Please pray for MRA football coach Herbert Davis. He is battling an infection and is in ICU at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. MRA associate head coach/defensive coordinator Danny White will replace Davis as head coach while he is out. MRA opens the season Thursday at Parklane.
With his permission, we at Mississippi Scoreboard ask you to please pray for a Metro Jackson coach, Richland High head football coach J.J. Plummer, who has tested positive for the Coronavirus and is in St. Dominic hospital. Please pray for a speedy recovery.
Please pray for Jackson Prep head football coach Ricky Black and his wife Linda. The Blacks have both been admitted to regular hospital rooms to receive IV treatment for COVID 19. They are feeling better and improving everyday. Prayers for complete healing are appreciated.
Top baseball prospect Konnor Griffin (
@KonnorGriffin22
) has decided to graduate from Jackson Prep a year early
Story by Billy Watkins
Photos by Chris Todd
Please pray for Jackson Academy baseball player Sherrod Cauthen, who suffered multiple facial injuries affer being hit by a line drive while standing in the dugout of the JA-Hartfield Academy game, JA coach Parker Harris said. Cauthen was released from the hospital this morning.
Please pray for Madison-Ridgeland Academy football coach Herbert Davis, who is in the hospital with pneumonia. Davis led MRA to its third consecutive MAIS Class 6A state championship this past fall. He has won 220 games and six state titles in his 25-year head coaching career.
GAME. BLOUSES.
Houston High School throws the game-winning touchdown to knock off Tupelo High School 38-33
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Madison-Ridgeland Academy has scheduled a football game with Corinth High for next Friday night in a battle between two state championship teams for Corinth’s homecoming. MRA is the defending MAIS Class 6A state champions. Corinth is the defending MHSAA 4A state champions.
MRA LB Stone Blanton will be playing in the 2022 Under Armour All-American Game after getting an invite Friday after MRA’s 27-26 win over Trinity (Texas). Blanton, rated as the No. 5 junior inside linebacker in the country by ESPN, had 17 tackles vs. Trinity.
@mraathletics
We ask you pray for the families of two local baseball coaches who passed away from cancer this weekend. Gerald Peyton was head baseball coach at Yazoo City High and Steve Hancock was assistant coach at Magee High. Both touched many lives during careers as teachers and coaches.
.
@OleMissFB
's
@qaj4_
's Background Wouldn’t Allow Him To Be An Ordinary Freshman
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FRESHMAN KONNOR GRIFFIN ON PACE TO BE NEXT BASEBALL RISING STAR AT JACKSON PREP, RATED AS THE NO. 1 PLAYER IN THE COUNTRY IN CLASS OF 2025
BY ROBERT WILSON
Madison Central High alumnus Spencer Turnbull threw a no-hitter Tuesday night for the Detroit Tigers in a 5-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners.
Turnbull threw 117 pitches with nine strikeouts. Turnbull, a second-round pick in the 2014 by the Tigers, is in his third full season.
And that will do it, folks!
For the first time in school history, the
@GHSMavericks
beat Starkville thanks to this game-winning INT!
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Congrats to Puckett’s Holly Moncrief and Raymond’s Tony Tadlock on their 200th and 100th coaching victories. Moncrief has a 200-65 girls record in her ninth season at Puckett. Tadlock has a 100-22 boys record in his fourth season at Raymond.
Jackson Prep’s (
@JPsports
) Konnor Griffin (
@KonnorGriffin22
) Projected As No. 1 High School Player To Be Selected In 2024
@MLB
Draft
📰: by Robert Wilson
📸: Chris Todd/Robert Smith
Assistant Coach Shay Hodge (
@shayhodge3
) Brings Valuable High School, College, Pro Playing Experience And Training, Coaching Expertise To
@JacksonAcademy
Football Staff
MURRAH HIGH STAR AND JACKSON STATE SIGNEE AVAUGHN JOHNSON HAS BATTLED THROUGH FAMILY TRAGEDIES TO BECOME OUTSTANDING PLAYER AND STUDENT – BY TORSHETA JACKSON
AFTER NOT PLAYING FOR TWO AND HALF MONTHS, MIRIAM PRINCE SCORES 26 POINTS IN TRIUMPHANT RETURN, LEADS LEAKE ACADEMY GIRLS TO 66-56 VICTORY OVER LAMAR SCHOOL - BY ROBERT WILSON
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#LeakeAcademy
JACKSON PREP’S KONNOR GRIFFIN, THE NO. 1 RATED HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN BASEBALL PLAYER IN THE COUNTRY, STRIKES OUT SIX, THROWS PERFECT THREE INNINGS IN HIS DEBUT – BY ROBERT WILSON
PITCHER KONNOR GRIFFIN STRIKES OUT 11, LEADS FIVE-TIME DEFENDING MAIS CLASS 6A STATE CHAMPION AND NATIONALLY RANKED JACKSON PREP TO 6-2 WIN OVER MRA IN GAME 1 OF STATE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
By Robert Wilson
@JPsports
@msais
#MississippiBaseball
#Playoffs
Germantown’s Madison Booker started and had 8 points, 6 rebounds and 1 steal in 17 minutes and helped the USA Women’s U16 National Basketball Team to a 117-23 victory over Chile in their first game of the 2021 FIBA Americas U16 Championship Monday.
#USABWU16
@GHSMavericks
The All-Metro Team is sponsored by TWO MEN AND A TRUCK
Pearl coach Brian Jones, Brandon outfielder Kellum Clark take home Player of the Year and Coach of the Year on the All Metro Jackson baseball team.
The Leake Academy girls basketball team set a Mississippi record by making 20 3-pointers in an 87-40 victory over Memphis St. Agnes Academy Tuesday afternoon at Holiday Shootout at Marshall Academy in Holly Springs.
📸 Brad Bridges
📰 Robert Wilson
Murrah’s Avaughn Johnson scored 52 points Saturday against Greenville Weston. The 6-foot-6 JSU commit is the first Murrah player to score at least 52 points since Ronnie Henderson scored 58 in 1992. James Robinson, scored a school-record 66 points in 1988.
Madison St. Joseph’s (
@StJoeMadison
) Sophomore Star Quarterback
@EmilePicarella
Getting National Attention, Rated No. 7 In Country In Class Of 2025
📰 Robert Wilson
📸 Robert Smith/Austin Frayser/Dave Vowell
This weeks Junction Deli High School Football Player of the Week - Stone Blanton, Madison Ridgeland Academy
By Robert Wilson
@JunctionDeli1
@MRAAthletics
PHILIP PRINCE COMBINES HIS LOVE FOR JESUS AND BASKETBALL TO FORM CHURCH AT THE ARC IN HIS HOMETOWN OF PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI
BY ROBERT WILSON
@godfatherPrince
@ChurchattheArc1
#ministry
MRA’S JOSH HUBBARD RECEIVES NO. 17 POINT GUARD RANKING IN THE COUNTRY ON ESPN 2023 TOP 100 LIST, PLAYS WELL AGAINST NO. 1 RATED PLAYER IN THE COUNTRY IN ORLANDO - By Robert Wilson
Quarterback Jake Smithhart, who led Pearl to a 16-0 record and the MHSAA Class 6A state championship, has joined the Southern Miss team and had his first practice Tuesday. He was a student coach when first-year coach Will Hall asked him to join the team to help with depth at QB.
Mississippi Scoreboard is proud to present the 2020 PriorityOne All-Metro Awards.
See who was named as the top players in Metro Jackson Boys Basketball.
By Robert Wilson
Photography by Robert Smith, Chris Todd and Tim Ward/Pictures Are Ready
MRA coach Herbert Davis told Mississippi Scoreboard Saturday morning Trinity Christian will play MRA at Madison Friday at 7 p.m. instead of in Shreveport. Both schools have signed the contract. Trinity QB is Sheduer Sanders, son of NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders.
Germantown High running back and Georgia signee Branson Robinson, MRA linebacker and South Carolina signee Stone Blanton and Columbia High defensive lineman and Alabama signee Jehim Oatis represent Mississippi in the Under Armour All-American Game today at 1 on ESPN in Orlando.
Jackson Academy grad Conley Chinn got her start watching her sisters work hard and be successful for JA girls basketball coach Jan Sojourner. Chinn is now a star at Belmont.
MRA SCORES 50 ON PREP AGAIN, MRA’S DAVIS DALTON SETS MISSISSIPPI RECORD WITH 388 RECEIVING YARDS (with photo gallery)
Story by Robert Wilson
Photos by Hays Collins and Robert Smith
The 2022 PriorityOne Bank All-Metro Basketball Team.
Click the link for more info on Player and Coach of the year and see who was named as the top players for Metro Jackson Basketball.
By Robert Wilson
@P1Bank
Introducing your Metro Jackson Preseason Elite Eleven Girls Basketball Team presented by
@P1Bank
!
Click below to view the full team and story by Robert Wilson
Congratulations to
@L_rogers52
of the
@BrandonBulldogs
on being selected as this week's Metro Jackson Player of the Week!
Presented by
@JunctionDeli1
Click below to read the full story by Robert Wilson
📸 Jared Thomas
The college baseball world lost a legend yesterday.
Former
@SouthernMissBSB
coach Corky Palmer passed away on August 10th. Palmer, led the Golden Eagles to the 2009 College World Series as the head coach and is enshrined at the
@MsSportsHoF
.
Dakota Jordan, one of the most talented multisport athletes in Mississippi, is transferring from Canton Academy to Jackson Academy, JA athletic director and football coach Lance Pogue confirmed. He plans to play both football and baseball at Mississippi State.
GRACE MAXEY SCORES CAREER HIGH 19 POINTS, KEEPS SEASON ALIVE FOR DEFENDING OVERALL CHAMPION LEAKE ACADEMY GIRLS WITH 55-45 WIN OVER BROOKHAVEN ACADEMY
BY ROBERT WILSON
Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Southern Miss are all ranked in the Collegiate Baseball preseason Fabulous 50 rankings. Ole Miss is ranked fifth, MSU ninth and Southern Miss 29th. Ole Miss finished 16-1, MSU 12-4 and Southern Miss 12-4 in last year’s shortened season.