The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for June 13, 2022

14 YEARS AGO
JUNE 12, 2008

Evergreen’s McIntyre Travel Center Babe Ruth team whipped Monroeville in both games of a double header Saturday at Evergreen Municipal Park.
Evergreen won the first game 6-3 and took the second game, 12-0.
Evergreen pitcher Jeremy Ealum got the pitching win in the first game, and Jared Dees got the pitching win in the second game.

Members of the 2008 Yankees Little League team included Isaiah General, Ethan Roberts, Drew Hardin, Isaac Stanton, Jacob Hendrix, Allen Stuart, Briana Rudolph, Myeshia Thomas, Quinton North, Hunter Fleming, Chris Young and Isaiah Stanton. Coaches included Wayne Hicks and Thad Ellis.

Members of the 2008 Bats T-Ball team included Henry Jones, Lexus Alverson, Ian Godwin, A’mya Gross, Destiny Walton, Jennifer Barlow, Race Salter, Michael Carbona, Ethan Hawsey, Matthew Wagner, Clay Conway and Frederick Simpson. Coaches included Tammy Stuckey, Marc Godwin, Manager Teresa Hawsey and Team Mother Haley Hawsey.

27 YEARS AGO
JUNE 8, 1995

Class C & D Softball Tournament will be held Sat., June 10, at the Evergreen Municipal Park. First, second, third, individual and MVP trophies will be given. Sponsored by Evans/Jacobs Reunion. For more information, contact Earl Evans, Linda McMillian or Angela Thomas.

37 YEARS AGO
JUNE 13, 1985

SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT: There will be a men’s softball tournament Sat., June 22, at O’Bannon Park in Brewton. Entry fee is $75 and bring your own balls.

Mrs. Janette Locklier of Flomaton announces the engagement of her daughter, Susan Lynn to Hugh Thomas Fountain III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Thomas Fountain Jr. of East Brewton.
The prospective groom is a 1982 graduate of W.S. Neal High School. He attended Marion Military Institute in Marion, Ala. He is a physical education major at Troy State University and a member of the Troy State Trojan football team.

From “English Notes” by Rance English: About two years ago the Alabama Department of Corrections decided to form an employee football team. Like any faithful and loyal football devotee, I decided to participate. I proudly pointed out that when I played in school, I was all-conference, all-star and all-everything.
Their first hostile move was to submit me to the obvious indignity of a physical exam. The doctor, who appeared to be past 55, was a bit on the feeble side and it was all he could do to complete the examination. Hence, I passed without mishap.
The next horrible thing they did was to submit all of us to physical exercise! I vigorously protested, ‘I came out here to play football, not to exercise.’ After the first day I must truthfully say I did not fell all-conference or all-American – merely all in!

45 YEARS AGO
JUNE 9, 1977

“Evergreen Rugby” by Jim Andrews: Led by the hustle of Darwin Cook and the place kicking of Stanley Johnson, the Evergreen Rugby Team bounced back from a first-round loss to win a ‘Sevens’ Rugby Tournament at the University of West Florida last Sunday.
After losing 3-0 to Pensacola Naval Air Station in the first round, Evergreen was forced into the “losers” bracket. Therefore, to win the tournament, they had to win the next three games in a row. They did just that, beating Panama City, 12-6, Pensacola Navy, 12-6, and the University of West Florida, 9-0.
Each of Evergreen’s players had a tremendous afternoon and it was a team effort that brought them the tournament championship. Joe Andrews, Walker Scott, James Holland, Homer Holland, Jim Andrews, Stanley Johnson and Darwin Cook all played well and “kept the pressure up” against the opposition all afternoon.
Evergreen will play again on June 19 in Montgomery in another tournament.

Sparta QB Club elect officers: The Sparta Academy Quarterback Club elected new officers for the coming year at its meeting last Thursday night. Eugene Hyde was elected president, John Driver Jr., vice president, Roger Waller, secretary, and Joe Morrison, treasurer.

Coburn second at Flomaton: J.W. Coburn of Evergreen finished second Saturday night in the main feature race at the Flomaton Speedway.

53 YEARS AGO
JUNE 12, 1969

John Coburn says and proves that you don’t have to have a big hook to catch a big fish. John caught this eight-pound bass in a local pond on a number six bream hook with a cricket.

Coach Wayne Pope, who is attending summer school at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, spent the weekend here with his family.