By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director SPRING GARDEN – Spring Garden boys basketball coach Levi Hatcher felt like the Panthers didn’t have the fire last week in the Cherokee County Tournament. That led the Panthers to have what he called a “fiery, physical practice on Monday and Tuesday, to the point where guys were getting
By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director CEDAR BLUFF – Spring Garden girls basketball coach Ricky Austin said the Lady Panthers have a chip on their shoulder this season. The past two years in Class 2A have ended in heartbreak in the Northeast Regional final against Pisgah. This season, Spring Garden moved back down to its
By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director SPRING GARDEN – Spring Garden girls basketball coach Ricky Austin said he was disappointed with the energy the Lady Panthers had in the first half of their area game at Coosa Christian on Friday. He said the second half they did come out with a good amount of energy,
By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director BIRMINGHAM – The standard in Class 1A volleyball is the Addison Lady Bulldogs. It’s a standard that Spring Garden coach Ricky Austin aspires to become. But the Lady Panthers aren’t quite there yet. Spring Garden’s season ended against the two-time defending state champions in three sets in the Class
SPRING GARDEN – It’s been a tough few weeks for the Spring Garden community. They lost recent graduate Matthew Christian to brain cancer, and volleyball assistant coach/head softball coach Ann Welsh was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She made her breast cancer announcement to the volleyball team last Thursday and had a successful procedure on