New Albany Bulldogs

Youth have stepped up for this year’s top county cross country teams. Competing in the Union County championships on Saturday at East Union, Myrtle girls and East Union boys took home top honors in the varsity races.

For the Lady Hawks, this was the best race of the year, by far, according to their coach, Chris Greer. Led by Kitana High, who was the overall top female runner with a time of 16:33, the Lady Hawks had seven runners finish in the top 15.

On a night where the seniors where honored, it was the message from one that motivated his teammates.

Facing the two-time defending state champions in a pivotal division match-up, Austin Howard had one statement he made to his fellow seniors before facing Lafayette.

“I will always remember while standing on the sideline with the captains, Austin kept saying it’s our night,” Bulldogs quarterback Spencer Day said. “We bought into it, and we didn’t want to go against them any other way.”

Lafayette and Potts Camp travel to Union County this weekend for the home finalies for New Albany and East Union.
The Commodores, two-time defending state champions in 4A, will take on the Bulldogs with the winner in control for the division title in Region 2-4A. Lafayette enters the game at 7-1, having only lost to Oxford earlier this season. For New Albany, Coach Ron Price is proud of last week’s performance at North Pontotoc and hopes to see that same effort this week.

Boston Newsome challenged himself over the last week, and that paid off for the Bulldogs in its 56-13 win at North Pontotoc on Friday.

The senior rushed for 171 yards against Senatobia last week, but had an uncharacteristic four fumbles. Throughout the last week he worked to fix that mistake, and he responded, finishing with 306 yards on 36 carries and five touchdowns against the Vikings.