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| Coach Wendell Hart |
19 YEARS AGO
MARCH 4, 1999
Hillcrest Jaguars defeat
Georgiana, 8-2, on Feb. 26: Hillcrest High School won their first home game of
the 1999 baseball season against Georgiana High School, 8-2, on Fri., Feb. 26.
Alvis Griffin and Keith Kent combined to keep Georgiana to a total of seven
hits and two runs.
Alvis pitched four innings
and gave up five hits, one run and four strikeouts. Keith gave up two hits, one
run, one walk and six strikeouts in three innings. Both runs were unearned due
to three errors.
Scoring for Hillcrest were
Josh Merrills, one run; Alvin Griffin, one run; Kelvin Fluker, one run; Mario
Taylor, one run; Ronald Grace, one run; Drew Armstrong (courtesy runner for
Keith Kent), one run.
Josh Merrills had two RBI;
Steven Daniels, one RBI; Mario Taylor, one RBI; and Ron Grace, one RBI.
Hillcrest High School lost
their opening baseball game, 9-8, to Clarke County High School on Fri., Feb.
19, 1999 in Grove Hill.
Alvis Griffin pitched four
innings of play and gave up three runs on five hits with two strikeouts and one
walk. Keith Kent had three RBI; Kenny Riley, two RBI; and Alvis Griffin, two
RBI.
Hillcrest High School
defeated Red Level High School, 8-1, on Tues., Feb. 23, 1999 in Red Level. The
game was called after 4-1/2 innings of play because of darkness. Therefore, the
score reverted back to the last full inning.
Keith Kent gave up one run on
four hits and three strikeouts in five innings of pitching.
44 YEARS AGO
MARCH 7, 1974
It’s two years in a row for
the Evergreen High Aggies to compete in the State 3A Basketball Tournament at
the University of Alabama. Coach Charles Branum’s cagers will tangle with
Russellville at nine o’clock this morning in the opening round. They carry a
superb, 29-2, record into the state meet. The Aggies are Albert Stallworth,
Eddie Stallworth, Chuck Jones, Willie Ingram, Anthony Merrill, Coach Branum,
Donald Perkins, David Thomas, Cleve Fields, Ronald Fantroy, Alfonza Holder and
Gene Stallworth.
Aggies open play in state meet
this morning: The Evergreen High Aggies return to the state Class AAA
tournament for the second year in a row today after completing a 29-2 season.
The road to state this year
began last week with the Region 1, Area 2 tournament in Evergreen in which the
Aggies knocked off Grove Hill, 81-72, in the semi-finals and stopped arch-rival
Jackson in the finals, 65-53, playing one of their finest games of the season.
Saturday night, the Aggies
took their second straight Region 1 title by crushing the Alba Sharks, 69-43,
behind a 19-point effort by sophomore center Ronald Fantroy. Fantroy dominated
play underneath, taking the game away from Alba’s 6-8 pivotman Barry
Montgomery, an all-state and all-America candidate.
Under the coaching of Charles
Branum, the Aggies have compiled an impressive two-year record of 62 wins and
four losses, one of the top records in the state. Branum’s personal record is
187-35.
This year’s area all-star
team featured three Aggie performers: forwards David Thomas and Eddie
Stallworth and guard Cleve Fields.
69 YEARS AGO
MARCH 3, 1949
Lyeffion, Evergreen Win In
Benefit Doubleheader: The curtain fell on the 1948-49 basketball season in
Conecuh County Tuesday night at Evergreen High’s Memorial Gym and caught in its
swirl were Repton’s Bulldogs and the Blue Devils of County High at Castleberry.
Lyeffion topped Repton, 44-23, and Evergreen downed Castleberry, 55-31, before
a near capacity crowd with all proceeds divided by the March of Dimes and
Crippled Children’s Clinic.
Miller Dees paced the
Lyeffion Yellow Jackets to their win over the fighting Repton Bulldogs in the
opener. With Dees hitting for 11 the Jackets took a 15-8 lead at the quarter,
Dees hit for six in the second as Lyeffion surged to a 28-10 halftime lead.
Three more in the final two periods gave Dees a night high total of 20 points.
Bobby Thompson and Don Ivey
sparked the Repton Bulldogs. Thompson sank 11 points and Ivey eight for the
bulk of the Bulldogs’ counters. Coach Roy Davis’ five had trouble hitting their
shots. Coach Harry Engle’s boys put them in from everywhere and were especially
accurate at the foul throw line sinking 14 of 19 charity tosses.
Scoring for Lyeffion were
Ferris McCrory, 11; Bill Booker, one; Junior Watts, three; Miller Dees, 20;
Billy Wayne Cook, six; George Waters, one; and Gilmore, two. For Repton, Bobby
Thompson, 11; Andress, two; Allen Thompson, two; and Don Ivey, eight.
Coach Wendell Hart’s
Evergreen Aggies went wild in the second quarter to account for 23 points as
they outscored Coach M.C. Thomasson’s County High Blue Devils, 53-31. The game
started out slowly with the score deadlocked, 7-7, at the quarter, but the Blue
Devils couldn’t match the Aggies speed in the second period and it was 30-11 at
the half.
Local fans were treated to
some of the fanciest shooting of the year as both the Aggies and Blue Devils
sent a neat percentage of their shots through the cords. Evergreen tried 58
shots from the floor with 25 good for an excellent 43 percent (normal high
school percentage ranges from 22 to 28 percent). Castleberry hit well above the
average sinking 12 of 40 for an even 30 percent.
Lee Owen (Pill) Dees,
Castleberry ace, set the pace as he topped the scorers with 18 points. Dees
sank seven field goals, all from way way out, and dropped four of five foul
shots. It was his sixth and last year of varsity basketball and he finished in
a blaze of glory.
Evergreen divided the points
evenly. Dickey Bozeman, John Greel Ralls and Guerry Moorer netted 11 each and
Billy Mudge Lee sank 10. Finishing up the scoring for Evergreen, Bobby Frank
Snowden, six; Pete Wells, two; Jeff Moorer, two; and Gwyn Daniels, two. For
Castleberry, Herbert Smith, two; Baggett, two; Edd Beasley, seven; and Curt
Sullivan, two.
Officials were Sauer and
Gwinn of the Central Alabama Officials Association of Montgomery.
Three County Teams Lose In
Frisco City Tourney: The three Conecuh County high schools entered in the First
District “B” Tournament at Frisco City were eliminated last weekend. Lyeffion
went to the quarterfinals for the furtherest advance made by any team.
Coach Ray Davis’s Repton
Bulldogs battled second-seeded Monroeville down to the wire but couldn’t cope
with the two-team system employed by the Monroe Countians. Monroeville finished
fourth in the tournament.
Coach M.C. Thompson’s
Castleberry Blue Devils lost a heart-breaking, 19-18, decision to fourth-seeded
Chatom. Herbert Smith shot nine points and Lee Owen (Pill) Dees eight for the
Devils. Dees, although playing in only one game, was named to a forward post on
the second string all-district team. Chatom finished second in the tournament.
Coach Harry Engle’s Lyeffion
Yellow Jackets advanced to the quarterfinals before losing to T.R. Miller High.
The Jackets trounced Excel in their opening game and gave the Millers a battle
before falling. Miller was seeded third, but were convincingly superior as they
took the title, defeating Chatom in the finals. Miller and Chatom will
represent the first district in the state “B” tournament in Tuscaloosa this
weekend.
The Evergreen squad will
carry a 16-won, seven-lost record into the tournament. They have won nine and
lost two against first district competition.
Coach Hart states that the
Aggies will go down to Mobile tonight (Thursday). He will start his usual five,
consisting of Dickey Bozeman and Billy Mudge Lee at forwards, Guerry Moorer at
center, John Greel Ralls and John Law Robinson at guards. In addition to these
starters, varsity reserves Bobby Frank Snowden and Gwyn Daniels and “B” squad
members Jeff Moorer, Bobby (Pete) Wells and Gillis (Choo-Choo) Morgan will make
the trip.
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