Haleyville’s own Mississippi State University Sophomore Holly Ward recorded a career-high eight strikeouts.

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The Haleyville Lady Lions played in the area championship on Wednesday against Danville. Although the Lady Lions fought hard, the Danville Lady Hawks came away the winner with a final score of 86-51. As the area runner-up, the Lady Lions will face the Deshler Lady Tigers in Tuscumbia on Monday at 7:00 PM.

The Haleyville Lions hosted the Hamilton Aggies Thursday night for the area championship. The game was clean with few fouls and mostly a defensive strategy game. Haleyville claimed the area 13 championship title with a final score of 54-45. Congratulations to both teams. The Haleyville Lions will now be the host for the first round of the sub-regionals to be played on Tuesday at 7:00 PM.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)Post 4543 held a special program for the district winners of the Voice of Democracy (VOD) and Patriot Pen awards on Monday night, February 8.  The winners of the VFW District 1 VOD, 2nd place, Amelia Townsend, Patriot Pen Winner, 2nd place, Reagan Kutis and the Patriot Pen District first place and state winner (sponsored by the Falkville VFW Post), Maggie Robertson from Haleyville were presented by the VFW District Commander, Jerry Willibey,

Guests for the event included Haleyville Schools Superintendent of Education, Dr. Alan Miller, Middle school Principal Bo Wilcoxson, and Beth Townsend, school sponsor of the VOD program.

(Pictured left to right: VFW District Commander, Jerry Willibey, Maggie Robertson, Reagan Kutis, Amelia Townsend, and VFW Post 4543 Commander, Dwight Thomas)

The Haleyville High School Senior Play is this Saturday night at 7 p.m. at the HES Cafetorium. The play is a exciting comedy drama about a man and and his college friends who find out that he has inherited an abandoned disco. Little do they know that the disco has been used for stashing money from a recent bank robbery. Chaos begins when the robbers and the brains behind the robbery try to get the money out of the disco while those pesky college students try to restore the building to it’s former glory and the Golden Age of Disco. Lots of laughs and plenty of disco music prove to make this play a hit.

Tickets will be available at the door for $8.

The Haleyville Lady Lions met the Hamilton Lady Aggies in Danville Monday night for the first round of the area basketball tournament. Through a hard fought battle by two well-matched teams, the Haleyville Lady Lions came away victorious with a final score of 50-48. The Lady Lions will face the Danville Lady Hawks Wednesday at 4:00 in the area championship at Danville.

In boys basketball, the Haleyville Lions will play the winner of the Hamilton-Danville game on Thursday night at 6:00 P.M. in the Haleyville High gym for the area championship.

Hats off to the coaches, staff, school and parents for the efforts in getting both the boys and the girls teams in the area championships. We are especially proud of all the Lions players for pushing through to prove that you are all winners.

Listen to live coverage of the games on Wednesday at 4:00 PM and Thursday at 6:00 PM on Paradise 92.7 with Craig Wakefield and David Albright and “Roar Lions!”

Two local men were arrested in January in an undercover sting to catch predators hoping to meet an underage girl for sex. The investigation began when an underage person complained about an older person making contact on social media. The Cordova Police set up two fake accounts on social media in which bot accounts appeared to be female teens under 16 years old.

Within an hour, up to 50 people had contacted the fake sites. Police Chief Nick Smith said he was overwhelmed by the response. While the specific social media sites were not released, Smith said they were the typical sites that anyone around or under age 16 may be using. He said the people who contacted the fake accounts would begin with private conversation and some were very blunt and expressed their desire to have sex with the person they thought was an underage teen.

Investigators, using the fake profiles, set up meetings in various locations around Cordova. The suspects thought they were meeting an underage female for sex but instead were arrested. Ten people were arrested in this sting, all from north Alabama.

Two of the ten arrested were Kevin Freeman, 38, of Bear Creek. Freeman was charged with transmitting obscene material to a child and traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act. Terry Lane, 39, of Nauvoo, was charged with transmitting obscene material to a child.

Chief Smith stated, “If you have a child on social media you need to monitor their activity or not let them have it at all.”

If you have any information related to this operation, please contact the Cordova Police Department investigators at specialop64@yahoo.com.

Story originally appeared on WBRC-6 Birmingham.

Congratulations to Oakley Ward from Brilliant High School who was 1 of only 16 students chosen statewide to participate in the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) Student Leadership Conference.  She is the daughter of Dennis and Lana Ward of Brilliant, and is currently a junior at Brilliant High School.  Oakley was chosen as the female representative from the entire district 7.  Oakley will participate in the two-day leadership conference in Montgomery on April 4-5.  During the conference, students will learn more about the AHSAA, speak with executive director Steve Savarese, have group sessions with leadership clinician Jack Williams, CEO of the IDEALS leadership program, and visit educational venues in Montgomery.