JANUARY
JAN
1
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
JAN 2
JAN 3
JAN 4
1986 The St. James Boys
Varsity Basketball team won its first ever game against Alabama
Christian in the Tine W. Davis gymnasium (the
gymnasium where Alabama Christian College {now Faulkner University}
played) with a thrilling 51 - 49 victory which started the
Trojans on a 13 game winning streak.
2005 Elizabeth Richards
scored 32 points, the 28th point being her 1000th career point, with 21
of those coming on 7 three point field
goals
as the
Lady Trojan basketballers defeated Brewbaker Tech 64 - 39.
JAN 5
JAN 6
2006 Kelly Michelle Lewis
converts NINE three point shots, tying a St. James Varsity Girls'
basketball
record. Kelli Christian adds FOUR to
make a
total of 13 - another girls' school record - as St. James travels to
Trinity and defeats the Lady Wildcats 51 - 36. 39 of
the total
of 51 points for the Trojans were scored from behind the "arc".
JAN 7
JAN 8
JAN 9
JAN 10
JAN 11
JAN 12
JAN 13
2004 Adam Mills converted TEN three point
shots, a school record, unofficially only missing 2, as part of his
career high 30 points, as the
St. James Trojans broke open a close game in the second quarter on the
way to defeating the Tallassee Tigers 76 - 49.
1995 Jan Shearer became the second
girl in St. James history to score 1000 career points in basketball as
she converted a three point play
at the beginning of the game en route to a 57 - 44 victory over the
Calhoun Lady Tigers.
JAN 14
JAN 15
JAN 16
JAN 17
JAN 18
JAN 19
JAN 20
JAN 21
JAN 22
JAN 23
2007 Kelly Michelle Lewis hit a
three pointer early in the second half for her 1000th, 1001st, and
1002nd career points as the Lady Trojans
defeated the Beulah Lady Bobcats 68 - 37. She ended up with 27
points on the evening, leading St. James to victory.
JAN 24
JAN 25
JAN 26
2008 Chase Eley set a new record for
most
three-pointers in a season by a St. James Varsity Boys Basketball
player, by connecting on his 51st
(breaking the old record of 50 set by Adam Mills in 2004-05). The
Trojans were defeated by Montgomery Academy 58 - 47.
JAN 27
JAN 28
JAN 29
JAN 30
1998 Meredith Darneille reached the 1000
career basketball point plateau as she led the Trojans to a 61 - 51
home victory over Alabama Christian.
JAN 31
2009 Chase Eley scored 24 points,
including his 1000th point, and broke his own school record with his
62nd three pointer of the season as the
Trojans defeated Highland Home 61 - 49. He and Chase Christian
both broke 1000 points in the same season, becoming the first Trojan
teammates to do so. The game was also the first "Coaches for
Cancer" effort at St. James, as donations were accepted and a portion
of the
admission was donated to the American Cancer Society. First year
coach Vincent Royals was instrumental in making St. James basketball
a part of the Coaches for Cancer
nationwide program.
FEBRUARY
FEB 1
FEB
2
2004 Hillary Barnes reached the 1000
career basketball point plateau, actually, the 1004 point plateau,
becoming only the second St.
James player to
score
50 in
a game, as she tallied 50 against the LAMP Golden Tigers in an 82 - 13
victory. She also set
the school girls' record with NINE
three point
baskets, just one short
of the overall school record set by Adam Mills several
weeks before.
1996 Rob McGaughey reached the 1000
career point mark in basketball as well, in a 76 - 71 loss at
Trinity. His celebration was delayed until two
games later, the next home game, against Alabama Christian.
McGaughey would return home to coach the Junior Varsity Boys basketball
team in the 2007-08 season.
FEB 3
2007 St. James seniors Kevin Hale
and Elizabeth Alter pulled off a double championship in Long Jump, each
winning at the 2007 1A-4A State
Indoor Track meet at Priceville. Their finishes helped the STJ
boys finish 9th overall, and the STJ girls finish 4th at the state
meet. Hale's
jump was 20' 2.75" and Alter's was 15' 8".
FEB 4
FEB 5
FEB 6
FEB 7
1995 Ken Klinger, senior basketball
player who would later become the St. James Varsity Basketball Coach in
2005, scored his 1000th career point
during the Trojans' 50
- 44 victory over Montgomery Academy.
2009 Chris Henry (see below FEB 9) won
his second consecutive state championship in Huntsville at the 1A-4A
State Wrestling Meet. This time
his championship was in the 112 pound weight class. The Trojans,
who for the second year sent seven wrestlers to the state tournament,
had its best ever team finish, fifth, with 66 points. Matt Kwan
finished as a state runner-up in the 105 pound weight class which Henry
vacated this season. Stephen Kwan (119 pounds) and Michael Bird
(152 pounds) each finished third in their respective classes as well.
FEB 8
FEB 9
2008 Chris Henry won a state championship
in Huntsville at the State Wrestling Meet - as the champion in the
1A-4A 103 pound weight division.
He was one of a record-tying seven wrestlers to qualify for the state
tournament. Henry garnered most of the Trojans' 37 total points,
good
enough for a 12th place finish overall. Henry was only the second
St. James Wrestler to win a state championship.
FEB 10
FEB 11
FEB 12
2009 For the second straight year, the
St. James Lady Trojan basketballers eliminated Alabama Christian from
the state playoffs in the sub-state
round of the state tournament playing at the Eagles gym. This
year, despite only scoring 11 points in the first half and trailing by
9, the Trojans
outscored ACA 38 - 20 in the second half on their way to a 49 - 40
victory. Hope Olszewski led St. James with 18 points.
FEB 13
1989 Leslie Claybrook became the third
leading rebounder in United States High School Girls history at the
time, passing basketball legend Cheryl
Miller, star
of several University of Southern California and professional teams, as
she collected 19 rebounds (giving her a total of 1625 career,
surpassing
Miller's 1620) in the Trojans' 63 - 37 area tournament defeat of
Montgomery Academy. The Trojans were ahead 61 - 17 at the
end of the third quarter
before all the starters were taken out of the game.
FEB 14
2004 Taylor Nelson hit a heavily-pressured 30
foot 3 pointer as
the buzzer sounded to send the 4A Area 5
Championship game into overtime and the
Trojans eventually
pulled off
a thrilling 77 - 75
double overtime victory over the Beauregard Hornets. (GAME
RECAP)
1986 The St. James Lady basketballers
upset previously # 1 ranked Linden, fresh off an upset loss in their
area tournament, 47 - 46 in the sub-state
round
of the 1986 2A State Basketball tournament. St. James was up
29 - 18, but was outscored 22 - 3 as Linden took a 40 - 32 lead before
the Trojans
went on a
12 - 0 run, holding Linden shotless, much
less scoreless, over a 3:50 span in the final quarter.
1984 Courtenay Miles hit both ends of a 1
and 1
with 12 seconds left to lead St. James over the 1983 State Girls
Basketball Champion Edward Bell
34 - 33, and into
the State Final
Four in Birmingham for the first time in school history. The
margin
was the Lady Trojans'
only lead in the
second half of
the game, played at St. James.
FEB 15
FEB 16
FEB 17
FEB 18
FEB 19
FEB 20
FEB 21
FEB 22
1990 St. James had lost 3 previous
games to Trinity in the 1989-90 season, two in the regular season and
one a week earlier in the area tournament
finals. However, in the third substate round of the State
Tournament, the Lady Trojan basketballers ended Trinity's season at
20 - 3 with a
shocking 70 - 50 victory at Trinity. Kristy Edwards had a triple
double with 27 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists. Bethel
Dimaggio added 16
points, and Mary Sylvest held Trinity's high-scorer Julie Harrington, a
30+ point per game scorer, to 20 points and only 6 of 22 shooting.
FEB 23
FEB 24
2010 In what is believed to be a
St. James Trojans girls soccer record, Tori Shonk scored 7 goals in one
game
as part of a 12 - 0 defeat of Marbury.
FEB 25
FEB 26
2005 St. James traveled to Troy to
play a baseball doubleheader at Troy University's Riddle-Pace
Field. In
game one, Bruce Alter's double in the
eighth inning
completed a comeback as the Trojans defeated Tuscaloosa County, the
defending 2004 6A state runner up, 2 - 1. Taylor
Thompson
pitched a
strong eight innings,
allowing no earned runs. In game two, Alter and Adam Mills, who
hit 2 home runs, led the Trojans
to a 12 - 1 five
inning win
over
the Charles Henderson Trojans, the 2004 defending 5A state champions.
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MARCH
MAR
1
MAR 2
MAR 3
MAR 4
MAR 5
MAR 6
MAR 7
MAR 8
1991 In the first year the Alabama
High School Athletic Association recognized soccer as a championship
sport, St. James hosted the second AHSAA
game in Montgomery, opening their second season with a 4 - 3 win over
visiting Midfield. Bryan Jernigan, Gabe Harris, Lee Walker, and
Karl
Fangmeier each scored a goal in the victory.
2007 Joe Goodson and Halen Weldon
tossed a combined no-hitter in a 4½ inning Trojan Junior Varsity
11 - 0 baseball win over Catholic's Junior
Varsity. This game followed immediately after a St.
James/Catholic varsity matchup where 38 hits and 35 runs were scored
between the two
teams in an error-filled contest. St. James did win the varsity
game 19 - 16.
MAR 9
MAR 10
1993 John Bricken, basketball coach
for the past 25 years and head coach at Lanier for the previous 21, was
hired as St. James' Athletic Director.
He
became the school's first athletic director who also did not coach
one of the various varsity teams in any sport. He did coach
several
junior varsity and junior high basketball teams after his arrival.
MAR 11
MAR 12
MAR 13
MAR 14
MAR 15
MAR 16
MAR 17
1993 Catholic Athletic Director
Dean Delongchamp officially announced the formation of the Capital City
Conference among six city private schools:
ST. JAMES, Alabama Christian, Catholic, Montgomery Academy, Saint Jude,
and Trinity. In its first mini season, the CCC awarded a
sportsmanship trophy and an all-sports trophy at a banquet at the
Montgomery Academy Lower School in May. This formation occurred in
concurrence with all six teams deciding to forego spring football
training that year.
MAR 18
MAR 19
MAR 20
1993 The St. James Baseball Team
travelled to Holtville to play a game postponed a week earlier by the
1993 Super Storm. Chris Armstrong struck
out 9 in 5 1/3 innings of relief as the Trojans defeated the Bulldogs 8
- 6. St. James then hurried back to Montgomery to play a regularly
scheduled game later that afternoon against Trinity. Hunter
Pappas drove in the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to
give the
Trojans a 7 - 6 win and a sweep of a peculiar doubleheader.
1998 The St. James Baseball Team
trailed Montgomery Academy 11 - 6 going to the bottom of the seventh
inning, but managed a 6-run comeback,
highlighted by Speed McDonald's game-ending walk off homerun, to defeat
the Eagles 12 - 11.
MAR 21
MAR 22
1990 The St. James Golf Team
won a 5 team 18 hole match at Colonial Acres Country Club, defeating 6A
competition Jeff Davis, Robert E. Lee,
Sidney Lanier, and Selma. This was the only regular season match
where Jeff Davis failed to defeat each of its opponents, as the
Volunteers
finished with a 26 - 1
record. Trojan Wade
Hartley was
co-medalist of the tournament, shooting a par 72.
MAR 23
MAR 24
MAR 25
MAR 26
MAR 27
MAR 28
MAR 29
MAR 30
MAR 31
APRIL
APR
1
APR 2
APR 3
APR 4
APR 5
APR 6
APR 7
APR 8
1987 The St. James softball team,
in their first year of organized play, won their first game ever in the
sixth game of the season with a 7 - 0 shutout
of Highland Home in the second game of a doubleheader. The game
was played at the Chisholm Community Center field. The team would
suspend operations for several years before returning permanently in
1992.
APR
9
APR
10 2006 Blaine
Joyner scored on a passed ball in the bottom of the seventh inning to
lift the Trojans to a 4 - 3 victory over visiting Florida Christian
of Miami. Florida Christian was ranked # 13 among all high school
teams in the United States
by Baseball America at the time. Joyner also was
credited with
the victory, pitching the final two innings, and had two hits including
a
double as well.
APR
11 1989 William
Richardson scored on a throwing error in the bottom of the eighth
inning to complete a comeback for the Trojans as the baseballers
defeated Montgomery Academy 5 - 4. Rob Warren, the winning
pitcher,
dramatically sent the game to extra innings with a 2-run 2-out
homerun in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the score at 4.
APR 12
APR 13
APR 14
APR 15
APR
16 2008 Robyn
Harmon picks up her 1000th career strikeout during a 15 - 0 defeat of
Bullock County in fast pitch softball. At the time, Harmon was
only
the 16th pitcher in AHSAA (fast pitch) history to top the 1000 career
strikeout mark.
APR
17 1991 St. James
scored 5 runs in the top of the seventh inning in a come-from-behind
6 - 5 baseball win over Alabama Christian to capture the area title.
Four of the runs scored after two were out. Tim Kreger's single
knocked in Ken Turnipseed for the go-ahead run. The Eagles
had a runner on
third base with one out in the bottom of the seventh, but the Trojans
did not allow him to score to secure the victory and area championship.
This game seemed to be the impetus which eventually led St. James to
its first state baseball championship.
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APR 19
APR 20
APR
21 2004 C.J. Shaw
hit the first inside-the-park homerun at St. James, a solo shot in the
second inning in the first round of the state playoffs against Gulf
Shores. The Trojans went on to defeat the Dolphins 7 - 2.
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APR 23
APR 24
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APR 26
APR
27 1988 David
Wilkerson's bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the seventh inning
propelled the Trojans to a come-from-behind 6 - 5 upset
victory over
the Alabama
Christian
Eagles.
2010 St. James won its eighth
consecutive softball area tournament championship. The Trojans
defeated Opp in the first game 8 - 3, then defeated
upstart Brewbaker Tech 15 - 0 who had earlier shocked state ranked and
homestanding Ashford in their first round game. Amelia Hanan
pitched
a four inning no hitter in the shutout. St. James later defeated
Ashford 16 - 6 to clinch the title enroute to the South Regional
Tournament.
APR 28
APR
29 1997 In a
first round baseball playoff game which had been postponed three days
by rain, St. James finally made the trip to Ashville. Alan Olsen
lifted
the Trojans from a 5 - 0 deficit in the sixth inning by hitting a grand
slam which was followed later by a game-tying single by Rob Cole.
Olsen's
sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh was enough
to allow Michael Gallops to dominate in the bottom of the seventh for
the 6 - 5 Trojan victory.
APR
30 1994 Meredith
Darneille christened the new softball field at Trinity by hitting a
home run on the first pitch of the first game at the new field as part
of the
first annual Trinity Invitational Softball
Tournament. St. James went on to win the game 18 - 2, and later
the same day defeated Reeltown 16 - 5
and Alabama Christian 3 - 2 to capture the
initial Trinity Tournament Championship.
MAY
MAY
1 2004
Scott Price claimed both the 1600 meter and 3200 meter run titles in
the 4A State Outdoor Track
Tournament in Tuscaloosa, helping St. James to
a sixth place
finish
statewide.
2010 Win Woodson, a seventh grader at St.
James, won the Javelin Throw contest at the 4A State (Varsity) Track
Meet in Gulf Shores. Her throw was
110 feet, 6 inches - a huge increase over her winning 98 feet 11 inch
throw earlier in sectionals, and 2½ feet further than her
nearest competitor.
Hope Olszewski, a St. James senior, finished third with a toss of
nearly 105 feet. These two performances resulted in 16 of
the 33 points which
were totalled by the St. James ladies, leading to a sixth place finish
statewide.
MAY 2
MAY 3
MAY 4
1990 St. James hosted its first ever soccer
game, played on Carlisle (football) Field. Jim Bailey scored both
goals for the Trojans as they earned
a 2 - 2
draw
with neighboring Catholic. The Trojans had played 7
games prior, in the temporary Central Alabama Youth Soccer League,
before hosting
their first game.
MAY 5
1994 Jan Shearer hit three home runs (a grand
slam, a 3-run, and a solo) and drove in a total of 10 runs as St. James
walloped Highland Home 19 - 8
in a softball matchup.
2007 Katie Bright, several days after injuring
two fingers on her throwing hand, set a new 4A State record at the
State Track and Field Meet, taking home
a state championship by throwing her javelin 119 feet, 9 inches, easily
breaking the old record of 113 plus feet. The girls placed sixth
in the 2007
Outdoor State Meet despite only several
participants. Her record was broken two years later by Carla
Pettus of Rogers High by two feet.
MAY 6
MAY 7
1996 Erin Stough, who would earn the 1996 1A-4A
Fast Pitch State Tournament Most Valuable Player predominantly due to
her pitching, scored the
winning run of the deciding game in the bottom of the seventh inning by
stealing second, beating a throw to third on a bunt by Mary Hayden
Winn, and racing home on a passed ball. This helped the Trojans
to a 6 - 5
come-from-behind victory over Pleasant Grove. Meredith Darneille,
who also
was given consideration for Tournament MVP, hit a grand slam in the
fourth inning to get the Trojan offense going. This was the first
girls' team
championship in school history, and set the tone for what would
become arguably a softball dynasty in the upcoming years.
MAY 8
2007 The St. James softballers defeated the
Lady
Warhawks of Daleville 10 - 0 and 11 - 0 in a sub-state playoff round
one doubleheader. In the first
game, Robyn Harmon gave up 1 hit and struck out 13. In the
second game, Kelly Brasfield pitched a 6 inning perfect game and
struck out
15 (including
each of the first 9 batters), allowing only three infield outs when
the ball was put into play. One of those was a line drive which
Brasfield managed to block from her face and still pick the ball up and
throw
the runner out at first.
MAY 9
MAY 10
2008 Robyn Harmon, in her last career
home appearance, tied a state record by striking out 20 Thomasville
Tigers out of 22 batters as part of a
2 - 0 St. James win in the first game of a substate doubleheader.
The Trojans qualified for the state tournament with a second game 8 - 3
victory.
MAY 11
MAY 12
MAY 13
MAY 14
MAY 15
MAY 16
MAY 17
2008 Robyn Harmon closed out a
stellar softball career at St. James, pitching her third and fourth
consecutive shutouts (28 innings worth) in the
state 4A championship tournament, defeating Lawrence County 4 - 0, and
Ardmore 6 - 0, earning her third 4A Tournament MVP in four
years and giving the Trojans their fourth state championship in eight
years. She would later be named 4A Player of the Year and first
team
pitcher, Coach Karl Smeltzer was named 4A Coach of the Year, and Morgan
Mullen and Lauren Henry would also be named 4A first
team members, at second base and catcher respectively.
MAY 18
2006 St. James defeated Deshler 7 -
6 at Montgomery's Riverwalk Stadium to clinch their second state
baseball championship, exactly 15 years
to the day
after their
first. Sophomore Blaine Joyner, named Most Valuable Player of the
Tournament, pitched all 7 innings for the complete
game victory,
allowing only 1 earned run. He held the lead despite 5 Trojan
errors. He also went 4 for 4 at the plate in the final game, and
6 for 7 in
the final series. Jason Soriano's two run single in the top of
the sixth highlighted a three run inning as the Trojans overcame a 5 -
3
deficit for the two
game championship sweep.
1991 St. James defeated Cordova 4 -
1
in a game played at the nearby Dora field to win its first team
championship in any sport, this one baseball.
The entire second half of the season had been plagued by rainouts and
delays. After the second game of the best of three series was
controversially
"called" in the
top of the sixth inning with St. James down by only 1 and men on base
the
day before, a rain-soaked field at
Cordova necessitated
the move
to Dora. The Trojans scored 2 in the first. With the bases
loaded, Bryan Skelton scored on a wild pitch, and
later Tim Kreger's
bases-loaded walk forced home Rob Warren. The Trojans added a run
in the
bottom of the second as Stefan Delahay, who
pitched a complete game despite a back injury, scored on a Patriot
throwing error.
Cordova had the bases loaded with no outs in the fifth
inning, but
could only score
once on a double play and a grounder to shortstop. The Trojans
picked up an insurance run in the bottom of the
sixth as Danny Mayer
scored
on another bases-loaded walk, this one to Rob Warren, and St. James
held on in the top of the seventh to claim the
2A State
Championship. St. James had failed to play a single home game all
season.
MAY 19
2006 Robyn Harmon picked up two
wins in the first day of the 2006 State Softball Tournament. In
her second win of the day, a 3-0 victory over
Bibb County, she pitched a 7 inning perfect game. She would help
the
Trojans clinch their second consecutive softball 4A State Championship
the next day and would be named Most Valuable Player of the state
tournament for the second consecutive year.
MAY 20
2005 It may have been the day
Hyundai officially "opened" in Montgomery, but it was Robyn Harmon
pitching her third and fourth complete
games in two
days during the state softball tournament, all four victories, on her
way to Most Valuable Player of the 4A State Tournament.
Kylie Harmon and Kelly Michelle Lewis were also named to the All-State
Tournament Team.
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MAY 29
MAY 30
MAY 31
JUNE / JULY / early
AUGUST (school's out!)
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AUG 31
1973 St. James played its
first ever varsity football game, hosting the Fort Deposit Red
Devils. Fort Deposit won the game 14 - 7.
SEPTEMBER
SEP 1
SEP 2
SEP 3
1993 Rob Pate became the
first ever Capital City Conference varsity football player of the week
as he blocked two punts (returning
one of them
for a touchdown), kicked a field goal, and recorded a sack which
resulted in a safety as the Trojans travelled to
Thorsby and returned home with a 34 - 0 shutout to start the 1993
football season.
SEP 4
SEP 5
SEP 6
SEP 7
SEP 8
SEP 9
SEP 10
SEP 11
SEP 12
SEP 13
SEP 14
SEP 15
SEP 16
SEP 17
SEP 18
1987 Mark Kitchens scored on three short
touchdown runs, with his 65 yard kickoff return setting up one of them,
and his endzone interception
late in the game preserved
a shutout as St. James
defeated Trinity for the first time ever at Carlisle Field, and only
the second time in series
history, 28 - 0.
2009 In arguably the most amazing varsity
football comeback in St. James history, Brandyn Baker caught an 84 yard
pass, moving the ball to the
Opp 1 yard line with seconds remaining, and John Slayton drove hard
into the line for the game winning touchdown as the Trojans ruined
the Bobcats' 2009 Homecoming with an amazing 20 - 17 victory.
SEP 19
SEP 20
SEP 21
1984 In a game which was delayed
2½ hours because the officiating crew did not show up (one had
to be police escorted in following the Alabama
Christian-Catholic game across town), St.
James defeated
Trinity for the first time ever at Trinity's Boykin Field 14 -
13. Johnny
Redding
scored twice, on a 79 yard
run and
a 66 yard fumble return, but
it was two blocked kicks, an extra point attempt and a field goal
attempt
with less than two minutes
remaining,
which sealed
the deal for the Trojans, giving them their first win over the Wildcats
in
six attempts.
SEP 22
SEP 23
SEP 24
SEP 25
1998 On this day, St. James played a
unique volleyball / football tripleheader against Briarwood Christian
in Shelby County. The Junior Varsity
volleyball match started at
3 PM, the Varsity volleyball
match started shortly after 4 PM, and the Varsity football game
followed that night.
Briarwood Christian was
the unwelcoming
host, defeating all three Trojan teams.
SEP 26
SEP 27
SEP 28
SEP 29
SEP 30
OCTOBER
OCT
1
OCT 2
2009 St. James' Crawford Steinberg
blocked two Holtville punts, one which led directly to a touchdown,
earning him numerous awards including
the Alabama Sports Writers Association Special Teams Player of the Week
throughout the state. The Trojans won their fifth straight game,
coming from behind in the fourth quarter for the fourth consecutive
game, defeating the visiting Bulldogs 15 - 14.
OCT 3
OCT 4
OCT 5
OCT 6
OCT 7
OCT 8
OCT 9
OCT 10
OCT 11
OCT 12
1984 Johnny Redding recovered a fumbled snap in the
endzone for the only touchdown as the # 5 ranked Trojans defeated area
foe Highland Home,
ranked # 3 in the state,
7 - 0. Redding rushed for
151 yards on 28 carries in the game which helped solidify the
Trojans' first ever football playoff
berth,
and their first ever # 2
state ranking in football.
1973 St. James played its first varsity football game
against Montgomery Academy, and the two teams have played every year
since.
Montgomery
Academy won the first
meeting, played on the two teams'
shared field located on the Academy campus, 28 - 8.
OCT 13
OCT 14
OCT 15
OCT 16
OCT 17
OCT 18
OCT 19
OCT 20
OCT 21
2005 Kevin Hale's 39 yard interception return, along
with two Will Martin touchdown passes, was enough scoring in a
come-from-behind 21 - 14
victory over Trinity, giving the Trojans their fifth Capital City
Conference Varsity Football title, and first since 2000. Even
though the Trojans
failed to qualify for the playoffs, they defeated Trinity, Montgomery
Academy, and Alabama Christian, all eventually playoff-bound teams.
OCT 22
OCT 23
OCT 24
OCT 25
OCT 26
OCT 27
1995 "Trojans Berry Knights In Mud" - the now classic
Montgomery Advertiser headline summed up the Catholic/St. James
football game.
The Trojans, 2 - 6 coming into the game, were playing 6 - 2 Catholic
for the runner-up spot and the associated playoff berth in 3A
Area 4. Catholic scored on their first drive, but the Trojan
defense and halfback/linebacker Mark Berry made it impossible for them
to score again, as the Trojans pulled one of their biggest upsets in
history, defeating the Knights 14 - 7 at a mud-covered Carlisle Field.
OCT 28
OCT 29
OCT 30
OCT 31
NOVEMBER
NOV
1 2003
Katie Smith was named 4A Tournament Most Valuable Player as she helped
lead the St.
James Volleyball Team
to their second 4A state
championship in three
years with a 3 - 1
match
defeat over favored Gulf Shores.
NOV 2
NOV 3
2001 Megan Stout was named Most Valuable Player
as she helped lead the St. James Volleyball Team
to its first ever state championship,
defeating powerful Cherokee
County for the second time in three days in the final match.
NOV 4
NOV 5
NOV 6
NOV 7
2003 St. James won perhaps its biggest
football playoff game to date, traveling to Ashford to face the # 9
ranked 9 - 1
Yellow Jackets. Will
Stansfield's
three field goals, a
late defensive stand, and a bizarre fake punt play by Ashford which was
negated by a penalty helped the
Trojans to an
ultra-exciting
22 - 20 first round
playoff upset. (GAME
RECAP )
NOV 8
1996 Jay Robertson set a St. James
school receiving yardage record by catching 9 passes for 202 yards and
2 touchdowns as the Trojans clinched
their fourth straight playoff appearance with a 41 - 27 area victory
over
Holtville. Alan Olsen completed 13 of his 18 pass attempts in the
game for a then school-record 269 yards. (GAME RECAP)
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DECEMBER
DEC 1
DEC 2
1986 Jessica Wilson led the way with 36 points
and 13 rebounds as the Lady Trojan Basketballers crushed the ladies
from Calera, 109 - 17. Sophomore
Leslie Claybrook added 25
points and 15 rebounds. Evie
Nesterowich scored 20 and had 14 steals. Elizabeth Boshell added
14 points and Keri
Crocker stole the ball 12 times
as the ladies
rolled up the school's highest basketball score total, and margin of
victory, ever.
DEC 3
DEC 4
DEC 5
DEC 6
2004 St. James defeated Trinity 14 - 9 in
a Junior Varsity girls basketball game. What was noteworthy in
the game was that Trinity scored all nine of its
points in the first half and St.
James scored all fourteen
of its points in the second half. Not a single shot was made the
entire
game at the basket on
the south end of the Trojan gymnasium. Jama
Hanna
and Neely Ketzler each scored 5 points to lead the Trojans.
DEC 7
DEC 8
DEC 9
DEC 10
DEC 11
2009 Hope Olszewski's first basket against
Trinity was her 1000th career point at St. James. She scored 12
that night as the Trojans went to Trinity
and defeated the Lady Wildcats 48 - 25.
DEC 12
DEC 13
2008 Chase Christian managed a rare high school
"triple-double" as he poured in 13 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, and
dished out 11 assists as part of
a 63 - 41 victory over Highland Home.
DEC 14
1988 Leslie Claybrook surpassed the 2000 point
career total in the first quarter of a 79 - 21 victory over Stanhope
Elmore. Her 42 game points, double
the total output of the Lady Mustangs, gave her 2039 career points with
still most of her senior season remaining. She managed a "triple
double"
in the game as she added 13 rebounds and 10 steals.
DEC 15
DEC 16 1984
Mike Johnson scored 12 points and was named
Tournament Most Valuable Player as St. James won at Montgomery Academy
for the
first
time ever, and only the
third time in 39 previous meetings
overall, as the Trojans captured
the 18th Annual Montgomery Academy Christmas
Basketball Tournament,
43 - 34. The Trojans were never invited again to this particular
tournament, which later was supplanted by the
Capital City Conference Holiday Tournament upon the formation of the
CCC.
DEC 17
DEC 18
1987 Leslie Claybrook scored 53 points for the
Lady Trojans, at that time a state record for most points scored in one
game for girls basketball
according to Ron Ingram, high
school editor of The
Birmingham News, as St. James defeated Trinity 75 - 71 in
overtime
in the second round of
the Blue Gray Tournament, played at Catholic High School. She was
literally hot that evening, as she had a 101 degree fever just before
the beginning of the game, debating on whether or not she should even
play.
DEC 19
DEC 20
DEC 21
1995 The St. James basketball girls trailed Keith
42 - 28 going into the fourth quarter, but Kristen Kirkland's 20
points, 14 rebounds, and 6 blocks helped
enable the Trojans to outscore Keith 18 - 0 in the final period to
pull out an
exciting 46 - 42 area victory in Keith's home gymnasium in Orrville.
DEC 22
2007 In what was believed to be a first time event,
St. James alumni faced off each other as coaches in a varsity athletic
event. Reg Mantooth (class of
1986) led his Oak Mountain
Eagles against Ken Klinger (class of 1995) and his St. James Trojans in
a boys basketball matchup - the championship
of the 2007 Wildcat Classic at Fultondale High School. 6A Oak
Mountain was 12 - 1 at the time, and defeated the Trojans, a surprise
entrant in
the tournament finals, 72 - 41. Mantooth was in his first year
coaching at Oak Mountain after a very successful career at Fort Dale
Academy.
DEC 23
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25
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
DEC 26
DEC 27
DEC 28
DEC 29
2008 Chase Christian hit a three pointer in the
first quarter of a Capital City Conference Holiday Tournament game
against Trinity to reach the 1000
point plateau. St. James went on to a rare CCC Tournament defeat
of Trinity, 53 - 47.
DEC 30
2006 The St. James girls wrapped up the Capital City
Conference Tournament championship, overcoming a fierce rally by
Montgomery Academy where
the Lady Eagles actually took a lead late in the fourth quarter.
Key shots
by Kelly Michelle Lewis and Hope Olszewski down the stretch gave the
Trojans the
championship in a 53 - 49 victory at the Trinity gymnasium.
DEC 31
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