The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for Feb. 22, 2022

25 YEARS AGO
FEB. 27, 1997

JDCC seeks help in finding missing man: Mr. Phillip “Smitty” Smith, a student at Jefferson Davis Community College during Fall Quarter 1996, has been missing since Jan. 22, 1997. Smitty served as the baseball team trainer while he was a student at Jefferson Davis and he continued to assist the baseball team after withdrawing from the college.
Smitty was last seen when he had a conversation with Keith Griffin, baseball coach at Jefferson Davis, at approximately 12:00 noon on Jan. 22. Smitty is loved by all who knew and worked with him, especially by the team, and the college is very concerned about his whereabouts. If anyone knows or has seen Mr. Phillip Smith, please contact Dean Connie Branch, Coach Keith Griffin, Athletic Director Karen Reynolds or President Brogdon. The college will do anything within its power to assist in locating Smitty.

75 YEARS AGO
FEB. 27, 1947

Evergreen, Monroeville Land Seeded Berths (From Mobile Press): Thirty-two high school basketball teams, including McGill Institute, Murphy High and UMS from Mobile, will battle it out for honors in the district cage meet at Frisco City March 5-8.
McGill and Murphy were seeded, as were Monroeville and Evergreen, two of the teams from smaller towns which compiled excellent cage records this year.
McGill was bracketed in the upper half, while Murphy and UMS drew places in the lower half of the draw.
Each team will be limited to eight players for the tournament which will be single elimination tourney.
The three local schools will close out their schedules before March 5.
McGill, with 17 straight wins, has several more games to play, while Murphy, with a record of 11 wins and six losses, has two games remaining on its list.
UMS has a record of five wins and 13 losses and the Soldiers have one more tilt on their schedule.
All three of the Mobile teams will play their first games Thurs., March 6, with the McGill five playing Silas while Murphy will play Wallace and UMS will meet Monroeville. The times of the local fives’ games will be announced later.
The following teams will compose the first bracket: McGill, Silas, Coffeeville, Bay Minette, Chatom, Jackson, Fruitdale, Luffin, Damascus, Flomaton, Fairhope, Neal, Grove Hill, Excel, Citronelle and Evergreen.
The second bracket teams are as follows: Murphy, Wallace, Repton, Robertsdale, Uriah, Foley, Miller, Fairhope, Organic, McCullough, Castleberry, Beatrice, Frisco City, Millry, Thomasville, UMS and Monroeville.
Officials for the four-day meet will be announced later.

Conecuh County’s 1947 champions, the Evergreen Aggies, racked up three more wins last week by downing Lyeffion, Georgiana and Andalusia in that order. Coach Hart’s lads pulled enough tricks out of the bag Friday night to upset the Covington Countians at Andalusia. The night before, the Aggies had rolled to a win over Coach Paulk’s Georgiana Panthers. One Monday night, Coach Guy Kelly’s Lyeffion cagers held the Greenies in check until the end of the first half, but the Aggies came back in the second half and won their fourteenth game of the season.
After Wednesday night’s game with Murphy High School in Mobile, the Aggies will end their regular schedule when they play the Lyeffion dribblers on the local court. This will be a doubleheader.
Mickey Logue had the fans on their feet most of the game Friday night when he sacked up 18 points against Andalusia.
Logue was playing on one of the wildest courts in this section and scored most of his 18 markers from the corners. Jones, Aggie crip-shot artist, laid in 15 points to take second place honors. Slaton, Mackey and Henderson shared high scoring honors for Andalusia by scoring seven points each.
The Aggies made up for their previous loss to Georgiana by rolling up a 47 to 34 count against the Butler Countians. Jones hit the cords for 12 points to lead the Aggies’ scoring assault while Burkett carried the brunt of Georgiana’s scoring 12 points.
Co-Captain R.E. Ivey led his teammates to a 22 to 15 victory over Lyeffion in a low-scoring contest Monday night. Morrow led the host team by scoring five points.