Overview
- The Alabama High School Athletic Association found Maplesville used an ineligible player and ordered the team to forfeit its wins over Isabella and McKenzie.
- Maplesville officials discovered the issue after checking DragonFly, reported the violation to the AHSAA, and the association fined the program and placed it on probation.
- Coach Brent Hubbert says the athlete had been listed as eligible through summer audits, the principal certified the player on Aug. 19, and the player took part in a game on Aug. 28 while still shown as eligible in DragonFly.
- School leaders say DragonFly later changed the player's status without an alert to the school, which they say created a compliance gap because no automatic notification system warned them of the change.
- The forfeitures move Maplesville to 1-2 on the season, end its 18-game winning streak and shift the state's longest active streak to Macon-East Montgomery, and the case could prompt reviews of DragonFly's notification and verification processes.