The girls basketball teams that helped Pillow Academy produce 100 consecutive wins from 1971-1974, and their coach Charlie Wright, were honored and inducted into the Future Champions Greenwood-Leflore Sports Hall of Fame on July 6 alongside three other solo Pillow inductees. In front row, kneeling next to Wright, center, are inductees Floyd Melton III, left, and Hal Coleman. Starting in second row, from left, are the former players who attended the induction: Eve Bell, Ella Brunson Pogue, Susan M. Morgan, Gwen Wier Toomey, Donna Stowers Pittman, Jonni Webb, Dee Dee Harmon Thach and Pam Makamson Bush; third row, team statistician Dr. John Lucas III, Dana Barry Smith, who represented her late mother, Mildred Utroska Barry, Annette Tribble Morgan, Susan Lennard Smith, Melissa Wasson Barrett and Key Crump Britt. (By Johnny Jennings, Copyright 2024 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.)
