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Pinson Elementary School has a new sound system this year.

Hometown Bank helped provide the new sound system for the school, which physical education classes will use every

day. The sound system will also be used by the music teacher for plays throughout the year.

First-year Hewitt-Trussville head football coach Josh Floyd was the featured speaker at last week’s Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

Floyd talked a little bit about his style of football.

“Where most teams run about 50 plays in a game, we will run about 75 plays,” Floyd said. “We want to wear down our opponents. Everything we do is ‘Husky fast.’ We’ll be ‘basketball on turf.’”

While Floyd spoke at the Trussville Civic Center, attendees could see that through a window behind him the new artificial turf for Hewitt-Trussville Stadium was being delivered.

“It will take a while to install the turf, so be patient while that happens,” he said. “We hope the stadium will be completed in time to play some of our games there this season.”

Floyd said the most important things in his

house all begin with the letter F: faith, family and football.

“That’s what we do,” he said. “That’s what we’re about.”

Floyd talked about his five core values: be positive, compete in everything you do, responsibility, attention to detail and have more fun playing football than anyone else in Alabama.

Floyd said he hopes to change the culture at Hewitt-Trussville by building on the past and traditions. He said he demands excellence in

everything the players do, on and off the field.

He ended his speech by talking about the hurry-up, no-huddle offense and that “attacking style” defense Hewitt-Trussville will run.

“I think we’re going to be fun to watch,” he said.

The chamber also recognized its August Customer Service Award recipient as Nemeisha Webb from the AT&T store.

Contact Gary Lloyd at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @GaryALloyd.

From staff reports

Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center announced this week the addition of Kathleen E. McKeon.

McKeon’s specialties include hand, wrist and upper extremity orthopedic surgery, including sports injuries, fracture care, nerve surgery, joint reconstruction and microsurgery.

“We are excited to welcome Dr. McKeon to our practice,” said Jeffrey R. Dugas, an orthopedic physician with Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center. “Her talent and interest in hand, wrist and upper extremity injury and prevention will be vital to Andrews Sports Medicine’s patients and the many schools we work with around the region.”

McKeon’s research interests include sports-related and general injuries of the hand, wrist and upper extremity.

“I am excited about the opportunity to practice medicine in the city

(Birmingham) in which I was born,” McKeon said. “Being able to restore function to patients’ hands and give them back their ability to work, care for their families and participate in the activities they enjoy is immensely rewarding.”

McKeon earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale University, graduating with honors. While at Yale, she was a four-year varsity letterman

in springboard and platform diving. Following graduation, she earned her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, finishing with Alpha Omega Alpha honors for academic achievement. She completed a residency in orthopedic survey at Washington University in St. Louis and a fellowship in hand surgery at Vanderbilt University.

by Gary Lloyd

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Pinson Elementary gets new sound system

HT football coach tells chamber his style: ‘Basketball on turf’

Andrews Sports Medicine adds hand, wrist specialist

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With the sound system from left are physical education teacher Paige Shelnutt, music teacher Becky Gwin, physical education teacher Julie Ryan and physical education teacher Pam Sucharski.

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From left are Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce Board President June Mathews, Hewitt-Trussville head football coach Josh Floyd and Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Diane Poole.

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Paine Intermediate School Resource Officer Chuck Bradford is stressing safety at the school’s campus.

Bradford said in last week’s Paine Intermediate School e-newsletter that many parents arrive on campus between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to get in the car line to pick up their children.

“We have allowed this up to this date, but we are receiving many complaints about parents not paying

attention to students and teachers in the crosswalk between the school and playgrounds,” Bradford said in the e-newsletter. “It is imperative that if you are arriving early to sit in the carline, you must drive very slowly and cautiously to get to your parking slot.”

Bradford said parents shouldn’t block any crosswalks or park within 10 to 15 feet from the front or back of the crosswalk.

Bradford said that if conditions warrant a change, procedures will be required to be put in place to prevent injuries on campus.

“We will continue to monitor the situation and hopefully parents will understand the process and will see that all procedures are for the protection of our students and staff,” Bradford wrote. “We would appreciate everyone being patient and cooperative in the carline, especially the merging process, and working with us to keep this the safest campus with the best parental support in the state.”


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A trust is an often-used legal agreement in which

property is transferred by an owner, or trustor, to an individual, usually called a trustee, who holds the property for the benefit of the same or another party known as a beneficiary.

A trust can be formed while a person is living (living trust) or after a person is deceased (testamentary trust). A testamentary trust is usually formed in a person’s will to hold property for the benefit of certain beneficiaries. A

trust can also be revocable or irrevocable. A revocable trust can be revoked by the trustor after formation. An irrevocable trust cannot be dissolved after it’s formed unless the beneficiary

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I know I’m stating the obvious here, but allergies are the pits.

Thanks to either the season or the amount of dust we’ve stirred up around the house with furniture rearranging or both, I spent a good portion of last week snorting and wheezing while dealing with a runny nose and watery eyes, not to mention a scratchy throat and an occasionally pounding head.

Seriously, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve sneezed in the past 10 days or so, I could afford to remodel the kitchen by now. Thing is, I’ve yet to identify the person or entity willing to shell out that per-sneeze disbursement. But that

doesn’t mean I’ve stopped looking.

Antihistamines provided some relief. But when sinus pressure prompted me to take decongestants one stormy afternoon, my nose started dripping like a faucet. It was a seemingly endless cycle of which I quickly grew tired, and for someone who takes medication only when absolutely necessary, I found the pill-popping routine a huge aggravation. The alternative, however, was worse.

And the associated issues have been no picnic either.

Though everybody knows allergies aren’t contagious, the symptoms give an outward

impression of infectious disease. So to avoid being labeled Typhoid Mary by anyone I might come into contact with and being blamed for every cold or flu symptom for miles around, I weathered the symptoms at home alone for the better part of three days.

During that time, I had to bow out of three meetings and cancel two interviews, throwing me behind on work and volunteer commitments. Thus I’ll be spending this week and next playing catch-up. But I didn’t dare fill the off time by stirring up more dust around the house, and out of consideration for my husband, I also gave up cooking (OK, so maybe I used the sniffles

as an excuse for laying off housework and kitchen duty, but it seemed like the right thing to do as long as I could get away with it).

Matters grew a bit embarrassing when midway through the pastor’s sermon this past Sunday, I was compelled to make a quick exit out the back door of the balcony

when a nasty post-nasal drip tickle in my throat refused to go away, and a coughing fit ensued. And I’m relatively certain my young friend and pew-mate, Robin, could have done without the less-than-graceful manner in which I stumbled over her feet and into the aisle. Since I nearly landed in her lap in my haste to get outside the worship center before disrupting the service more than I already had, I doubt she lets me sit with her again next week.

All in all, though, it wasn’t so bad. I felt yucky for a few days, but I can’t really claim misery. And the forced bit of solitude actually allowed me to do some thoughtful planning

for the future. With all the facial tissue

I’ve come into contact with lately, I’m convinced that buying stock in Kleenex would be a wise investment, and now is the time. With the fall allergy season about to be in full swing, boxes will be flying off the store shelves, leaving stockholders well-positioned to make big money. One phone call to my financial advisor, and I could be set for life.

Now I’ve just got to figure out how to keep from blowing any profits I earn on Kleenex of my own.

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Albert Brewer be-gan the writing of George Wallace’s

political obituary by beat-ing him in the first primary in 1970. However, Wal-lace arose from the grave by playing his ever pres-ent race card. He trumped Brewer with the race issue in the primary runoff and came from behind to win, thus, resurrecting his politi-cal career. Wallace would be governor again for a third time.

Brewer had mortally wounded Wallace with his slogan, “Alabama needs a full-time governor.” It was a stake through the heart to the Wallace segregationist armor. Alabamians loved Wallace for fighting inte-gration but they also knew he had not been working full time as their governor. Instead, he had been using

the title to campaign for president although he was as about as likely to suc-ceed as Don Quixote tilt-ing at windmills. Brewer offered Alabamians the opportunity to have a full time, hands on, progressive governor.

Wallace survived the run-off by begging for forgive-ness for his absenteeism and promising fervently that all he wanted was to be governor. He pled 20 times a day during the 30-day runoff, knowing Brewer hit a sore spot. The people believed Wallace and felt sorry for their racist hero. After all, he had been tell-ing the whole country how refined we were in Alabama, that busing was wrong in Boston just like it was in Birmingham, that all federal judges were scally-wagging, carpetbagging,

integrating liars, and if one of those long-haired, anti-war protestors lay down in front of his car he would run him over.

Although Wallace bare-ly avoided the grave, he quickly forgot his promise to forego the national lime-light and presidential urge. He was on a plane to Wis-consin the next day run-ning for president in 1972. He campaigned nationwide

for two years and had done surprisingly well in the northern Democratic pri-maries, especially Wiscon-sin and Maryland. How-ever, it was in Maryland that a nut named Arthur Bremer gunned him down in a suburban parking lot. Wallace was shot several times, wounding his vital organs. The assassination attempt would have killed most people, but Wallace survived. However, he was crippled and left to live in a wheelchair with devastat-ing pain for the rest of his life.

Wallace’s absenteeism from Alabama for the past two years, from 1970-1972, only amplified and magnified the lack of in-terest he had given to be-ing governor. Brewer had come within an eyelash of beating him in 1970. The general consensus was Wallace couldn’t win re-election to governor in 1974. Brewer would prob-ably have beaten him. If not Brewer, then probably the young, progressive and flamboyant Attorney Gen-eral Bill Baxley or even Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley. All

three were probably ready to pull the trigger and take Wallace out. The Maryland shooting may have ruined Wallace’s life as far as his health was concerned but the bullets saved his po-litical life. He would have lost in 1974 but after the shooting the sympathy for Wallace was so strong no-body could have beaten him. Brewer, Baxley and Beasley realized it and all backed off.

The 1974 race for gov-ernor became simply a coronation for Wallace, who became governor for a fourth four-year period. His only opponent was a little-known state senator and land developer from Hunts-ville named Gene McLain. The Wallace team didn’t even have to attack him much. When they did he re-acted like a crybaby, mak-ing him less potent than he already was. The only votes McLain received were anti-Wallace votes.

The only story of 1974 was that Beasley, who’d been elected lieutenant governor as Wallace’s can-didate in 1970, had shown a surprising impatience and

lack of respect for Wallace during Wallace’s recupera-tion and also during Wal-lace’s entire four-year term. Beasley felt the backlash in his re-election race for lieu-tenant governor, when he trailed in the primary to Do-than businessman Charles Woods. However, Beas-ley escaped with a narrow come-from-behind victory in the runoff. Baxley, who was more popular, won an easy re-election to a second term as attorney general. Brewer simply continued his private law practice.

However, all three knew that Wallace couldn’t suc-ceed himself again in 1978. Sympathy or not, Wallace was prohibited by the Con-stitution from running for a fifth term in 1978. The three Bs would be ready for the 1978 governor’s race.

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GCW Wrestling is the first Saturday each month at 7 p.m. at the Palmerdale Homesteads Community Center. The Mark Taylor Band performs the third Saturday each month, clogging and line dancing, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Georgiana Davis Masonic Lodge meetings

Georgiana Davis Masonic Lodge No. 338 in Trussville meetings are at 7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday each month. Practice nights are on the first and third Monday. Family nights are on the fifth Monday of the month. The lodge is at 190 Beechnut St. in Trussville. For more information, call Bryan Stover at 205-706-5220.

Springville Military Order of the Purple Heart meetings

The Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 2213, Springville, meets at the Smokin Grill at 85 Purple Heart Boulevard on the first Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m.

Cahawba Art Association meetings

The Cahawba Art Association meets monthly on the second Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Trussville Public Library.

PHCC Labor Day BBQ Sept. 1The Palmerdale Homesteads

Community Center is having a Labor Day barbecue Sept. 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, visit www.palmerdale.org.

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The Trussville City Board of Education

will meet Sept. 15, Oct. 20, Nov. 17 and Dec. 15. All meetings are at 6 p.m. with public work sessions at 4:30 p.m. The Oct. 20 meeting will include a board retreat that begins at noon. All meetings are at the Central Office on North Chalkville Road.

Trussville Muscle and Fitness Classic Sept. 6

The first annual Trussville Muscle and Fitness Classic will be Sept. 6 at the Trussville Civic Center. To register or for more information, visit www.trussvillemuscle.com.

Capps, Wallace to perform at HTHS Sept. 9

Jackson Capps and Skylar Wallace will perform country music Tuesday, Sept. 9 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Hewitt-Trussville High School Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10. For more information, email [email protected].

Kurly Q’s Square Dance Club open house

Kurly Q’s Square Dance Club will have an open house Sept. 8 and Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. to introduce Western style square dance lessons. The open house is in Purser Ray Hall in St. Clair County Middle School at 100 First Ave. in Odenville. For more information, call 205-467-7907 or 205-525-5128.

‘The Final Tour’ of former high school Sept. 21

Trussville City Schools has announced that it will host “The Final Tour” of the historic school building on Parkway Drive on Sunday, Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. Trussville City Schools is calling all alumni of the old high school to come for a tour of the first floor before remodeling begins.

Friends of the Poor Walk Sept. 27The second annual Friends of the Poor

5K Walk/Run to benefit the needy and suffering in the Birmingham-Tuscaloosa area will be Saturday, Sept. 27 at Veterans’ Park in Hoover. Registration is from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. The 5K run begins at 8:30 a.m. and the walk begins at 9 a.m. For more information, visit http://www.svdpusa.net/walk/1052 or call Judy Atchison at 205-616-6537.

Alabama Butterbean Festival Oct. 3-4

The Alabama Butterbean Festival will be Oct. 3-4 in Pinson. The event features a pageant, fireworks show, 5K race and one-mile fun run, car show, carnival, arts and crafts, food vendors, an entertainment stage, a homemade quilt raffle and the world’s largest pot of baked beans. For more information, visit www.alabamabutterbeanfestival.com.

Republican Women of Trussville upcoming speakers

The Republican Women of Trussville has announced its upcoming speakers. All meetings are the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. at Grayson Valley Country Club. On Sept. 4, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange will speak. On Oct. 2, State House District 44 Rep. Danny Garrett will speak, followed by Alabama State Senate District 17-elect Shay Shelnutt on Nov. 6. The club Christmas party is Dec. 4, and Sen. Slade Blackwell will speak Jan. 8, 2015. On Feb. 5, 2015, the speaker will be Alabama Federation of Republican Women President Frances Taylor. For more information, visit www.rwot.com or email [email protected].

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Maple Leaf Run in Trussville Oct. 25

The 2014 Maple Leaf Run is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 25 in downtown Trussville. The 5K begins at 8 a.m. and a kids’ run is at 9 a.m. For more information, visit www.trussvillechamber.com or call 205-655-7535.

Pinson Insanitarium in September, October

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Trussville Public Safety Committee meetings

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Hartselle was able to get a little revenge Friday night.

The Tigers saw their season end at Willie Adams Stadium last November when Pinson Valley kicker Saul Rios curved a 19-yarder through the uprights to secure the playoff win in overtime.

There was no such glory for the young kicker or any of his teammates Friday night in Hartselle as the Indians dropped their season opener, 27-21.

Pinson Valley did show a lot of spark offensively, especially in the first half (the Indians’ three scores came from 35, 33 and four yards out). But the second half got sloppy for the inexperienced unit.

Junior quarterback Errius Collins, who was starting for the first time, turned the ball over on his first two possessions of the second half. The first one was a fumble that Hartselle linebacker Connor Landers scooped up and went 40 yards for the score, which locked the game at 21 early

in the third quarter. On the ensuing drive, Collins found cornerback Jaylan Jackson for the first of two interceptions.

The Hartselle senior really made his mark on this game. On the third play of the third Tiger drive quarterback Jake Tiffin threw it short to the speedster and watched him go 84 yards for the touchdown, making it 14-7 in favor of the home team with 3:14 remaining in the first quarter.

Jackson would later put an end to Pinson Valley’s final drive. He stepped in front of another Collins pass with four minutes remaining in the game

and Hartselle leading by six. Three minutes later, Jackson put the game on ice with a highlight reel rush of 11 yards. The back-and-forth scamper moved the chains with only 60 seconds remaining.

There was much inexperience on the field for the Indians, including first-year offensive coordinator Jon Clements, who looked promising in his first game.

Clements dialed up several first-half passes that had the host team scratching their heads. One of them came late in the first quarter when Collins connected with a streaking Trey Underwood for a 35-yard score.

Two drives later Clements was at it again. Collins found a wide-open Desmond Williams in the end zone on a beautiful play action rollout to tie the game at 14 with 8:40 remaining in the half.

“Having Nick Gibson in the backfield always makes play action look really good,” Clements said. “Nick was very explosive early so we tried to go with the play action boot leg.”

Pinson Valley looked

golden after putting together a six-play scoring drive 17 seconds before the break. Gibson finished the drive with a four-yard rush off the left side, but it was the sophomore rusher that did most of the work.

Torrey Hendrix ran the ball three straight times to start the drive before Collins burned an eager

defense with a 52-yard strike to Williams. The drive gave the Indians a 21-14 halftime advantage.

In the fourth quarter, Hartselle fumbled at the 5-yard line, but center Mykel Welch fell on it to give Hartselle the game-winning touchdown.

Collins finished the game 8-for-13 for 187 yards,

two touchdowns and two interceptions. Gibson ran the ball 26 times for 115 yards and a score. Hendrix got involved with eight carries for 37 yards.

“I’m not disappointed with our guys,” Clements said. “I told them if anyone needs to be mad it’s me and I’m not so we just need to learn from our mistakes.”

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This little Piggy went to, well, wherever he wanted.

Clay-Chalkville junior quarterback Tyrell Pigrome, called “Piggy” by teammates, stole the show Saturday against Niceville (Fla.) at Hoover High School’s Buccaneer Stadium.

Pigrome, in his first career start, led the Cougars to a resounding 44-23 win over Niceville. Pigrome completed 11-of-14 passes for 191 yards and a touchdown, while rushing 16 times for 213 yards and three scores.

“He did his thing,” Clay-Chalkville senior cornerback Kam Prewitt said of Pigrome.

Asked if he was surprised by Pigrome’s offensive outburst, Prewitt shook his head.

“Yeah, we knew,” he said.Piggy is no longer a secret.“We showed that we were

dominant,” Pigrome said. “That’s all it was.”

Pigrome credited former Clay-

Chalkville QB Hayden Moore with some of his success.

“(Hayden) helped me with all my reads,” Pigrome said. “When I first came in I was lost, but he helped me through it.”

On the bus ride from Clay-Chalkville High School to Hoover earlier Saturday, Pigrome listened to rap music. He also used his cell phone to watch highlights of former Auburn and current Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, and Ohio State’s Braxton Miller. He was visualizing what he wanted to do on the field.

Clay-Chalkville started fast. Pigrome found junior wide receiver T.J. Simmons for a 51-yard touchdown on the opening drive of the game. Pigrome later in the first quarter scampered 15 yards for a TD.

After a Patrick Millican 24-yard field goal put the Cougars up 17-0 early in the second quarter, Pigrome broke through the Niceville line and bolted 84

yards for a TD. A missed extra point kept the Clay-Chalkville lead at 23-0.

At the 4:26 mark in the second quarter, Niceville got on the board when quarterback Drew Frederic rushed two yards for a touchdown. The Cougars

answered less than two minutes later, when Simmons ran 35 yards on a reverse play.

Niceville came ready to play in the second half. Eli Stove broke free for a 63-yard touchdown run and caught the two-point conversion pass from Colby Tuthill, making it a 30-15 game.

Clay-Chalkville senior running back Terrelle West then broke his own long run, swerving around defenders and bulldozing over one for a 44-yard touchdown, the No. 1 play on SportsCenter over the weekend. On Niceville’s next drive, Tuthill found Jordan Tinder for a two-yard touchdown, and Tuthill connected with Aaron Willis for the two-point conversion, cutting the deficit to 37-23 with 9:12 left to play.

Just over a minute later, Pigrome throttled it up again, running 49 yards down the right sideline to put the game away.

“I knew Ty had a high motor, and I was very comfortable (with him) before the game,” West said.

West finished with 118 rushing yards and a touchdown on 13 carries. He also caught five passes for 45 yards. Simmons caught two passes for 59 yards and a score, and also rushed for a score. Defensively, senior lineman LaDarius Harris had two tackles for loss. Prewitt had two interceptions — he had two all of last season — and nearly a third.

“I played with the mindset that when the ball is in the air, it’s mine,” Prewitt said.

Clay-Chalkville head coach Jerry Hood hopes to build on Saturday’s success.

“This is the jamboree on steroids because it’s on ESPN, but the bottom line is this has nothing to do with playoffs,” Hood said. “If we don’t get better next week, this is for nothing.”

What did the win show the state and the nation?

“We’re a powerhouse,” West said. “We really can step up to the stage, and we’ll be ready (this) week. That’s all we’ll focus on — Friday.”

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Pinson Valley drops season opener at Hartselle


Husky fast, indeed.Hewitt-Trussville on

Friday ran past Fairfield, 31-6, and Center Point, 21-8, in its jamboree. Both games were one half each.

“Both sides of the ball we played pretty fast,” said first-year Hewitt-Trussville head coach Josh Floyd. “I think our pace on offense was really good at times, sometimes it needed to get a little bit better.”

In the game against Fairfield, Hewitt-Trussville scored on five of its seven possessions. Hewitt-Trussville ran 32 offensive plays in the two quarters. Fairfield also ran 32 plays.

The Huskies’ opening drive covered 13 plays and 80 yards, capped by a Zac Thomas three-yard touchdown pass to Devin Reed. Thomas ran 28 yards for a touchdown on the next possession to put Hewitt-Trussville up 14-0.

A 23-yard field goal by T.J. McGettigan gave Hewitt-Trussville a 17-0 lead after the first quarter. Freshman Davis Burgin found Grayson Cash for a 34-yard TD early in the second quarter, giving the Huskies a 24-0 lead. After a Fairfield lost fumble, Chandler Stubbs ran it in on the next play for Hewitt-Trussville from three yards out. The final score came when a Hewitt-Trussville fumble led to a fumble

return for a touchdown for Fairfield with 43 seconds left in the half.

In the half, Thomas completed 8-of-9 passes for 112 yards and a touchdown. He rushed three times for 37 yards and a TD. Defensively, Bailey McElwain had three tackles and a forced fumble, while Jalen Williams had two tackles and a fumble recovery.

In the game against Center Point, Hewitt-Trussville got behind early, thanks to a Keilan Knight connection with Sherman Starks on a 20-yard touchdown. On the same drive, Starks hauled in a 57-yard reception. The Eagles made good on the two-point conversion.

H e w i t t - T r u s s v i l l e answered late in the first quarter when Cash rumbled five yards for a touchdown. Early in the second quarter, Thomas found Reed for

a seven-yard score to give the Huskies a 14-8 advantage. One minute later, Thomas found Noah Igbinoghene for 15 yards. Igbinoghene fumbled, but

Doston Nichols scooped it up and ran 36 yards for the TD.

In the Center Point game, Thomas completed 9-of-14 passes for 92 yards and a touchdown. Cash rushed six times for 42 yards and a score.

“I like how we responded,” Floyd said of the Center Point game. “You never know until you get out here. A big part of this game is how you respond to adversity. We at least bounced back and scored some points.”


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Hewitt-Trussville head football coach Josh Floyd and players get ready to take on Fairfield in a jamboree game Friday.

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How do you prepare for a team with a first-year coach?

You trace back your ties.Second-year Gardendale head

football coach Matt Plunkett spent some time recruiting the northwest Arkansas area when he was a Division II coach. He drove every interstate, saw teams from Bentonville, Ark., to Little Rock, Ark. He saw Shiloh Christian, where first-year Hewitt-Trussville head football coach Josh Floyd used to coach. Plunkett knows Floyd’s hurry-up, no-huddle offense.

“Very quality opponent early,” Plunkett said. “That could be a huge game for us.”

Gardendale is still a Class

6A team, in Region 6. Hewitt-Trussville is now a Class 7A, Region 3 team. The two were in the same region a season ago, and Hewitt-Trussville drilled the Rockets 33-14, a big win that ultimately led to the Huskies making the playoffs and Gardendale being left out.

Plunkett said there’s a lot of excitement surrounding Hewitt-Trussville football right now, with a new coach and system.

“They’re going to be great competition,” he said.

Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Friday at Jack Wood Stadium.

Hewitt-Trussville looked impressive in its jamboree last week, defeating Fairfield 31-6 and Center Point 21-8. Gardendale shut out Mortimer Jordan 21-0 in its jamboree. Floyd said Gardendale is big in

the trenches.“They’re a good football team,”

Floyd said of Gardendale. “It’s going to present a big challenge because their O-line, D-line are pretty stinking big.”

Both teams went 5-5 in the regular season last year. Starting out a season on a winning note is key, said Floyd, who could earn win No. 1 at Hewitt-Trussville and win No. 100 overall Friday.

“Obviously, just winning the next game would be awesome,” he said.

Gardendale’s coaches and players will feel the same way.

“We’ll be ready come Aug. 29,” Plunkett said.



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Minor may have a major problem.

Class 6A No. 2 Clay-Chalkville played on national television Saturday, and defeated one of the top programs in Florida by three touchdowns. The Cougars clicked on all cylinders despite not playing against another opponent since May’s spring game. There was no nervousness from the Cougars, who defeated Niceville 44-23 behind strong showings from every unit that stepped on

the field.Minor is opening up its

season at Cougar Stadium at 7 p.m. Friday, the first game on new artificial turf. First-year Minor head football coach George Bates said that Minor, which posted a 4-6 record last season, returns nine total starters. Senior Heywood Spencer, a safety last season, will likely line up at quarterback. Senior cornerback Maurice Smitherman, a Mississippi State commitment, will likely return kicks and may see the offensive side of the ball, too.

Despite coming off an ESPNU-televised

game, don’t expect a hangover game from Clay-Chalkville, which has too much excitement surrounding a home opener on a new field.

“If we don’t get better (this) week, this is for nothing,” Cougars head coach Jerry Hood said after the win over Niceville.

Senior running back Terrelle West admitted the win showed the state and nation that Clay-Chalkville is a “powerhouse.” But being a powerhouse means showing up to play every week.

“That’s all we’ll focus on — Friday,” West said.

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Clay-Chalkville debuts on new turf against Minor

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The new artificial turf at Cougar Stadium

It’s the only blemish on an otherwise perfect record a season ago.

Pinson Valley 25, Oneonta 18.

It’s the lone loss Oneonta suffered last season, en route to a 14-1 season and Class 4A state championship win over Charles Henderson. The loss to the Indians came this week a season ago.

Class 4A No. 5 Oneonta has its chance at redemption Friday, when

it plays Pinson Valley (0-1) at Willie Adams Stadium. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

Pinson Valley gutted out the upset victory last season, running just 43 plays to Oneonta’s 70. The Redskins totaled 18 first downs, while the Indians compiled just seven. Pinson Valley’s defense, however, forced four turnovers that led to its first 18 points.

In the game last season, Pinson Valley running back Nick Gibson carried just 14 times for 39 yards and a touchdown. The

Indians will need more production than that Friday if they want to get their first win. Last week against Hartselle, the offense seemed to stand out in offensive coordinator Jon Clements’ first game.

The Pinson Valley defense will also need to stand tall in a game that feels like it could take on the identity of a shootout.


by Gary Lloyd

Editor

Pinson plays host to No. 5 Oneonta on Friday

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