Benjamin Russell started the 2020 baseball season on a positive note, getting timely hits and solid pitching to defeat Wetumpka, 5-3, Saturday.
Although Benjamin Russell walked away from the Purple and Gold softball tournament in Tallassee without a victory, the Wildcats still had some things to be proud of.
Last Friday, Benjamin Russell’s Brooklyn Edwards officially signed her National Letter of Intent to play volleyball at Southern Union State Community College.
When a team is coming off a quarterfinal appearance, that comes with a lot of pressure. But Benjamin Russell’s baseball team has put last year behind it.
Two Benjamin Russell wrestlers have guaranteed at least a silver medal at the AHSAA Class 6A Wrestling Championships, but they’re both wanting more. Sandlin Pike and Hezekiah Hunter will both go for the gold Saturday in the finals at 106 and 170 pounds, respectively.
Although there were clearly some first-game jitters for both Benjamin Russell and Dadeville’s softball teams during the season opener Thursday night, the Wildcats seemed to handle those better.
Benjamin Russell took 11 to the AHSAA Class 6A Wrestling Championships, which began Thursday in Huntsville, and all 11 Wildcats are still alive after the first day.
With Alexander City being virtually underwater for the better part of a week, a lot of questions are still surrounding the Benjamin Russell softball team.
Of course Benjamin Russell wants to collect a slew of individual gold medals at the AHSAA Class 6A Wrestling Championships, which begin today in Huntsville. But even if the Wildcats can’t get everyone to the top of the podium, that doesn’t mean the guys who didn’t place first aren’t just as …
Going into the AHSAA Class 1A-3A Indoor Track and Field Championships, Dadeville’s Jamauri Chislom knew it was going to be virtually impossible to bring home a gold medal in the shot put.
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Despite being two weight classes short of a full lineup, Benjamin Russell took to Garrett Coliseum with plenty of confidence and let it show on the mats. The Wildcats had five wrestlers make it to individual finals and the team racked up 199.5 points to finish second in the Class 6A South Su…
For the last few years, Benjamin Russell’s girls soccer team has been a squad full of a lot of youngsters. Although the Wildcats have found quite a bit of success, they haven’t quite been able to overcome the hump of winning a section title.
Dadeville’s boys will be hunting down a slew of medals this weekend at the AHSAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, which begin today.
Any time a team graduates a player who could virtually always be relied upon for a quick goal, it’s going to have to rethink how it’s doing things. Benjamin Russell will be looking to replace Luke Harvey this season, but the Wildcats aren’t going to be doing it with just one player.
Huntingdon College is about to get a heavy dose of Tallapoosa County.
Statistics don’t always tell the full story.
When it matters most, every basketball coach will say, “You’ve gotta make your free throws.”
“Free throws.”
It doesn’t take years and years to become a successful team.
As a team, Benjamin Russell didn’t necessarily do as well as it had hoped this wrestling season. With a couple of injuries and being forced to forfeit at least two weight classes for much of the season, the Wildcats just didn’t have the makeup of a strong duals team.
Midway through the third quarter, Benjamin Russell trailed by just one point.
It all goes out the window now.
Pure domination.
There’s only one game left in the regular season, and it’s one of the most anticipated of the year. An even bigger excitement surrounds tonight’s Benjamin Russell versus Central Coosa boys basketball game as the Wildcats’ new coach Jeremy Freeman ushers in his old team for the first time.
Benjamin Russell’s wrestling team ended the duals season on a high note with a 44-32 victory over Auburn on Tuesday night.
Benjamin Russell’s soccer teams are in two opposite boats to start this season. The boys team graduated seven starters from last year’s squad while the girls are having to replace just two from 2019.
With games in his high school boys basketball career becoming more and more numbered, it’s clear Benjamin Russell’s Qua Howell has a renewed sense of energy. Howell, like many other Wildcat seniors, doesn’t want it to end.
Although an 84-67 loss certainly isn’t something to write home about, when it comes just two months after a 44-point defeat at the hands of the same thing, there is something to be proud of. That’s how Benjamin Russell’s boys basketball team is looking at its non-area loss to Talladega on Mo…
A spark is just what the doctor order for Benjamin Russell’s boys basketball team.
In both baseball and softball, it’s hard to argue the most essential positions are the pitcher and the catcher. For Benjamin Russell’s squads, which officially got back to work Monday, they’ll be searching for those two things.
Despite traveling out of state, Benjamin Russell still seemed right at home at this weekend’s Darlington (Georgia) Invitational. The Wildcats brought home five individual medalists, including Saxon Coker who won his sixth straight tournament, and earned third overall in the team standings.
Last month, Benjamin Russell took a slew of students to compete at the Special Olympics in Sylacauga and several Wildcats performed extremely well. In total, BRHS collected 13 gold medals.
Scoring has not exactly been Benjamin Russell’s forte on the boys basketball court this season. The Wildcats have struggled to find a secondary shooter after leading scorer Za Stowes and they haven’t shown a lot of consistency when it comes to scoring on a regular basis.
With less than two seconds to go in overtime, it looked like Briarwood was going to escape with a girls basketball victory against Benjamin Russell.
I am not the type of person to doubt a woman’s word in a situation involving an unwanted sexual advance. Women have a hard enough time coming forward about a bad sexual experience without people coming out of the woodwork questioning their motives.
Of course it’s important for all young people to take precautions about their health.
With five straight pins to start the night, Benjamin Russell gave Jasper no wiggle room during Tuesday night’s wrestling match. The Wildcats set the tone early and rode that momentum to a 57-22 victory on Senior Night.
Although Benjamin Russell’s boys basketball team officially finished the Class 6A Area 6 schedule winless after a loss to Opelika on Tuesday night, the Wildcats aren’t necessarily discouraged about their postseason hopes.
Hezekiah Hunter, RB
Denzel Greene, DB
For the last two years in a row, the team that’s won Opelika’s Bulldawg Brawl has gone on to win the AHSAA Class 6A Wrestling Championships. Benjamin Russell is hoping that’s a trend that’ll continue as the Wildcats reigned supreme at the annual tournament on Monday.
Defense was the name of the game for Dadeville’s boys basketball team Saturday afternoon in a non-area rivalry game against Benjamin Russell.
It’s clear both Benjamin Russell and Dadeville’s girls basketball teams are still trying to work on some things. Neither have that go-to player who can be counted on no matter what and with just two weeks left in the season, there are still a lot of kinks to be worked out.
Although Benjamin Russell’s wrestling team had to settle for third in the team standings at Saturday’s Warrior Invitational at Thompson, the Wildcats collected a slew of individual accolades. Seven Benjamin Russell wrestlers finished in the top three of their respective weight classes and fo…
Any time a boys basketball team goes several minutes without a field goal, it’s going to be tough to come back from — unless its defense is fairly unbreakable. But when a team goes on long scoring droughts several times throughout a game, that’s nearly impossible to recover from — even if it…
It was recently brought to my attention someone overheard a fan say “Girls don’t count” when a local wrestler pinned a female during a match last week.
After earning a hard-fought victory over defending state champion McAdory on Thursday night, Benjamin Russell’s wrestling team couldn’t quite overcome a pair of forfeit losses. The Wildcats were ousted by Oxford in the quarterfinals of the AHSAA Class 6A Duals Championships, 42-32.
What started so well did not end nearly as nicely for Benjamin Russell’s girls basketball team on Friday night in a Class 6A Area 6 game against Russell County.
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