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| Alabama's Frank W. Thomas |
DEC. 1, 2011
Nared plays
on national TV: Just a little over a year after taking his final snap as the
quarterback at Evergreen’s Hillcrest High School, former Jaguar standout Justin
Nared found himself playing before a national television audience against his
college’s biggest rival.
Nared made
his eighth start of the season as Tuskegee University’s freshman quarterback
last Thursday and led the Golden Tigers against archrival Alabama State in the
88th Annual Turkey Day Classic at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery. The
game was televised nationwide on ESPNU. Alabama State won, 30-21.
Hines scores
14 in pro game: Evergreen’s Chris Hines posted some of the best numbers on his
team, ZTE KK, Saturday night in an 82-71 home loss to PVSK Pannon in Hungary.
Hines, a
former Hillcrest High School and University of Alabama standout, collected 14
points, nine rebounds and five assists in 30 minutes of play. He sank seven of
11 field goals and grabbed seven defensive boards.
So far this
season, in four games, Hines has made nearly 89 percent of his free throws,
over 45 percent of his field goals and almost 13 percent of the three-point
shots he’s tried. He also grabbing 8.3 rebounds per game.
Sparta Academy’s April Palmer and Stephanie Martin were named to the Sparta Tournament of Champions all-tournament team Tuesday of last week. Sparta’s varsity girls finished second in the tournament.
30 YEARS AGO
DEC.
3, 1992
Senior Bryant Robinson will represent Sparta Academy in the AISA All Star football game to be played at Block Park in Selma Fri., Dec. 4. The game will start at 7 p.m. Bryant is the son of Wayne and Cathy Robinson of Evergreen.
It was a “clean sweep” for Hillcrest High School on opening
night of the 1992-93 basketball season. Each of the school’s four teams posted
a victory against W.S. Neal High School in East Brewton Tuesday night.
The ninth graders started the evening with a 46-32 win,
followed by the B-team with a 47-44 win. The Hillcrest girls picked up where
they left off last year with a 52-48 victory over the Lady Eagles. The Jags
varsity finished off the evening three points shy of the century mark with a
97-67 victory over W.S. Neal’s top players.
Conservation Officer Tommy Atkins along with hunter safety instructors Hoover Kynard and Garvey Gates, gave a lecture to students at Evergreen Junior High School. The lecture included requirements of becoming a conservation officer, laws and regulations, hunting accidents, night hunting and firearm safety.
36 YEARS AGO
DEC. 4, 1986
Alabama Head Coach Ray Perkins visited Evergreen High School while on a recruiting trip in this area Monday. Shown with him are EHS Head Coach Willie Ed Farish and school secretary Patsy Bell.
Ricky Varner bagged this nine-point buck Monday. He was riding down the road when he spotted the deer, stopped and got out, walked 200 yards and killed the deer, which weighed 205 pounds.
Warriors Girls win tournament: The Sparta Academy Girl
Warriors won the Fort Dale-SBA Tip Off Tournament played Nov. 25-26 in
Greenville. Sparta beat Greenville Academy, 40-39, in the finals. Kim Searcy
had 22 points and nine rebounds; Julie Johnson, 10 points and 10 rebounds; Baby
Girl Floyd, six points; and Shawn Hammonds, two. Lee McNeill had 14 rebounds.
The Warrior boys lost both of their games in the tournament,
according to Byron Warren Jr., Sparta Sports Information Director. Fort
Dale-SBA beat Sparta, 54-48, in the opening round. Greenville Academy defeated
Sparta in the consolation game, 57-52.
(Top Sparta boys players in those games included Johnny
Brock, Ebb Hagen, Shannon Kendall, Glynn Ralls, Lynn Ralls, Jeff Walker, Brad
Watts, Jason West and Tim Wilson.)
Jason West, Julie Johnson and Kim Searcy were named to the
all-tournament teams.
75 YEARS AGO
DEC. 4, 1947
The boys who once took advantage of an understaffed game
warden force killed their game and fish illegally and then sang a happy ditty
about ‘never seeing one of them possum sheriffs’ aren’t singing that song so joyously
these days.
Four hundred and 14 transgressors of game and fish laws and
regulations felt the heavy hands of Alabama’s 72 game protectors on their
shoulders during October, the first month of the present fiscal year, it was
announced by C. Graham Hixon, fish and seafood chief of Alabama’s Department of
Conservation.
Applications from alumni for Sugar Bowl tickets are being
received this week by the University of Alabama Athletic Department, Frank W.
Thomas, athletic director, announced.
Opening date for alumni ticket orders was Dec. 1 and a limit
of two tickets for each alumnus has been set. All ticket applications must bear
the class year and school of applicant, Thomas said.
Sugar Bowl ticket price is $5, and applications should include
mailing fee of 25 cents, Athletic Business Manager Jeff Coleman said.
Alabama received the Sugar Bowl bid following its 41-12
victory over LSU.
86 YEARS AGO
DEC. 3, 1936
Evergreen High School: The Evergreen basketball players were issued uniforms Monday and had their initial workout Tuesday afternoon. The following boys reported for practice: Wendel Hart, Tom Rountree, Dick Murphy, James Lane, Kermit Williams, Fred Dean, John Worlund, Clarence Sheffield, Emory Brasswell, Carl Wiggins, William Chapman, Laula Middleton, Moye Pugh, Charles Webster, John Cotton and Robert Kelly. The schedule will be announced at a later date. We invite you to see our games and will certainly appreciate your cooperation.
Miss Lois Black attended the Alabama-Vanderbilt game in Birmingham last Thursday, where she was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Charlie Cook.
W.P. McMillan and James Tate spent the weekend with the former’s parents, at Inverness, and also attended the Auburn-Florida game in Montgomery.
Harris Williamson, Andrew Jay and John Weekly were weekend visitors to Birmingham, where they attended the Alabama-Vandy game.
Richard Brassell, who is a student at Auburn, spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. R.R. Brassell. Richard’s friends will be interested to know that he made the freshman football team, playing center, at which position he distinguished himself in the Freshman Georgia Tech-Auburn game.
R.R. Hairston and W.H. Hunt of Montgomery visited J.M. Shoemaker Sunday enroute home from a fishing trip to South Alabama.
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