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By Erik Harris, sports editor PINSON After seven seasons with the Clay-Chalkville girls basketball team, head coach Justin Haynie has decided to hang up his whistle. He will continue teaching career tech at CCHS and has accepted a bus route. He announced the decision to his girls following a 49-35 season-ending playoff loss at No. 3 Hartselle on Wednesday night. Haynie says his decision was a difficult one, but necessary. “It’s just gotten to a point where having a young child and trying to be in charge of a 6A basketball program that’s become a year-around thing I felt like I was probably going to have to give something up to be able to maintain max effort,” said Haynie. “The classroom is always going to be important to me and obviously my own child, so I just thought basketball was the one thing that I kind of had to give up. I hate it because I love our kids and we’ve got great parents.” ....
By Erik Harris, sports editor Several teams are off and running in the 2020-21 AHSAA basketball playoffs, including six local clubs who saw mixed results in first-round play. See local sub-regional recaps below. BOYS: No. 7 Pinson Valley 62, No. 1 Hartselle 59 Pinson Valley began its playoff run on Wednesday evening, traveling to No. 1-ranked Hartselle and coming home with a 62-59 sub-regional win. The Class 6A, Area 12 runner-up fought through a massive outing from Hartselle’s Brody Peebles, who scored 39 points in the loss. Hartselle’s next highest scorer was Trent Wright with seven points. Pinson Valley (20-4), ranked seventh in the final ASWA poll, saw three players break double figures in the scorebook, including Joshua Williams, who provided 15 points and 13 rebounds. Caleb White added 13 points to go with 12 points and eight boards from JoJo James. ....