Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for Dec. 26, 2013

21 YEARS AGO
DEC. 24, 1992

“Members of the Evergreen Junior High School Aggie basketball team are Lee Dennis, Timothy George, Roderick McIntyre, Marcus Ingram, LeMario Averette, Gregory Gray, Tyrone Presley, Louis Young, Ryan Meeks, Tony Section and Luvert Dukes. They are coached by Calvin Fluker.”

“The Lady Aggies at Evergreen Junior High School are sporting an undefeated record at 5-0 under the leadership of Coach Beverly Riley. The team members are LeKesha Matthews, Sophia Riley, Elizabeth Richardson, Cammie Roach, Cindy Watts, LaShara Stokes, Coretta Rogers, Kwanis Bryant, Olivia Lane, Shantel Scott, Gennifer Meeks and Brenda Turner.”

“Lady Warriors rebound to defeat Fort Dale: Senior Kelly Booker and junior Nann Castleberry have been leading the Sparta Academy Warriors on the court recently. The Lady Warriors are sporting a 1-3 record, losing close games to Monroe and Escambia Academy while defeating Fort Dale-South Butler.
“In the Lady’s opening game of the year, Kelly Booker (Sr.) led Sparta in scoring with 23 points in the 53-50 loss to Monroe Academy. Miss Castleberry was also in double figures with 18 points in the losing effort. Sophomore Kelly Booker, Rhonda Williams and Valerie Griffin each scored two points, according to Sparta Academy Sports Information Director Byron Warren Jr.”

36 YEARS AGO
DEC. 22, 1977

“Jackets end 1977 unbeaten: The Lyeffion Yellow Jackets finished 1977 with 11 wins against no defeats. The Jackets picked up a big regular season game over the Evergreen Aggies, 55-52 (Dec. 13). They also were winners in the Castleberry Invitational Tournament with wins over Georgiana, 52-48, and Repton, 59-53.
“In the game against Evergreen, Lyeffion rallied in the fourth quarter to overcome a 45-38 deficit at the end of the third quarter. Eric Finklea led scoring with 14 points followed by Adrian Woods with 13, Ricky Hall with 12, Willie Hunter with 11, Harold Kyser with three, James Riley with two.
“Adrian Woods led scoring with 23 points to lead Lyeffion past Georgiana in the first round of the tournament. Eric Finklea followed with 11, Willie Hunter with seven, Harold Kyser with five, Rickey Hall with four, Rickey Johnson with two.
“In the final round against Repton, the Jackets scoring was led by Adrian Woods with 20 points, followed by Harold Kyser with 15, Willie Hunter with 10, Eric Finklea with six, Ricky Hall and James Riley both with four.”

“The Sparta Academy Warriors won the consolation game from host Greenville Academy, 51-46, to take third place in the Greenville Christmas Tournament last week. Gray Stevens was named to the all tournament team.”
Other players on Sparta’s team that year included Steve Dubose, John Hall, Cook Morrison, Bobby Padgett, Terry Peacock, Tony Raines and Johnny Ralls.

51 YEARS AGO
DEC. 27, 1962

“Castleberry Wins County Tournament: The Blue Devils of Conecuh County High School at Castleberry firmly established themselves as one of South Alabama’s top cage powers by winning the Conecuh County Invitational Tournament. Castleberry racked up Pineapple, 58-19, in the finals Thursday night.
“Coach Pope’s host team is unbeaten this year. The Blue Devils lost only one player off their 1961-62 squad and have had little trouble downing all foes this year.
“Castleberry placed three players on the all tournament team chosen at the conclusion of the meet. Janes, Foster and Kast were named. Others chosen were Robinson of Repton, Raines of Beatrice, Barlow and Sasser of T.R. Miller and Cochran and Stafford of Pineapple.
“Janes tossed in 18 and Kast 17 to pace the Blue Devils in the championship tilt. Others scoring were Foster nine, Findley five, Sims four, Shipp three and Godwin two. Cochran led Pineapple with five points.
“The tournament concluded play for the Blue Devils until the regular schedule is resumed in January.”

“Frisco City Wins Holiday Tourney: Frisco City captured the Evergreen Holiday Invitational Tournament Thursday night by whipping J.U. Blacksher of Uriah, 65-53. Greenville took the consolation game by a 64-29 score from Evergreen.
“Greenville handily won the battle of the boards and Evergreen shot only 13.2 percent from the floor in the second half as the Tigers coasted to victory led by 19 and 16-point performances by Paul Burch and Joe Terrell, respectively. Joe Sasser with 10 was the only Aggie in double figures.”

66 YEARS AGO
DEC. 25, 1947

“Twenty-Six Aggie Gridders Awarded Letters Friday: Twenty-six members of the 1947 football squad at Evergreen High School were awarded letters at the annual Quarterback Club banquet held at the City Café Friday night.
“W.K. ‘Herky’ Salter, 200-pound tackle, who has been a terror in the Aggie line for four seasons, received his fourth and final letter at Evergreen High School. Other seniors receiving letters were Glenn McIntyre (3), Mickey Logue (2), Sherry Brooks (2), Bill Carpenter (2), Harold Robison (2), Arthur McCreary (2), Georgie Brown (2), Harold Owens and Curtis Walker.
“Juniors receiving letters were John Law Robinson (3), Dudley Bartlett (2), Donald Wiggins, Dean Shaver, Bobby White, Nick Stallworth and Thomas Coker.
“Sophomores receiving letters were Sammy Hanks (2), James Ryan (2), Bruce Johnson, Dickey Bozeman, John Greel Ralls, Jack Cunningham and Tommy White.
“Freshmen receiving letters were Billy Mudge Lee and Shelton Craig. Coach (Wendell) Hart also stated that although Max Pope and Jeff Moorer, both freshmen, and Edward Hooks, sophomore, did not letter, they do deserve commendation for their hard work and improvement shown and expects all three of them to prove valuable next season.”

81 YEARS AGO
DEC. 22, 1932

“Squirrel Season Comes To Close December 31: Under the new law approved at the recent extraordinary session of the legislature, the squirrel season closes Dec. 31, instead of Jan. 31, as formerly. According to Mr. I.E. Adams, game warden for this district, there is considerable misunderstanding among the people about the closing date due to the fact that hunting licenses this year show the closing date as Jan. 31. This is wrong Mr. Adams states, as these licenses were printed before the legislature changed the closing date from Jan. 31 to Dec. 31.
“Hunters are therefore, warned to disregard the date shown on their licenses and bear in mind the new closing date. Wardens and other officers will enforce the law accordingly and it is hoped that no one will violate the law through a misunderstanding. Take your pen, scratch out Jan., and put Dec.”

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