After leading by 7 points with just under 17 minutes to play on Thursday, Belhaven held Faulkner without a basket for the next six minutes.

AUBURN—Former Auburn quarterback Cam Newton, a rookie with the Carolina Panthers, was named the Sporting News Rookie of the Year. Voting was done by NFL players, coaches and executives.

Newton, who was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, received 327 votes while second-place finisher, Denver linebacker Von Miller, had 96.5 votes.

CBS 8 Sports Analyst John Longshore was on CBS 8 News at 6:00 to talk about college football's National Signing Day for recruits and the new assistant coaches who've just joined the Auburn Tigers.

            PRATTVILLE, Ala., Jan. 23, 2012 -- The Prattville High School football team has finished No. 21 nationally for the 2011 season. The announcement was made by MaxPreps, a California-based company that ranks more than 16,000 high school varsity football teams.           

            Prattville (12-2) lost a pair of games by a total of five points during the season, but marched forward en route to its third Alabama Class 6A state championship over four seasons as it slipped past Hoover, 35-34, on Dec. 2, 2011. Prattville is one of 50 schools being honored on the seventh annual MaxPreps Tour of Champions presented by the Army National Guard.