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…

Special to The Clinton Courier Mississippi Brilla FC, who calls Arrow Field their home, recently announced that former Uganda National Team player and seven-year Major League Soccer veteran Micheal Azira will take over the team’s USL2 head coaching duties. Azira replaces Matt Horth, who recently accepted a college coaching position that will prohibit his return…