The rest of the top 10 sports stories of the year in Warren County:

 2. St. Al makes a move

For nearly 90 years, St. Aloysius was a member of the Mississippi High School Activities Association. It was a long-running and fruitful partnership that dissolved in a couple of weeks.

Following an MHSAA ruling banning non-Mississippi residents from participating in extracurricular activities, St. Al — along with fellow Catholic schools Greenville-St. Joseph and Cathedral — left the association in late July to join the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools.

The process took less than two weeks, but changed the landscape of both the MHSAA and MAIS. St. Al and Cathedral had played for the MHSAA Class 1A football championship in 2014 and are perennial contenders in several other sports.

After joining the MAIS, St. Al won the Class AAA girls soccer championship and made it to the second round of the football playoffs.

3. Brewer’s haul of Halls

It was one hall of a year for Sean Brewer.

The former Warren Central and Millsaps College star was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in January and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in July. He was inducted to the College Hall of Fame in December, and will go into the Mississippi Hall next summer.

Brewer became the third Warren County player inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame, joining George Morris (Carr Central and Georgia Tech) and Kevin Dent (Vicksburg High and Jackson State). Brewer also became the first player from Millsaps to be inducted.

4. Goodbye, Bruiser

For 25 years, Bobby Huell was a fixture at Vicksburg High as an assistant football coach. On July 20, he finally left the school for good when he died following a battle with cancer. Huell was 65.

In his youth, Huell was one of the best high school running backs in Warren County history, rushing for nearly 3,000 yards on the dominant Rosa A. Temple teams of the late 1960s. He went on to star at Alcorn State and signed with the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers in 1974.

After getting cut by the Steelers in training camp, Huell embarked on a 41-year coaching career at McCall High School in Tallulah, Hinds AHS in Utica, and Vicksburg. He was a favorite of players and coaches alike for several generations.

“Without him, I wouldn’t know where I would be. From day one, he was going to be that coach who was loyal to whoever got the job,” VHS football Marcus Rogers said. “He was a glue guy. He had been through all of the coaches that were here. When I first got here, everybody said if you need anything, talk to Bobby. I never called him Bobby. I called him Coach Huell out of respect.”

5. Burning up the track

All through the spring, St. Aloysius’ track and field teams dominated nearly every meet they entered. In their last of the season — and, as it turned out, as a member of the MHSAA — they did it when it mattered most.

Led by sprinter DeMichael Harris, who set records in the 100 and 400 meters, won the 200 meters and finished second in the triple jump, the boys’ team easily won its first team state championship in the sport at the Class 1A state meet in May.

The girls’ team won five events, medaled in another and outpointed Tupelo Christian 87-71 to also win its first team title.

Harris went on to win the Mississippi Gatorade Track and Field Player of the Year Award as the state’s top athlete in the sport. St. Al girls pole vaulter Maggie Waites signed with Division II Texas A&M Commerce

While St. Al dominated the Class 1A meet, its athletes weren’t the only ones from Warren County to make an impression this year.

Vicksburg High’s Keiyana Gaskin won the Class 5A championship in the girls’ 100 and 200 meter dashes and helped the 4×100 and 4×200 relay teams to victory. Another Vicksburg High star, Leon Miles, won the Class 5A title in the 110 and 300 meter hurdles and in August reached the semifinals in the 400 meter hurdles at the USA Track and Field Junior Olympics in Jacksonville, Fla.

A former Gator, Terrell Smith, had a stellar freshman season at Kansas State and reached the NCAA Championships in the men’s 200 meters.

6. Golfing greatness

Warren Central’s Karley Whittington and St. Aloysius’ girls golf team maintained their stranglehold atop Mississippi’s high school golf world.

Whittington won her second consecutive MHSAA Class III individual state championship at the state tournament at Clear Creek Golf Course in May. She shot a course- and tournament-record 66 in the first round — a feat that landed her national recognition in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section — and won by five shots.

St. Al, meanwhile, won its third straight MHSAA Class 1A team championship by 56 strokes over Our Lady Academy. Laura Phillips, Anna Fletcher and Beth Newman all finished in the top six of the individual standings.

7. Soccer champions

It didn’t take long for St. Aloysius to win its first state title as a member of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools.

The girls’ soccer team — which normally would not have played until November but hastily assembled when St. Al moved to the MAIS in July — capped off an undefeated season with a 2-1 victory over Hartfield Academy in the Class AAA championship game on Oct. 12.

Led by eighth-grader Madelyn Polk and senior Sara McDaniel, who combined to score 57 goals in 14 games, the Lady Flashes claimed their first state title since the program was started in 2003. Only two games were decided by two goals or less. Seven wins were shutouts, and the defense allowed 11 goals all season.

8. Hinds baseball shines

The Hinds Community College baseball team was among the best in the nation this season. It spent five weeks as the top-ranked team in the NJCAA Division II poll and won the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges state title for the third time in six seasons.

The Eagles, who had 16 players sign with four-year schools, finished with a 43-7 record and reached the Region XXIII tournament finals before losing to eventual national champion LSU-Eunice.

In December, Hinds pitcher and former Warren Central star Carlisle Koestler signed with Southeastern Louisiana University.

9. Sweet Clyde goes pro

Former Vicksburg High baseball star Clyde Kendrick became the latest in a long line of professional baseball players from Warren County when he was selected by the Texas Rangers in the Major League Baseball draft in June. Kendrick was taken in the 27th round, with the 798th overall pick.

10. Tallulah tops them all

Tallulah Academy spent more than a decade struggling in the MAIS’ 11-man football division, but in short order has become an 8-man powerhouse. The Trojans reached the 2014 8-man championship game, then capped a rise to the top by beating Christian Collegiate 34-25 on Nov. 19 for their first 8-man title.

Tallulah finished this season 12-1 and is 21-3 in its two seasons as an 8-man program. The 2015 championship was its first since winning the MAIS Class A title in 1992. It only had one winning season between 2004 and 2013.