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| James "Cliff" Little III |
14 YEARS AGO
MAY 18, 2006
Pro team to open season July
15 at HHS: On July 15 professional football will come to Evergreen when the
Evergreen Jaguars take on the Bayou Vipers in an NAFL game in Evergreen.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
at Hillcrest High School’s football stadium, according to Victor Calhoun, the
Jags head coach and general manager.
Calhoun said the Jags first
preseason game is scheduled for June 17 in Mobile against the Port City
Monarchs at 7:30 p.m.
Sparta Academy opened spring
football practice two weeks ago and closed it last week under the direction of
new head coach Clint Floyd.
Floyd, who has been living in
Gulf Breeze, Fla., brings 33 years of coaching and teaching experience to
Sparta.
He ran the Wing T for head
coach Bill McNair as Thomasville High School’s offensive coordinator for 13
years (1980-93).
Derrick Page rushed for 112
yards last Thursday to lead the Black to a 35-26 win over the White in
Hillcrest High School’s intra-squad football game in Evergreen.
Hillcrest wrapped up three
weeks of spring football drills with the full-contact, four-quarter scrimmage
under new head coach Maurice Belser Jr.
(Other top Hillcrest players
in that game included Blake Bryant, Jarvis Holder, Edrikus Little, Justin
Nared, Malcolm Rudolph, Durrell Simpson, Jeremy Thomas, Terrance Thomas. Matt
Blake was Hillcrest’s offensive coordinator.)
39 YEARS AGO
MAY 21, 1981
Sparta Awards: Johnson wins
Peacock Trophy: Jeff Johnson was awarded the Jerry Peacock Trophy at the Sparta
Quarterback Club’s annual All Sports Banquet held in the Sparta Academy
Gymnatorium on Friday night, May 15. The trophy is given in memory of the late
Jerry Peacock, an outstanding athlete and student at the school who died in a
drowning tragedy shortly after his graduation.
Richard Nix won the coveted
D.T. Stuart Jr. Sportsmanship Trophy and the football team elected Scott
Baggett permanent captain of the 1980 team.
Other football awards went to
the following: Hustler, Russ Raines; Best Defensive Player, Gaylen Griggers;
and Best Blocker, Scott Baggett.
The basketball team elected
Jeff Johnson permanent captain. Other awards were Best Rebounder, Terry Shipp;
Best Defensive Player, Jeff Johnson; Hustler, Russ Raines; Field Goal
Percentage, Terry Shipp, 47 percent; Free Throw Percentage, Terry Shipp, 67
percent.
Jeff Johnson was elected
permanent captain of the baseball team, and the following awards were made:
Best Defensive Player, Jeff Johnson; Hustler, Russ Raines; and Batting
Champion, Joey Johnson, who hit .324.
Allen Padgett won first place
in Pro Street at the Atmore Drag Way on Saturday night after finishing second
the previous week.
54 YEARS AGO
MAY 19, 1966
Swimming pool opens June 3rd:
The swimming pool at Judson Murphy Recreation Center will open on Fri., June 3.
This date was set by the Evergreen City Council at its meeting Tuesday night.
Coach Cliff Little of
Evergreen High School has been employed as director of the city’s recreation
program this summer.
The council voted to erect a
chain link fence and gates across the front of the recreation center. This is
being done to prevent further damage and abuse of the property. Recently, a
pump was thrown into the wading pool and damaged.
66 YEARS AGO
MAY 20, 1954
Conecuh Amateur Baseball
League Is Formed: Six Teams Are Entered: There will be baseball in Conecuh
County this summer. Announcement of the organization of the six-team Conecuh
County Amateur League is made this week, and the opening of the 20-game
schedule is to be held Sunday afternoon, May 23. All league games are scheduled
for Sunday afternoon.
Actually only four of the six
teams entered are from this county with Escambia and Covington furnishing one
entry each. The teams in the league are Loree, Paul, Castleberry, Evergreen,
Red Level and North Brewton.
Zell Murphy and Clint Ward
are managing the Evergreen club and they invite any players interested in
joining the team to come on out for practice. The Greenies practice on
Wednesday afternoons and any player interested in joining them can get complete
details by contacting either Mr. Murphy or Mr. Ward.
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 the
league schedule begins with Castleberry playing North Brewton on the
Castleberry diamond; Red Level plays at Paul and Evergreen hosts Loree.
84 YEARS AGO
MAY 21, 1936
The Evergreen Merchants won
their two games last week to keep pace with the leaders in the South Alabama
League and to maintain their lead of one game over the Century-Flomaton
combine.
Sweeping the series with
Monroeville, winning two extra inning games, the local nine showed great power
and fight and promise to be one of the fastest semi-pro nines ever to represent
this city.
In the game with Monroeville
Thursday after going through nine innings of fast ball to see the scored tied
in the last half of this inning by the scrappy Monroeville sluggers, Evergreen
struck back in their part of the tenth to make three runs and put the game on
ice. In this frame, Kendall led off with a base hit to right, and Sam Jones
dropped a Texas Leaguer over first sending Kendall to second. This set the
stage for Tom Melton’s torrid smash down the left field foul line for a
two-bagger and to score Kendall and Jones. Hall, next up, grounded sharply to
short and went to first, Melton scoring on the play ended Evergreen’s scoring
but the Monroeville nine came back to make two runs in the latter frame of the
tenth, and put the tying run on second when the last batter flied out to
Seabrooks at second.
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