Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for Jan. 13, 2011

10 YEARS AGO
JAN. 11, 2001

“Warriors travel to Grady for first game of 2001: The Sparta Academy Warriors traveled to Grady to take on the South Montgomery Academy Raiders on Fri., Jan. 5, 2001. The Lady Warriors handily defeated the Lady Raiders but the other teams did not fare as well.
“Lady Warriors 70, SMCA 39: Katie Etheridge had the hot hand for the Lady Warriors, leading her team with 23 points. Also scoring in double digits were Jill Pate with 13 points and Laura Wiggins with 10 points.
“Rounding out the scoring were Jessica Armuelles with nine points, Jessica Bennett with five points, Callie Ezell and Ashton Garner with four points each and Susan Ivey with two points.
“SMCA 84, Warriors 70: John McKenzie led the Warriors in scoring with 24 points. Also scoring in double digits were Kyle Johnston, Derrick Williams and Rusty Salter with 10 points each. Rounding out the scoring for the Warriors were Chris Garner with seven points, John Anderson with five points and Justin Tranum and Wiley Cobb with two points each.
“SMCA 27, JV Warriors 12: Thomas Nielsen scored seven points and Drew Davis scored five points for the JV Warriors.
“SMCA 30, JV Lady Warriors 24: Ashton Garner led the scoring for the JV Lady Warriors with eight points.”

25 YEARS AGO
JAN. 9, 1986

“Harry Phillips, general manager of Radio Station WEGN, presents the 1983 Ducks Unlimited Limited Edition Browning Shotgun to Harold Adams, owner of Conecuh Printing Co. and co-publisher of the South Central Alabama Trader. Adams was the lucky winner of the collector’s item shotgun.”

40 YEARS AGO
JAN. 14, 1971

“Coach Charles Branum will take his Evergreen High Aggie cagers into the South Alabama Conference Basketball Tournament next week in a dark horse role. The meet begins Monday night and continues through Saturday night at the Covington County High School gym in Florala.
“Three games are scheduled Monday at 5:00, 6:30 and 8 p.m. The Aggies get into action Tuesday night at 6:30, meeting Pike County High of Brundidge. A win then would put them into action again Thursday night at eight o’clock against tournament favorite, Andalusia High, which drew a first round bye.
“The semi-finals will be played Friday night, Jan. 22, with the Aggies’ bracket set at eight o’clock. The consolation and championship games will be played Saturday night, Jan. 23, at 6:30 and eight o’clock.
“Andalusia with an 11-1 record shares the favorite role with Luverne which has posted a 10-2 work sheet. The Aggies have a record of eight wins and three losses.”

“Mr. Harry Brislin and Mr. Lambert attended the Senior Bowl game in Mobile last Saturday.”

“Mr. and Mrs. Waynard Price, Rachel Price and Elizabeth Wilkerson attended the Senior Bowl game in Mobile Saturday.”

55 YEARS AGO
JAN. 12, 1956

“Evergreen High School and Georgiana High School were unanimously elected to the South Alabama Conference at a meeting of that body in Opp last Wednesday night. The two new members join charter members Andalusia, Opp, Florala, Greenville, Troy, Luverne, Elba and Enterprise.”

“Randy White paced the Evergreen Aggies to their seventh straight win Tuesday night as Evergreen overpowered neighboring Monroe County High School, 76-49, in Monroeville.
“Leading scorer, Randy White, lanky six-foot, five-inch Aggie center, scored 32 points. Robert King plopped in a very respectable 21 points, followed by Wayne Frazier with 10, Eddie Kelly with eight, Mickey Joyner with three and Walter Carrier with two points.”

“The Repton Bulldogs visited nearby Castleberry Tuesday night and lost to the Blue Devils, 67-43.
“Clarence Hart continued his torrid pace as he crammed 24 points through the nets. High point man for the evening, however, was Ray Blackwell for the losers, as he scorched 29 points in the nets. Blackwell will be remembered for his sterling play as a Bulldogs backfield ace during the football season.”

70 YEARS AGO
JAN. 9, 1941

“The Evergreen High Aggies and the Greenville High cagers battled on even terms for three whole quarters here Friday night but during the final period the visitors displayed a desperate surge of offensive power and came out the winner by a 23-14 margin.
“Nielsen and Hanks led the locals with four and five points, respectively.”

“Evergreen High School: The first basketball game since Christmas was very exciting. Evergreen played Greenville, and the fierce battle kept the spectators standing. Greenville won with the score 23 to 14.
“The basketball team has new uniforms, and they really shine. They also have elected a captain, Judson Murphy with Knud Nielsen as alternate captain.”

“Miss Martha Binion returned Friday from a delightful visit with Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Nash of Mobile. Over the weekend, she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H.S. Denniston aboard the ‘Sunshine,’ and Tuesday the guest of Mrs. Mendes in New Orleans to witness the Sugar Bowl game.”

“Dr. E.L. Kelly of Repton and his son, Guy Kelly of Evergreen, attended the Sugar Bowl football game between Tennessee and Boston College in New Orleans last week.”

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