Sports

Oak Hill gets district win at Marshall

Oak Hill overcomes eight errors to win a 14-9 high school baseball slugfest Thursday night on the road over district rival Marshall Academy.

Big early inning does in Raiders

Oak Hill Academy gave up six first-inning runs and could never recover Wednesday in a 12-2 high school baseball loss at Bruce.

5A champion West Point football team honored by lawmakers

The Mississippi Senate on Wednesday honored the West Point High School Green Wave football team with presentation of Senate Concurrent Resolution 529 commending their third consecutive MHSAA Class 5A State Championship.

Wave tennis loses tough match to Saltillo

West Point High’s tennis team fell 7-0 to visiting district foe Saltillo Tuesday evening but even in the loss, the team showed some promise.

The Wave’s Emma Berry lost a tooth 6-3, 7-5 decision to the Tigers’ Autumn McHenry at girls single.

Wave archers set new mark but still fall

The West Point High archery team inched closer to the goal of 3,000 points in a match, but it still wasn’t enough to take down the Houston Hilltoppers Monday night as Houston defeated the Green Wave 3.128-2,903.

Young Wave softball makes impressions

Heavy rains put a damper Tuesday on what was supposed to be the West Point High School Softball Classic, but the rain out gave Lady Green Wave softball coach Casey Finch a chance to reflect on the weekend scrimmages against quality opponents in Caledonia and New Hope.

Lady Wave wins, heads to Germantown

A young team worries about possibly it’s last game. And then it all goes away.

The West Point Lady Green Wave turned a 21-21 halftime tie into a 54-34 blow out over visiting Lake Cormorant in the first round of the Class 5A girls state high school basketball tournament Monday night.

Wave baseball wins jamboree games

Solid pitching and timely hitting produced a pair of wins Saturday as the West Point High baseball team got its final tune up for the start of the regular season.

The Green Wave shut out East Webster 3-0 and then downed Starkville 5-2 in a jamboree at New Hope.

Lady Wave host Cormorant in playoffs

The West Point High girls basketball team fell 62-46 Friday night to Lafayette County in the championship game of the District 1 tournament.

Wave takes third, advances to state


Junior point guard Dishoune Cooperwood exploded for 22 points, including 10-for-10 from the free throw line, to lift West Point to a 47-27 high school basketball win over Lafayette County and the final district slot in the first round of next week’s state playoffs.