21 YEARS AGO
OCT. 14, 1999
Opp Wins Cat Fight: The Opp
Bobcats celebrated homecoming with a 21-7 lead over the Hillcrest Jaguars last
Friday night.
Tailback Brandy Brannan
rushed for two touchdowns and quarterback Alan Burgess hit flanker Willie
Wilkerson with a 41-yard strike to account for the ‘Cats third score.
Charlie Vaughn added the
three extra points for Opp.
Hillcrest scored a late
touchdown and added the extra point to cut the final margin to 21-7.
Hillcrest comes home to
Brooks Stadium this Friday night to take on perennial power T.R. Miller of
Brewton. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
Sparta Warriors lose to EA
Cougars: The Sparta Academy Warriors lost to the Escambia Academy Cougars this
past Friday night in Canoe. The Warriors played one of their best games of the
year but came up one point short as Escambia Academy came out ahead with a
score of 15-14.
David Bush was the leading
rusher for the Warriors with 72 yards on 10 carries and one touchdown. He was
followed by John McKenzie with 23 yards on 10 carries, Kyle Johnston with 12
yards on nine carries, Jared Brogden with 30 yards on six carries and one
touchdown, and Rusty Salter with 10 yards on four carries.
McKenzie completed two of his
seven pass attempts for 43 yards. Brogden had one reception for six yards, and
Justin Tranum had one reception for 37 yards.
33 YEARS AGO
OCT. 8, 1987
The Conecuh County High Blue
Devils increased their record to 4-2 after defeating the McKenzie Tigers 14-13
Fri., Oct. 2.
In the second quarter with
11:51 remaining on the clock, McKenzie running back Tony Cobb scored a
touchdown. Robert Shufford kicked the extra point giving McKenzie a 7-0 lead.
The score remained 7-0 until
the third quarter when Blue Devil quarterback Greg Blair scored from the
one-yard line with 9:33 left. The PAT failed making the score 7-6 McKenzie.
With 9:05 left in the fourth
quarter Conecuh County High School running back Derrick Richardson scored
around left end. Michael Sanders ran in the two-point conversion, making the
score Conecuh County 14, McKenzie 7.
The Evergreen Aggies evened
their record at 3-3 and won their first area game last Friday night with an
easy 36-14 win over the W.S. Neal Blue Eagles.
(A host of Evergreen players
put points on the board that night, including Tony Simpson, who scored on a
62-yard run. Willie Gill blocked a punt, and Jerry Stroud scooped it up and
returned it 19 yards for a touchdown. James Harvey completed a scoring pass to
Steve Cunningham on the ensuing two-point conversion play. Cunningham went on
to score again on a 14-yard run. Richard Byrd followed that with a 43-yard
touchdown run. Harvey and Byrd capped off the scoring when Harvey completed a
34-yard touchdown pass to Byrd late in the game. Russell Meeks kicked four
extra points.)
46 YEARS AGO
OCT. 10, 1974
Stallworth is ‘Back of Week’
– Albert Stallworth of the Evergreen High School Aggies was named “Back of the
Week” in last Thursday’s edition of The Montgomery Advertiser.
Albert won the honor for his
outstanding performance in leading the Aggies to victory over Georgiana on
Sept. 27. He rushed for 276 yards on 27 carries, over 10 yards per try, and
scored four touchdowns.
Warriors whip Wilcox 38-6:
The Sparta Academy Warriors scored in every period as they rolled over Wilcox
Academy, 38-6, in Camden last Friday night.
Sam Skipper put Sparta out
front when he scampered 61 yards for a score in the first quarter and then ran
in the extra points. Bobby Johnson sped 24 yards for another first period score
and Bruce Hutcheson plunged over for the extra points to make it 16-0 at the
quarter.
Walker Scott broke loose for
21 yards in the second period and then drove across for the extra points to
make it 24-0 at halftime. Skipper got his second of the night in the third
period on a 10-yard run and Eddie Hooks kicked it to 31-0.
Joe Andrews passed to Johnson
for 20 yards and final Warrior score and Hooks kicked it to 38-6.
The Evergreen Aggies defeated
the Greenville Tigers 12-6 in overtime Friday night.
(Top players for Evergreen in
that game included Walter Bullock, Darris Champion and Mike Faulkner.)
63 YEARS AGO
OCT. 10, 1957
The scheduled game between
Greenville and Evergreen Friday night has been postponed. Evergreen Coach
Wendell Hart said this morning that he has asked for the postponement, and
Greenville Coach Luke Whetstone had agreed to it.
The game has been
rescheduled, tentatively, for Wednesday night, Nov. 27, the night before
Thanksgiving. It will be played in Greenville.
Cliff Harper
The Evergreen coach said he
asked for the postponement because of the flu epidemic which has hit Evergreen
High School. The Aggie squad has been crippled by the disease. Hart said he had
about 15 players out with flu.
Tuesday there were only 14
boys out for practice, and Hart and Assistant Coach Jeff Moorer decided to ask
Greenville to put off the game.
Hart said that even if his
players recovered from the illness by Friday night they would not be in
physical condition to play.
Earlier this week Cliff
Harper, executive secretary of the Alabama High School Athletic Association,
announced that the association had extended the deadline for season closing.
Harper said that high schools will have until the first week of December to
play games, an extension of a week.
71 YEARS AGO
OCT. 13, 1949
The Evergreen High School
Aggies moved smoothly to their third win of the season in Frisco City last
Friday night, downing the Whippets by a 25 to 0 count. The rugged Aggie line,
ably backed by Jim Ryan and Jack Cunningham, continued the sparkling defensive
play it has shown this season and maintained its unscored on record.
(Other top Evergreen players
in that game included James Barlow, Dickey Bozeman, Shelton Craig, Gwynn
Daniels, Bertie Hassel, Ed Hooks, Bruce Johnson, Guerry Moorer, Jeff Moorer,
Gillis Morgan, Douglas Potts, Max Pope, John Greel Ralls, Cleveland Robinson,
Bobby “Pistol Pete” Wells and Franklin Williamson. Wendell Hart was Evergreen’s
head coach.)
The Repton High Bulldogs
swapped touchdowns with Walnut Hill High Eagles in Walnut Hill Friday afternoon
as the teams tied 13 to 13.
Ralph Lancaster scored in the
first quarter and the point was added to put the Bulldogs out in front 7-0.
Walnut Hill countered with a score following the kickoff and added the point to
knot the count at 7-7. Marvin Rowland scored in the third quarter as the
Bulldogs went back in front 13-7, but Walnut Hill quickly added their final
marker and the game ended 13-13.
The Lyeffion High Yellow
Jackets and Beatrice High School battled to a 7-7 draw here last Thursday night
in Brooks Stadium.
(Top Lyeffion players in that
game included Billy Booker, Carl Burt, Billy Cook, Miller Dees and Melvin
Traweek.)
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