By Danny C Davis   To say the 2023 football season has started tough for the Clinton High Arrows would be an understatement. Clinton dropped to 0-4 for the first time since the mid 1990s after being shut out on the road at Grenada 35-0 on September 14. Things get no easier for the injury-ridden…

Looking to successfully close out their first three-game home stand since 2009, the seventh-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College are set to play host to fifth-ranked and MACCC South Division foe Mississippi Gulf Coast Thursday (Sept. 28) on the Scooba campus. With kickoff set for 7 p.m. at EMCC’s Sullivan-Windham Field, Thursday’s much-anticipated gridiron…

Special to The Clinton Courier The United States Tennis Association (USTA) Mississippi is offering tennis lessons for children ages six to twelve at Brighton Park this fall. Lessons will take place on Saturdays from September 23 through October 28. USTA’s “Ready to Rally” beginner tennis program provides children the opportunity to learn the game of…

By Danny C. Davis The 2023 season has not started the way the Clinton Arrows had hoped it would. Clinton fell 28-7 at Vicksburg against Warren Central in the season opener, and the Arrows lost to the Northwest Rankin Cougars 21-14 in the home opener on September 1. The opening two losses marked the first…

Special to The Clinton Courier The Clinton Arrow 2023 swim team includes thirty-six swimmers in grades seven through twelve from Clinton Junior High School, Sumner Hill Junior High School and Clinton High School. Under the direction of Coach Marcy Rushing, who is in her fifth year coaching the team, and Assistant Coach Leigh Ferris McGee,…

By Danny C. Davis New Clinton High School volleyball coach Autumn Frost will be the first to admit that this fall’s girls volleyball team will be very young. Frost, a native of the Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, area, has a team with no seniors returning, two juniors back, three sophomores and one freshman returning to play…

By Danny C. Davis   Last season was a good season for the Clinton Arrow offense. CHS averaged 25 points a game, scoring 32 points or more seven times. But the players who produced almost all of those points, Jordyn Battee, Jakobe Calvin and Kyler Hutton, have all graduated and are now playing at the…

By Danny C. Davis In 2022, the Clinton Arrows played well defensively against arguably the top offenses in Class 6A. The Arrows played against seven teams that were in the top five in the polls at one time during the season. The Arrow defense pretty much stopped the run against most opponents but, at times,…

By Danny C. Davis   New Clinton Christian Academy head football coach Teddy Dyess brings a lot of coaching experience to Clinton Christian Academy (CCA). Dyess was named the new head coach at CCA back in February. As a player, assistant coach, and head football coach in the Mississippi High School Activities Association, he has…

Clinton Christian Warriors looking for a good season There is a lot a of optimism on Northside Drive in Clinton heading into the 2023 football season, with the recent hiring of new head football coach Teddy Dyess. Dyess spent thirty years coaching in the Mississippi public schools, MHSAA, and had a stellar record, including three…

By Danny C. Davis Bruce Robinson is excited to be back coaching basketball in Clinton. Robinson, a former Clinton Arrow basketball player and a 1984 graduate, accepted the job as girls basketball coach at Clinton Christian Academy earlier this summer. The new CCA coach has had a lot of success coaching at high-level teams like…

Special to The Clinton Courier This summer, Mississippi College was represented at the international stage as current Choctaw athletes competed in their respective national track and field championships. Jan Lukas Becker and Niklas Klei showcased their talents at the 2023 German Track and Field National Championships, while Fabio Palmieri competed in the 2023 Italian Club…

The Clinton Arrow Swim Team includes 36 swimmers in grades 7-12 from Clinton Junior High School, Sumner Hill Junior High School and Clinton High School. The team is under the direction of Coach Marcy Rushing and Assistant Coach Leigh Ferris McGee. This is Coach Rushing’s fifth year with the Arrows and Coach McGee’s second. Team…

By Danny C. Davis Once again this season, the landscape for Arrow football opponents will change. Last year, the Mississippi High School Activities Association’s governing board moved to create a new larger classification for sports competition. The top twenty-four schools in MHSAA will be in the larger Class 7A. The new classification enrollment numbers are…

By Danny C. Davis Clinton Christian Academy (CCA) has recently added the sport of volleyball to the school’s list of girls sports programs. The team has been practicing hard this summer and has attended local volleyball camps in preparation for their first season. Holly Gullet and Jessica Prevost, who both teach at CCA, will coach…

Special to The Clinton Courier Clinton High School Class of 2023 graduate Baleigh Turner recently signed a letter of intent to join the cheer squad at Alabama A&M University. Turner was a three-year member of the CHS cheerleading squad and was also a member of the Sumner Hill Junior High School cheerleading squad during her…

By Danny C. Davis The Clinton Arrows finished the 2022 season second in Region 2-6A with a 7-5 record, advancing to the North quarterfinals and second round of the playoffs before falling to eventual Class 6A State Champion Starkville. But the Arrows lost a lot of two-year starters on both sides of the ball and…

By Danny C. Davis Maddie Weeks of Clinton grew up from an early age playing on a girls softball team in the Clinton recreational youth leagues. Little did she know that someday she would have the chance to play for a national championship in college softball and help a school that had never won a…

By Taylor McKay Hathorn Dr. David Parks was a toddler when his family moved to Clinton for his dad to open Mississippi Discount Drugs, and he made the Jackson suburb his long-term home, attending the Clinton Public Schools before majoring in biology at Mississippi College. “I grew up at First Baptist Clinton,” Parks said of…

The Mississippi Braves (38-37, 5-2) scored four runs in the fifth inning in a 4-0 win over the Montgomery Biscuits (39-37, 3-4) in front of 4,642 fans on Independence Day at Trustmark Park. The game was called in the sixth inning due to rain, but fans still enjoyed a post-game fireworks extravaganza.   The M-Braves…

By Guest Columnist Johnathan Perkins Six years ago, when our girls were on the verge of winning their fifth consecutive track and field state championship, I told my coaching staff, “If we can pull off this fifth state title, then we will possibly win ten straight 6A track a field state championships.”   Fast forward…

By Jameson Thompson After finishing the fall 2023 season, Clinton High School’s eSports team looked to improve as a team in order to dominate the spring season. While the Arrows had various results in different games, one thing remained the same: they continued to dominate in Madden. Defending champion Michael Odie returned to the team…