Jay’s Rebecca Calloway Signs With Pensacola State
January 27, 2012
Jay High School senior Rebecca Calloway has signed a softball scholarship with Pensacola State College.
Calloway had a .508 batting average for the Lady Royals, knocking in 10 home runs during her career.
The 17-year old starting playing t-ball at age 4 and softball at age 7.
She was named All Area 2nd Team in 2011. She also has several other accomplishments off the softball field, including a 4.0 GPA, six years on the varsity basketball team, parliamentarian of the Beta Club, district treasurer of the SGA, senior class vice president and membership in numerous other organizations.
Pictured above: (front, L-R) Keith Holland, Becca Calloway, Mandy Holland, Leigha Holland Samantha Calloway, (back) Jay Coach Brian Watson, Principal Brad Marcilliat, Pensacola State Coach Brenda Pena and Jay Athletic Director Lance Youngblood. Submitted photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Northview Basketball Games Rescheduled
January 26, 2012
Northview’s planned basketball games Thursday against Chipley High School were rescheduled.
The Chiefs will host Chipley Saturday morning — the JV at 10 and the varsity at 11:30.
Byrneville Elementary Releases Second Nine Weeks Honor Roll
January 26, 2012
The following students were named to the second nine weeks honor roll at Byrneville Elementary School:
Kindergarten: Mrs. Barberree
All Satisfactory:
Adrianna Atallah
Wyatt Everly
Nolin Godwin
Hank Grant
Josh Johnson
Jakyia Newton
Ryder Nolen
Tyler Riggs
Reygan Steadham
Kindergarten: Mrs. Rogers
All Satisfactory:
Alexa Castro
Riley Dawson
Caitlyn Dortch
Madalyn Grimes
Camron Howell
Bobbie -Sue Jarrell
Meredith Johnston
Tyson McBride
Jaden Newton
Aydan Smith
First Grade: Mrs. Dawson
All A’s:
Leah Anderson
Kayla Johnson
Emily Levins
Kaden Odom
Aubrey Stuckey
A’s and B’s:
Aloysia Dortch
Audrey Goetter
Chase Hampton
Aleigh Thornton
First Grade: Mrs. Thornton
All A’s:
Drake Allen Driskell
Jessica Loftis
A’s and B’s:
Hunter Barnes
C.J. Bell
Briana Dunsford
Marina Franklin
Jamarkus Jefferson
Emily Lambeth
Grace Long
Zane Rolin
Cheyanne Thomas
Savanah Watters
Second Grade: Mrs. Weaver
All A’s:
Hunter Borelli
Shelby Cotita
James Loftis
Dillon Spears
A’s and B’s:
Grace Blackmon
Bama Coburn
Tessa Flowers
Kaitlin Gafford
Taylor Levins
Torka Mills
Harley Walker
Third Grade: Mrs. Dunsford
All A’s:
Sophia Cotita
Maille Kilcrease
A’s and B’s:
Travon Brown
Logan Bryan
Brianna Colter
Alyssa Goldenpenny
Heather Knowles
Abigail Levins
Tyler Merchant
Ty Rolin
Chad Sager
Fourth Grade: Mrs. Gilmore/Mrs. Sellers
All A’s:
Ian Gifford
Alex Glidewell
A’s and B’s:
Madicyn Bell
Skyler Busbee
Jacob Coleman
Alexis Lee
Lea Nall
Valorie Padilla
Savannah Steadham
Nicky Trump
Samantha Walston
Olivia Watson
Fifth Grade: Mrs. Johnston
All A’s:
Kris Baxter
Rebecca Diamon
Paige Killam
Seth Killam
Tanner Levins
Alex McMinn
Courtney Payne
Destiny Payne
A’s and B’s:
Austin Adams
Jacob Borelli
Matthew Caine
Patton Goetter
Colby Graham
Gracie Johnson
Keyana Macks
Hunter Moseley
Sarah Nelson
Peyton Newsome
Faith Watters
Town Of Century Honors Northview Chiefs Football Team
January 23, 2012
During their regular meeting Monday night, the Century Town Council officially recognized the Northview High School football team with the reading of a proclamation.
Mayor Freddie McCall issued the proclamation honoring the regional championship team. The proclamation was presented to Chiefs Head Coach Sid Wheatley during the team’s annual banquet last week.
To read the full proclamation, click the image.
Ball Registration: NWE, Molino, Cantonment, Atmore
January 21, 2012
Baseball and softball registrations have been scheduled for Northwest Escambia, Molino, Cantonment and Atmore.
The Northwest Escambia League will hold open registration for baseball and softball for ages 3-18 as follows:
- Friday, January 27 from 5-8 p.m.
- Saturday, January 28 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The cost will be $50 for the first child, $40 for the second child and $10 for the third child from each family. A copy of the child’s birth certificate should be brought to registration at Bradberry Park in Walnut Hill.
Molino Ballpark registration will be held every Saturday until February 18 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Don Sutton Ballpark. Cost is $50 for the first child, $45 for the second and $40 for the third from the same family. A copy of the child’s birth certificate should be brought to registration.
Cantonment Baseball and Softball registration will he held every Saturday until February 18 from 9 a.m. until noon at the Cantonment Ballpark, 681 Well Line Road.
Ages 4 and up. Registration is $80 for the first child, $70 for the second, $60 for the third and additional child per family.
Teams include:
- T-ball 4-6
- Coach Pitch 7-8
- Minors 9-10
- Majors 11-12
- Pony 13-14
Atmore Babe Ruth Softball registration for ages 6-16 will be held each Saturday until February 4 at the concession stand at the softball fields at Tom Byrne Park.
Tryouts will be Saturday, February 11 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the softball fields at Tom Byrne Park. Players may register on the day of tryouts.
The registration fee will be $45 for one child and $40 each for the second and additional children. A copy of the player’s birth certification should be brought to registration.
Legendary Tate Coach Floyd Adams Inducted Into Hall Of Fame
January 20, 2012
A legendary former coach for Tate High School and Jefferson Davis Community College was inducted into the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in Birmingham Friday night.
Floyd Adams was 179-37 at Tate High School, where he spent two years as an assistant coach before serving as head coach for seven years. He then moved on in 1984 to the college level at Jeff Davis in Brewton where he was 303-149 in 10 seasons.
Adams is a 1952 graduate of Escambia County High School in Atmore. He has been retired from coaching for over a decade.
Escambia Academy Names New Head Coach
January 20, 2012
Escambia Academy has hired a new head football coach and athletic director who is no stranger to coaching.
Veteran coach Hugh Fountain is now on the job for the Cougars. For the last 6-years, he coached at Charles Henderson High School in Troy with a 106-67 overall record and 10 playoff trips in the last dozen years. He has also coached at W.S. Neal, Flomaton and Hillcrest Evergreen.
Fountain replaces Heath Gibson who stepped down after nine seasons with the cougars. During those nine season, Gibson led EA to the playoffs five times.
Could You Be Trespassing At Your Favorite River Fishing Spot?
January 19, 2012
It’s a murky line between really good fishing, and trespassing.
A measure moving in the House seeks to clarify just where that line is – more specifically, where the state’s waterways end and where abutting private property starts.
The issue is vital to those who own property that runs right up to a riverbank or lake shoreline – how much property they pay taxes on for example is a question depending on where their property stops. But it’s also highly important to boaters, hunters and fishermen who fear losing access to swamps – prime habitat for many of the things they’re looking for.
Sometimes those non-tidal swamps aren’t there in the dry season, but are in the wet – and whether the high water mark or the low water mark or something in between is used as the demarcation point has become a highly contested issue, and the subject of a bill that cleared a committee stop Tuesday, but only after conflicting testimony about what the change would do.
The measure (HB 1103), approved Tuesday by the House Agriculture Subcommittee on a 9-4 vote, seeks to set out the “ordinary high water mark,” which is where the federal government says the public’s sovereignty ends. The trouble is, the state law doesn’t define ordinary high water mark or spell out exactly how you determine where that is.
There have been a couple of court cases that tried to set that definition out – and backers of the bill say it tracks those court opinions. The measure says the ordinary high water mark is the “highest reach of a navigable, nontidal water body as it usually exists when in its ordinary condition and is not the highest reach of such water body during the high water season or in times of freshets.”
The bill also acknowledges that the ordinary high water mark is a moving boundary and spells out that officials must determine where it is based on a mark on the soil – a change in the soil from where it is usually wet to where it usually is dry.
As one might imagine, just what it will mean still isn’t agreed on.
Preston Robertson, of the Florida Wildlife Federation, says the new definition will allow the line to be marked lower – allowing more land to be considered private, rather than part of the publicly-owned waterway.
The measure would take “tens of thousands of acres that everybody now enjoys and put it in the hands of private land owners,” Robertson said. And there would be no public benefit for making the change – the benefit would go entirely to those private property owners.
Legislative staff acknowledges that the ordinary high water mark won’t be the highest water level. It doesn’t take in “swamp or overflowed lands,” according to the Agriculture Subcommittee’s staff analysis. “And the ordinary high-water mark is to be found between such lands and the area occupied by the water for the greater portion of each average year,” the analysis says. Also, if there’s water there much of the time, there generally won’t be ability to grow crops – if crops can grow in the soil, it’s beyond the ordinary high water mark, the staff analysis reasons.
The exact line is extremely important to land owners for several reasons, said Jim Handley, executive vice president of the Florida Cattlemen’s Association. “You can’t use property as collateral,” if you don’t know if you own it, he told the committee this week. “It’s a concern of ours if somebody is trespassing and gets injured, who is liable?”
He rejected an assertion by hunters and fishermen, that agricultural landowners are simply trying to increase their holdings.
“This is not a land grab, this is an opportunity to show a clear definition of what folks have been paying property taxes on,” Handley said. “…Nobody’s trying to move the line, they’re trying to define the line.”
Trespassing is a major concern of boaters and sportsmen’s groups – which have for several days been sending around mass emails to draw attention to the issue.
Hunters carrying rifles, or even boaters simply legally carrying a concealed weapon, may be charged with trespassing for fishing on low water they’ve fished on for years.
“If they have to worry about a line that’s now moving, they’re subject to a third degree felony with armed trespass,” Robertson said.
Pictured: The Escambia River near Molino. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
By The News Service of Florida
Northview Honors Winning Football Team, Cheerleaders
January 18, 2012
Northview High School honored members of the school’s football teams and cheerleading squads Tuesday night during their annual banquet.
Chiefs head coach Sid Wheatley told his players that they should be proud of their season with the school’s second ever regional title.
“You’ve paved the way for great things to come next year,” Wheatley told his seniors.
For a photo gallery from the event, click here.
Members of the 2011 Northview Chiefs recognized Tuesday night were:
- Most Valuable Offensive Player – Brandon Sheets
- Outstanding Offensive Back – Lamikal Kyles
- Outstanding Offensive Back – Roderick Woods
- Outstanding Offensive Lineman – Laderious Franklin
- Outstanding Receiver – Austin Albritton
- Outstanding Special Teams – Kevin Vaughn
- Most Valuable Defensive Player – Sean Knight
- Outstanding Defensive Lineman – Brian Ross
- Outstanding Linebacker – Roderick Woods
- Outstanding Defensive Back – LaMichael Banks
- Outstanding Defensive Back – Tanner Brooks
- Chief Award – Alex Payne
- Chief Award – Caleb Leonard
- Academic Award – Justin Halteman
- Team Leader Award – Nathan Therrell
- Team Leader Award – Cole Eicher
- Fire Award – Logan Weber
- Fire Award – Chad Smith
- All-Purpose Award – Montaio Mitchell
- Utility Award – Blake McCall
- Most Improved – Stetson Nash
Wheatley also recognized the team’s seniors — Andrew Farrow, Sean Knight, Montaio Mitchell, Brandon Sheets, Tanner Brooks, Austin Albritton, Jamie Gafford, Wes Chancery, Sam Spence, Caleb Leonard, Alex Payne, Cole Eicher, Nathan Therrell, Brian Ross
Coaches Ty Wise, Derek Marshman, Mandell Smith and John Madison were also recognized.
The Chiefs’ cheerleaders were also honored at the steak dinner. Individual awards were presented to:
- Varsity Most Improved – Brittany Thompson
- Varsity Squad Strength – Anna Fischer
- Varsity Best All Around – Ashley Cunningham
- Varsity Spirit Award – Ariel Holland
- JV Most Improved – Courtney Weaver
- JV Spirit Award – Kamryn Brock
For a photo gallery from the event, click here.
Pictured top: Northview Chiefs MVP Brandon Sheets receives his award from Coach Ty Wise. Pictured below: Varsity cheerleaders (L-R) Brittany Thompson, Ashley Cunningham, Ariel Holland and Anna Fischer. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Registration Time: NWE, Cantonment, Atmore
January 14, 2012
Baseball and softball registrations have been scheduled for Northwest Escambia, Cantonment and Atmore.
The Northwest Escambia League will hold open registration for baseball and softball for ages 3-18 as follows:
- Saturday, January 14 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
- Saturday, January 21 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
- Friday, January 27 from 5-8 p.m.
- Saturday, January 28 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The cost will be $50 for the first child, $40 for the second child and $10 for the third child from each family. A copy of the child’s birth certificate should be brought to registration at Bradberry Park in Walnut Hill.
Cantonment Baseball and Softball registration will he held every Saturday until February 18 from 9 a.m. until noon at the Cantonment Ballpark, 681 Well Line Road.
Ages 4 and up. Registration is $80 for the first child, $70 for the second, $60 for the third and additional child per family.
Teams include:
- T-ball 4-6
- Coach Pitch 7-8
- Minors 9-10
- Majors 11-12
- Pony 13-14
Atmore Babe Ruth Softball registration for ages 6-16 will be held as follows:
- Saturday January 21 – 9 am. until noon
- Saturday January 28 – 9 am. until noon
- Saturday February 4 – 9 am. until noon
Registration will be held at the concession stand at the softball fields at Tom Byrne Park.
Tryouts will be Saturday, February 14 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the softball fields at Tom Byrne Park. Players may register on the day of tryouts.
The registration fee will be $45 for one child and $40 each for the second and additional children. A copy of the player’s birth certification should be brought to registration.