Friday night, September 23d, Clay Co. High School (3-1) plays Lineville (4-0) in the last Clay Bowl for bragging right in Clay County. Both schools merge into one high school starting next year. Right now Clay Co. is 3A and Lineville 2A. Based on the current student level charts that AHSAA used to determine classifications for 2010-12, the new school will be at over 400 plus students and thus a 5A high school. The great histories of both schools, state football and basketball championships at Clay Co. will be over. Clay County now will have only one high school. Old Millerville (Bibb Graves High School in real name) closed several years ago and currently is rotting to the ground. As populations shift, old schools go away. While progress may be good, it makes you lose something when all these traditional community area schools simply blow away in the wind. My father graduated from Millerville way back in 1935.
Other big games in this central Alabama area Friday night have #1 3A Piedmont (4-0) at #9 Glencoe (4-0); Weaver (3-1) at Walter Wellborn (3-1); also in 6A, #10 Oxford (3-1) at #6 Auburn (4-0). Oxford lost their top defensive player, a LB who is on Bama, the Barn, LSU radar, to an ACL tear and he is done for the year.
Other big games in this central Alabama area Friday night have #1 3A Piedmont (4-0) at #9 Glencoe (4-0); Weaver (3-1) at Walter Wellborn (3-1); also in 6A, #10 Oxford (3-1) at #6 Auburn (4-0). Oxford lost their top defensive player, a LB who is on Bama, the Barn, LSU radar, to an ACL tear and he is done for the year.
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