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| James "Cliff" Little III |
TWO YEARS AGO
NOV. 3, 2016
Warriors wrap up season:
Sparta Academy’s varsity football team closed out the 2016 season Friday night
with a 48-7 loss to No. 9-ranked South Choctaw Academy at Stuart-McGehee Field
in Evergreen.
Last Friday night’s game
marked the final game for half a dozen seniors, and a returning crop of eight
veteran juniors bodes well for next year’s team.
Seniors on this year’s team
include Griffin Weaver, Stone Riley, Taylor Kendrick, Peyton McCraney, J.T.
Baker and Davis Nix.
(Other players on Sparta’s
team that season included Caleb Durphy, Hagen Holder, Sean Kelly, Logan
Thompson, Noah Pettis, Ryan Hanks, Colton Lambert, Dalton Kaufman, Clay Conway,
Darren Draper, Grayson Weaver, Bailey Watts, Donnie Kaufman, Jesse Anderson,
Trenton Glass, Jackson Conway and Caleb Riley. Justin Chandler was head coach.)
Hillcrest High School’s
varsity football team came up just one point shy of beating the No. 6-ranked
team in Class 2A Friday night in a 42-41 loss to Aliceville High School in
Aliceville.
Tomorrow (Friday) night, the
Jags will begin postseason play when they travel to Channell Lee Field in Opp
to take on the 9-1 Opp Bobcats, the No. 4-ranked team in Class 3A.
Hillcrest enters tomorrow
night’s game with a 4-6 overall record and as the No. 4 seed in 3A Region 1.
27 YEARS AGO
NOV. 7, 1991
Hillcrest Jaguars manhandle
Wilcox Central, 42-6: The Hillcrest Jaguars snapped their three-game losing
streak with a 42-6 trouncing of Wilcox Central.
Offensively on the night, the
Jags had their top game of the year running the ball with 394 yards on 54
carries. Leading rushers for the Jags were Cecil Gill with 152 yards on 16
carries. Bryant Richardson with 112 yards on six carries and Calvin Richardson
with 68 yards on 18 carries, all in the second half for Calvin as a host of
players got to play in the rout.
(Other standout Hillcrest
players in that game included Marcus Bruce, Derek Gessner and Todd Watson.)
The Jaguars will close out
the 1991 season with homecoming tomorrow night as they play host to Mobile
County.
Catherine blanks Sparta 34-0:
Catherine Academy handed the Sparta Academy Warriors their first loss of the
season last Friday night. Excessive costly mistakes by the Warriors against a
still-undefeated Catherine team resulted in the 34-0 loss.
According to Sparta Academy
Sports Information Director Byron Warren Jr., Jason Williams and Richard Weaver
ran the ball well for the Warriors in the loss.
The only statistic available
at press time was in the passing department for the Warriors. Sparta completed
seven passes on the evening with Steven Gall pulling in five and Jeremy Jones
catching two.
The Warriors will try to
rebound this week as they host Fort Dale Academy this Friday night.
52 YEARS AGO
NOV. 3, 1966
Evergreen routs Red Level
53-7 for third straight: The Evergreen Aggies routed Red Level here Friday
night 53-7 to rack up their third straight win and run the season record to
four wins and three losses. The explosive, eight-touchdown attack was the
biggest scoring spree by an Aggie team in a decade.
In spite of the rash of
touchdowns, Coach Cliff Little credited an aggressive Aggie defensive corps
with winning the ball game. He pointed out that the Aggie defenders forced
eight fumbles with their hard tackling, converting one into a touchdown and
setting up scores with others. The Aggies recovered seven of the eight Red
Level bobbles.
(Top Evergreen players in
that game included Jimmy Bell, Glenn Bolton, Wayne Caylor, Homer Faulkner,
George Stinson, Lavon Tolbert, Hollis Tranum and Jack White.)
Aggies to play Miller High in
Brewton Friday: Winless last season, the improving Evergreen High Aggies put a
three-game win streak on the line when they travel to Brewton Friday night for
a game with arch rival T.R. Miller. Kickoff is set for 7:30 in the beautiful
new Miller Stadium.
Coach Cliff Little’s Aggie
have gone on a scoring spree in their last two outings, blasting Frisco City,
39-6, and Red Level, 53-7. The Aggies have wins over those two, W.S. Neal and
Lyeffion. They have lost to Atmore, Monroeville and Greenville.
In their last three games,
the Aggies have run up a total of 106 points to 13 for their opponents. Coach
Little gives most of the credit to the defensive performers for the Aggies
improvement, in spite of this high-powered attack.
77 YEARS AGO
NOV. 6, 1941
Brewton And Atmore Meet
Friday Night: Through the cooperation of T.R. Miller Mill Co. of Brewton, the
annual football game between Escambia County High and Miller High will be
played in Brewton on Friday night at eight o’clock as originally scheduled.
Although electricity for the
Brewton field is normally supplied from Alabama Power Company’s hydro-electric
lines, an interchange arrangement has been in effect for some time whereby the
steam plant for the T.R. Miller Mill Co. frequently supplies electricity during
emergencies to all consumers served by the Brewton substation of the power
company.
By virtue of this set-up and
through agreement of officials of both the power company and the mill company,
the latter company will take over the Brewton load during the hours when lights
on the Brewton football field are in use tomorrow (Friday) night.
Through this arrangement, all
electricity used in lighting the field will be generated at the steam plant of
T.R. Miller Mill Co. This will in no way conflict with the government’s present
program of conserving hydro-electric power in the Southeast or violate orders
of the OPM prohibiting athletic games at night. Actually, it will tend to
further the conservation program by relieving the power company of the entire
load of Brewton and vicinity that would otherwise be carried by its lines on
Friday night.
Domino Club Will Meet
Thursday Night: The Domino club will meet at the Evergreen High School next
Thursday night, Nov. 6. Everybody invited. Each player will draw for his
partner promptly at 7:30. Come out and let’s have lots of fun and make new
friends. – The Evergreen Domino Club.
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