From the Notebook......................
>Magnolia Heights graduate Jacob Billingsley has been named to the MaxPreps All-American second team among the nation's middle size schools. Billingsley, who was named The Southern Sports & Travel Baseball Player of the Year, hit .398 and produced a perfect 10-0 mark on the mound accompanied by an ERA of 0.54 while leading Magnolia Heights to a perfect 38-0 season and a second consecutive Class AAA Division-II State Championship. Billingsley is a Mississippi State signee.
>Presbyterian Christian junior to be Trista Magee will be attending the University of Alabama to play basketball upon her graduation in 2015. The 6'1" guard was the first player to commit to new Tide head coach Kristy Curry.
>The coaching carousel has made for a busy summer and by all accounts it will continue as a handful of schools are attempting to fill positions for the upcoming 2013/14 school year.
Porter's Chapel went through a near complete overhaul as head basketball coach EJ Creel and head football and baseball coach Wade Patrick both stepped down from their positions. Creel, who became the first woman head coach in MAIS history to lead a boys team to a state championship, resigned to spend more time with her family and Patrick resigned to take on the role of Athletic Director.
Amanda Yocum has been named the new head girls basketball coach while Allen Ward will take over the boys program.
Wyane Lynch is the new head football coach and Chris Mixon will lead the baseball program.
>Prairie View has announced that head football coach Reagan Morrison is the school's new Athletic Director and John Robert Warner the new head baseball coach.
The school is actively searching for a replacement for Ed Bain who led the girls basketball program and is no longer at the school and boys basketball coach Joseph Waller who recently resigned.
>The past three weeks has been spent renewing Southern Sports & Travel sponsorship ads and to this point ad sales have already exceeded the 2012/13 campaign as several new schools have committed to supporting Southern Sports & Travel and making it possible for readers to continue to get comprehensive MAIS athletic coverage.
Schools interested in supporting Southern Sports & Travel can email aafandaman@yahoo.com or call / text 985-750-3455 for details.
>Southern Sports & Travel is pleased to announce the return of the Football Pick Em Contest. This season the stakes have been raised as the winner will receive a $250.00 gift card. See below for details.
>Southern Sports & Travel is pleased to announce the return of the Football Pick Em Contest. This season the stakes have been raised as the winner will receive a $250.00 gift card. See below for details.
