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Alysha Clark was on the move cross country this week.
The 2005 Mt. Juliet High graduate and that year’s Tennessee Class AAA Miss Basketball was traded from the Seattle Storm to the Washington Mystics.
Washington sent guard Brittney Sykes to the Great Northwest for Clark, Seattle’s 2026 first-round draft pick and guard Zia Cooke, who was waived by the Mystics.
This will be Clark’s second stint in Washington. She was a Mystic in 2021 and ’22, missing the first year with a Lisfranc injury sustained while playing in France during the winter.
After Washington, Clark, 38, signed with the Las Vegas Aces, where she won her third WNBA championship in 2023 as she was named the league’s Sixth Player of the Year. After two years in Vegas, she signed with the Storm last winter, returning to team where she spent the first nine years of her career, winning WNBA titles in 2018 and ’20.
A fixture in the starting lineup most of her career, this season hadn’t gone as planned, according to ESPN. A starter early in the season, she had been coming off the bench in recent weeks and didn’t play at all in an Aug. 1 game against the Los Angeles Sparks, a two-point double-overtime LA win. It was her first DNP for non-injury reasons since 2012. She is averaging 3.7 points and 2.4 rebounds in 18 minutes per contest this summer.
Brown released by AstrosClark’s fellow MJHS-graduate, Aaron Brown, has been released from the Triple-A Sugarland Space Cowboys by the parent Houston Astros.
A ninth-round pick by Astros out of Middle Tennessee State (also Clark’s alma mater after both began their college careers with Division I schools in Nashville), the right-handed pitcher worked his way up Houston’s chain, reaching the top rung of the minor leagues last season.
Prone to giving up the long ball, he served up 26 home runs in 20 games, 15 starts, this season as he went 3-10 with a 9.46 earned-run average in 721/3 innings. For his pro career, he is 16-34 with a 5.60 ERA in 104 appearances covering 4192/3 innings.
His former Golden Bear teammate, Sean Hunley, was sent back down to Double-A Montgomery a few weeks ago after a couple of bad outings with Triple-A Durham. Upon his return to the Biscuits, which whom he has now spent parts of the past four seasons, he promptly suffered a loss without allowing a hit on an unearned run. He is coming off a two-inning save last Saturday in a win over Birmingham. For the season he is 2-3 with two saves and 5.30 ERA in 19 appearances, all in relief.
For his career in the Tampa Bay Rays system, the 2021 ninth-round pick out of Tennessee is 21-16 with a 3.76 ERA.
Dickey off to fast start in Double-AAnother Mt. Juliet native is as hot as the west Texas sun as he moves up the Athletics’ minor-league ladder.
Friendship Christian-graduate Jared Dickey was promoted to Double-A Midland late last week and promptly began tearing up the Texas League.
After batting .253 with six home runs and 43 RBIs in 88 games with High-A Lansing, Dickey got the call late July 31/early Aug. 1. After flying out of Detroit and somehow making his way to the western most Double-A town in affiliated baseball (located halfway between Ft. Worth and El Paso in west Texas), Hunley’s former Tennessee Vol teammate was in the lineup his first night and pulled a two-run double in his first plate appearance. He singled in his second trip to the plate.
After a 3-for-4 effort with an RBI Thursday against Amarillo, Dickey is batting .500 with a 1.065 OPS and seven runs batted in.
