Area Sports

Former Salem High School Wildcat, Junior Faulk, cornerback at Delta State University, is one of 440 small school prospects from National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics schools listed by NFL Draft Diamonds as deserving a look from NFL teams. Faulk was chosen based on films from last season viewed by the NFL Draft Diamonds website. A…

Southwest Bears forward/center Jalon Andrews has signed a scholarship to continue his collegiate career with head coach Dedrique Taylor’s Cal State Fullerton Titans. Cal State Fullerton is an NCAA Division I institution located in Fullerton, Calif. The Titans play in the Big West Conference. Andrews (6′ 8″, 225) is a graduate of South Pike High…

A Tylertown Chiefs’ linebacker and defensive end, Clinton (C.J.) Dillon, has been nominated to participate in the 2020 Offense-Defense All American Bowl, Jan. 2-5, at Miami, Fla. In addition, Dillon has also been nominated to play in the National Championship to be held in Dallas, Tex. Son of Stacey and Shonderlon Dillon, he is a…

Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge is getting a new layer of turf and in order to accomplish that, workers had to pull up the old ground cover. Rather than haul it off LSU officials decided to make it available in squares to Tiger fans. Madelyn O’Donohue is a long-time fan of LSU football and gets…