Two River Region basketball players were named Player of the Year in their respective classes Thursday. Prattville Christian senior Ella Jane Connell was voted AHSAA Class 3A girls player of the year ...

"I was born a character person," Jane Connell declares. "I was always eccentric, never a conventional beauty. I grew up in the Depression, the youngest of four kids. I wanted to make people laugh, ...

The Prattville Christian girls basketball team's unbeaten record hung in the balance. On Dec. 27, the Panthers trailed Hamilton by 15 points in the third quarter. But their point guard Ella Jane ...

Ella Jane Connell willed Prattville Christian to the Class 3A girls basketball state championship with an incredible performance. The Class 3A tournament MVP tallied 39 points in the overtime victory ...

BIRMINGHAM — Prattville Christian assistant coach Jim Graham perhaps said it best: no team deserved to lose Friday's Class 3A girls basketball state championship game. It was an epic that featured a ...