25 YEARS AGO
MAY 2, 1991
Wolff Motors and
Presley-Fluker win Babe Ruth openers:
Wolff Motors 7, Evergreen
Auto Parts 4: Wolff Motors opened the 1991 Evergreen Babe Ruth baseball season
with a 7-4 victory over Evergreen Auto Parts.
Bryant Robinson and Britt
Ward keyed the offensive attack for Wolff Motors with two hits each.
Ward also was given credit
for the victory on the mound after relieving Robinson in the third inning with
one out. Greg Shehan led Evergreen Auto Parts at the plate with three hits,
including a solo homerun.
Presley-Fluker 8, McKenzie
Merchants 3: Presley-Fluker scored six runs in the second inning and held on
for the 8-3 victory over McKenzie Merchants in the second game last Saturday.
Rhett Wilson went the
distance on the mound for the victory, while Jason McMillian, Michael Bradley
and Marlo McDaniel led the Presley-Fluker team in hitting.
Shannon Shofford, Deric
Womack and Willie Womack, who had a two-run homer in the sixth inning, led the
McKenzie attack.
Richard Brown, professional
speaker and ladies basketball coach at Patrick Henry State Junior College, was
the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Alpha
Delta Kappa. Brown, a very successful coach and after-dinner speaker for
numerous groups in the Southeast, talked to the honorary sorority for women
educators about winning in all of life’s situations.
40 YEARS AGO
MAY 6, 1976
The Sparta Academy baseball
team won two games and lost three in the past week, according to Sports
Information Director Byron Warren Jr.
On April 26, Escambia edged
the Warriors, 3-2, with Jerry Peacock getting tagged with the loss although he
gave up only five hits.
Sparta used its only two hits
to good advantage in downing Fort Dale, 4-1, on last Thursday. Ronnie Pugh was
the winning pitcher while the Peacock Brothers, Jerry and Terry, got Sparta’s
hits.
Friday, the Warriors slipped
past Escambia, 7-6, with Jerry Peacock on the mound. Freddie Sellers had two
hits and Pugh one.
Fort Dale shut the Warriors
out, 10-0, on Saturday with Joe Andrews being tagged with the loss. Jerry
Peacock and Sam Wiggins had one hit each.
Monday, Wilcox clubbed
Sparta, 12-4, to put the Warriors season record at four wins and nine losses.
Jerry Peacock was the losing pitcher. Walker Scott had three hits; Bobby
Johnson, two; and Jerry Peacock, Andrews and Wiggins, one each.
Sparta girls undefeated:
Sparta Academy’s girls remained undefeated in softball as they staged a
tremendous late rally Wednesday of last week to edge Fort Dale, 15-14. Donna
Salter was the winning pitcher as the girls ran their record to 3-0.
Leanne Tanner led the hitters
with two safeties.
55 YEARS AGO
MAY 4, 1961
Jr. League Assigns Players To
Teams: President of the Evergreen Junior League, Howard Fore, announced this
week the following list of new players with their respective managers:
Dodger-Chicks: Gene Glass,
Skipper Carlton, Vernon Millsap, Mike Bethune, Barry Turk, John Skipper,
William H. Kahl, Rodney Powell, Danny Hall, Billy Jack Smith, Ivan Gomes, Billy
Griggers, David Stonestreet, John Crum Sessions, Herbert Ellis, Myles Covin,
Marvin Salter and Gerald Salter;
Managers for the Dodgers are
Robert Glass and Frank Chavers. Dizzy Dean and W.G. Langford will manage the
Chicks.
Giants-Pelicans: Sammie
Simpson, Wayne Hicks, Joe Brown, Tim Skipper, Johnny Stokes, Eric Pugh, Bobby
Snowden, Paul Drummond, Robert Ward, Bill Snowden, Harold Wright, Larry Wright,
Robert Williams, Jim Williams, John Barron, George Fontaine and John Shanklin.
Giants managers are Moreno
White and Marvin Hicks. Managers for the Pelicans are W.S. Simpson and Robert
Quarles.
Yankees-Orioles: John Autrey,
Jerry Sasser, Ralph Pugh, Stanley Aaron, James Coker, Frank Bilbro, David
Davis, Jimmy Bell, Shelby Windham, Dallas Kelly, Gregory Hall, Danny Crosby and
Harold Bolton.
Waynard Price and Randy
Moorer will manage the Yankees and the Orioles will be managed by Bill Murner
and Terry Sullivan.
Fore said all the boys will
be contacted by their managers as to time and place for practice.
Lyeffion Hi Loses First Track
Meet: Lyeffion made three first-placements in a dual track meet with Flomaton
in Flomaton Tuesday, according to Lyeffion’s Coach Dale Brown.
In the 440-yard dash,
880-yard dash and 440-yard relay Lyeffion took firsts. Danny Covin ran the
440-yard dash in 57.9 seconds. Thomas Frazier took first in the 880 for
Lyeffion in two minutes 24 seconds. The 440-yard relay was made in 51.7 seconds
by Danny Covin, Thomas Frazier, William Cater and Charles Salter.
Lyeffion’s Floyd Fields
placed third in the 100-yard dash. In the mile run, Patton Brown came in second
and William Cater third. Floyd Fields won second in the 220-yard dash, Bobby
Salter was third in the 440, Wendell Brown second in 880 and Danny Covin placed
second in the broad jump.
70 YEARS AGO
MAY 2, 1946
Evergreen Defeats Milton By
Score 7 To 0: The Evergreen Baseball Club traveled to Milton, Fla. on Sunday
and won its second game of the season, 7-0. Milton will journey to Evergreen
Sunday for a game at 3 p.m.
Hart pitched three-hit ball
for seven innings and McDonald held them to no hits for the next two innings.
Johnson and Page each had two hits, and Bolton drove out a 300-foot homer in
the first inning. The outstanding fielder was Barfield, first baseman.
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Newman
attended the golf tournament in Dothan the past weekend.
85 YEARS AGO
MAY 7, 1931
Ladies Ball Game Coming
Attraction: Thursday afternoon, May 14, the first afternoon the stores will
close for a half holiday, will also mark the time when another novel and
eagerly anticipated event will transpire. According to information reaching
this office baseball fans of Evergreen and vicinity will have the rare
opportunity of witnessing a baseball game between teams composed of the best
talent among the Evergreen ladies. The game is being sponsored by the Library
Committee for the benefit of the Library.
The teams to play have been
dubbed for sake of distinction “Down Town Giants” and “Up Town Cubs,” the one
being composed of players living in the northern part of town and the other of
those living in the southern part. The line-up for the teams is as follows:
Down Town Giants: Stallworth,
shortstop; C. McReynolds, first base; McMillan, catcher; Binion, third base;
Nash, center field; Phillips, left field; Northcutt, second base; Wild, right
field; Shannon, pitcher; McNair, pitcher; M.H. Jones, pitcher; Binion, captain;
Prof. W.P. McMillan, manager.
Up Town Cubs: Mills,
shortstop; Suddith, third base; P. McReynolds, catcher; L. Kelly, right field;
Williams, first base; Webster, left field; E. Cunningham, second base; Lane,
center field; Wright, pitcher; M.W. Jones, pitcher; I. Kelley, pitcher;
Williams, captain; Coach McInnis, manager.
J.O. Stapp will serve as
umpire.
The price of admission to
this game will be 15 and 25 cents. Of course, no one will think of missing it.
The game will be played at
Gantt field Thursday afternoon.
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