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ECHS boys, girls win season openers
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Juniors Kaniguel Taylor and Cleo Bolar combined for 35 points, and seniors Cali McCants and Carmelo Thomas added 25, as Escambia County’s Blue Devils won their season basketball opener, 64-54 over Monroe County last Friday, November 8.Taylor scored 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the field. Bolar hit for 15 points, McCants put 14 on the board, and Thomas scored 11 as ECHS claimed the…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 week ago
Blue Devils can’t hang with powerful Jags in season-ending setback
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer She’Marrion Matthews hauled in three touchdown passes from Jamarion Robinson last Friday, October 25, but it wasn’t enough to prevent a 45-22 win by Class 3A’s playoff-bound Hillcrest-Evergreen.Hillcrest’s Jaguars took a 19-0 lead by the end of the first quarter. Robinson and Matthews connected for the first time in the second quarter to make it 19-8, but ECHS never got closer.The Evergreen team posted 19…
by Don Fletcher access_time3 weeks ago
Blocked PAT kick the difference in ECHS loss to Satsuma
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County High School (ECHS) football coach Vincent Harris doesn’t usually second-guess himself. But the third-year Blue Devils mentor sure wishes he could redo what turned out to be the key play in a 14-13 setback to Satsuma last Friday, October 18.Harris said the one-point difference — the result of the Gators blocking an attempted third-quarter extra-point kick — might have been averted had he…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 weeks ago
ECHS fumbles, tough Neal defense fuel 53-13 loss
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Fumbles gave Escambia County High’s (ECHS’s) football team the early momentum last Friday (October 11) in a Class 4A, Region 1 road game at W.S. Neal (WSN), and fumbles yanked that momentum away.ECHS took an early lead in the intra-county matchup with the neighboring Blue Eagles but turned the ball over three times — including once on the kickoff following a Neal score and once…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 month ago
No playoffs for ECHS after loss to Orange Beach
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County High’s defensive unit turned in a stellar effort last Friday (October 4) against Orange Beach’s Makos, but the ECHS offense suffered five turnovers and was held to 17 net yards in a 38-6 Class 4A, Region 1 setback that ended any hopes the Blue Devils might have had of postseason play.ECHS played tough in the first half, especially the defense. LeBron Willis scored…
by Don Fletcher access_time1 month ago