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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 The Braselton News Page 3B Tennis Lady Panthers beat Winder-Barrow, boys’ team 0-6 BY JUSTIN POOLE Jackson County’s lady tennis team defeated Winder-Barrow when they met March 13. The next match for the tennis team is at home on Thursday, March 20 against Loganville. The ladies beat Winder-Barrow in singles, but were unable to score in doubles. In singles, Maggie Broome 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, Paula Henzel 0-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Andrea Camacho 7-5, 6-2. Doubles number one Heather Carolus and Elena Jackson 0-6, 0-6, number two Katelyn Martin and Kayla Doss 0-6, 0-6. MEN’S TENNIS According to coach Tammi Gowen the men’s team is not doing as well as she had hoped. “[The] boys are still working hard and improving,” said Gowen. Overall, the Panthers are 0-6 STEPPING UP but will look to start a comeback Neal Andrews steps up and gets into position to stroke the ball. Thursday when they face Loganville The Panthers next face Loganville on Thursday, March 20. at home. Photo by Lyn Sengupta ‘Down the Stretch’ “Corky” comes racing from the past BY BRANDON REED now closed. For some reason in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a slew of stock car racing movies filmed in the south. Some were okay, some were terrible, but many of them had one thing in common - they were made by people who really didn’t know what stock car racing was all about. One of these was a movie filmed around Georgia called “Corky.” The movie, which was made in 1970 and released in 1972, starred Robert Blake as the title character, Corky Curtiss, a dirt track racer and mechanic from Texas. The story revolved around Corky’s obsession with becoming a big time NASCAR racer, based solely on a picture taken with himself and Richard Petty. Corky leaves his wife and children to travel across the country from Texas to Atlanta in an attempt to break into the big time at the Atlanta International Raceway. Also starring in the film is Charlotte Rampling as Corky’s wife, veteran actor Ben Johnson, and a host of NASCAR and local racers in cameos. One scene features Corky turn ing laps in a modified 1966 Plymouth Barracuda (sporting a Superbird rear-wing, no less!) around Atlanta International Raceway, swapping paint with the Dodge Daytona of Bobby Allison. Another shows Buddy Baker, Allison, Cale Yarborough and several other NASCAR stars during a cof fee break in a suite at AIR. But for Georgia race fans, there are some priceless shots. The movie’s finale was filmed at the legendary Peach Bowl Speedway, a raceway that sat closer to Atlanta’s downtown area than the Atlanta Zoo does today. The film shows the track towards the end of its existence. Roy Shoemaker, the owner, builder and promoter of the track, sold the speedway in 1970, and the track closed one year later. A MARTA bus repair depot now sits on the spot where the track was. Racing scenes were also filmed at the old West Atlanta Raceway in Douglasville. In that scene, Corky takes on local drivers in a borrowed racecar. In that sequence, he picks up a win after a spin by none-other than Georgia rac ing legend and NASCAR winner Jody Ridley, with Ridley piloting his famous number 98 Ford Falcon. The track would later become Seven Flags Speedway. Sadly, it too is Needless to say, Blake didn’t do his own race driving in the film. Georgia Hall of Fame inductee Charlie Mincey was behind the wheel in the racing sequences, one of several movies Mincey worked on in the Georgia area. Mincey was a track champion at the Peach Bowl, as well as at the Toccoa Speedway and the old Athens Speedway. After its 1972 release, “Corky” fell into obscu rity. After a run a drive-in theaters and occasional late night television runs, the film faded into the dust. It never even made it to the home video market. But this Saturday, it will be resurrected at the Georgia Racing Hall of Fame in Dawsonville. Mike Bell, historian for the Georgia Auto Racing Hall of Fame Association (GARHOFA) has worked to locate a copy of the film, and plans to show it in the theater room at the hall at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Admission is free, but the Hall of Fame always accepts donations. Bell hopes some of the drivers and participants in the film will come out to talk about what it was like to work on the set, as well as to share memories of the tracks and racing at the time. It’s the latest in a series of events at the hall intended to bring attention on the number of racing related projects that has taken place in the state. Back in December, the 1965 movie “White Lightnin’ Road,” which was filmed in and around the Cumming Speedway in Forsyth County, was shown at the hall. Plans are for more such films to be screened at the Hall of Fame later this year. Despite what the film appears to be cinematically, it is another rare opportunity to see a couple of Georgia’s grand old racetracks in their glory. It’s one more chance to see cars at the Peach Bowl. It’s a chance to see Ridley’s blue Ford on dirt again. It’s a chance to see the winged Dodges on Atlanta’s original layout, before it was turned into a Charlotte clone. Chances like that are hard to come by. Brandon Reed is a reporter for Main Street Newspapers. Contact him at brandon@mainstreetnews.com. Brandon Reed Auto Racing Spring Spectacular 2008 Anngiai Ll Attention, Area Businesses: You don't want to miss this great oppor tunity to advertise your spring specials to over 29,000 homes across Northeast Georgia! This special tabloid section will run in the April 9 editions of The Jackson Herald, The Commerce News and The Braselton News. The ad deadline is Wednesday, March 26. Ask your sales representative for more information or call us at 706-367-5233. Advertising Rates: Combo: The Jackson Herald, The Commerce News and The Braselton News Full Page 129" 1/2 Page 66" 1/4 Page 33" 1/8 Page 15” .$1,870.50 ....$957.00 ....$478.50 ....$217.50 All sizes $14.50 per column inch Spot Color $135.00 • Process Color $270.00 Jackson Herald HOCKEY — continued from page 1B SCORING THREAT Mill Creek’s Jordan Senecal scored twice in Saturday’s playoff game against Walton and twice in Sunday’s second round playoff game against Kennesaw Mountain. photo by Kristi Reed ROUND TWO LOSS Mill Creek faced Kennesaw Mountain in round two of the tour nament. Despite a tough overtime loss. Coach Nowakowski said the game was probably the best the Ice Hawks had played all season. After three periods, the score was tied three-all. Kris Nowakowski scored first for the Hawks with an assist from Little and LaChance. Jordan Senecal scored twice for Mill Creek, once unassisted and the second time with an assist from Guttuso and Jordan Caton. Kennesaw Mountain also scored three times forcing the game into overtime where the Mustangs held on to win 4-3. “It was a tough game for us,” gen eral manager Cubbage said. “We had a chance to score (in overtime ) and we didn’t.” Since the GHSL state champion ship is a double elimination tourna ment, Mill Creek will live to fight another day. Next Tuesday, the Ice Hawks will continue its quest for a championship in round four of the playoffs. While the Ice Hawks are fast approaching the end of this season. Mill Creek’s hockey program is just beginning. NEWS KIDS ON THE BLOCK The Ice Hawks fielded 24 play ers this year, including four eighth graders. Nowakowski said his play ers ranged widely in age and expe rience. “The skill set is very vast,” he said. “It’s not your typical team that has been around for a while. We’ve got to kind of break things down a little bit. We’re a little bit above where Mr. Cubbage and I thought we were going to be. We were going to be happy with a 50-50 showing this year and we’re sitting in second place.” Cubbage said he is ecstatic about the team’s performance this sea son. “It has exceeded our expecta tions,” Cubbage said. “Coming into the league as an expansion team, we didn’t really know what to expect.” PLANS FOR THE FUTURE Mill Creek will begin expanding its program next year as it fields two ice hockey teams: a single-A team and a double-A team. “Having two teams has definitely been our goal from the very begin ning,” Cubbage said. “One of our challenges this year is that we have such a diverse group of kids. We have eighth graders that are not as mature and not as skilled obviously as some of the seniors that have been playing five, six, seven, eight years. There is a huge difference in understanding the strategy of the game, understanding how to adapt to a changing situation. I think it will help next year having two teams. It will accelerate and propel the team to achieve higher goals.” Another goal is to have Mill Creek High School recognize hockey as a letter sport. If the school elects to do so, it will make Mill Creek the first high school in the state that allows athletes to letter in hockey. Both Cubbage and Nowakowski are optimistic that the team will be able to accomplish its goals. “We have been able to achieve everything we set out to do,” Cubbage said. Nowakowski said he is commit ted to the Mill Creek program and is looking forward to future seasons as the Ice Hawks head coach. “I am extremely pleased with the team in itself,” said Nowakowski. “We’ve got some great seniors and we’ve got some great leadership on the team in a couple of our other players. I see this program continu ing to grow.” ONLY 12 DAYS LEFT EMPLOYEE PRICING ALL. NEW 2008 Toyota CARS, TRUCKS & VANS NEW 2009 COROLLA. 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