SCOOBA – Five-time national cham­pion East Mississippi Community Col­lege is scheduled to conduct two summer football camps during the month of June on the Scooba cam­pus.

Despite dropping their first-round series in the MHSAA Class 2A State Softball Playoffs in two straight games, Freddy Thomas said he was very encouraged with the fu­ture of his Kemper County Lady Wildcats.

The Kemper County High School boys were second and girls tied for fourth at the MHSAA Class 2A South State track meet at Northwest Rankin High School.

Brandon native and for­mer Mississippi State Uni­versity basketball player Isaiah Butler has been named head women’s bas­ketball coach at East Missis­sippi Community College.

The Kemper Academy Rams were able to check baseball coach Colt Kil­patrick’s first goal of the season off the list, and that was to make it past the first round of playoffs.

EMCC closed out its 2022 softball season by splitting a road double­header with Hinds during Friday’s MACCC action.

Blayze Berry’s complete-game pitching effort and four home runs by the Lions in the nightcap lifted EMCC to a home double­header split with Hinds during Friday’s MACCC baseball action played at Gerald Poole Field.

The Kemper Academy Rams season came to an end on Friday, after two very tough losses to Benton Acad­emy.

For his power surge during East Mississippi Community Col­lege’s playoff series win over East Central, Carson Gault has been named the MACCC Base­ball Player of the Week.

Reigning MACCC Tourna­ment champion East Mis­sissippi Community College will hold men’s bas­ketball open tryouts on Wednesday, April 20, on the Scooba campus.

The Rams showed the state their skill with the bow this week, as they finished third in the MAIS 3A State Championship Archery meet.

The Kemper County High School fast-pitch soft­ball team was set to close out district play this week against the top two teams in the league.

Kemper County boys won the Division 5-2A track meet at Velma Jackson last Friday and the girls finished third.

The short-handed East Mississippi Community Col­lege softball team faced its fifth consecutive ranked conference opponent in dropping a pair of run-rule home decisions to nation­ally eighth-ranked Pearl River during Saturday’s MACCC action played at the EMCC Softball Field.

The Kemper County High School baseball team lost a pair of district base­ball games to a strong Choctaw County team last week.

The Kemper County boys and girls track teams will return to Velma Jackson High School Fri­day for the Division 5-2A meet, the first step toward the 2A state meet April 30.

The Kemper County High School fast-pitch softball team swept a pair of games from Newton High School last week, winning both games by identical 13-0 scores.

East Mississippi Commu­nity College maintained a one-game lead atop the MACCC baseball stand­ings by earning a double­header split at nationally top-ranked Pearl River dur­ing Saturday’s conference action played at Dub Her­ring Park.

Kemper Academy had a tough week in base­ball last week losing two big games, one of which was to a district opponent, Sylva Bay Academy.

After a week off for spring break the athletic teams for Kemper County High School and Kemper Academy are looking to get back into action over the next 10 days.