High school area volleyball tournaments begin Monday and both local teams will play that day.

The last thing Arab coaches want to read this morning is how great a game their kids played last Friday night in a 56-42 Region 8 loss at Scottsboro.

The Arab High School junior varsity football team continued its winning ways at Scottsboro on Monday night.

In case you missed it – and from what I heard about the crowd, most of you did – Guntersville whipped Brewer 37-7 Thursday night at Guntersville.

Even though they fell out of the 5A state volleyball Top 10 this week, the Arab Lady Knights still had a very productive fall break.

Several minutes after Arab defeated East Limestone at home Friday night, Arab’s football players (sans pads), rushed the field from their dressing room and “attacked” head coach Lee Ozmint on the field.

Monday, the Arab Junior Varsity had no problems putting together a total team win at Fairview, but the Aggies returned the favor against the Jr. Knights.

A loss in the final minute and a half against Brewer could have derailed them.

Anna Katherine Griggs was at it again last weekend for the UNA volleyball team, playing on the road against Florida Gulf Coast (FGCU) on Sept. 27 and against New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on Sept. 29, the former Arab star had nine kills and 13 blocks.

A STAFF REPORT

Cherokee Ridge Country Club, like many other golf courses in north Alabama, is struggling with the current drought.

Aidan Cox threw two touchdown passes to lead the Knights’ junior varsity over DAR 14-7 on Monday night, but Brodie Cash played a huge role defensively to preserve the win and the team’s undefeated season (5-0).

After a one-week hiatus, Arab’s varsity volleyball team returned the Class 5A rankings at No. 10 this week (see the complete rankings on page 7).

The seventh grade Junior Knights held on for another victory Tuesday night while the eighth grade fell in a hard-fought loss that was much closer than the score indicates.

I try to be objective in my job, but it’s no secret I have two degrees from the University of Alabana, the second coming solely because I wanted to stay one more year to be the sports editor of the campus newspaper so I could cover Paul “Bear” Bryant winning his then-record 315th career game.

The Arab swim team placed third overall in the Wildcat Invitational at Scottsboro on Thursday.

Brindlee Mountain’s varsity volleyball team split a pair of matches Thursday while the JV team won twice as both teams eye the Marshall County Tournament, which is today at Arab.

The coaching staff at Arab Junior High School felt good about both football teams after splitting with Scottsboro on Tuesday. While the eighth grade team lost on the scoreboard, the team is continuing to show improvement.

One week after seemingly damaging their playoff hopes with a bitter loss at Brewer, the Arab Knights this week find themselves right in the thick of the Class 5A, Region 8 race.

I can’t go as far to call it tragic, but I was deeply saddened to wake up Friday morning and read Archie Anderson’s social media post about Drew Puccio suffering a broken leg in the Arab seventh grade team’s game at West End on Thursday (the eighth grade team didn’t play).

Brindlee Mountain’s varsity volleyball team may have let a golden opportunity get away Tuesday night at New Hope.

Quarterback Drew Puccio had two great games going into Thursday night’s contest at West Point. He picked up an even 100 yards against Fort Payne and rushed for 153 yards with four touchdowns and passed for another at Albertville.

One final point regarding last week’s Arab-West Point game that got lost in the madness of the big comeback was the Knights’ 200 percent improvement in clock management.

After an undefeated start to the season, the Arab varsity volleyball team went 5-3 last week then split a pair of matches Tuesday to move to 14-4 on the season. Yet, the Lady Knights remained at No. 7 in the Class 5A poll released Thursday.

Arab football teams scored a couple of relatively easy wins Tuesday night, with only the eighth grade team coming up short.

First, the facts.

Football season has just started but the Arab Parks & Recreation Department will be gearing up for basketball this coming week.

Brindlee Mountain cross country coach Evan Lemons put his runners’ performances in the season-opening Pisgah Invitational last season in perspective.

The Arab Junior Knights split with Fort Payne Thursday night, with the eighth grade team falling to the Wildcats 20-6 while the seventh grade picked up a 22-20 win.

As I was riding home from Boaz on Friday night, I was thinking to myself, if Arab’s first football game of the season could be compared to a movie, would it be the “Wizard of Oz” or “A Star is Born?”

Lee Ozmint’s first appearance on Fun Radio’s “Coach’s Breakfast” won’t be soon forgotten by Arab’s new head coach.

In junior high, or middle school football, coaches are routinely asked to run the offenses and defenses being used at the varsity level.

THE ARAB TRIBUNE'S HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SPECIAL SECTION IS IN THE RACKS NOW.