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| Evergreen High School's Wendell Hart |
25 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 2, 1993
Hillcrest To Open 1993 Season With New Faces And Attitude:
Gone is the majority of the team that finished the 1992 season with a 1-9 mark.
Gone is the majority of the coaching staff from a year ago. What remains at
Hillcrest High School is a group of players smaller in numbers, size and
experience. New on the scene is a coaching staff with a different philosophy,
approach, offense and defense.
The new man in charge of the athletic program and head
football coach is Dennis Anderson, who served as an assistant coach at Eufaula
High School for several years. (Gerry Watson was assistant coach.)
Leading the cheers for the Hillcrest High School Jaguars
this season are Capt. Monica Williams, Co-Capt. Angie Ward, Amanda Chavers,
Rebecca Dillard, JoKeyra Ballard and Meredith Baggett. The young ladies will be
leading the cheers Friday night as the Jaguars travel to Daphne for the season
opener.
The 1993 football season arrived in full force last Friday
night as the Warriors of Sparta Academy utilized a “never say die” attitude and
some last minute heroics to post a victory in the team’s first game (23-22
against Crenshaw Christian in Evergreen).
Outstanding Sparta players in that game included Lyle Bell,
McPherson Cook, Casey Grant, Adrian Mitchell, Joey Smith, Britt Ward, David
Williams. Mike Bledsoe was Sparta’s head coach.
50 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 5, 1968
Aggies face Atmore here tonite at eight: The Evergreen High
Aggies will kick the cover off the 1968 football season here tonight at eight
o’clock in Brooks Stadium. Coach Wendell Hart’s club will tangle with the
traditional opening rival, the Escambia County High Blue Devils of Atmore.
Coach Hart has two new assistants this year, Mike Bledsoe
and Charles Branum. Coach Bledsoe is a native of Pensacola and a graduate of
Troy State University. Coach Branum is married to the former Joy Lure Davis of
Evergreen and is a graduate of Livingston State University. He comes to
Evergreen from Pine Apple and previously coached at Frisco City. He is a native
of Monroeville.
Hart reports his squad in good physical condition except for
Jimmy Hamiter, a two-way starter at tackle. Jimmy, 196-pound junior, injured a
knee at practice Tuesday night and it is not known whether or not he will be
able to play.
Hart says his boys have shown fine spirit and determination
in preseason drills. He terms their attitude as excellent. Overall, the club
will be some larger than any recent Aggie team and will be stronger.
(Other players on Evergreen’s team that year included junior
Jimmy Bell, junior John Brantley, junior Ronald Halford, senior Jimmy Hart,
senior Leon Hinson, senior Don Montgomery, senior Claude Nielsen, junior Ronald
Parker, senior Elliott “Buck” Quarles, junior Eddie Ralls, junior Ernest Shipp,
senior Forrest Simpson, junior Hollis Tranum, senior Roger Waller and senior Tommy
Weaver.)
The Blue Devils are coached by C.P. Floyd Jr. with
assistants Billy Madison and Ricky Myrick. Coach Madison was on the Aggie staff
last season.
75 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 2, 1943
Evergreen Softballers Down Brewton Twice: Sparked by the
pitching of Shell and homers by Huey and Barron, the Evergreen Softballers
downed Brewton’s ten twice Monday night. Huey’s homer was the big lick of the
first game which the locals took by a score of 6 to 2. Johnson collected two
hits in three trips to the plate to lead the locals hitting, and chased two
runs across the plate and scored once himself to figure heavily in the scoring.
Shell hurled good ball, and with the support of the locals didn’t allow a man
to reach third base until the final inning when the enemy counted twice.
Barron’s first inning homer gave the locals a good start,
and this blow proved sufficient to win the game, as Shell hurled beautiful ball
with capable assistance by his teammates in the pinches shut the Brewton boys
out 8 to 0. Hart hit twice in three appearances at the plate to pace the locals
hitting. Johnson took four bases on a long fly ball dropped by the foes
centerfielder and Barron crossed the platter in front of him to start a
three-run uprising in the fifth. The locals came to life again in the sixth and
blasted four runs across. The game was close the first four innings, but these
upheavals made it a one-sided affair.
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