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Girls basketball playoffs: Jordan beats #8 Hayden, Gardendale falls to Mountain Brook
— Haylie McCleney scored 26 points to lead Mortimer Jordan past eighth-ranked Hayden 55-49 in the semifinals of the Class 5A Area 11 Girls Tournament at Erwin Thursday night.
Brianna Nation scored 19 points, and Peyton Davis added 10 plus 14 rebounds and six blocked shots for Jordan. Krista Stricklin led Hayden with 20 points, and Tiffany Myrick had 11 points and 10 rebounds.
In Class 6A Area 12, host Mountain Brook took care of Gardendale by a 56-38 score. Haley Hardman led the Rockets with 16 points and eight rebounds.
The full stroies are in Saturday's edition of The North Jefferson News.
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Baseball: ‘Bulldog’ Myrick closes the deal
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Robert Carter: From LaLa to curling, by way of Twitter
Through some verbal gymnastics, this week’s column will start out with Larry Langford, veer off into social networking on the Internet, and end up with curling. Hang on. It could be a bumpy ride.
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Girls Tennis: Despite injured ace, Rockets sweep
Coaches tend to fret a bit when their team’s top player is out of action.
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Baseball: Wildcats already top last year’s win total
Playing baseball at Fultondale High just got to be fun again.
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Softball Roundup: Parr fans 15 in five-inning game as Tabernacle destroys Florence
Katie Parr’s 15 strikeouts accounted for all the outs as Tabernacle Christian routed Florence Christian 13-0 in the Torches’ ACEA softball season opener on Friday.
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Rockets zoom to county baseball title
The players say it’s the eye-black.
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Robert Carter: Admit it, you watched Olympic curling
It’s okay to ‘fess up. You watched all the typical Winter Olympic sports like hockey and skiing and bobsled, because there wasn’t much else on television other than American Idol, and frankly you’re not that big a fan of Ellen Degeneres.
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Spring sports roundup: Fultondale loses soccer opener
Fultondale’s boys soccer team won’t have an unblemished sectional record this year.
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Four Score: Quartet of local wrestlers take titles at Huntsville
As a group, local wrestlers may have had their best AHSAA State Wrestling Championships in a long time, if not all time.
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Mortimer Jordan 9-14, Oak Grove 10-7: Base-brrr - Devils brave chill to open season
Over the past two winters, the National Hockey League has held to outdoor games at baseball parks, notably Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston. For a few moments on Monday, a spectator could be forgiven if they thought the Mortimer Jordan baseball field was about to play host to another NHL Winter Classic.
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