Sports

Melton takes two firsts at track meet

West Point High’s boys track team brought home several honors from Saturday’s 49 th annual Daily Journal Relays that drew more than 20 teams from Mississippi and Tennessee to Tupelo High.

Senior Ryan Melton had a near-career day.

Crowley, team headed to national showdown

A West Point athlete will get a chance to show off his skills on a national stage next month when his basketball team competes in the prestigious GEICO High School Basketball Nationals in New York.

The event, April 4-6, features eight of the top high school teams in the country.

Wave scores two in seventh to take win

West Point broke a 2-2 tie with two runs in the top of the seventh and then hung on for a 4-3 high school baseball victory Wednesday night over West Marion as part of a two-day spring break swing to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Raiders’ baseball drops one, ties

A tight pitcher’s duel ends in a 3-3 tie after Amite Center rallies with three runs Tuesday to tie Oak Hill Academy in a spring break match up in Jackson.

Lady Wave fall to Texas team

A big inning dooms West Point as Arlington, Texas High School takes a 15-0 high school softball victory Wednesday in the Gulf Coast Classic I in Gulf Shores, Ala.

Beach tourney offers lessons for Lady Wave

West Point High’s girls softball team broke through on the scoreboard Tuesday, but it wasn’t enough as the Lady Green Wave continued to learn some lessons from some of the best teams in the Southeast in the Gulf Coast Classic I in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala.

Bailey: Owls and the ‘crazies’ started to believe

Last year when she graduated from Meridian Community College, 2016 West Point High graduate Qiayon Bailey wanted to continue her education at a good school. Basketball was second on her list.

Lady Green Wave fall in tourney

A spring break softball trip to Gulf Shores got off to a rocky start for the West Point High girls softball team Monday as they fell 16-0 in a four-inning game against Giles County High School from Pulaski, Tenn.

Green Wave loses second assistant football coach

West Point High football coach Chris Chambless is looking for at least one new assistant coach.

Chambless knew he was going to be short one when running backs coach Alex Williams was hired in January to be head coach at Aberdeen, where he once attended school and coached.

Wave overcomes homer to claim win

Fans of old-school pitching and defense with a flare for the dramatic would have loved West Point High’s 2-1 extra-inning high school baseball victory Thursday night over visiting Smithville.