Monday, January 17, 2022

The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for Jan. 17, 2022

17 YEARS AGO
JAN. 20, 2005

Jaguars capture key area game: The Hillcrest Jaguars improved to 12-3 by winning two of three games played last week. More importantly, they whipped another area opponent to go to 2-0 in the area race.
Jaguars 78, Andalusia 59: Placing four players in double figures, the Jaguars roared to a convincing win over area rival Andalusia.
“We had good balance inside and outside and our two big men controlled the backboards,” said Hillcrest coach Tommy Dukes.
Maurice Bradley canned 18 points to lead the scorers for Hillcrest. His total was followed closely by the 17 points of Jerry Jackson. Chris Hines added 14 points and Pierre Evans came through with 10 points from the perimeter.
Jackson and Hines took control of the rebounding duties with 14 and 13 boards, respectively.

Sparta Academy 60, Clarke Prep 52: Will Ivey and Eric Talbot both lit up the scoreboard with 21 points apiece to pace the Warriors to a much-needed area win. The area standings this year will not matter in the boys bracket because the girls standings determine the area tournament site.
Tony Raines and Michael Campbell followed with five points apiece for SA. Campbell again topped the rebounders with nine boards. Other scoring came from Chase Brown with four points and Carter Smith and Chris Cinereski with two points each.

42 YEARS AGO
JAN. 17, 1980

Edgard Tatum is shown with his championship pointer, “Bob.” The white and liver pointer won first place in the Northwest Florida Pointer and Setter Club’s Field Trials held Jan. 12-13 in Munson, Fla. “Bob” was braced against 45 other dogs and had four perfect finds in winning first place.

3 Warriors are named All-District: The Sparta Academy Warriors placed three players on the Alabama Private Schools Association All-District III Football Team. Ronny McKenzie, Terry Peacock and Greg Crabtree were all honored, according to Sports Information Director Byron Warren Jr.

Aggie cagers win a pair; are now 13-1: The Evergreen Aggies ran their record to 13-1 with two victories this week. On Monday night they defeated 4A Atmore 61-50. Aggie scoring went as follows: Joe Mitchell, 17; Horace Smith, 12; Sanford Moye, 11; Perona Rankins, 10; Johnny Allen 10; and Philander Rodgers, one. Rankins led the team in rebounds with 17 while Mitchell pulled down 14.
On Tuesday, the Aggies traveled up to Greenville and captured a 73-51 victory. Horace Smith led the team with 21 points while Johnny Allen threw in 13. Other scorers were Perona Rankins 12; Sanford Moye, eight; Philander Rodgers, eight; Joe Mitchell, eight; Arturo Scott, two; Russell Bozeman, one. Allen grabbed 14 rebounds while Rankins followed with 10.

Warriors rout Fort Deposit: Sparta Academy’s Warriors raced to an easy 83-52 win over Fort Deposit Academy in the varsity tilt played here Friday night. Terry Shipp with 27 points and Terry Peacock with 20 led the Sparta varsity.
(Other players on Sparta’s team included Ronny McKenzie, Jeff Johnson, Richard Tate and Bobby Mason.)

67 YEARS AGO
JAN. 20, 1955

Red Hot Aggies Drop Greenville 83-52 And W.S. Neal 83-47; Play Murphy Friday Nite: Coach Wendell Hart’s Aggies set a torrid pace in their last two outings as they rolled over the Greenville Tigers last Tuesday night by an 83-52 score and then came back Tuesday night of this week to crush W.S. Neal by an 83-47 count.
In defeating the Greenville team, the Aggies gained prestige as the Tigers are one of the top cage quints in South Alabama. They hold wins over Selma, Monroeville, Enterprise and are the only team who has defeated the powerful Elba team.
Center Randy White was the big gun for Evergreen as his mates fed him the ball and he rebounded well to total 32 points for the evening. The rest of the scoring was well divided among the Aggies as they all hit a good percentage of their shots. Alexander had 13; Jimmy Frazier, 12; Melton, 11; Douglas, nine; Wayne Frazier, four; and Robert King, four.
Evergreen continued to roll Tuesday night as they completely out-classed W.S. Neal 83-47 and had to hold back to keep the score from running higher. Again it was White with 29 points leading the pack followed by Tommy Melton and Wayne Frazier with 13 each. Ward Alexander and Jimmy Frazier had nine each; Wayne Douglas, eight, and Ronnie Edson, two, to round out the Aggie scoring.
The much-improved Aggies now have a four won and three lost record for the season and appear to be really hitting their stride, but their biggest test comes tomorrow (Friday) night when they go to Mobile to seek revenge over an earlier loss to the Murphy High Panthers. Murphy is rated by man as the best in the state and an Evergreen win would place the Aggies in a prominent position in state basketball.

92 YEARS AGO
JAN. 16, 1930

Local Cage Teams Hold Clean Record: Both the boys and girls basketball teams of the S.S.A.S. have yet to taste defeat this season. Each team has gone up against some pretty strong teams and come off victor. However, both teams are going up against teams from Opp High School next Friday night which also have clean records. For this reason, there is great interest among local fans as to what can be said after that game has been played. These games should be closely contested ones and every person who enjoys a good basketball game should by all means arrange to be on hand. Saturday night the Aggies meet their old rival in the sports world in Brewton. This should and no doubt will be another good game.
In the game Saturday nigh with Excel High School, the girls won by the score of 19-13 while the boys won 22-15. The score in the game with McKenzie on Friday night was 28-7 for the boys and 47-9 for the girls. The boys defeated the Monroeville team Tuesday night 41-4. Monroeville was not able to get a field goal. Another game was played with Monroeville Tuesday of this week, the score being 52-13 in favor of Evergreen.
The results of the games played thus far are as follows: BOYS, Dec. 13, Castleberry 12, Aggies 25; Dec. 18, Castleberry 17, Aggies 18; Dec. 20, Laurel Hill 4, Aggies 19; Jan. 7, Monroeville 4, Aggies 41; Jan. 10, McKenzie 7, Aggies 28; Jan. 11, Excel 15, Aggies 22; and Jan. 13, Monroeville 8, Aggies 52; GIRLS, Castleberry 21, Aggies 40; Castleberry 23, Aggies 38; Fort Deposit 7, Aggies 35; Fort Deposit 3, Aggies 36; Laurel Hill 7, Aggies 35; McKenzie 9, Aggies 47; Excel 13, Aggies 19.

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