Northeast
Sports Hall of Fame inducts second class of honorees
Northeast
Sports Information
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| Accepting
the award plaques were (back row l-r), Ramona Caveness (wife
of the late Gerald Caveness), Evelyn Thompson, Clyde Jones,
Wesley Parker (son of the late Larry Parker), (front row l-r),
Kelli P. Cross (the daughter of late Larry Parker), Leah P.
Garner (the daughter of late Larry Parker), and Harvey Childers |
Northeast
honored four former athletes and a former men’s basketball
coach at the second annual Northeast Sports Hall of Fame banquet
Thursday, August 13.
Former Tigers
and Lady Tigers joining the Northeast Sports Hall of Fame were former
basketball players Gerald Caveness, Clyde Jones, Evelyn Thompson,
and football player Larry Parker along with former Tiger basketball
coach Harvey Childers.
Caveness helped
lead the Tiger basketball team to a pair of national tournaments
during his time on the hardwood for Northeast. Jones was a standout
on the Northeast basketball team from 1950-52 before moving onto
Delta State University where he continued his basketball career.
Thompson made an impact on the Lady Tiger basketball program during
her first year at Northeast appearing on the court for Northeast
from 1986-88, helped the Lady Tigers capture the national championship
in her initial year with the program.
Parker carried
the load for the Tiger football team during the 1976 and 1977 football
seasons. Parker toted the ball an average of 23.5 times during his
tenure at Northeast averaging over 100 yards a game for the Tigers.
Childers spent seven seasons at the helm for Northeast guiding the
Tigers to a 192-34 record including five North Division titles,
one Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges title and
three Region XXIII championships. Childers parlayed those three
Region XXIII championships into three National Tournament appearances
taking the Tigers to the NJCAA National Championship game in 1988-89
with a 23-3 record.
This was the
second class of hall of fame selections following the inaugural
inductees of ten former coaches, players and supporters of Northeast
Mississippi Community College athletics. Harold T. White, W.B. ‘Bill’
Ward, Ken Lindsey, Chuck ‘Doddle’ Floyd, Gene Garret,
Adrian Smith, Kenneth ‘Cat’ Robbins, David ‘Nub’
Strickland, Earline ‘Woodsie’ Woods and Bonner Arnold
were all honored as members of the college’s first class in
last years ceremony.
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