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| Ken "Lum" Snyder |
SEVEN YEARS AGO
FEB. 17, 2011
Hillcrest High School’s
varsity boys basketball team assured itself of a shot at the area tournament
title and a spot in the sub-regional round of the state playoffs with a win
over Monroe County Friday night in Evergreen.
Hillcrest, the regular season
area champs, whipped Monroe, 60-58, in the semi-finals of the 4A Area 2 tourney
Friday night.
Hillcrest and Jackson battled
it out for the area title Monday night in Evergreen, but details from that game
were unavailable before press time this week.
Evergreen’s Chris Hines
matched a career high in assists when the University of Alabama’s men’s
basketball team faced No. 18 Vanderbilt Saturday in Nashville.
Hines matched a career high
with three assists and recorded nine points, five rebounds and a block in 34
minutes of play.
Vanderbilt won, 81-77.
Sparta Academy’s varsity
girls basketball team came up short in its quest for the Class 2A state title
when they suffered a 48-47 loss to Lowndes Academy on Friday.
The loss came in the Elite
Eight round of the state tournament, and the game was played at Faulkner
University in Montgomery.
Savannah Brown, a senior, led
Sparta with a double double, scoring 13 points and grabbing 13 rebounds. She
also had four steals and three assists.
(Other players on Sparta’s
teams that year included April Palmer, Ashton Raines, Madelyn Black, Emily
Booker, Stephanie Martin, Drew Ann Lambert and Jessica Coleman.)
32 YEARS AGO
FEB. 20, 1986
Andrae McMillian, star Evergreen
High School running back, signs a football scholarship with Jackson State
University, Jackson, Miss. Andrae averaged 6.1 yards per carry through five
games this season before being injured and unable to finish the season. His
coaches say that he is not only one of the most gifted players ever at the
school, but also an outstanding student in the classroom. Looking on are Coach
Dero Wise and Andrae’s parents, Mary and Mack Rankins.
These Lady Warriors of Sparta
Academy won the Region Tournament at Greenville Academy last week and were to
play Catherine Academy in the APSA State Championship Tournament at Huntingdon
College yesterday morning. Members of the team are Stacey Holmes, Julie
Johnson, Jeannie Vonderau, Shawn Hammonds and Jennifer Brown; and manager Tommy
Ellis, Tracy Holmes, Baby Girl Floyd, Susan Ward, Kim Searcy, Leah Carrier,
Carol Kendrick and Coach Robert Cumbie. Note: Sparta won, but the score wasn’t
available, nor the next game.
Sparta outscores Wilcox
81-79: The Sparta Academy Warriors won an 81-79 shootout from Wilcox Academy in
Camden Feb. 11. The Lady Warriors and Jr. Warriors lost their games, according
to Sparta Sports Information Director Byron Warren Jr.
Scott Salter had the hot hand
for Sparta’s boys and he meshed 27 points. Danny Reed had 16 points, Jason West
and Mark Rigsby 12 each and Tim Brantley and Brian Bybee six each.
Wilcox beat Sparta’s girls,
50-42. Kim Searcy had 18 points, Tracy Holmes 12, Leah Carrier 10 and Baby Girl
Floyd two.
The Wilcox Jr. Boys beat the
Warriors, 56-33. Lee Wild had 14 points, Chris Weaver 11, Baxter Stinson five
and Truman Hyde three.
Lady Warriors advance to
state: Sparta Academy’s Lady Warriors won the region tournament played Thursday
and Friday at Greenville Academy to advance to the APSA State Championship
Tournament to be played at Huntingdon College. The Warrior boys lost in the
finals of the region to end their season, according to Sparta Sports
Information Director Byron Warren Jr.
Sparta’s girls edged Escambia
County, 44-40, in double overtime in the region finals. Leah Carrier led the
way with 19 points; Carol Kendrick had nine points; Kim Searcy and Tracy
Holmes, six each; and Susan Ward, four.
The Lady Warriors beat host
Greenville Academy, 58-48, in the first round with four players in double
digits: Ward, 16; Holmes, 12; and Searcy and Carrier, 11 each. Kendrick had
eight points.
The Warrior boys outscored
Crenshaw Academy, 85-75, in the first round as six players scored in double
figures. Brandon Salter had 16 points; Scott Salter and Danny Reed, 14 each;
Tim Brantley, 13; Jason West, 12; Mark Rigsby, 11; and Brian Bybee, five.
Escambia Academy whipped the
Warriors, 77-51, in the finals. Reed had nine points; Bybee, Rigsby and
Brantley, eight each; Brandon Salter and Scott Salter, six each; and West,
four.
57 YEARS AGO
FEB. 16, 1961
Jr. League Calls Annual
Meeting of Officers, Managers: The annual organizational meeting of the
Evergreen Junior Baseball League will be held Thursday night, Feb. 23, at the
courthouse at 7:30, according to President Wendell Hart.
Hart said that all league
officers, managers of last year’s teams and game officials are asked to be
present at this meeting. Officers for 1961 will be elected and preliminary
organizational work for this summer’s play will be started.
Among business to come up is
a proposal to reduce the number of teams from four to three in the National and
American Leagues. Hart said this move is being considered so as to cut play
from three to two nights a week and avoid conflict with the Babe Ruth League.
If the new proposal is
adopted, the National League will have three teams and each team will have a
farm club in the American League. Each league will have one game on two nights
of the week.
Ex-Pro Footballer Speaks At
Rotary: Special speaker at the Rotary Club last Thursday was Lum Snider,
ex-professional football player.
Snider, a native of
Cleveland, Tenn., was at one time an All-SEC and All-American guard on the
Georgia Tech squad.
After several years of pro
ball with the Philadelphia Eagles, he coached for the British Columbia Lions in
Vancouver. He fascinated the Rotarians as he gave first hand information about
pro football both in Canada and the U.S.
Now a salesman for
International Paper Co. and resident of Birmingham, Snider was introduced to
the club by Knud Nielsen.
County Teams Vie In District
Meet: Three Conecuh County schools will participate in the Class A, District I
Basketball Tournament, to be held at T.R. Miller School in Brewton Feb. 22-25.
Castleberry, Repton and
Lyeffion will join 16 other teams from over the district in the Class A meet.
Castleberry will be the first
Conecuh team to play when it meets Silas at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Winner of the
three o’clock game will play Excel at 7:30 that same evening.
Lyeffion will play the winner
of a Wednesday afternoon match between Chatom and Fairhope at six o’clock
Wednesday.
Repton and Monroeville will
play at 9 p.m. Wednesday and the winner will meet the winner of the Miller vs.
Coffeeville game Friday at 7 p.m.
The tournament will be played
through Saturday with the consolation playoff at 7 p.m. Saturday and the finals
at 8:30.
82 YEARS AGO
FEB. 20, 1936
The Lime Hill girls
basketball team won an easy victory from Prof. Hardy’s Nichburg team by a score
of 25-6 at their home court Fri., Feb. 14.
A return game will be played
at the Nichburg school Sat., Feb. 22.
THE CONECUH-ESCAMBIA STAR
132 YEARS AGO
FEB. 18, 1886
Johnnie Henderson has killed
five large wild turkeys this week.
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