High School Sports

The Riverfield Raiders were in Flora, Miss., this past Friday night to play the Tri-County Academy Rebels.

The game was another regularly scheduled home game that had to be played on the visitor’s field. The contest ended in barn burner style but the Raiders did not come out on top.

I don’t guess there would be anyone to disagree that 2020 has been a very strange, difficult and challenging year.

With school attendance ending in mid-March, the teachers and students were forced to adapt to online teaching and learning.

At Riverfield campus, improvements took place, however, over an extended off season and on Aug. 5 RA students returned to school to begin the 2020/21 school year. The beginning of school always means that football season is here.

Who would had thought after losing four starters from the state champions of a year ago that we would make another run for the top team in 2-A?  

A lot changed but an important ingredient stayed the same and that was Damon West, Antwuan James, Ron Ellis, Billy Green and Johnnie Mack. These coaches stayed the course and produced another sterling team that went undefeated again in the district and finished with a 27-6 record.