NATCHEZ, Miss. – County supervisors are trying to decide where to place championship banners at Liberty Park to commemorate Natchez-Adams County high school sports teams that have been state champs over the past many years.
The county owns the area by the Newt Willis baseball field and community swimming pool.
Banners have already been produced for many of the state champs, with more to be made for Championship Row. Organizer Greg West said about 80 sports teams from Natchez-Adams County high schools have been identified as being the best in their Mississippi leagues going back to the 1940s or earlier.
West displayed several of the Mississippi state-shaped banners at recent meetings of the Natchez Board of Aldermen and Adams County Board of Supervisors, which have provided funds for the signs applauding the local teams that have excelled in football, basketball, baseball, track & field, golf and other sports.
Among the state champs with banners: the Natchez High School boys basketball team of 1948; the Sadie V. Thompson High School boys basketball team of 1961; Trinity boys basketball team of 1974; South Natchez baseball team of 1976; North Natchez girls basketball team of 1985; Cathedral baseball team of 1982; Natchez High girls track & field team of 2001; and the Adams County Christian School football team of 2018.
Meeting with West on Monday, supervisors discussed where to put the aluminum signs at Liberty Park near the baseball field, swimming pool and the Adams County Saferoom storm shelter, and whether to have them placed on existing fencing or on poles. That’s a decision to be made later as more banners are being made.
The city and county boards in February agreed to provide about $3,000 for producing the markers, and in the past week allocated another $130 each for banners lauding Natchez-Adams County championship teams recently discovered.
West noted money from private donors has also been received for making the signs.
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