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Players, coaches and sports journalists took to Twitter on Sunday morning to react to the death of former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno.

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Softball: Chelsea 11, Mortimer Jordan 1 (5 inn.)
It was a loss in the last game of the season, but few Mortimer Jordan players were shedding tears of sorrow.

May 18, 2012
Softball: Mortimer Jordan 9, St. Paul's Episcopal 7
They had to hang on for dear life, but Mortimer Jordan has won its way into a sixth consecutive AHSAA Class 5A state softball championship game, thanks to a 9-7 victory over St. Paul's Episcopal.

May 18, 2012
Softball: Mortimer Jordan 10, Spanish Fort 6
Bailey Murphy ran into trouble midway through the game and was pulled out for the first time in the tournament, but by that time Mortimer Jordan had built an 8-0 lead that stodd up, as the Devils defeated Spanish Foet 10-6 to move on to the loser's bracket finals of the AHSAA Class 5A State Softball Championship at Lagoon Park.

May 18, 2012
Softball: Mortimer Jordan 6, Albertville 1
Haylie McCleney is not making an exit from her final state softball tournament quietly.

May 17, 2012
Softball: Chelsea 5, Mortimer Jordan 4 (11 inn.)
It was a marathon of mistakes and missed opportunities, but in the end, Allie Luster's two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning was the difference in a 5-4 win by Chelsea over Mortimer Jordan in a second-round winner's bracket game at the AHSAA Class 5A State Softball Championship.

May 17, 2012
Softball: Mortimer Jordan 8, Spanish Fort 0
Mortimer Jordan played "small-ball" to perfection, and pitcher Bailey Murphy was nearly perfect, striking out a career-high 15 batters and allowing one hit as the Blue Devils beat Spanish Fort 8-0 in the first round of the AHSAA Class 5A State Tournament at Lagoon Park.

May 17, 2012
Robert Carter: Steve Savarese, you are no James Spann
The call came in at the headquarters room at the North Central Regional Softball Tournament at about 2:30 or so Friday afternoon.

May 17, 2012
Jordan's Amanda Dean places fourth in state heptathlon
Amanda Dean of Mortimer Jordan placed fourth the AHSAA Track and Field Girls’ Heptathlon state championships, held Monday and Tuesday at Hoover.

May 16, 2012
Baseball: Tabernacle Christian falls in ACEA state championship game
The only loss that Tabernacle Christian’s baseball team suffered in Alabama Christian Education Association play was its worst, timing-wise.

May 16, 2012
Softball: Mortimer Jordan returns to state tournament
Of the five local high school softball teams to make it into the AHSAA North Central Regional Tournament last weekend, only one punched its ticket to the state championships in Montgomery — and it’s a team that know the directions to Lagoon Park very, very well.

May 14, 2012
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