The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for July 18, 2022

18 YEARS AGO
JULY 15, 2004

Evergreen Aggies Football Sign-Up: The Evergreen Aggies Football sign-up will be held Sat., July 17, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Piggly Wiggly. A $25 registration fee and copy of birth certificate are due at sign-in. For more information, contact Alfred Willis.

43 YEARS AGO
JULY 19, 1979

Pritchard is head coach Lyeffion High: Roger Pritchard, a graduate assistant football coach at Alabama State University, Montgomery, has been named head football and basketball coach at Lyeffion High School.
Pritchard, a native of Fort Myers, Fla., was a three-year regular at linebacker for the Hornets after transferring to ASU from The Citadel. He is a 1972 graduate of North Fort Myers High School where he was a star football player.
The 24-year-old Pritchard inherits a football team at Lyeffion High School that went 2-8 last year, but he hopes to improve the small Class A team by stressing fundamentals when practice begins Aug. 6.
“You have to build a foundation before you can put a roof on it,” he said. “This first year, I’m going to teach basics and try to get the people in the area interested in our football program.”
Pritchard’s top assistant will be former Alabama State defensive tackle Edward Johnson of Chicago, Ill.

68 YEARS AGO
JULY 15, 1954

City Softball Loop Of 6 Teams Formed; Play Begins Tonight: The City Recreation Department has formed a six team softball league, Director Bill Parsons announced today. Play will open in the league tonight at Brooks Stadium at 7:30 o’clock. Games are scheduled on Tuesday and Thursday nights for the remainder of the summer.
A practice game between The Spotlight and Evergreen Equipment Co. was held Tuesday night. The game was held to try out the lights and to promote interest in the league. A small crowd of spectators enjoyed a game spotted with spills, brilliant plays and some not so brilliant plays.
In addition to the two teams just mentioned, the other entries are American Legion, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Evergreen Kiwanis Club and Southern Coach Mfg. Co., Inc. Teams are sponsored by these organizations, but players do not have to be associated with them.
Doubleheaders will be played every Tuesday and Thursday nights. The first game will start promptly at 7:30 and the second will get underway at 8:30.

Greenies And Paul Split Doubleheader: The Evergreen Greenies and the Paul Aces divided a Sunday afternoon doubleheader played on the Paul diamond. The Aces racked up a 6-4 win in the opener, but the Greenies came back in the night cap and registered a 5-3 victory. Both were well played games and seven-inning affairs.
Paul’s winning battery in the first game was Harold Godwin on the mound and McClain behind the plate. George Gaston was credited with the loss and Clint Ward was behind the plate for Evergreen. Linzie Pate banged out three hits in as many trips to the plate to lead the winners. Warren Bolton with two for four was best for the losers.
The Greenies got off to an early lead and were in front 2-0 at the end of three innings and 4-3 going into the last frame, but the Aces rallied for three runs and the decision.
The Greenies broke a 2-2 tie in their half of the last inning with a three-run outburst as they took the game 5 to 3 behind the hurling of J.W. Windham. Ward was behind the plate again. Hassell was the losing pitcher with McClain behind the plate again.
Clayton and McClain had two hits in four trips for Paul and Jeff Moorer and Windham identical records for the Greenies.

93 YEARS AGO
JULY 18, 1929

The Castleberry baseball team played and won three games from the strike-breakers by scores of 12-3, 5-2 and 5-1. The first game was played Mon., July 8, and the last two on Mon., July 14.

118 YEARS AGO
JULY 20, 1904

Bermuda vs. Sugar Hill: Belleville, July 18 – On the 16^th inst., the Bermuda and Sugar Hill baseball clubs crossed bats on the batter’s diamond, resulting in a score of 8 to 12 in Bermuda’s favor.
The Sugar Hill team played a hard game, but Wilson’s masterly pitching, his brother’s excellent catching and the fielders’ brilliant work proved too much for them.
|To say that the Bermuda team was treated royally by the citizens of Sugar Hill poorly expresses it. At 12 o’clock, dinner was spread in the beautiful oak grove adjoining the ground and everyone was invited to come up and partake in the delicious eatables, which everyone seemed to enjoy.

The presence of a bear in the vicinity of D.G. Rutland’s on Monday aroused considerable interest among some of our sportsmen and a number of them went out with guns and dogs to hunt old bruin down, but failed to locate him. It is said the bear has been seen by several persons in that community.

Betts: Several of our young people together with a crowd from Burnt Corn went on a fishing expedition to Roberson’s mill several days ago. The heavy rains prevented much fishing, but the mill house furnished a nice shelter under which dinner was served. The afternoon was spent in eating watermelons, playing Flinch, etc.