Huntsville Region signings roundup
Huntsville Region signings roundup
See who put pen to paper during the early signing period.
See who put pen to paper during the early signing period.
With the NBA Draft coming up on Thursday night, Alabama guard Retin Obasohan has been busy working out for pro teams. But it remains unlikely Obasohan will be among the 60 players selected on Thursday night, which would make the 2016 NBA Draft the seventh in a row without a player from an Alabama college.
The league will now feature five schools in Alabama -- North Alabama, West Alabama, Montevallo, Alabama-Huntsville and Auburn-Montgomery.
The group includes Madison County basketball standout Riley Webster, who will join his older brother, Seab, at UAH.
The seventh-ranked University of Mobile softball team dropped a pair of one-run decisions at top-ranked AUM Sunday, falling 1-0 in the opener and then 4-3 in the finale.
The third team on the field in Sunday's Super Bowl 50 has two members connected to the state of Alabama.
The group includes two players who will be part of the new lacrosse team at UAH.
The move from college to professional baseball hasn't slowed Mikey White, Logan Hill, Kalik May and James Naile. They're four of the 27 players with baseball roots in Alabama who have entered the minor leagues after being selected in MLB's First-Year Player Draft in June.
Of the 1,215 players picked in this year's First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball teams selected 26 players from Alabama colleges, two straight from Alabama high schools and three former Alabama high school players from out-of-state colleges.
A year ago, Major League teams selected 34 players with baseball roots in Alabama. Fifteen of those players were selected before Auburn pitcher Trey Cochran-Gill, but none of them have gotten as far in their professional careers as the right-handed pitcher has so far.
Draft begins Monday night
All-American's Katie Spain and Lauren Shaw hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning and set the tempo for the game from the onset, as the Auburn Montgomery softball team successfully defended its NAIA Softball World Series championship and repeated...