SIX YEARS AGO
NOV. 28, 2013
Nared plays in playoff game: Evergreen native Justin Nared,
a former record-setting quarterback at Hillcrest High School, made even more
history over the weekend when he played in the first ever football playoff game
in the history of Tuskegee University’s storied football program.
Tuskegee traveled to Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence on
Saturday to face the University of North Alabama in the first round of the NCAA
Division II playoffs, and UNA came out ahead in the end, 30-27.
Nared, who injured his throwing shoulder earlier in the
season and missed two entire games, saw limited action on Saturday, running
just once for a two-yard game.
The season-ending loss dropped Tuskegee to 8-3 on the
season. Nared, a 6-1, 200-pound junior, finishes the season with 37 rushes for
38 yards. He completed 53 of 104 passes for 809 yards and five touchdowns.
Sparta Academy’s varsity girls basketball team opened the
2013-2014 season in a big way last Thursday night by netting a 53-point win
over South Choctaw Academy at Richard Brown Memorial Gymnasium in Evergreen.
The Lady Warriors won, 69-16.
April Palmer led Sparta with 26 points, eight steals, five
assists and a rebound. Alex Etheridge followed with 11 points, four rebounds,
three steals, five assists and a block.
(Other top Sparta players in that game included Emily
Deason, Roberta Hall, Drew Ann Lambert, Jayden McKeough, Ashley Riley, Rachel
Riley, Emily Rodgers, Lisa Smith and Reagan Wild.)
31 YEARS AGO
NOV. 24, 1988
Lee-Scott nips Sparta 14-10 for Class A title: The Sparta
Academy Warriors came oh so close to winning their first ever state
championship here Friday night before losing 14-10 to Lee-Scott Academy’s
Warriors of Auburn in the APSA Class A Championship Game. Still, Sparta set
records and posted a school best ever record of 12 wins and one loss.
Sparta made one big mistake and it cost the local school the
ball game. Leading 7-0 with a little over a minute left in the first half, Sparta
botched a pitchout and Lee-Scott recovered it in the end zone for the tying
score and eventual margin of victory.
To Sparta’s credit, the local Warriors took the following
kickoff and drove to the Lee-Scott three-yard line as time ran out. Bobby
Johnson kicked a 20-yard field goal to give Sparta a 10-7 halftime lead, but it
didn’t hold up.
Sparta also contributed to Lee-Scott’s final touchdown. A
Sparta back ran after signaling fair catch on a punt and caught a flag. The
penalty put Sparta back to its 15, first and 15. A motion penalty backed the
locals up to the 10, and first and 20. Sparta couldn’t get out of the hole and
the visitors set up on the Sparta side of midfield after the punt and then
punched out a touchdown to win the championship tilt.
Jeff Carrier scored the only Sparta touchdown on a five-yard
run as Sparta drove for a first-quarter score. Johnson added the point.
Jamie Deason picked up 60 yards on nine carries; Carrier, 18
on 13; Kenny Bledsoe, 16 on five; and Lee Wild, 15 on five.
Bledsoe completed nine of 15 passes for 95 yards. Carrier
missed his only toss. Jimmy Hart had two receptions for 35 yards; Craig
Blackburn, three for 29; Johnson, two for 23; Steven Gall, one for 10; and
Carrier, one for a loss of two.
56 YEARS AGO
NOV. 21, 1963
Aggies almost get G’ana in ‘finest hour’ – The Evergreen
High Aggies had their “finest hour” (well, make it 48 minutes if you have to be
technical) Friday night and almost won the biggest game of the year.
As it was, Coach John L. Robinson’s club threw a Texas-size
scare into Coach Bobby Wasden’s Camellia Bowl-bound Georgiana Panthers before
losing 14-12.
Tragedy stalked the field in the fourth quarter and struck
down the last of the football-playing Williams brothers, Ronnie, to put a
damper on the celebrating Evergreens. Ronnie, not yet 18, died in a Montgomery
hospital Sunday morning following brain surgery. He got a head injury throwing
a block in the fourth period.
The Aggies were there to battle and it was obvious they had
the determination to mold an upset from the opening kickoff until a pass
interception in the final seconds put it out of reach.
The teams battled scorelessly until 2:09 from the end of the
first half. At that point, Ronnie Williams took a screen pass from Jimmy
Weathers on the left sidelines and ran it in for the first score. The play
covered 20 yards and capped a 70-yard drive.
All the Aggies played well and to single out any “stars”
would be doing injustice to the battlingest bunch seen on Brooks Stadium turf
in many years. Everybody but these players knew Georgiana was supposed to swamp
‘em. They still don’t believe it.
81 YEARS AGO
NOV. 17, 1938
V.P. Smith spent the weekend in Birmingham to be with his
mother, Mrs. J.A. Smith, on her birthday and to attend the Auburn-LSU game.
Mr. Gwin Alderman, Misses Laurette Fortner, Carolyn
McCreary, Mary Hearn and Thelma Williams attended the Georgia Tech-Alabama
football game in Atlanta.
PIX – A Martin-Ray Theatre – Friday, Nov. 18 – Continuous
Showing From 2:15 to 11 p.m. – John Howard in “TOUCHDOWN ARMY” – Three Turkeys
Free – Two Reel Musical Comedy “CLEANING UP” – One of $250,000 Movie Quiz
Pictures
Bird Season Opens Monday!! Are You Ready? FOR COMPLETE
HUNTERS SUPPLIES – SHELLS, GUNS, BAGS, COATS, HATS – Wild Bros. Hardware Co. –
Evergreen, Alabama.
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