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The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for May 18, 2020

James "Cliff" Little III

14 YEARS AGO
MAY 18, 2006

Pro team to open season July 15 at HHS: On July 15 professional football will come to Evergreen when the Evergreen Jaguars take on the Bayou Vipers in an NAFL game in Evergreen.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. at Hillcrest High School’s football stadium, according to Victor Calhoun, the Jags head coach and general manager.
Calhoun said the Jags first preseason game is scheduled for June 17 in Mobile against the Port City Monarchs at 7:30 p.m.

Sparta Academy opened spring football practice two weeks ago and closed it last week under the direction of new head coach Clint Floyd.
Floyd, who has been living in Gulf Breeze, Fla., brings 33 years of coaching and teaching experience to Sparta.
He ran the Wing T for head coach Bill McNair as Thomasville High School’s offensive coordinator for 13 years (1980-93).

Derrick Page rushed for 112 yards last Thursday to lead the Black to a 35-26 win over the White in Hillcrest High School’s intra-squad football game in Evergreen.
Hillcrest wrapped up three weeks of spring football drills with the full-contact, four-quarter scrimmage under new head coach Maurice Belser Jr.
(Other top Hillcrest players in that game included Blake Bryant, Jarvis Holder, Edrikus Little, Justin Nared, Malcolm Rudolph, Durrell Simpson, Jeremy Thomas, Terrance Thomas. Matt Blake was Hillcrest’s offensive coordinator.)

39 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.

54 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.

66 YEARS AGO
MAY 20, 1954

Conecuh Amateur Baseball League Is Formed: Six Teams Are Entered: There will be baseball in Conecuh County this summer. Announcement of the organization of the six-team Conecuh County Amateur League is made this week, and the opening of the 20-game schedule is to be held Sunday afternoon, May 23. All league games are scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
Actually only four of the six teams entered are from this county with Escambia and Covington furnishing one entry each. The teams in the league are Loree, Paul, Castleberry, Evergreen, Red Level and North Brewton.
Zell Murphy and Clint Ward are managing the Evergreen club and they invite any players interested in joining the team to come on out for practice. The Greenies practice on Wednesday afternoons and any player interested in joining them can get complete details by contacting either Mr. Murphy or Mr. Ward.
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 the league schedule begins with Castleberry playing North Brewton on the Castleberry diamond; Red Level plays at Paul and Evergreen hosts Loree.

84 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.

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