PREP NOTEBOOK: Union seeking football foe for Nov. 5 opening

By Staff
from combined reports
May 30, 2004
Several area high school football and basketball teams are still looking for opponents to fill out their 2004-2005 schedules.
Union High School head football coach Brad Breland is searching for a team to fill a Nov. 5 open date. That may be tough, since most teams are involved in division play at that time.
The Yellowjackets were left with that odd date because all of their games are division contests and each team in the league has one open date. However Union's open date comes on the last weekend of the season, making it difficult to fill.
Bay Springs is looking for a home or road game on Sept. 24, while Louisville High School is seeking an opponent for Oct. 15.
Newton High School is looking for basketball opponents. NHS is seeking boys and girls teams to take part in a tournament Jan. 6-8.
Austin Bishop
Sumter County's Drummond
signs with Alabama A&M
YORK, Ala. Sumter County High School forward Felicia Drummond has signed to play basketball for Alabama A&M next season.
Drummond led the Lady Wildcats in scoring at 21 points per game. She scored a season-high 35 points against R.C. Hatch. Drummond scored a total of 504 points this season, while averaging 14 rebounds per game. She shot an impressive 236-of-328 (72 percent) from the floor and 29-of-40 (73 percent) from the line this season.
She was named to the Class 3A Area 6 All-Area team as well as the Southwest Regional Class 3A All-Tournament team.
The Lady Bulldogs posted a 12-16 record in Altherias Warmley's second season as head coach.
Ricky Hazel
Daphne's White named
Mr. Baseball by ASWA
MOBILE, Ala. If you had told Patrick White before the season that he would be named the best player in the state at the end of the year, he would have assumed you were talking about football.
It's an easy assumption to make, considering that White, a quarterback, ran for 1,905 yards and threw for 1,488 for Daphne High last fall and earned a scholarship to West Virginia. But he finished third in the state's Mr. Football voting, as the award went to Pike County's Chris Nickson.
Turns out, White had another identity waiting for him: Mr. Baseball.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound outfielder and pitcher was selected as the top high school baseball player in the state by the Alabama Sports Writers Association after hitting .487 with 12 home runs and 48 RBIs and went 6-3 with a 1.58 earned-run average on the mound for the Trojans this season.
He is expected to be an early selection in next week's Major League baseball draft.
Joining White on the Super 12 is Pelham pitcher Shaun Sheehan, Charles Henderson pitcher Pete Van Horn, Cullman outfielder Clay Whittemore, Hokes Bluff third baseman Nick Wheeler, Isabella pitcher Ryan Ellison, Russell County outfielder Colby Rasmus, Central-Phenix City pitcher Paul Goins, Central-Florence pitcher Nathan Russ, Faith Academy shortstop/pitcher Josh Donaldson, Fultondale first baseman Chase Burch and Prattville third baseman Toxey Dorsett.
The Associated Press
Grissom's Thompson named
ASWA's Miss Softball
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Bob Jones High School softball coach Kent Chambers saw enough of Grissom sophomore pitcher Anna Thompson and her unusual pre-pitch motion.
Actually, Chambers saw way too much of Thompson.
During a regular season game against Bob Jones, Thompson struck out 19 straight through the first six innings, and in the regional tournament, the Grissom sophomore struck out 24 Bob Jones hitters in eight innings, facing one over the minimum.
Finishing the season with a new AHSAA record 613 strikeouts and a 44-8 record this past season, Thompson was named Miss Softball by the Alabama Sports Writers Association.
Thompson begins her pitching motion by slowly bending at the waist and almost touching the ground before unleashing a wicked variety of pitches.
Thompson's 613 strikeouts came in 282.3 innings, giving her more than two strikeouts each inning. She pitched 25 shutouts, 11 no-hitters and four perfect games, allowing 18 earned runs and walking only 21. She posted an ERA of 0.45.
The Associated Press