Monday, March 4, 2019

The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for March 4, 2019

Evergreen's Chris Hines.

EIGHT YEARS AGO
MARCH 3, 2011

Evergreen’s Chris Hines scored a career-high 15 points, grabbed seven rebounds and was named the Player of the Game after a conference game between Alabama’s men’s basketball team and Ole Miss Saturday in Oxford.
In 33 minutes of play, Hines sank six-of seven field goals and also had two assists and two steals. In the second half, he sank two-of-two field goals, including a three-point play that capped a 12-0 Alabama run that gave the Tide its biggest lead of the game.

Three Sparta Academy senior basketball players took part in the AISA’s annual all-star basketball games on Saturday.
Devlin Crosby, 5-foot-10, was among the 15 players named to the West Boys All-Star Team. He scored four points and grabbed a rebound.
Madelyn Black, 5-6, and Savannah Brown, 5-8, were among the 15 players named to the West Girls All-Star Team. Black finished the game with five steals, one point and a rebound. Brown had two rebounds, one point and a steal.
The AISA’s All-Star basketball games were played on Saturday at Huntingdon College in Montgomery.

Hillcrest High School’s varsity boys basketball team assured itself of a spot in this year’s Class 4A state basketball tournament by claiming the South Regional title Saturday in Mobile.
Hillcrest (26-6) beat No. 2-ranked Andalusia, 68-57, in the regional tournament finals Saturday, avenging an early season, two-point loss to the Bulldogs and securing a spot for the Jags in the state tournament.

33 YEARS AGO
MARCH 6, 1986

These Lady Warriors of Sparta Academy won second place in the State Class A Basketball Championships of the Alabama Private Schools Association: Julie Johnson, Stacey Holmes, Shawn Hammonds, Jennifer Brown, Jeannie Vonderau, Tracy Holmes, Baby Girl Floyd, Susan Ward, Kim Searcy, Leah Carrier, Carol Kendrick and Coach Robert Cumbie.

Leah Carrier of Sparta Academy’s Lady Warriors Basketball Team was chosen to play in the State All-Star Game and Coach Robert Cumbie was chosen to coach in the classic at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Leah is also an All-State Cheerleader. Leah is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carrier of Evergreen.

58 YEARS AGO
MARCH 2, 1961

Jr. League Elects Fore As President: Howard Fore, local life insurance agent and prominent civic worker, is the new president of the Evergreen Junior Basketball League. He succeeds Wendell Hart, EHS coach.
Fore and other 1961 officers were elected at the annual meeting last Thursday. Jones Sasser is vice president, Leslie Huggins is secretary and John H. Ellis is treasurer. Ray Owens will again serve as player agent.
Fore said that a meeting will be called right away for the coming season which opens shortly after the end of the school term.

Lime Hill Captures Tourney: The Lime Hill Hawks, coached by Leon Randolph, captured the Conecuh County Junior High basketball championship Sat., Feb. 25, in the Conecuh County Training School gymnasium. The second spot went to the China Junior High team, coached by John Floyd.

Evergreen will take on third-seeded Fairhope in the Class AA basketball tournament in Atmore Thursday afternoon at 2:40.

83 YEARS AGO
MARCH 5, 1936

WILD HOG LAW KILLED: News dispatches from Montgomery Wednesday state that Representative Forrest Castleberry’s proposed law to restrict the hunting of wild hogs to the month of December was “buried under a flood of ‘no’ votes.”
Many of us here in Conecuh County did not know there were any wild hogs in the county and furthermore, we had no idea in the event there were some, that anybody would object to them being hunted any time and captured. However, Mr. Castleberry stated that he was very urgently requested to secure the passage of the bill by some good citizens, who told him that those who posed as hunters of wild hogs sometimes got mixed up and caught tame ones.
Well at any rate, members of the house did not feel that it was necessary to enact Mr. Castleberry’s bill, so we still have an unrestricted season on wild hogs. Better be sure you know your hogs though and not hunt the domesticated kind, else you might run afoul of laws which already exist.

F.F.A. NEWS: The Evergreen Chapter of F.F.A. attended the Andalusia District Basketball Tournament Sat., Feb. 29. We were defeated but played well. The tournament was won by Pleasant Home.

108 YEARS AGO
MARCH 1, 1911

While out hunting on Saturday last in company with Thomas Jackson, Glenn Mills, son of C.E. Mills, accidentally shot himself with his rifle, the bullet penetrating the leg just above the ankle. The wound is not of a serious nature.

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