Today's Sports

I couldn’t tell you the last time I took part in the March Madness fun, filling out a bracket and taking part in various tournament pools. It wasn’t that long ago that I hosted an annual tournament challenge among my Facebook friends, and while I never won my own pool, I took more pride in beating my brother and his best friend in Alaska.

New Albany’s Jazmine Spears ended her standout career with the Lady Bulldogs last month and for her efforts this season, was named the Region 2-4A Most Valuable Player.
For the second consecutive year, Spears led the team in all statistical categories; points (27.8), assists (4.4), blocks (1.9) and rebounds per game (14.9), helping the Lady Bulldogs to a regular season division title.
Also named to the All-Division team from New Albany was Erin Michael Carter. The junior averaged 6.4 points per game and 5.1 rebounds per game this season.

There are plenty of baseball and softball tournaments going on this week, as we lead up to the beginning of division play for our area teams.
This weekend, East Union, Ingomar and New Albany will be at the North Pontotoc Tournament, playing in six games total. The Lady Bulldogs (1-4) look to get back on the winning side, playing North Pontotoc and Tupelo, Walnut and Falkner. Ingomar will also take on North Pontotoc and Tupelo in the final games on Saturday, and East Union will play North Pontotoc and Ripley in the first two games of Saturday.

New Albany entered the Oxford Spring Break Tournament with a perfect 7-0 record, recently beating Itawamba and Marshall Academy over the weekend.
Taking on Concordia Lutheran out of Texas and Southaven on the first day of the tournament, New Albany dropped two games, each by the score of 6-0.
Against the Crusaiders, Adam Oller was impressive both on the mound and at the plate, finishing with two hits and an RBI and picking up the win for Concordia.