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| Alabama head coach Ray Perkins. |
EIGHT YEARS AGO
DEC. 1, 2011
Nared plays on national TV: Just a little over a year after
taking his final snap as the quarterback at Evergreen’s Hillcrest High School,
former Jaguar standout Justin Nared found himself playing before a national
television audience against his college’s biggest rival.
Nared made his eighth start of the season as Tuskegee
University’s freshman quarterback last Thursday and led the Golden Tigers
against archrival Alabama State in the 88th Annual Turkey Day
Classic at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery. The game was televised nationwide on
ESPNU. Alabama State won, 30-21.
Hines scores 14 in pro game: Evergreen’s Chris Hines posted
some of the best numbers on his team, ZTE KK, Saturday night in an 82-71 home
loss to PVSK Pannon in Hungary.
Hines, a former Hillcrest High School and University of
Alabama standout, collected 14 points, nine rebounds and five assists in 30
minutes of play. He sank seven of 11 field goals and grabbed seven defensive
boards.
So far this season, in four games, Hines has made nearly 89
percent of his free throws, over 45 percent of his field goals and almost 13
percent of the three-point shots he’s tried. He also grabbing 8.3 rebounds per
game.
Sparta Academy’s April Palmer and Stephanie Martin were
named to the Sparta Tournament of Champions all-tournament team Tuesday of last
week. Sparta’s varsity girls finished second in the tournament.
27 YEARS AGO
DEC.
3, 1992
Senior Bryant Robinson will represent Sparta Academy in the
AISA All Star football game to be played at Block Park in Selma Fri., Dec. 4.
The game will start at 7 p.m. Bryant is the son of Wayne and Cathy Robinson of
Evergreen.
It was a “clean sweep” for Hillcrest High School on opening
night of the 1992-93 basketball season. Each of the school’s four teams posted
a victory against W.S. Neal High School in East Brewton Tuesday night.
The ninth graders started the evening with a 46-32 win,
followed by the B-team with a 47-44 win. The Hillcrest girls picked up where
they left off last year with a 52-48 victory over the Lady Eagles. The Jags
varsity finished off the evening three points shy of the century mark with a
97-67 victory over W.S. Neal’s top players.
Conservation Officer Tommy Atkins along with hunter safety
instructors Hoover Kynard and Garvey Gates, gave a lecture to students at
Evergreen Junior High School. The lecture included requirements of becoming a
conservation officer, laws and regulations, hunting accidents, night hunting
and firearm safety.
33 YEARS AGO
DEC. 4, 1986
Alabama Head Coach Ray Perkins visited Evergreen High School
while on a recruiting trip in this area Monday. Shown with him are EHS Head
Coach Willie Ed Farish and school secretary Patsy Bell.
Ricky Varner bagged this nine-point buck Monday. He was
riding down the road when he spotted the deer, stopped and got out, walked 200
yards and killed the deer, which weighed 205 pounds.
Warriors Girls win tournament: The Sparta Academy Girl
Warriors won the Fort Dale-SBA Tip Off Tournament played Nov. 25-26 in
Greenville. Sparta beat Greenville Academy, 40-39, in the finals. Kim Searcy
had 22 points and nine rebounds; Julie Johnson, 10 points and 10 rebounds; Baby
Girl Floyd, six points; and Shawn Hammonds, two. Lee McNeill had 14 rebounds.
The Warrior boys lost both of their games in the tournament,
according to Byron Warren Jr., Sparta Sports Information Director. Fort
Dale-SBA beat Sparta, 54-48, in the opening round. Greenville Academy defeated
Sparta in the consolation game, 57-52.
(Top Sparta boys players in those games included Johnny
Brock, Ebb Hagen, Shannon Kendall, Glynn Ralls, Lynn Ralls, Jeff Walker, Brad
Watts, Jason West and Tim Wilson.)
Jason West, Julie Johnson and Kim Searcy were named to the all-tournament
teams.
72 YEARS AGO
DEC. 4, 1947
The boys who once took advantage of an understaffed game
warden force killed their game and fish illegally and then sang a happy ditty
about ‘never seeing one of them possum sheriffs’ aren’t singing that song so
joyously these days.
Four hundred and 14 transgressors of game and fish laws and
regulations felt the heavy hands of Alabama’s 72 game protectors on their
shoulders during October, the first month of the present fiscal year, it was
announced by C. Graham Hixon, fish and seafood chief of Alabama’s Department of
Conservation.
Applications from alumni for Sugar Bowl tickets are being
received this week by the University of Alabama Athletic Department, Frank W.
Thomas, athletic director, announced.
Opening date for alumni ticket orders was Dec. 1 and a limit
of two tickets for each alumnus has been set. All ticket applications must bear
the class year and school of applicant, Thomas said.
Sugar Bowl ticket price is $5, and applications should include
mailing fee of 25 cents, Athletic Business Manager Jeff Coleman said.
Alabama received the Sugar Bowl bid following its 41-12
victory over LSU.
83 YEARS AGO
DEC. 3, 1936
Evergreen High School: The Evergreen basketball players were
issued uniforms Monday and had their initial workout Tuesday afternoon. The
following boys reported for practice: Wendel Hart, Tom Rountree, Dick Murphy,
James Lane, Kermit Williams, Fred Dean, John Worlund, Clarence Sheffield, Emory
Brasswell, Carl Wiggins, William Chapman, Laula Middleton, Moye Pugh, Charles
Webster, John Cotton and Robert Kelly. The schedule will be announced at a
later date. We invite you to see our games and will certainly appreciate your
cooperation.
Miss Lois Black attended the Alabama-Vanderbilt game in
Birmingham last Thursday, where she was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Charlie
Cook.
W.P. McMillan and James Tate spent the weekend with the
former’s parents, at Inverness, and also attended the Auburn-Florida game in
Montgomery.
Harris Williamson, Andrew Jay and John Weekly were weekend
visitors to Birmingham, where they attended the Alabama-Vandy game.
Richard Brassell, who is a student at Auburn, spent the
weekend with his mother, Mrs. R.R. Brassell. Richard’s friends will be
interested to know that he made the freshman football team, playing center, at
which position he distinguished himself in the Freshman Georgia Tech-Auburn
game.
R.R. Hairston and W.H. Hunt of Montgomery visited J.M.
Shoemaker Sunday enroute home from a fishing trip to South Alabama.
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