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December 30, 2013 - January 8, 2014 |
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3 from Clay-Chalkville, 1 from Pinson
Valley make All-State team
Game in Montgomery on Dec. 14, completing 7-of-13 passes for 95 yards and
two touchdowns in Alabama’s 21-17 win.
Clay-Chalkville offensive lineman Josh
Davis was named as an ASWA honorable
mention player in Class 6A.
Pinson Valley junior running back Nick
Gibson made the ASWA All-State team
in Class 5A. Gibson, The Trussville Tribune’s Pinson Valley offensive player of
the year, rushed 293 times for 2,205 yards
and 27 touchdowns this season. Gibson
also caught 25 passes for 266 yards and
three scores. Gibson was widely recognized for two games this season. He rushed
for 460 yards and six touchdowns against
Mortimer Jordan, and for 369 yards and
six more scores against Moody.
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
Four area football players were named
to Alabama Sports Writers Association
All-State football teams last week.
Three are seniors from Clay-Chalkville
and one is a junior from Pinson Valley.
Wide receiver Brian Clark and quarterback Hayden Moore made the Class 6A
team from Clay-Chalkville.
As a senior, Clark caught 48 passes for
869 yards and 13 touchdowns. He led
Clay-Chalkville in all three receiving cat-
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file photo by Ron Burkett
Clay-Chalkville senior quarterback
Hayden Moore put up big numbers this
season.
file photo by Ron Burkett
Pinson Valley junior running back Nick
Gibson was one of the top backs in the
state this season.
file photo by Ron Burkett
Clay-Chalkville senior wide receiver Brian
Clark looks for running room against
Hewitt-Trussville this season.
egories. No other Cougar player had more
than 19 receptions. He also totaled 263
punt return yards and 59 kick return yards.
Moore, a Cincinnati signee, was selected to the Class 6A team as an athlete. Florence’s Kendrick Doss, an Ole
Miss commitment, was selected as the
top quarterback. Moore this season completed 126-of-196 passes for 1,966 yards
and 25 touchdowns to one interception.
He also rushed 82 times for 677 yards and
seven touchdowns. Moore played in the
Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Football
file photo by Ron Burkett
Clay-Chalkville senior offensive lineman Josh Davis (63) blocks during a game this
season.
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Coach’s consistency key to building ClayChalkville hoops program
by Erik Harris
For the Tribune
The bell echoed through
the halls of Bragg Middle
School 12 years ago. For
most 12- and 13-year-olds,
it was the sound of freedom that inevitably turned
them loose at 3 p.m. But
for the members of the
seventh- and eighth-grade
football team, it meant a
short, breezy walk down
the sidewalk that ended at
the beginning of a long,
hard day.
Before the season’s first
full-pads practice, coach
Daniel Foy entered the
humble locker room at
Gardendale High School
where he saw two types
of kids -- wisecracking
eighth-graders ready to
daunt every youngster
that crossed their path and
wide-eyed preteens fresh
out of elementary school.
The young coach addressed his divided team
and spoke some simple
words that made an extraordinary impact. In a
strong but reassuring voice
he said, “For you new guys,
I want you to understand
that this is real football. It’s
not like the stuff you see
on TV where every hit is
a bone crusher that sends
helmets flying all over.”
Regardless of its truth,
the speech had a calming
effect that made even the
youngest player feel safe
and stable. This was the
same stability that was
file photo by Ron Burkett
Clay-Chalkville head basketball coach Daniel Foy calls
out to his players during a November game against
Hewitt-Trussville.
much needed at nearby
Clay-Chalkville
High
School several years later.
Foy, in his third season as
the varsity boys basketball coach, has closed the
somewhat revolving door
of coaches that have sped
through the program, three
coaches over a six-year period.
“It’s been a revolving
door of coaches and you
can’t build a program that
way,” Foy said.
Foy made the jump into
high school coaching in
2004. He made stops at
Moody and Mortimer
Jordan high schools before accepting the ClayChalkville job in time for
the 2011 season.
The Cougar basketball
program wasn’t the brightest star in the sky upon
Foy’s arrival. Prior to Foy’s
arrival, Clay-Chalkville’s
last winning season was the
2001-2002 season, according to the Alabama High
School Historical Society.
In Foy’s first season, ClayChalkville went 20-9. Last
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season, the Cougars posted
a 24-7 record, reaching the
Class 6A Northeast Regional semifinals at Jacksonville State, its third trip
to the regional tournament
in school history. It lost 6140 to Woodlawn in 2000
and fell 77-48 to Parker in
2001.
“Any good coach is going to do a good job if they
stay at a place for a while
and they have good players,” Foy said. “It’s about
staying there, laying the
foundation and getting
kids to cycle through your
system.”
The Sweet 16 loss to
eventual state champion
Mountain Brook last season has been hard to recover from, as Foy saw
seven seniors take their
final shots on the Jacksonville State floor. Even with
the average start this year’s
team is off to, Foy is optimistic about what can be
built.
“We’ve really started
a new cycle,” Foy said.
“There are two kids back
off last year’s varsity and
the rest of them played
JV. I really like this team,
but (because of their inexperience) they make a lot
of mistakes. We’re going
to get better as the season
goes along.”
R.J. Pressley, Vidalo
Kabiya and Brian Clark are
the only three seniors. Foy
sees tremendous potential
in his new-look Cougars
and expects steady improvement as the season
moves forward.
It doesn’t matter what
sport or at what level, a key
component to coaching is
how the coach communicates with his or her players. Does the coach bring
out the best or the worst in
their players? Foy seems to
be the right guy for the job.
“The longer I’m here,
the better it’s going to be, I
hope,” he said.
by Gary Lloyd
The Hewitt-Trussville
wrestling team last week
won the Fayette County
Christmas Tournament in
Georgia.
Hewitt-Trussville won
the same tournament last
year.
Hewitt-Trussville
has
now won all four tournaments in which it has participated this season.
The team wrestles Saturday in the Soddy Daisy
Showdown in Tennessee,
a tournament in which
Hewitt-Trussville placed
fourth last year.
Hewitt wins Fayette
County wrestling
tournament
Editor
photo courtesy of Hewitt-Trussville Athletics
The Hewitt-Trussville varsity wrestling team
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Trussville girls win Hewitt boys set to play
in Metro Tournament
Jingle Bell Jam
by Gary Lloyd
For The Tribune
A third-grade girls basketball team from Trussville recently won the Jingle Bell Jam tournament.
The girls beat Mountain
Brook 21-7 to claim the
tournament championship.
The team had beaten Briarwood 34-2 to reach the
tournament’s championship game.
The team consists of
Rubie Simon, Reagan
Humphries, Landry Watson, Katherine Flannery,
Hannah Dorsell, Kenleigh
Cahalan and Brooklyn Allison.
The team is coached by
Ted Flannery, a seventhgrade math teacher at
Hewitt-Trussville Middle
School.
Editor
The Hewitt-Trussville varsity boys basketball team will play in the Metro Tournament at Homewood this week.
The Huskies (12-4) open the tournament
Thursday at 6 p.m. against Bessemer City.
Should Hewitt-Trussville win, it will face
the winner of the Homewood-Thompson
game Friday at 7:30 p.m. Should the Huskies lose in the opening game, it will face
the Homewood-Thompson loser at 4:30
p.m. Friday.
Other teams participating in the tournament include Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa, Briarwood, Vestavia Hills and Pelham.
The championship game is Saturday at
7:30 p.m.
The Hewitt-Trussville junior varsity
and freshman boys basketball teams are
also participating in the tournament. The
junior varsity team plays Spain Park at
11:30 a.m. Thursday. The freshmen play
Vestavia Hills at 9 a.m. Thursday.
file photo by Ron Burkett
Hewitt-Trussville senior forward DeMarcus
Kelly (1) defends Clay-Chalkville junior
forward Martin Reed (31) in a game
earlier this season.
Semi-pro football coming
to Pinson for 2014 season
mer players from the University of Alabama, Auburn University, UAB and
more, Moore said.
The team plays in the
National Developmental
Football League, Moore
said. The team last season
played in Pelham as part
of the Xtreme South Football League. Moore said he
thinks the team may play at
Pinson Valley High School
for the next three seasons.
“We’re bringing bigtime football to this whole
area,” Moore said. “We’re
by Gary Lloyd
Editor
submitted photo
The third-grade girls basketball team, including coach Ted Flannery. Top row from left
are Rubie Simon, Reagan Humphries, Landry Watson and Katherine Flannery. Bottom
row from left are Hannah Dorsett, Kenleigh Cahalan and Brooklyn Allison.
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