In her second season as head coach of the Forest Hill girls’ basketball team, former Yazoo City standout Tangela Banks won the 6A state title (the school’s first since 1966) with a 62-60 victory over Hattiesburg during last month’s high school basketball championships. Banks, who played at Jackson State, arrived at Forest Hill in 2010 and has since won over 40 games.

Joshua Gelston eyes a runner at first base during last week’s match up against Central Holmes.By TAYLOR MITCHELL
Sports Editor

The Raiders of Benton Academy haven’t been dominating opponents, but are finding ways to win ball games through solid pitching and small-ball hitting strategies.
Through a month and a half of play, Benton has logged a 4-3 overall record, including two wins in conference play. Both of the Raiders’ conference wins came against Central Holmes over the course of three days.
However, there are still plenty more games left on the table.
Benton faces a week of games that include two against conference opponent Sharkey-Issaquena. The Raiders can put themselves in position to win their conference with a sweep of Sharkey next week, but the real tests will come in April.
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The Mitchell ReportI don’t get to say this often, but this week is going to be a boring one - from a Yazoo sports perspective.
For starters, it’s spring break so there aren’t but a couple of games played all week. Throw in the rain that visited Yazoo over the weekend and those few games get cancelled. That leaves us with not much to talk about.
But there is one little sporting event taking place this week. You may have heard of it.
March Madness. It’s easily one of my favorite times of the year, but also the most frustrating (thanks Butler, VCU, Notre Dame and Kansas for messing up my bracket last year). I love filling out as many brackets as possible, looking at the different scenarios, imagining which games will be the upsets and the ones that will be blowouts.
It’s not an easy task and does have some stress attached to it (like trying to decide between No. 8 Kansas State and No.9 Southern Miss this year). If you’re like me, you’re probably in some type of office pool or another type of pool with friends and family.
So, I’m willing to share my infinite wisdom (don’t laugh too hard) with my loyal readers about how to fill out a bracket. I’m not going to tell you who to pick in what game, but rather give some simple guidelines to follow when making your selections.
For starters, please don’t ever pick No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed. That’s something that has never happened and probably won’t ever happen. The worst beating the best is highly unlikely.

On April 7 there will be a men’s basketball tournament held at Yazoo County High School. The tournament is open to adult men. There will be a $50 entry fee for each team. The single-elimination tournament is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on April 7 and first and second place trophies will be handed out following the tournaments final buzzer. Admission for spectators will be $3 and concessions will be sold. For more information, contact one of the following persons: Spike at 662-763-7275, Greg B. at 662-571-8812, Hazel at 662-763-8034 or Ke-Ke at 662-571-8594.