Spring sports
- Updated: February 6, 2026
Donoho’s girls open soccer season with victory over 4A state champion. Weaver’s nine goals help Jacksonville sweep Talladega. Falcons sweep Oxford in tennis.
By East Alabama Sports Today
ANNISTON — Brooke Vandiber scored three goals, and Donoho’s girls opened the soccer season with a 4-1 victory over defending Class 4A state champion St. John Paul II on Friday on Lentz Field.
Donoho also got a goal from seventh-grader Isata Sesay. Lauren Wigley had two assists, and Sophia Sanders had one.
JACKSONVILLE BOYS 5, TALLADEGA 0: Colin Thuman scored two goals, and the Golden Eagles opened with a victory under first-year coach Chelsea Mize.
Cameron Turner, Dion Harris and Josh Riggs added a goal apiece, and Jack Thomas had two assists.
JACKSONVILLE GIRLS 11, TALLADEGA 1: Emerson Weaver hit the hat trick … squared.
She scored nine of Jacksonville’s 11 goals and dised out two assists, and the Golden Eagles opened with a victory under Mize.
Willa Kate Walker added two goals and one assist, and Joeh Kim dished out three assists.
Tennis
DONOHO SWEEPS: Donoho’s boys and girls opened the season Thursday with victories over Oxford. The girls won 7-2 and boys won 6-3.
Donoho’s boys girls singles victories from Rishi Reddy, Foster Payton. Aiden Thompson and Chris Perkins and doubles victories from Reddy-Ethan Crawford and Perkins-J.R. Sobers.
Oxford’s Asher Mitcham and Ren Bentley won singles matches, and Payton Butterworth-Colton Moxley won a doubles match.
Donoho’s girls got singles victories from Claire Tollison, Elizabeth Downey, Bentlee Pahman and Sydney Marsh. The Falcons swept the doubles courts, with victories from Avery Barnett-Natalie Rodgers, Downey-Pahman and Marsh-Harper Barnett.
Oxford’s Claire Maniscalco won No. 1 singles, and Charlie Lambert won No. 2 singles.
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