Union County

History is set to be made once more for a Union County football team, and it will again take place at Hatley.

The start of the 2012 cross country season is still a month away, but area runners gathered this week at East Union, preparing for the upcoming year.

Fifty local athletes spent the week at the school, where they worked with coaches, both in the classroom and outdoors, something East Union head coach Nathan McLellen feels will get the runners excited for the season.

The timing is finally right for Josh Blythe, who takes over the girls’ basketball team at East Union.

Blythe pursued the job before eventually taking the slow pitch softball position last school year. With the departure of Shelly Parman to Nettleton, the school choose to stay in house, with Blythe taking the position.

The Urchins and Bulldogs are set for this week’s Northeast Mississippi Coaches Association for Better Baseball championships after taking part in regional action last Thursday and Friday at East Union.
Both teams opened with losses on Thursday, as New Albany fell 8-3 to Baldwyn, and East Union could not hold on to its early lead, falling 15-3 to Mantachie.
The Bearcats took an early 2-0 lead on New Albany, which was answered in the bottom of the first, as Jake McDonald plated one run off of his triple, and he later scored on a sacrifice fly out by Grant Hogue.