Scout project. Many purchased doughnuts as he and members of Troop 59 stood roadside on Saturday mornings. “I decided to restore the playground at First United Methodist Church in Tallassee because it has been the home charter for Troop 59 for over 50 years now and as a thank you from my troop, I wanted to do the project,” Burgess said. “It is also my home church. So as a thank you from my troop it’s also a thank you for everyone that has been part of my church family. They have always been there for me to help me as I grow up.” According to BSA rules, an Eagle Scout project must benefit an organization other than its own and cannot be performed for an individual or a business or be commercial in nature. Burgess, now a Tallassee High School senior, became a Tiger Scout in 2006 when he was in third grade at Tallassee Elementary. He has participated in Mt. Vernon Idol, is a member of THS’ Gold Edition Show Choir, attended All-State Show Choir, plays tenor sax for the Pride of Tallassee Marching Band and participated in the recent Wind Symphony at Mt. Vernon Theater.
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isitation for Pete Cottle, who penned the legendary “Dirty Digs” column in the Tallassee Tribune for over three decades, was held in April 2016. Among those in the family’s receiving line were grandsons Drew, Jake and Andy Baker. I shook hands with each of them. “Hello, champ,” I said to Drew, who had been one of six gold medal winners in THS’ state championship wrestling season of 2014. Jake got the same two-word greeting, as he had recently won his own state championship as a junior. He would successfully defend his title at the 2017 tournament. “Hello, future champ,” I said to Andy, who, at that point, had gone to the state tournament twice. My whimsical and optimistic prediction about the youngest of the Baker boys didn’t quite work out that way. However, his backstory is memorable and meaningful. In his school wrestling career, Andy Baker lettered five years starting in the eighth grade. He finished second at the 2016 state tournament as a freshman. In his sophomore season, he finished third. He was second as a junior. He held the school record for a number of wins in a season (57, which would be tied by another wrestler, Mason Bell, in the 201819 season). Obviously, there were high hopes for Baker’s senior wrestling season. He began the 2018-19 school year as a standout member of the football team. Then came a play late in the game against Beauregard on Oct. 26 when Baker broke his leg in two places. The official diagnosis was a spiral
WILLIE MOSELEY Columnist fracture of the fibula. “I feared the worst,” said wrestling coach John Mask, who, as an assistant football coach, was situated in the press box communicating with coaches on the sideline. A doctor’s initial examination came to the conclusion Baker’s wrestling days were over but Andy was determined to wrestle and had surgery soon after the diagnosis. A metal plate was installed on his leg using seven screws. Intensive physical therapy rapidly got him back into shape. When he was cleared to wrestle toward the end of the season, a physician reportedly remarked it was the fastest recovery he’d ever seen. Wrestling in the 182-pound weight class, Baker came back with a vengeance, compiling a record of 24-2 in his abbreviated senior campaign. He won his weight class in the sectional tournament at Montgomery’s Garrett Coliseum, qualifying for his fifth trip to the state match in Huntsville as the No. 1 seed from the southern event. The winner of the 182-pound weight class at the other sectional meet (therefore the other No. 1 seed) was Kolton Clark of Scottsboro High School, a perennial contender for team state championships. Clark is already a high school All-American wrestler and has competed in tournaments as far away as Fargo, North
Dakota. He’s signed a wrestling scholarship with Virginia Tech. He came to Huntsville sporting a 38-1 record. In Huntsville, Baker and Clark advanced to the finals which had the potential to be a sports writer’s dream — the formidable All-American from north Alabama versus the comeback kid from the east-central part of the state. There would be no “Rocky II”type ending, however, as Clark outpointed Baker convincingly. That said, Clark didn’t win by a pin. Andy Baker took the AllAmerican the full six minutes of the match, reportedly an extreme rarity for Clark’s opponents. The saga of Andy’s determination and resilience is probably similar to numerous other stories at numerous levels of numerous sports across the country. Real-life circumstances often dictate not every such comeback will have a storybook ending but such efforts are always laudable. Many sports fans would probably say Andy Baker is the best wrestler in the history of Tallassee High School who never won a state championship. The record books will document on Saturday, Feb. 16, Kolton Clark of Scottsboro High School won the 182-pound championship at the 2019 Alabama High School Athletic Association state tournament in Huntsville. What the books won’t say is there were no losers in the championship match. What’s more, I’m sure that upstairs Pete Cottle is smiling.
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ometimes as I sit around and everything slows down, my mind starts wandering to the days when I was young and lived in the mill village. Most families were about like ours — about half the women worked in the mill and the other half were stay-at-home mothers. Mine worked in the mill. I had two older sisters; mama took time out to have a child and as we started growing up it was the job of the older ones to look after us young ones. Mama worked at night, kept house, did all the cooking and slept in the daytime. My oldest sister looked after the younger ones. I followed my older brother like a pigtail but Virginia saw to it that I was bathed, hair combed, minded my manners and got me where I needed to go. When I started first grade, my older sister carried me, although she was in school herself. This was the duty of other older children in other families. One boy who lived on Herd Street decided on the first day of the first grade that school was not for him. They took Virgil to school and he ran out the back and ran home. The next day Fred carried him to school and his sister Jean stood at the back door and caught him as he made his escape.
RONALD BRANTLEY Columnistt This went on until he realized it was no use and stayed at school. My mama did all the cooking as far as I can remember. The two older girls would tinker with making certain things such as cookies or pull-type taffy but they left the meals up to mama. In addition to their duties of looking after the younger ones, they ironed clothes, made us presentable and doctored us. I remember Virginia calling mama at the mill late one night saying one of us younger ones had a tummy ache or ear ache and asked what she should do. Other than doctoring, she would sit up the rest of the night until the sick one finally fell to sleep. Then she’d go to school the next day. I never knew her to complain because that’s how life was. I can never remember when I didn’t have chores and it was the older children’s job to see that we didn’t goof off. They threatened me often but I don’t remember them ever jumping on me. There were seven children; one
died young and my oldest brother was grown when I was little so I wasn’t involved with him until he left and came back from the Army in World War II. The next-oldest boy was Mickey, who was about five years older than me. I really thought he could do anything and from the time I learned to walk I followed him. If he spit, I spit; if he scratched, I scratched; very seldom did he ever seemed to mind. He ran around with boys his own age so I ran around with his buddies. We fished creeks, we hunted the woods, he showed me how to make a bow and arrow, a bush hook and how to swim, chewed me out if I did wrong and bragged on me when I did something good. When I was in the first grade he made my first valentine and it said, “To my brother, I love you.” I kept it for a long time and wish that I still had it. To Junior, my oldest brother; Virginia, my oldest sister; Natalie, my special sister; Mickey, who I thought could walk on water; and Dale the baby of the family, I loved you all.
Ronald Brantley is a regular columnist for The Tribune. His column appears here each Wednesday. He can be reached by email at Rbrantley1@elmore.rr.com
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lot has happened politically in the first quarter of 2019. The governor and all of our constitutional officials have been sworn in and begun their four-year terms in office with Kay Ivey as governor, Will Ainsworth as lieutenant governor, John Merrill as secretary of state, John McMillan as state treasurer, Rick Pate as agriculture commissioner and Jim Zeigler begins his second term as state auditor. More importantly, the legislature has organized and the regular session begins next week. It will be dealing with a myriad of major issues, not the least of which are the two state budgets. The legislature is more important than the governor in state government because it appropriates the money. Those who have the gold make the rules. Another apropos adage is the governor proposes but the legislature disposes. The powers in the 35-member Senate are Sen. Del Marsh (R-Anniston), Sen. Greg Reed (R-Jasper), Sen. Jabo Waggoner (R-Vestavia), Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) and Sen. Greg Albritton (R-Escambia). Orr and Albritton chair the finance and taxation committees. The leadership of the House consists of Speaker Mac McCutcheon (R-Madison), Rep. Victor Gaston (R-Mobile), Rep. Mike Jones (R-Covington), Rep. Bill Poole (R-Tuscaloosa) and Rep. Steve Clouse (R-Ozark). Poole and Clouse chair the budget committees. All of the above lawmakers are Republicans. There is a super majority Republican domination in both chambers; a 77-28 margin for Republicans over Democrats in the House and a 28-7 margin in the Senate. There is one white Democrat in the Senate, Sen. Billy Beasley of Barbour, which is George Wallace’s home county. As predicted, the 2020 campaigns have begun. In Alabama, we’ll not only have a presidential race but one for the U.S. Senate. Our anomaly, Democratic junior Sen. Doug “the California Kid” Jones will be running for a full term. His philosophy and voting record more closely reflect a California senator than his Alabama counterpart, Sen. Richard Shelby. Jones is truly, unashamedly a liberal national Democrat. He votes right down the line with the liberal Democratic leadership in Washington; his voting record is identical to Chuck Schumer’s, Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’. It is more of a parody than anomaly that one of the most conservative states in America would have a liberal democrat representing it in the U.S. Senate. Indeed, Jones is the only Democrat in any Deep South state in the Senate. It is safe to say Jones will be the underdog next year as, unfortunately for him, he more than likely will not have Roy Moore to run against, although my guess is Moore might run again. All of the early Republican entrees or prospects are up in age, which is not conducive to building seniority or power in the Senate. Moore is over 70, Zeigler is 70, U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne is 63 and Marsh is 62. Byrne and Zeigler have significant name identification and both have built a statewide organization, so they would be the early favorites. Marsh can be a player if he is willing to spend his personal money; it would take $2 million to $3 million to put him in the game. Ainsworth would be the perfect choice to take the Jeff Sessions/Jones seat. He is 37 and could build power for the state in Washington. If he enters the Senate race, the Republican to watch is Merrill, who has a free shot. He has the best and broadest statewide grassroots political organization in modern Alabama political history. Nobody will come close to outworking him. The presidential campaign caravan has begun and a host of liberal democratic senators are lining up. Liberal is the optimum word but most would prefer to be labeled socialists. Their states give you an indication of their philosophical tint. Sen. Kristen Gillibrand of New York, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Warren of Massachusetts, Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Kamala Harris of California are seeking the Democratic nomination. Also in is Julian Castro, who was housing director in the Obama administration and whose philosophy is akin to Fidel Castro’s. Jones should run for president since his Senate voting record is just as liberal as the aforementioned other Democratic senators. He has a proven civil rights record and his fundraising base is built in California and New York. His odds are probably better for winning the Democratic presidential nomination than being elected to a full term as a Democratic senator from the Heart of Dixie. Steve Flowers served 16 years in the Alabama Legislature and can be reached at www. steveflowers.us.
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Music spreads good will in Tallassee I wrote this in 2016 after our ladies show choir, The Divas, were finalists in the competition held at Belmont University in Nashville. Tallassee completed its competitive show choir season on Feb. 23 at Auburn High School. Last weekend, we completed this year’s cycle of show choir competitions. We came across a group from Virginia who, instead of cheering and applauding, employed a “show choir wave” I had not seen before. It was truly unique. Choral and instrumental music allow a student the opportunity to do something no other discipline can match: he or she can speak from the heart. As someone who teaches beginner band, it’s hard to see it that way on a daily basis. But as we conclude this year’s round of show choir performances, I am reminded once again students always rise to the occasion and accept the challenge to do their best. Sometimes they may fall short or disappoint you but in general they will try. And our guys and girls did their best the past six weekends. We go not necessarily to win but to be exposed to other programs. Most schools have a choral program that can trace their origins to elementary music through middle school choir and then a developed high school choir. Here we have not had the ability to have a feeder program for some time, so everything you see and hear at Tallassee High School has begun completely from
MICHAEL BIRD
Columnist scratch from ninth grade up. That is nothing short of amazing — in fact it’s a miracle. It all started when people such as Mr. James Bush and Mr. Ed Watkins planted the seed. Students left this program fired up for music and like Mr. Jerry Cunningham, they came home to teach the next generation. Tallassee is known for baseball, especially to outsiders. We are also known for the Mount Vernon Mills, the Hotel Talisi and the Fitzpatrick Bridge. People may have heard of our Babe Ruth and Dixie Youth programs or maybe our Tiger Sharks swimmers. They may know about the writings of Jack Solomon or Ronald Brantley. They may have passed through here to attend a battle reenactment. Certainly they have heard of Miss Vicki Baker and her legendary baton and dance studio which has also brought us a couple of others around town. They probably know about Studio B, the Pointed Toe and Dance Generation. Maybe they bought a car from Ben Atkinson or James Parker or another dealership in town or have heard we are the only municipality to have two Super Foods-branded stores. There are so many things that make our town special. But even someone who hates music or is anti-band and choir must admit
more good will has come our way because of the fine folks in the choir and band at Tallassee than just about anything else. People know who we are because of the Long Blue Line and later the award-winning Pride of Tallassee. They attend the Capital City Classic sponsored by THS. They come to our Jazz Fest. People also see our various choral and band groups in concert competition or at honor bands and choirs or at solo and ensemble festivals. Our music program is represented very well across the region. What I have always admired about the high school choral program is we seek out performance locations not because we want to go beat somebody but because we want to get better. Our Divas and New Image girls and Gold Edition guys performed so beautifully this year. And as we approach the end of the competitive season, I wanted those of you who read this column to know Tallassee hasn’t just been lucky, we’ve been blessed. Some of the finest people I have ever had the privilege to meet somehow interact with our program, either as the student, the directors, the parents or alumni of the program. Thank you for all you do to support the Tallassee Music Department and please know that the students and teachers involved are doing all they can to represent our community well. A “show choir wave” to all involved! Michael Bird is a weekly columnist for The Tribune.
Big lessons discovered in small store M y life changed forever inside the walls of a Payless Shoe Source. Last week the small-butmighty chain of shoe stores from Topeka, Kansas, announced the closing of its 2,100 stores. Known for affordable footwear, you could always find a pair of shoes to keep your toes dry and a leave a few dollars in your pocket. But it wasn’t the knock-off Sperry boat shoes that changed my life – it was the job as a shoe clerk inside the modest building that changed my life. I was in college and needed a job. Payless needed a clerk. Not exactly a match made in heaven but a job nonetheless. Back then the school posted jobs on a bulletin board on note cards. When you ran across one you were interested in, you pried out the thumbtack and carried the blue card around the corner to the job placement department. The lady at a small desk picked up the phone and arranged an interview. After a career of typical high school jobs of making pizzas and dropping chicken into vats of boiling grease, my job application probably did not knock the store manager out of
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Columnist his shoe-fitting stool. But for some reason, the manager gave me a shot. Gordon was an interesting man. With his oversized-plastic glasses continually sliding down his nose, Gordon was what we called a Shoe Dog. Unpacking cardboard shipping boxes and carefully arranging each pair of shoes into a precise order along the half-dozen rows was his kingdom. But there was more. Gordon taught me to sell. “Walk up to the customer, greet them and offer to help them find something.” He made it sound so simple and effortless. But for me, it was terrifying. The first time I was left alone in the store I almost threw up in the backroom toilet. One day I remember hearing a lady with her small daughter on the next row looking for a pair of shoes for Easter. With
my back against a row of men’s work boots, my stomach began heaving and a wave of sweat washed over me like I was back shoving pizzas in a stone oven. I took a deep breath and forced myself around the corner offering to help. I don’t know if I sold a pair of shoes that day. But I do know I relived the same physical and emotional nightmare repeatedly until it one day, curiously, it faded away into the background. Soon I learned the art of meeting strangers, discovering common ground and finding a way to help them along the way. And to my surprise, this rewarding and empowering lesson altered the course of my life for the better. Today whenever I find myself facing an intimidating or stressful situation, I always remember standing with my back up against the wall of boots sweating and panting – trying to break free from the chains of self-doubt. And then suddenly, I know whatever is on the other side isn’t so scary after all. Leonard Woolsey is the president and publisher of The Daily News in Galveston, Texas.
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Gimme 5 Awards to recognize youth in Tallassee, Reeltown By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
The winners of the first-of-its-kind “Gimme 5 Awards” program will be announced on May 3 at Mt. Vernon Theater in downtown Tallassee. The program is aimed at building a child’s selfesteem and confidence through five minutes of oneon-one time with teachers, coaches and mentors. “The idea behind the awards ceremony is to build up kids’ self-esteem through honoring them for their hard work in athletics, academics and service,” program coordinator Hannah Johnson said. “Each youth program and high school program will give nominations and board will vote.” The winner in each category will be announced at the event. According to Johnson, the program will raise the level of competition in sports. “Let’s make kids competitive again,” Johnson said. “Let’s tell them they are good enough. Let’s show them we are proud. Let’s give them a chance by giving them five.” Program coordinators have already contacted the youth leagues in Tallassee and Reeltown and the league coaches will nominate players. Players are chosen by effort, ability and attitude. Coaches will nominate two players from each age group in each sport. In the finals, two nominees from Tallassee and two nominees from Reeltown will be voted on by a board that will have equal representation from both communities. “One kid from each group will be chosen,” Johnson said. “The player maybe Reeltown or Tallassee.” Local students will also have an opportunity to participate in this program as principals at Tallassee and Reeltown schools will nominate three students each based on service, academics and athletics. “They will be awarded separately per school,” Johnson explained. “There will be one overall senior high school student chosen between Tallassee and Reeltown. They must exhibit all three traits.” Area churches and civic organizations will also be able to take part. “Service nominations will come from community organizations, churches and ministries,” Johnson said. “We feel this is in all fairness to the children.” For more information, contact Johnson at 334-3281513.
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Girl Scout Cookie season coming to a close but time still remaining By CARMEN RODGERS Staff Writer
Girl Scouts were selling their popular cookies over the weekend in front of the Tallassee Walmart and while cookie season is rapidly coming to an end, there is enough time remaining to pick up a box or two. The Girls Scouts of Southern Alabama will sell cookies until March 3. Each purchase goes directly to support the 7,500 girls and volunteers the GSSA council serves. Proceeds from the cookie program help provide programs that encourage leadership, learning and life skills for girls
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said he was discriminated against when applying to become an Alabama State Trooper after returning from the Vietnam War. “I remember the Selma to Montgomery march,” Reeves said. “I wanted to slip off and go to Selma but my mama wouldn’t let me. As soon as they (civil rights marchers) camped out at St. Jude in Montgomery on Fairview Avenue, I went. Harry Belafonte was there too. That’s where Dr. King planned the last leg of the Selma to Montgomery march. When we marched, I remember we went by the old Jefferson Davis Hotel and people were up there in the windows throwing balls of wet toilet tissue down at us as we marched by and cussing at us. We continued on, singing, ‘We Shall Overcome’ and ‘March on Freedom.’ We kept on marching all the way to the state capitol.” Reeves said he was wounded in the Vietnam War in 1968 and, while temporarily paralyzed from the neck down, received two Purple Hearts, one personally delivered by President Lyndon Johnson. But after nearly giving his life for his country, the worst part was coming home. “After I came home and was able to walk again, I applied for a job as a state trooper,” he said. “They used to give veterans credit. If you were a veteran, they would give you a 10-point credit. So I scored high on the test and when they looked at my application, the personnel director told me, ‘You lied on your application.’ They took it and threw it in the garbage can right then and there.” But Reeves said he didn’t take no for an answer. Reeves said with the help of his mother and wellknown attorney Morris Dees Jr., the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, he sued the state and forever changed the policy for hiring AfricanAmericans. “We opened the door that allowed blacks to become state troopers in the state of Alabama,” he said. Reeves said he appreciates everyone who helped bring equal justice to all. “We blacks were standing together back then but it took some whites, some Jews and everybody else to get us equal justice,” he said. In closing, Reeves delivered a message of determination. “Trust in God and you can become anything you want to become,” he said. “Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality, upgrade your convict, your form of belief, to match your destiny.” GCHC’s Bishop Adolphus Gauntt opened the celebration with a prayer and Cynthia Martin recited a poem, “What is Black History?” from Latorial Faison’s book, “28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History.”
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UAB clinic helps women understand their hearts are different STAFF REPORT TPI Staff
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is responsible for one in four deaths among men and women, and the highest concentration of those deaths among women is in the South — especially in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. This lack of awareness about women’s heart disease led Dr. Salpy Pamboukian to establish the UAB Women’s Heart Health Clinic in 2016. “We don’t think about heart disease in women,� said Pamboukian, a transplant cardiologist and director of the clinic. “As women get older and past menopause, their rates of heart disease are the same as men’s.� While the classic signs of heart attack in males — chest pain radiating into the jaw and arm — are wellknown, a woman’s symptoms may differ dramatically. “Women may or may not have classic chest pain,� Pamboukian said. “The pain could be in other areas and not necessarily in the center of the chest.� She notes pain might not flare up with exertion, as is often the case with men. In fact, sometimes there is no pain at all. “The symptoms can be shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, tiredness or fatigue, or abdominal discomfort,� Pamboukian said. Ignorance about the prevalence and symptoms of women’s heart disease can, unfortunately, extend to the medical community. “Women presenting with atypical heart disease symptoms are often written off as having stomach problems or hormone problems,�
Pamboukian said. “Clinical studies have demonstrated inherent biases in how the medical establishment evaluates women differently than men.� As a result, there can be a significant lag between the time a woman begins experiencing symptoms of heart disease and the time she receives a diagnosis and treatment. Witnessing those delays prompted Pamboukian to create the UAB Women’s Heart Health Clinic. “As a cardiologist, I’d see women who had lost precious treatment time,� she said. “We needed a place where women could come, be listened to and be evaluated without biases.� Women travel a variety of paths to the UAB Women’s Heart Health Clinic. Joy O’Neal, 50, found the clinic only after being told by doctors that her weight gain, fatigue and difficulty breathing were due to menopause, stress and allergies — when she in fact had congestive heart failure. “Even though I presented every symptom of heart disease, they never, ever, ever offered me an EKG,� said O’Neal, founder and executive director of The Red Barn, a therapeutic equine center in Leeds, Alabama. “Dr. Pamboukian said I’d been exhibiting signs of heart disease for two years and that she was going to treat this aggressively. I love the fact that she listened to me and saw me and didn’t assume that these were my first symptoms.� Once a woman’s heart disease has been identified, the next step depends upon her diagnosis. “There’s a spectrum of heart disease,� Pamboukian said. “For some, treatment can be as simple as taking medication, while others may need heart transplants.�
In between are those who require arteriograms, stents, valve replacements or bypasses. Pamboukian’s goal is to provide a central place for women to be seen and then refer them to appropriate specialists. “For example, we have a renowned hypertension specialist and a clinic for people who have difficult-to-manage high blood pressure,� she said. Although Sherron Simmons’ story has a happy ending, her journey through heart disease was a roller coaster. Following two heart attacks and bypass surgery, Simmons, 62, was diagnosed with heart failure and referred to UAB’s transplant team. Simmons received her heart transplant in 2011 and said she is feeling great today. “I’m staying in compliance with everything that Dr. Pamboukian and my wonderful transplant nurse tell me to do and I haven’t had any rejection episodes with my transplant,� Simmons said. As UAB WomenHeart Champions, Simmons and O’Neal are helping educate women about heart health, and Pamboukian believes they are uniquely qualified to spread the word. “Women can connect with Sherron and Joy on a personal level and understand that the same thing could happen to them rather than learning information from healthcare providers who haven’t lived through the experience of heart disease,� Pamboukian said. Simmons and O’Neal plan to launch UAB’s heart health initiative in February. “We’ll have a two-pronged approach,� O’Neal said. “I’ll coordinate the educational piece for places such as community fairs, women’s lunch groups and Bible study groups, and Sherron will organize a peer-led
Photos submitted / The Tribune Tallassee High School's show choirs have been attending competitions throughout January and February. At the Jasper Foothills Classic on Saturday, Feb. 16, Tallassee's DIVAS show choir came in third place, and at the Southern Showcase in Opelika on Feb. 9, the DIVAS came in fourth place.
monthly WomenHeart support group at UAB.� Simmons is excited about the prospect of helping women with heart disease find one another. “I had a strong family support system but there was not another woman I could really talk to about having heart disease,� she said. “Women need to know they’re not alone in this fight.� She plans to rely on the UAB community to speak at monthly meetings. “We hope to have a nutritionist speak about heart health diets, a mental health professional speak about mental health and heart disease, a cardiac rehabilitation nurse, a certified fitness trainer, and possibly even a yoga instructor to help women improve their health and their quality of life,� Simmons said. O’Neal has doubled down on educating women about heart disease, in part because, even after her diagnosis, she still fights ignorance within the medical community. A dermatologist told her she was too young to have heart disease and questioned whether she had in fact had a heart attack. “Two doctors told me I must have misunderstood my diagnosis because I was too young and looked healthy,� O’Neal said. “Knowing what I know now, I want to educate women so they can argue back with confidence.� O’Neal and Simmons are grateful for the UAB Women’s Heart Health Clinic. “They saved my life and they are doing so much to help women in the Birmingham community,� O’Neal said. “I am blessed to live near a worldrenowned research center that allows women to get the heart health treatment they need.�
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Have you ever spoken wind words? “Do you think that you can reprove words when the speech of a despairing man is wind?” — Job 6:26 ob was in agony. He had lost his children, his health, all his possessions and the respect of the people around him. He did not know why the calamities had come to him, and had to defend himself from the callous accusations of his friends who assumed he had done something horrible to have such things happen to him. In his misery, Job protested his innocence, denied his friends’ accusations and cried out to God for vindication or an explanation. He wasn’t making a precise theological argument when he said what he did about God; he was expressing his pain. Job pleaded with his friends not to be so harsh in their judgment of what he said, because “the speech or a despairing
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man is wind.” Have you ever said anything you later regretted? Is there a man or woman who has never experienced regret about something they said? If such a person exists, I suspect that they are more likely insensitive about how their words affect others rather than all that good at controlling their tongue. We all know the sad truth of James 3:2 about the tongue: “For we all stumble in many ways.” We may sometimes say the wrong thing through carelessness or insensitivity, but I know how easy it is to say the wrong thing when I’m upset. Don’t you? Some old friends of mine who’ve been married many years used to debate about what was said when they quarreled. The man said he didn’t mean everything he said when he was upset. The woman contended that he meant exactly what he said when he was
MIKE MCELROY Columnist angry, and that anger took away the restraint that usually governed his speech. I’ve thought a lot about that, and I think I agree with the man in this case. Job is not the only person who in bitter emotion said things we might call “wind words”—things we don’t really believe or mean. When anger, frustration or fear colors our words, it’s easy to say hurtful, wrong things that we later regret. This happens in marriages, families, church families and friendships. It happens at home and at work. When you and I say such things,
we should realize our need to grow in self-control and surrender our tongues to the lordship of Jesus. When we hear others talk like this, we need to take Solomon’s advice to ignore some of the things we hear people say: “Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others” (Ecclesiastes 7:21-22). Why must we take every word that others say so seriously? Don’t we remember saying things we didn’t mean and shouldn’t have said ourselves? If we follow the “Golden Rule” and treat other people the way we want to be treated (Matthew 7:12), we will make allowance for frustrating circumstances and not be so harsh and judgmental about what is said in emotional reactions. This principle would “take the edge off” so many interpersonal
conflicts and relieve so much of the anxiety that robs relationships of joy. Husbands and wives should be kind and gentle with one another. But when one or both are upset, it would be good to remember this idea. Parents and kids will have some lively discussions as imperfect dads and moms raise imperfect kids. Along the way to maturity, there will surely be some times when all parties involved need to remember this. Boyfriends and girlfriends, neighbors and kinfolks—everybody needs this lesson. Let’s resolve to speak with love and care. But when emotions drive us to say things we shouldn’t, let’s hope the people around us will consider that some of those words are just “wind words.” And let’s remember to show the same consideration when people say things they shouldn’t to or about us.
Church Briefs Episcopal Church of the Epiphany
On March 3 at 9:30 a.m. Kay Dickey will lead a Sunday School class on “Discussion of the Saints: Dorothy Day.” At 10:30 a.m. the Rev. Larry Yarbrough will celebrate the Holy Eucharist marking the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, with coffee hour to follow. For more information, visit the church website: http://epiphanytallassee. org/
First United Methodist Church
Worship with us on Sunday mornings! 8:50 a.m. Contemporary service, 11 a.m. Traditional service. Programs for kids and youth on Sunday nights from 5-6:30 p.m. and for all ages on Wednesday nights from 6:30 7:15 p.m. Come join us! First United Methodist is located at 1 Jordan Avenue, Tallassee. 334-283-2195.
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church
Our Life’s Journey radio program is at a new time. Sundays 9:30am on WACQ-AM 580 and FM 101.1 (Tallassee/Lake Martin Area) or online at www.wacqra-
dio.com or the “TuneIn” App on your Smart Phone. St. Vincent de Paul Church has Mass on Saturday Nights at 6 p.m. and Sunday Mornings at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. with Sunday School from 9:15-10:15 a.m. each week. St. Vincent de Paul is located at 620 Gilmer Avenue in Tallassee. For more information, please call 334-283-2169. Knights of Columbus Mardi Gras “Fat Tuesday” Pancake and Sausage Supper ... Tuesday, March 5, 5:30-7:30pm at St. Vincent de Paul fellowship hall, 620 Gilmer Avenue. This picture message or video message was sent using Multimedia Messaging Service.
Duke will be presenting a message from Nehemiah 2:1-10 entitled “Christ Followers Should Be Prepared”. Sunday School begins at 9:45 a.m. and Morning Worship at 10:45 a.m. A free meal will be served at 5 p.m. followed by The North American Mission Study at 6 p.m. Wednesday night services for all ages begin at 6 p.m. For more information please call 334-283-6338.
God’s Congregation Holiness Church
The “River’s Edge Flea Market” is open every Saturday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. All vendors are welcome: new items, old items, crafts, youth groups, ball teams, baked goods, produce and food. The flea market is sponsored by the East Tallassee United Methodist Church and is located across from city hall. We will offer variously priced booths. To reserve a space call Joan Wood at 334312-4913. All proceeds raised by ETUMC will be used for
God’s Congregation Holiness Church. Bishop Adolophus Gauntt and First Lady Nina Fraley Gauntt welcomes guest speaker, Bishop Effell Williams, on March 9 at 3 p.m. at 508 Jordan Avenue. For more information, contact 334283-8116 everyone invited.
Liberty Baptist Church
Everyone is invited to join us in worship at 574 Liberty Road, Tallassee. Interim Pastor Lamar
Living Water Worship Center
Revival nights will be held on the last Sunday of each month beginning at 6 p.m. at 45 Main St. in downtown Eclectic.
East Tallassee United Methodist Church
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a.m. and the Sunday evening service begins at 5 p.m. Wednesday night services begin at 6 p.m. Visitors welcome at all services. Call us at 334-283-5437 or drop by 209 Gilmer Ave.
Calvary Baptist Church of Tallassee
If you are looking for a church to worship and praise the Lord, join us at 293 N. Wesson St. in Tallassee. We offer 10 a.m. Sunday School, 11 a.m. Morning worship service and 6 p.m. evening service. Also join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday for our prayer and fellowship service. If you have any questions call 334-283-2366.
Carrville Baptist Church
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Will host t he “Heart Links 16th” Women’s Praise and Worship Night on Feb. 22 from 6-9 p.m. at the Mt. Vernon Theater, located at 321 Barnett Blvd. The speaker will be Janeese Spencer, director of venture Life Coaching in Montgomery. For more information contact Jeanelle Sargent at 334-224-2767. There is no cost or registration. To join the community choir, contact Teresa Atchison at 334-207-0456. First choir practice is Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. with others to follow at the Mt. Vernon Theater.
Tallassee Church of Christ
Sunday School begins at 10 a.m., worship service begins at 11
Located at 2436 Notasulga Rd., Sunday School begins at 9:15 a.m. Sunday morning worship begins at 10:30 a.m. Children’s Gospel Project Youth and Adult Bible Studies begin at 6 p.m. and at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. For more info call the church office at 334-283-2221, Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or visit our website www.carrvillebaptist.com.
Rock Springs Baptist Church We welcome any and all guests to join us.
First Baptist Church Reeltown
We have worship services at 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sundays. Between those services, we have Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. with a class ready to welcome you. Sunday night service begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday night services begin at 6:30 p.m. with Bible study classes for all ages.
Let’s live the power of Christian community By REV. CLINT MCBROOM Special to The Tribune
John Wesley once said, “Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God and … they alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven upon Earth.” Wesley’s own life bore witness to this truth because through the Methodist movement he spearheaded, God did powerful and amazing things in not only 18th century England but America as well. Wesley was a man who passionately gave his life to God and to the gospel but his pursuit and desire of God was not simply a feeling or an internal emotion; it was something Wesley practiced in very concrete and tangible ways. Wesley himself called those practices through which he and the early
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be exposed; those “hidden faults” of Psalm 19:12 that are hidden not from others but from ourselves. Imagine how powerful it would be to have a group where we could be reminded of the promises of the gospel we so easily forget and be encouraged daily as Hebrews 3:13 calls us to be. Living in that kind of Christian community is powerful because God uses it as a means of grace to mold us into Christ’s image. If you are not in that kind of community right now, I invite you to try one. Our Tallassee community has multiple congregations with various kinds of groups where that kind of environment exists. When we experience God’s transforming power through Christian community, then like the early Methodists we’ll be amazed at what God will do with and through our lives!
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All-County Girls Basketball Team Coach of the Year
Player of the Year
Rachel leads Panthers back to sub-regionals By CALEB TURRENTINE Sports Writer
Over the last few years, the Elmore County girls basketball program has seen its largest streak of sustained success since the turn of the century. Coach Amy Rachel was back at the helm for her seventh season this year and the Panthers won 16 games for the first time since 2002 on their way to another sub-regional appearance. She is the AllCounty Girls Basketball Coach of the Year. The Panthers were coming off four consecutive area championships but a change in the area alignment had Elmore County face off against a tough schedule. The season eventually came to an end in the sub-regional with a 58-41 See RACHEL • Page B2 File / The Tribune
Stanhope Elmore’s Alisson Evans (22) is the All-County Girls Basketball Player of the Year after averaging a double-double on the season.
Evans breaks out in final season at SEHS By CALEB TURRENTINE Sports Writer
The Stanhope Elmore girls basketball team needed to find production on the court from someone this season but it was not quite sure who would take the reins. It did not take long for senior Alisson Evans to step up both on and off the court for the Mustangs this season.
“She meant a lot to our program,” Stanhope Elmore coach Kelvin Stokes said. “She came to play every game and put that hard work in every day. We prevailed to the sub-region this year because of her play.” Evans, a four-year starter at Stanhope who is the AllCounty Girls Basketball Player of the Year, led the Mustangs to 11 wins this season, the most of her high school
career. While her defense and rebounding ability was always apparent, Evans took over on the offensive end and led the Mustangs in scoring this season. After scoring a total of 330 points during her first three seasons, Evans averaged 18.4 points per game across Stanhope’s 27-game season. She accounted for 47 percent See EVANS • Page B2
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Elmore County’s Amy Rachel is the All-County Girls Basketball Coach of the Year.
FIRST TEAM Guard: Brooke Burkett Stanhope Elmore sophomore Burkett has already played three seasons with the varsity team at Stanhope Elmore but she took things to another level this season. She averaged 11 points and eight assists to go along with 2.3 steals per game. One of Burkett’s biggest performances of the season came in the area tournament against Wetumpka as her 20 points and eight assists sent Stanhope into the area championship. “She has always been that girl that I put our offense in her hands,” Stanhope coach Kelvin Stokes said. “She’s come so far this season. When Brooke goes, our team goes so I’m looking forward to seeing her in her junior year and her senior year.”
Guard: Madison Traylor, Elmore County senior Traylor has been the key to Elmore County’s success on the court for most her high school career. This season, Traylor set career highs in points, rebounds and steals. She led the team with 16.5 points per game and 10.7 rebounds per game while recording 17 double-doubles. Traylor’s biggest game of the season came against Booker T. Washington in the area tournament when she scored 27 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to help send the Panthers into the sub-regional round for the sixth consecutive season. “She knew this was going to be her last season playing basketball so she put in the hard work early in the offseason,” Elmore County coach Amy Rachel said. “She was getting workouts in a 5 a.m. and that’s stuff you can’t teach a kid to do. Everything she does, she’s doing her best to excel at it.”
Guard: CJ Weldon Edgewood senior Weldon entered the season with high expectations for herself and from her teammates. The Wildcats thrived off shooting from deep and Weldon was the top 3-point shooter on the team. She knocked down 68 3-pointers across the team’s 26 games. Weldon led the Wildcats with 11.9 points per game and scored the 1,000th point of her career during the team’s postseason run to the Elite Eight. “She’s one of these players that leads with her effort,” Edgewood coach Jay Adams said. “They look to her to be the heart of that offense and when she’s on, we’re on.”
Forward: Lacondra Paschal Wetumpka senior Wetumpka struggled to find success on offense all season but Paschal seemed to always be the solution. She scored in double figures four times this season, including a 16-point performance against Elmore County in the Elmore County Tournament. Paschal finished the season with an average of 5.8 points per game, leading Wetumpka with a total of 119 points. She also led the team in steal and shot 42 percent from the field. “Lacondra’s leadership and experience has been great for us this season,” Wetumpka coach Jermel Bell said. “She worked hard every day during the offseason and at practices. She encouraged and motivated her teammates by her actions on and off the court.”
Forward: Ciarra Sullen, Tallassee senior After winning a total of 29 games during her first three seasons in high school, Sullen was staring at Tallassee’s 2-15 record after a tough start to the season. However, the Tigers found a way to battle back, winning four of their final eight games and Sullen was right in the middle of that success. She averaged 9.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game during her final season. “Ciarra is a great motivator for the team,” Tallassee coach Harold Harris said. “She understood that winning was important but learning how to compete and put forth effort was needed. She kept the team tied together as a family.”
HONORABLE MENTION CK Bolton, Fr., G, Elmore County; Lindan Oliver, Jr., G, Tallassee; Leanna Moorer, Sr., G, Holtville; Madison Britt, So., F, Elmore County; Avery Roberts, Sr., F, Edgewood
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Tallassee’s softball team won the Central Alabama Softball Classic in Alexander City on Saturday.
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Tigers win tourney in Alex City to begin season By LIZI ARBOGAST Sports Editor
Tallassee couldn’t have asked for a better start to the softball season. After a rain-soaked wet washed out their season opener, the Tigers finally hit the diamond Saturday at Benjamin Russell’s Central Alabama Softball Classic. And they looked absolutely unstoppable. They hit the ball extremely well, got great pitching performances and took the championship from the host Wildcats in a 9-0 defeat. “It feels good to start this way,” Tallassee coach Pat Love said. “We have a lot of stuff we have to work on still but it feels good. I’m proud of them.” After Tallassee held just a 3-0 lead after two innings, things came tumbling down for Benjamin
Russell in the third inning as it committed four back-to-back errors, two of which allowed Tallassee to score a total of three runs. “I just think that inexperience finally came into play,” Johnson said. “We let things get too big and too fast, and we faced some adversity for the first time. But they’ve gotta understand you don’t quit. One error, so what? Don’t do it again; you can’t make it turn into five.” Benjamin Russell also seemed to be thrown off by Tallassee pitcher Jordan Walters. After a day of hitting the ball extremely well, the Wildcats managed only five hits against the Tigers, and Walters totaled seven strikeouts in her five innings of work. “She was impressive in that last one,” Love said. “She was in
the upper 50s and she had good movement; her drop ball was moving good. I thought she looked very well.” Although Walters did seem to throw faster than any other pitcher Benjamin Russell had faced throughout the day, Johnson said she thought her hitters’ struggles also stemmed from nerves. “She’s a great pitcher, but I think there again, a little bit of inexperience showed and we were a little bit intimidated in the box,” Johnson said. “I don’t think mentally we were where we needed to be. You can’t go in defensively. You gotta go in in attack mode and we didn’t do that. “We were totally not there mentally. We changed our swings; we didn’t even look like the same See SOFTBALL • Page B6
Tallassee catcher Reece Graham hustled down the first-base line on what appeared to be a routine ground ball to end the sixth inning. However, Handley’s third baseman bobbled the ball just enough for Graham to barely beat the throw to first, allowing Burin Hathcock to cross the plate for the winning run in Tallassee’s 12-11 victory over Handley on Monday night. “I think he was safe,” Tallassee coach Adam Clayton said. “He hustled down there and that’s something we preach to our guys. No matter what, you have to run down there because you don’t know what can happen.” In a game with four lead changes, Tallassee needed two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to grab its first victory of the season. Jackson Gantt, who opened the inning with a walk and scored the tying run on an See BASEBALL • Page B8
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Tallassee’s Beau Baker throws a pitch during the third inning of Monday night’s win over Handley.
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Stanhope Elmore’s Alisson Evans, right, led the Mustangs in points, rebounds and blocks this season.
of the team’s points this season. “I’m excited for her because she’s worked hard for this recognition,” Stokes said. “She’s always led by example. Night in and night out, she gave everything she had on the court.” Evans also averaged 14.6 rebounds and 5.4 blocks per game. She recorded 24 double-doubles, including three against Wetumpka, which she said stands out the most. “My best game was probably the one at Wetumpka,” Evans said. “We started off really bad but we knew that’s what we were working for and we wanted it.” After dropping the first game of the series at home, Stanhope fell behind by 17 points at halftime on the road. The Mustangs fought back and Evans scored eight points in the overtime period to secure the team’s first area victory of the season. Evans finished that game with 27 points, 16 rebounds, four blocks and three steals. She added another double-double in the victory over Wetumpka in the area tournament which sent the Mustangs into the sub-regional round. “We all came together and played as a team this year,” Evans said. “We played better together and when the team was better, I played better.” While Evans said it was not clear to her
where her biggest improvement was on the court, she credited herself with becoming a better leader during her senior season. Evans said she used to be the quiet one but she had to come out of her shell a little bit and Stokes said that was clear. “Honestly, it was just her mindset,” Stokes said. “Most athletes are going to reach that potential their senior year. When reality set in that this was going to be it for her, she knew she had to step it up. She started showing that she wanted it more.” Stokes was the head coach for all four seasons of Evans’ high school career. He said he always saw the potential there and Evans worked hard to be where she is today. “I always held her to that high standard of consistency,” Stokes said. “We’ve always challenged her here and she has risen to that. She has so much more room to grow though so I’m looking forward to seeing her develop more in college.” Evans had multiple offers from community college around the state to play basketball at the next level. She said she expects to sign her letter of intent to play basketball at Huntingdon College some time over the next week. “That means a lot to me,” Evans said. “Since I was young, all I wanted was to play basketball past the high school level. This is what I’ve worked so hard for.”
Rachel loss at No. 3 Childersburg, a team which is participating in the Class 4A Final Four in Birmingham this week. “There was a lot of good competition we lost to this season,” Rachel said. “We start counting up those 11 losses and you see it is a lot of worthy opponents. I’m still very pleased with how we played and how we finished the season.” Seven of the team’s 11 losses came against opponents which made it to their regional tournaments. Two of the other four losses were against B. T. Washington, both of which Elmore County avenged with a win in the area tournament. Despite losing a starter to a late-season injury, Rachel led the Panthers into the area tournament with confidence. Elmore County faced BTW in the first round and needed a victory to extend its season. Madison Traylor was a key to the team’s success all season and the Panthers relied on her heavily in that game. Elmore County came away with a 45-42 victory behind 27 points from Traylor and Rachel said Traylor’s leadership made the job a lot easier. “She handled that pressure
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Elmore County coach Amy Rachel, right, helped the Panthers make their sixth consecutive appearance in the first round of the state tournament.
well but we had to have other kids step up to support her,” Rachel said. “She really took it in stride and pushed her teammates to be better. But she did that by showing them what to do instead of just telling them. That’s something you
can’t coach.” Traylor, who surpassed 1,000 career points this season, was one of three senior starters on the team this season. She has been playing on varsity since her eighth-grade year and said Rachel has been like
a second mom to her over the years. “She has helped us grow into the people we are now,” Traylor said. “She means so much to us. She told us to make sure we didn’t have any regrets and to leave everything
out on the court. She made us cherish this last year together.” With four seniors on the team, Traylor said Rachel made them realize this would be the last chance they had to play together and it pushed them to be better. The senior class never missed a sub-regional but Rachel said their leadership qualities have prepared the next group. “That is exactly in line with where we want to be,” Rachel said. “The younger ones have had excellent examples from our seniors. They are leaving their fingerprints all over this program.” Sophomore Madison Britt and freshman CK Bolton had breakout seasons and Rachel said she will be expecting more from them moving forward. And while the success on the court is clear to see, Rachel said she wants the program to be known for more than the final scoreboard. “Of course, we want to win and be successful but it’s about more than that,” Rachel said. “We want to make sure those things translate into real life. You start doing all of those things right, wins will come with that.”
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Rebels go 2-2 at Brewbaker Tech tourney
CALEB TURRENTINE Sports Writer
STAFF REPORT TPI Staff
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hen a high school student becomes a college athlete, it feels like everyone in the world has an opinion on how the next four years of this young person’s life should go. From someone sending angry tweets to recruits for not selecting their favorite school to calling a 21-year old selfish for sitting out a meaningless bowl game to make sure they can still have a future, it can get ugly. Last Wednesday, Duke basketball player Zion Williamson blew through his shoe and injured his knee on the play. He still has not returned to the court for the Blue Devils and it has sparked a debate on whether he should risk his NBA draft stock by playing another college game. Williamson is projected to be the top pick in the 2019 NBA Draft and has had one of the biggest brands for an 18-year-old athlete in the world. However, because you have to be 19 to enter the NBA Draft, Williamson, like many others, was forced to go to college for one season. Yes, college is a great opportunity and there are plenty of examples of why having a degree makes for a better life. However, if any of us had an opportunity to sign a multi-million dollar contract in your desired field straight out of high school, I’m not sure there would have been many people second guessing your decision. Now, everyone has an opinion on whether Williamson should return to the court. On one side, people say he committed to playing for Duke and he would be selfish to abandon his teammates in the middle of the season. Sure, I get that I guess but that argument will hold credibility only when it comes from one of his teammates — not an angry basketball fan that is upset his favorite team could get worse. On the other side, people want to tell Williamson to get healthy and make that money. The top three picks in the NBA Draft will make an average of $6 million during their rookie seasons. While I lean toward being more understanding of the latter, the main point is it is the athlete’s decision to make. If Williamson wants to get back out and play the game he loves then he should do it. If he and his family believe the best decision would be to sit out and completely heal before doing draft workouts in the summer, he should do that. This is not close to the first case of this decision needing to be made and it likely will not be the last. However, it seems like a simple solution would be to go back to the old format with some new twists. The NBA first adopted the oneand-done rule in 2006, allowing any player to enter the NBA Draft after just one year of playing in college. Other options started to pop up, such as spending the year between high school and NBA in Europe and what is now the G-League. So why can’t we make all of these options available for athletes? See TURRENTINE • Page B8
It was an up and down weekend for the Reeltown softball team, which picked up two wins but also suffered two losses at the Brewbaker Tech tournament. The Rebels defeated Lee, 9-1, on Friday to get things started. Saturday, they lost to Charles Henderson, 8-2, but quickly turned the tables on the Trojans with an 8-3 victory of their own. Reeltown was then narrowly ousted in the final game by the hosts, 10-9. Against Lee, the Rebels racked up six hits and also took advantage of three errors as three of their runs were unearned. Morgan McGuire and Bella Studdard led the way offensively with a pair of hits, while Marlee Knox racked up four RBIs and Chloe Davidson drove in two runs. In the first game against Charles Henderson, the Rebels had only three hits with one apiece from McGuire, Kenzie Hornsby and Studdard, but the
second game was a much different story. Reeltown smacked seven total hits, including another two singles from McGuire. The final game was a heartbreaker for the Rebels, as Brewbaker Tech had a walk-off single to end the game in the bottom of the fifth. The fourth game was Reeltown’s most prolific offensively. Hornsby, Studdard, Peyton Ledbetter and Madison Ledbetter each had two hits. Hornsby drove in four runs and Peyton Ledbetter plated two. Reeltown’s pitchers struggled throughout the tournament. Despite allowing only 13 hits over 15 1/3 total innings, the staff combined for 26 walks and only eight strikeouts.
BASEBALL Reeltown wins messy game against PCA In a 13-9 baseball game, an offensive showdown might be expected, but that wasn’t the case for Reeltown and Prattville Christian on Friday evening.
The teams combined for only 11 hits but managed to total 15 errors. But a big sixth inning gave the Rebels the victory. Trailing 9-7, the Rebels scored six runs in the sixth frame. With one out, Logan Hunt got things started by drawing a walk and Will Brooks followed with a double. Andy Mann grounded out to shortstop, giving Hunt time to score. Logan Lee then drove in Brooks with a single. Then things started to get sloppy as PCA committed back-to-back errors before giving up two straight walks followed by another miscue. Ethan Estes also scored on a wild pitch to put Reeltown ahead 13-9 before the inning’s end. Brooks was the top hitter for the Rebels with a pair of doubles, and Mann drove in four total runs. A slew of Reeltown pitchers took the mound with Brooks, Dylan Futral, Estes and Hunt combining for nine strikeouts but they also totaled 11 walked. Only five of their runs allowed were earned.
Maddox gets $1,000 scholarship at NWTF banquet By DONALD CAMPBELL Staff Writer
The Wetumpka Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation presented a $1,000 scholarship to Elmore County High School senior Dalton Maddox at its annual banquet Thursday night. By winning the local scholarship competition, Maddox qualified to compete for a $2,500 scholarship offered by the state federation. If Maddox receives the state scholarship, he would compete for the national $25,000 scholarship from the NWTF, the federation’s Archie Burchard Jr. said. Following graduation, Maddox said he plans to attend Central Alabama Community College in Alexander City and study criminal justice and law enforcement with the ultimate desire of working for a law enforcement agency such as the FBI. “I started getting interested in a criminal justice degree about two years ago,” Maddox said. “This scholarship will definitely help me. I felt pretty proud of myself to receive this scholarship.”
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Dalton Maddox, a senior at Elmore County High School, was presented a $1,000 scholarship during the National Wild Turkey Federation’s annual banquet and fundraiser.
Attendees who filled the Wetumpka Civic Center had dinner and raised more funds for projects the organization supports. “We appreciate everybody coming out tonight,” Burchard said. “Tonight has
been very successful for everybody.” During the banquet and fundraiser, guests enjoyed a dinner of barbecue chicken and ribs, baked beans and potato salad while bidding on a wide range of items
available in a silent auction. Attendees also purchased raffle tickets to win hunting rifles and shotguns along with other hunting gear such as tree stands. Once the silent auction See MADDOX • Page B8
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Tallassee’s Madelyn Martin (15) makes a throw to first base while being backed up by Sinclair Cole during the Central Alabama Softball Classic in Alexander City on Saturday.
people in the box. She’s tall, she throws hard and we didn’t handle that well.” En route to the championship, Tallassee also picked up wins over Valley, 14-0; Pinson Valley, 1-0; Beauregard, 5-3; and Dadeville, 11-2, thanks in large part to its excellent hitting. The Tigers totaled 36 hits on the day, highlighted by Chloe Baynes who had a standout performance. She totaled nine hits and three RBIs and also had several highlightworthy plays in center field. “She’s special,” Love said. “She can cover a lot of ground out there, and she’s just very special. She’s fast too. She had a bunch of stolen bases and hits (Saturday).” Lexi Love also had a fantastic offensive day with seven hits and eight RBIs. Madelyn Martin and Sinclair Cole both collected four hits apiece; Martin drove in four runs and Cole plated three. Sally Shipman and Walters each had
three hits, and Belle Hayes and Anslee Osborne contributed two apiece. “One of the big things we had is we had a lot of two-out hits,” coach Love said. “We scored a lot of runs with two outs today. They did the job, they moved the runners over and we got sac bunts when we needed them. They were seeing it deep, they took a lot of pitches and they did good (Saturday).” In addition to its strong hitting, Tallassee also has a pair of pitchers who showed out on Saturday. Walters fired 14 total innings, and although she gave up 12 hits, she didn’t allow a single earned run. Only three unearned runs got past her all day. She also had a staggering 19 strikeouts to just one walk. Cole threw the other eight innings for the Tigers with 10 hits and only one earned run. She struck out five and walked one.
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Mentored hunts renew enthusiasm for hunters
If an 18-year-old believes he or she is ready to play in the NBA or WNBA, they should be allowed to hire an agent and enter the draft. Some teams will take the chance on the talent they see and some will not. In basketball and football, if an athlete hires an agent, they lose college eligibility and cannot return to play for the NCAA. However, in other sports such as hockey and baseball, the rules are different. Hiring an agent can get you in front of professional teams so you can have a better grasp of your draft stock. In the NHL and MLB Drafts, an athlete can get drafted and still decide to return to college, they just have to cut ties with the agent before the NCAA year begins. These athletes should have all of these options available to them. They are the reason the NCAA is bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars every year but they still don’t get a dime from it. We all want to pretend it is about the athletes but it never seems like the people in charge care about what is best for the players. And most of the fans just care about seeing results on the field or on the court. Make sure the best options are available to every athlete and allow them to make their own decision. It should not be any more difficult than that.
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closed, items including paintings and a turkey statue were put up for sale in a live auction, which featured 10 wooden turkey calls used as “tickets” for the final giveaway of the night, a top-of-theline shotgun featuring a specialized camouflage pattern and the National Wild Turkey Federation logo. With the money the event has raised in the past, the local chapter of the NWTF has held a special youth day at Fort Toulouse in June along with other hunting-based events for local children, including deer hunting and dove hunting with the state federation. Although Burchard could not estimate how much Thursday night’s event had brought in, he said the banquet and fundraiser were successful. “I think this event makes everybody feel like a part of our community,” Burchard said. “We are trying to pass our hunting heritage on to future generations.”
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One of the mantras adopted by those who love the outdoors is “pass it on,” which means introducing somebody to hunting, fishing or other outdoors activities when you get the opportunity. For the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division, one facet of that effort comes in the form of the Adult Mentored Hunting Program, where seasoned hunters take new or inexperienced adult hunters to one of WFF’s Special Opportunity Areas (SOAs) for a weekend in the woods hunting deer, turkeys or small game. What WFF has realized is the mentors, who have many years of experience in the hunting field, are benefitting from their role as much or more than the folks who are being mentored. One case in point is Bill Gray, supervising wildlife biologist in WFF’s District IV. The longtime WFF biologist was admittedly reluctant to head out just before Christmas to fulfill a mentor’s role at the hunt at the Portland Landing SOA. By the end of the weekend, Gray had a new outlook on the experience, and he had gained a new friend. “When you’ve hunted for a long time, you take a lot of things for granted,” Gray said. “You kind of lose the magic like when you were young and first learning to hunt. “Through the progression over the weekend, I got to watch him (James Hopper) learn and be excited and notice some things that were special to him.” One example was how excited Hopper became when he viewed a deer for the first time through a riflescope. “That was an eye-opener for me and how important this program can be and what a great opportunity we have to share our world as hunters,” Gray said. “Really for me, it was a way for me to bring back some of that wideeyed wonder and true joy. “It’s not that I don’t enjoy hunting anymore. I do. I love it but you get kind of numb to some of the things that are old hat to you. To these guys, it’s not. And to see how excited they get has renewed my interest in hunting and being able to usher more people across that threshold who may be interested in becoming a hunter.” On Hopper’s first hunt, the deer came in late and were too far for his comfort zone in terms of making a quality shot. On the second day, a buck came through about 35-40 yards from the blind but Gray had to make sure the deer met the minimum requirements for harvest. By the time Gray saw the deer, it was weaving through the trees and disappeared. Gray said Hopper couldn’t hide his disappointment on Sunday morning when the rest of the hunt’s participants were busy cleaning deer and feral hogs. “I said I’ve got to try to help this out,” Gray said. “We exchanged phone numbers. I got him down to my place the first week in January. He drove five hours south to my place in Barbour County.” One of those aspects of hunting that experience often mitigates turned into the deciding factor on the Barbour County hunt. “He came very close to taking a deer,” Gray said. “But he spooked the deer with the safety. He was using the safety like he was taught on the range. When he clicked that safety off, he said the deer trotted away and didn’t look back.
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WFF’s Drew Nix shows members of the Adult Mentored Hunt what properly placed game cameras can reveal about a hunting area.
I didn’t think to show him how to put some downward pressure on the safety and slide it forward real quietly. As much as he has to learn about being a good hunter, I have as much to learn about being a good mentor. “But he was very excited and not dejected about not getting a buck for the second time. I sent him home with some deer meat and they loved it.” Since then, Hopper purchased a deer rifle similar to the one he used on the mentored hunt to get ready for a new season. “Part of my experience was I felt like I made a new friend,” Gray said. “We weren’t able to get together before the season ended but I’m as excited about being there with him when he gets his first deer as he is about getting his first deer.” As unlucky as Gray’s hunter was, Drew Nix had the opposite experience on his mentored hunt at the Cedar Creek SOA. Nix, the WFF Forester, has been mentoring hunters for many years and has recruited quite a few people into the realm of license-buying hunters. Nix said those people he introduced to hunting included youth, adult non-hunters and physically disabled individuals. His hunter on the Cedar Creek SOA happened to be a person who was very familiar with firearms, a retired Army guy who now serves as a military contractor to teach marksmanship. “He was from rural New York and was very well-versed in firearms but he had never been hunting,” Nix said. “During his active duty, he never had the opportunity to pursue hunting.” On the adult mentored hunts, the person who draws the spot is allowed to bring a hunting companion. However, sickness forced the hunter’s companion to drop out. The hunter was then given permission to bring his 11-year-old son. On the first hunt, several deer came into one of the fields that had recently been constructed on the SOA, including one buck that met the criteria for permissible harvest. “I told the gentleman it was a legal buck, but I would wait because we were sitting on an exceptional piece of property,” Nix said. “He held his composure. After about 10 minutes, no other deer came in. He said, ‘If you’re telling me that’s a legal deer, I would like to go ahead
and harvest that deer.’” Nix said when the hunter got the rifle up he noticed a significant anomaly. “It cracked me up,” Nix said. “From the waist up, he was rock solid. From the waist down, it was like a small earthquake was going on. His legs were vibrating the whole blind. “But he took a good shot and made a clean kill. The deer ran out of the food plot about 5 yards. He and his son were really charged up and wanted to put their hands on the deer, but I told them to wait and see if a doe came in. Sure enough, he took a doe later that afternoon with another clean, ethical shot. They were just ecstatic.” The hunter even added another doe to his take before the weekend was over, which meant he went home with a cooler stuffed with venison. “When we were butchering the deer, the guy I mentored let me get finished with half of the first deer and then he took over,” Nix said. “He pretty well cleaned and quartered the rest of the deer. Then he called his buddies and had a processor lined up in Pelham before he left Cedar Creek.” Nix admitted to the group of hunters at dinner one night that he wasn’t too enthusiastic to miss rutting activity where he hunts but that he had a “great” time as a mentor. “The big takeaway from this is this used to be done by family members – dads, uncles or grandfathers,” he said. “In today’s world, we’ve kind of skipped a generation of folks who did not hunt and are not hunters. That seems so foreign to us. For someone who has been hunting for a long time, you may not see the value in doing this until you’ve done it.” Justin Gilchrist is the wildlife biologist in charge of the Dallas County SOAs, Portland Landing and Cedar Creek, and he is grateful to see a lot of hard work reach fruition during the mentored hunts. “For me, these hunts have been very rewarding,” Gilchrist said. “We put in a lot of time managing the resources and getting things ready for the hunts. Getting to mentor these people who have never been in the woods in their life is very special to me.” Visit www.outdooralabama.com/hunting/ adult-mentored-hunting-program for more information.
Baseball RBI groundout by Bailey Keller, setting up Hathcock to score the winning run on the close play. “We still have a long way to go but we have a lot of fight in our guys,” Clayton said. “They continued to battle tonight even after they went ahead. For our guys to stay focused and pull one out here at home, that’s a big win for us.” Tallassee started the game with a 6-0 lead after the first inning, doubling the amount of total runs it scored in the first two games of the season. The Tigers held on to a 7-1 lead but Handley came storming back with a big number in the top of the fourth inning. Starting pitcher Beau Baker allowed the first four batters to reach base and the Tigers turned to Dylan Turner with a five-run lead but with the bases loaded. Turner threw only 13 pitches but walked two more batters and the lead closed to 7-5. “We try to keep our guys in the lower pitch counts,” Clayton said. “It was kind of our plan to get Beau out of there. Dylan struggled a little bit but he’ll be back and we’re going to continue to run him out there in the future.” With the bases still loaded, Clayton put the ball in the hand of Gantt to get the Tigers out of the inning. Handley would eventually take an 8-7 lead but the damage was limited after Gantt got the final batter to line into a double play with two runners on base to end the inning. “He’s a senior so he’s been in those situations before,” Clayton said of Gantt. “When you get in games like this, with both teams
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Jackson Gantt loads up to swing during Tallassee’s 12-11 win over Handley on Monday night.
swinging the bat well, it’s just about which team can make one more play.” It would not take long for the Tigers to retake the lead. Hathcock had a two-run double in the bottom of the fourth inning which led to Tallassee taking a 10-8 run into the fifth frame. However, Handley battled back once again, scoring three runs across the fifth and six innings to go ahead. Gantt allowed only two earned runs but worked through three errors and stranded three Handley baserunners in scoring position during the final three innings.
“Jackson did great,” Clayton said. “He came out there and started throwing strikes. He did give up a couple of big hits but he hung in there and got us through the last inning.” After Tallassee went ahead in the bottom of the sixth, Gantt returned the mound to close out the game. With two runners on and just one out, Gantt got a strikeout and a groundout to end the game for his first victory of the season. “It’s definitely tough,” Gantt said. “But having everyone behind you telling you that they have your back, it really helps. It’s amazing to have your teammates behind
you in a game like that. It’s just even better to come out with a win.” Tallassee had a week off between games but responded well after dropping both games on opening day last week. The Tigers totaled only three hits in the two games but the team was happy to see the offense get going Monday against Handley. “We were very anxious, especially after how we played last Monday,” Gantt said. “Today was really big for us and we needed this win. I think it’s going to be a big confidence booster going forward.”