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WHS coach, ECHS, SEHS athletes named to Sports Week
By Griffin Pritchard
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All-Star events are not just for youths. Athletes on the high school level in the state of Alabama will also have an opportunity to participate with the best around in the upcoming Alabama All-Star Sports Week.
The events, which range from basketball to soccer, are scheduled for July 14-18 at various sports locales in and around the city of Huntsville.
Adam Davenport of Elmore County High School will join athletes from St. James, St. Paul’s, Dallas County and UMS-Wright to fill the South’s baseball roster.
Davenport, who caught for the Panthers during the regular season, will compete with Stephen Vosel of Trinity Presbyterian for that position.
The baseball game is scheduled for 4 p.m., July 14 at Joe Davis Stadium.
The South baseball team is coached by Peter Bezeredi (Baldwin County), A. J. Kehoe (Beauregard), Drew Miller (G. W. Long) and Rocky Smith (LAMP).
Baseball players will be housed at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and will practice at Huntsville High.
While not having a representative in soccer, basketball, volleyball or softball, Elmore County has three players on the South’s All-Star football roster.
Brye French, a 2008 Stanhope Elmore graduate and a soon-to-be Cadet of the U.S. Naval Academy, was tapped to play linebacker and will join teammate Jake Naylor on the squad.
Naylor is also a Stanhope Elmore graduate and will play football at Chadron State College in Nebraska.
Former Panther Luke Rowe will represent Eclectic on the South squad before becoming a Huntingdon College Hawk this fall.
Football players will spend the week practicing and meeting teammates.
The game is scheduled for July 18 at 7 p.m., and will be played at Louis Crews Stadium on the campus of Alabama A&M University.
While the city of Wetumpka doesn’t have an athletic representative playing, Indian football coach Chad Anderson has been named an assistant coach on the South’s football staff.
Anderson, who’s Indians finished 12-2 last season and advanced to he second round of the AHSAA playoffs will join Bobby Parrish (Williamson), Kyle Glover (former Wetumpka coach and current Marbury coach), Wayne Grant (Pike County), Mike McCombs (Benjamin Russell), Keith Powell (McGill-Toolen) and Andro Williams (Linden).
Football players will also be housed and practice at UAH. However, the team picture and the pre-game meal will be held at Louis Crews Stadium.
