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…
The Clinton Courier The 3rd Annual Clinton Arrow Baseball Fundraiser Golf Tournament at Live Oaks Golf Club is planned for Friday, October 13. The tournament will be a four-person scramble with two available flights. There will be a morning flight, with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m. and a shotgun start at 8 a.m. There will…
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,…
Top-flight university archers from four states will demonstrate their poise, precision, and skill during the 2023 USA Archery South Central 3-D Collegiate Regionals at Traceway Park on Saturday, Sept. 16. Shooting will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. The annual competition, hosted by Mississippi College, is the first major archery tournament of the fall season. John…
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,…