The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for June 20, 2022

Lovie Smith

SIX YEARS AGO
JUNE 16, 2016

All-Stars drop two tourney games: Evergreen’s 11-and-12-year-old Cal Ripken All-Star baseball team came up short in a pair of games last week in the district tournament in Andalusia.
Evergreen suffered a 14-0 loss to Opp’s all-stars last Thursday night, and they were eliminated from the tournament on Saturday after a 12-7 loss to the Covington County all-stars.
Players on Evergreen’s all-star team included Javen Bradley, Dalton Coleman, Jackson Conway, Daiyon El-Amin, Rafael Gonzalez, KeSharvis Jones, Willie Likely, Christian Locke, Caleb Riley, Timothy Rudolph Jr., Malik Simpson, Ronald Stallworth and Victor Taylor. The team was managed by Timothy Rudolph and assistant coaches included Andrae McMillian, Delarius Simpson and Quentin Simpson.

Players on Evergreen’s 7-and-8-year-old Cal Ripken all-star baseball team in 2016 included Aubrey Baggett, Amber Boykin, Jacob Byrd, Jordan Byrd, Samuel Cook, Blaine Delaney, Cameron Hall, Cameron Ingram, Keontra Palmore, Hagen Robinson and Justin Sessions. The team was managed by Joseph Baggett. Assistant coaches included Tyrone Boykin, Charles Mooney and Jason Robinson.

Hillcrest High School football players Joshua Jackson and Jeremy Dees traveled this week to Champaign, Ill. to take part in a football camp at the University of Illinois. During the event, Jackson and Dees met several football VIPs, including Illinois head coach Lovie Smith, who is former head coach of the Chicago Bears and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Jackson and Dees traveled to the camp with Hillcrest head coach Clinton Smith and assistant coach Quinn Hambrite.

31 YEARS AGO
JUNE 20, 1991

Members of the 1991 13-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars were announced Saturday night. Team members are Reggie Boykin, Tommy Byrd, Josh Scott; Lavon Merrills, Detrick Womack, James Johnson, Kevin Riley and Chad Wilson. Not pictured are Joey Griffin, Henry Holt, Lewis Lowe and Gabriel Potts. The team will represent Conecuh County during the area tournament, June 27, in Brewton. They will face Atmore’s all-star team at 7:30 p.m.

The Most Valuable Player trophies were handed out Saturday night at the Evergreen Municipal Park for the Babe Ruth Baseball League. The MVP winner for the 14-15 year olds was Rhett Wilson. Shannon Shufford was the runner-up. The winner of the MVP award for the 13-year-olds was Detrick Womack. The runner-up is to Detrick’s right, Reggie Boykin.

Members of the 14-15-year-old all-star team was announced Saturday night. The Evergreen Babe Ruth All-Stars will play South Monroe’s all-stars in Atmore, July 5, at 7:30 p.m. Team members are as follows: Sedrick Fluker, Shannon Sims, Eric Owens, Matthew Jones, Marlo McDaniel, Rhett Wilson, Willie Womack, Robert Ball, Isaac McMillan, Shannon Shufford, Britt Ward, Bryant Robinson, Steven Bledsoe and Robert Rabren.

56 YEARS AGO
JUNE 16, 1966

Lyeffion QB Club is sponsoring Little League: The Lyeffion Quarterback Club is sponsoring Little League Baseball as a summer recreation program for boys in the elementary school at Lyeffion. There are four teams with approximately 50 boys participating.
Officers of the Lyeffion Little League are President, Bernard Powell; Vice President, Harold Ryals; Secretary, Jane Brooks; Chief Umpire, R.J. Davis.
The teams with managers and assistant managers are: Braves, Harold Ryals and Woodrow Pate; Giants, Herbert Oakley and James Cowart; Dodgers, Joe Varner and Alvin Quinley; Cardinals, Jack Daniels and Eugene Davis. Each team plays twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday nights.
The Quarterback Club would like to express its appreciation to all those who have given donations to make this program possible, also to the mothers and fathers of the boys who are playing and to the others who are helping.

81 YEARS AGO
JUNE 19, 1941

1,673 Arrested For Violation Of Game And Fish Laws: Montgomery, Ala. – Arrests for violation of the game and fish laws during the eight months ending May 31 totaled 1,673 with 1,354 convictions recorded and fines paid, according to Ben C. Morgan, chief of the Game and Fish Division of the State Conservation Department. Only 59 cases were appealed, nolle prosed or acquitted, while 260 cases are pending in the courts, Morgan said. These figures are for the first eight months of the state’s fiscal year which began October 1, 1940.
The state is divided into four districts in the enforcement of game and fish laws, with a field supervisor in charge of each district. Individual figures for the districts during the eight-months period were: District 1 (Northwest Alabama) Ted Cottrell, Supervisor, 384 arrests and 330 convictions; District 2 (Southwest Alabama), W.G. Wharton, Supervisor, 462 arrests and 365 convictions; District 3 (Northeast Alabama), Morgan Loyd, Supervisor, 355 arrests and 250 convictions; District 4 (Southeast Alabama), Graham Hixon, Supervisor, 472 arrests and 409 convictions.