30 YEARS AGO
MAY 21, 1981
“Sparta Awards: Johnson wins Peacock Trophy: Jeff Johnson was awarded the Jerry Peacock Trophy at the Sparta Quarterback Club’s annual All Sports Banquet held in the Sparta Academy Gymnatorium on Friday night, May 15. The trophy is given in memory of the late Jerry Peacock, an outstanding athlete and student at the school who died in a drowning tragedy shortly after his graduation.
“Richard Nix won the coveted D.T. Stuart Jr. Sportsmanship Trophy and the football team elected Scott Baggett permanent captain of the 1980 team.
“Other football awards went to the following: Hustler, Russ Raines; Best Defensive Player, Gaylen Griggers; and Best Blocker, Scott Baggett.
“The basketball team elected Jeff Johnson permanent captain. Other awards were Best Rebounder, Terry Shipp; Best Defensive Player, Jeff Johnson; Hustler, Russ Raines; Field Goal Percentage, Terry Shipp, 47 percent; Free Throw Percentage, Terry Shipp, 67 percent.
“Jeff Johnson was elected permanent captain of the baseball team, and the following awards were made: Best Defensive Player, Jeff Johnson; Hustler, Russ Raines; and Batting Champion, Joey Johnson, who hit .324.”
“Allen Padgett won first place in Pro Street at the Atmore Drag Way on Saturday night after finishing second the previous week.”
45 YEARS AGO
MAY 19, 1966
“Swimming pool opens June 3rd: The swimming pool at Judson Murphy Recreation Center will open on Fri., June 3. This date was set by the Evergreen City Council at its meeting Tuesday night.
“Coach Cliff Little of Evergreen High School has been employed as director of the city’s recreation program this summer.
“The council voted to erect a chain link fence and gates across the front of the recreation center. This is being done to prevent further damage and abuse of the property. Recently, a pump was thrown into the wading pool and damaged.”
60 YEARS AGO
MAY 17, 1951
“Bermuda Nine Defeats Shreve Eagles 10-5: The Bermuda Bears moves into a three-way tie for first place in the Conecuh Amateur League by winning their opening game with Shreve 10 to 5 Sunday afternoon. Errors paved the way for Shreve’s downfall.
“Allen Till did the hurling for Bermuda. Shreve tried three hurlers, McIntyre, Lefty Gomillion and Ray Yancey. There were no outstanding hitters on either team.”
“Flat Rock Rockets Edge Loree 11 to 10: Third baseman Wheeler King, crossed the plate in the tenth inning to give the Flat Rock Rockets a 11-10 victory over the Loree Dollies in a Conecuh Amateur League game Sunday afternoon. The game was played at the Loree Field.
“Three ninth-grade students, King, Roger Peacock and ‘Cotton’ Quinley played a big part in Flat Rock’s win. King scored the winning run. Peacock accounted for three tallies and Quinley two. Winston Bailey with three runs and Georgia Brown with two accounted for the other Rocket scores.
“Pitchers Hubert Barlow and James Barlow worked for Flat Rock. Winston Bailey did the catching. The Loree battery was not listed in the report to The Courant.”
75 YEARS AGO
MAY 21, 1936
“The Evergreen Merchants won their two games last week to keep pace with the leaders in the South Alabama League and to maintain their lead of one game over the Century-Flomaton combine.
“Sweeping the series with Monroeville, winning two extra inning games, the local nine showed great power and fight and promise to be one of the fastest semi-pro nines ever to represent this city.
“In the game with Monroeville Thursday after going through nine innings of fast ball to see the scored tied in the last half of this inning by the scrappy Monroeville sluggers, Evergreen struck back in their part of the tenth to make three runs and put the game on ice. In this frame, Kendall led off with a base hit to right, and Sam Jones dropped a Texas Leaguer over first sending Kendall to second. This set the stage for Tom Melton’s torrid smash down the left field foul line for a two-bagger and to score Kendall and Jones. Hall, next up, grounded sharply to short and went to first, Melton scoring on the play ended Evergreen’s scoring but the Monroeville nine came back to make two runs in the latter frame of the tenth, and put the tying run on second when the last batter flied out to Seabrooks at second.”
Compiled by Sports Reporter Lee Peacock from past issues of The Evergreen Courant. To read The Courant’s weekly Sports Flashback feature online, visit leepeacock2010.blogspot.com.
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