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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Braselton News
Page 5B
Golf
Mill Creek
beats GAC
The Mill Creek golf team hosted
Greater Atlanta Christian (GAC) for
a nine-hole match at Hamilton Mill
Golf Club on Tuesday.
The Lady Hawks beat GAC by
five strokes, 80-85. Emilie Burger
led all scorers with a one under par
35. Jennifer Nam and Ashley Frier
each shot 45.
Lindsay Adams was the top shoot
er for GAC with a 42. Lauren Rogers
added 43 for the Lady Spartans.
GAC’s Lisa Licata shot a hole-in-one
on the 107 yard, par-3 fourth hole.
In the men’s match, Mill Creek
defeated GAC by a score of 156-183.
Kevin Lee led the Hawks with an
even par 36. Ben Miller finished
three strokes back with a 39. Mill
Creek’s Shawn Yim shot a 40 and
Geoff Hatfield added a 41.
Andrew Robbins led GAC with a
44. Teammate Trey Martin finished
one stroke behind with a 45.
The Hawks’ next match will be
Wednesday against Dacula. Tee time
is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Hamilton
Mill Golf Club. On Thursday, Mill
Creek will host Norcross at Hamilton
Mill. Tee time is set for 3 p.m.
TEEING OFF
Jennifer Nam shot a 45 in Tuesday’s match against Greater Atlanta
Christian. Mill Creek beat GAC by a score of 80-85.
AT THE TEE
The Jackson County
Lady Panthers’
golf team defeated
Loganville and lost to
Apalachee. The team
has two members,
Christan Stevens
(right) and Jessica
Stevens
Photo by Justin Poole.
KULL SHOOTS
LOWEST
SCORE
Panthers’ Jamie Kull
shot a 39, the low
est score of the year
for Jackson County.
The Panthers played
against Loganville and
Apalachee last week.
Jackson County shot
185 beating Loganville,
196 and losing to
Apalachee, 179.
Photo by Justin Poole
Tour de Georgia
EXCITING NEWS
Sports Group 11 representative Jeff Corbett (left), Tour de Georgia Event Director Chris Aronhault
(center) and Road Atlanta president Geoff Lee (right) announced plans for this year’s team trial por
tion of the Tour de Georgia at a press conference last Wednesday. photo by Kristi Reed
Fifteen teams to compete in Tour de Georgia
Fifteen teams comprised of 120 professional cyclists
from around the world will compete in this year’s Tour
de Georgia. The eight member teams will race 600
miles in seven days for the honor of being crowned this
year’s tour champion.
This year’s competitors include: Astana Cycling
Team (Luxembourg), Saunier Duval-Scott (Spain),
Team CSC (Denmark), Team High Road (USA), Team
Gerolsteiner (Germany), BMC Racing Team (USA),
Slipstream/Chipotle presented by H30 (USA), Bissell
Pro Cycling (USA), Health Net presented by Maxxis
(USA), Jelly Belly Cycling Team (USA), Jittery Joe’s
Professional Cycling Team (USA), Symmetries Cycling
Team (Canada), Team Type 1 (USA), Toyota-United
Professional Cycling Team (USA) and the GE/Marco
Polo Cycling Team presented by Trek (China)
“This is not only the most international field we
have had at Georgia, but one of the most elite as well.
Usually you only see names like Hincapie, Zabriskie,
Leipheimer and Millar at the Grand Tours. Now you
will see them at the Tour de Georgia presented by
AT&T. We have many teams from across the U.S. and
Europe that we just could not accommodate,” said Jim
Birrell, managing partner of Medalist Sports and race
director for the Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T.
This year’s diverse, 600-mile route, announced last
week, will traverse from the shores of Tybee Island, to
the Blue Ridge mountains, and back to the streets of
Atlanta. A number of teams have been drawn to this
event because of the scheduling on the calendar, look
ing to make an impact this summer on the European cir
cuit. The Team Time Trial, a discipline most commonly
found in the European Grand Tours, and never before
included in the Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T, is
slated for Stage 4 at Road Atlanta.
“We will be bringing our ‘A’ team to the Tour de
Georgia. The team time trial will give us a unique
opportunity to showcase the depth of our squad. I am
now on an American team and it will be great to race
against top European races here,” said pro cyclist David
Millar, member of Team Slipstream/Chipotle presented
by H30, regarding the strong field coming to Georgia.
Several exciting teams are scheduled to compete
in this year’s tour. The Spanish team Saunier-Duval
Scott, ranked 6th in the ProTour at the end of 2007
and winners of the team classification in last year’s
Giro d’ltalia, is home to 2007 Tour de Georgia 3rd and
4th place finishers David Canada (ESP) and Rubens
Bertogliati (SUI), both of whom are also Tour de France
veterans. Last year, the team captured third at the Tour
de Georgia.
The Symmetries Cycling Team of Canada is the 2007
UCI America Tour Team Champion, and is led by Svein
Tuft (CAN), the 2007 UCI America Tour Champion.
Canadian Eric Wohlberg, a three-time Olympian and
eight-time Canadian National Time Trial Champion
also is a member of this team that placed first in the
Team Time Trial, and overall, at the 2007 Tour of El
Salvador.
No. 1 NRC-ranked American squad HealthNet pre
sented by Maxxis won the 17.1 km Team Time Trial
at the 2007 International Tour de Toona, and placed
second to the Discovery Channel Professional Cycling
Team on overall Team GC at the 2007 Tour de Georgia.
The team includes New Zealander Rory Sutherland, the
No. 1 ranked individual in the 2007 NRC standings, and
American Tim Johnson.
The colorful Jelly Belly Professional Cycling Team
(USA), sponsored by the infamous jelly bean com
pany, includes Athens, Ga. resident Nick Reistad, who
took first in the 2007 Georgia Cup, and is a former
Wisconsin time trial champion. The team will also ben
efit this year from the experience of two new additions,
Brad Huff and Michael Lange.
Team Type 1 (USA), a first year professional squad,
makes its debut on American soil at this year’s Tour
de Georgia. In its first professional outing of 2008 at
the Tour de Langkawi, the team placed second over
all. Australians Matt Wilson, a former National Road
Champion, and Glen Chadwick, along with American
Jesse Anthony lead this squad. Type 1 stands for Type 1
diabetes: the team objective is to draw attention to dia
betes and the positive impact a healthy, active lifestyle
can have in preventing the disease.
American Chris Baldwin, former U.S. time trial
champion, sprinter Ivan Dominguez of Cuba, and UCI
B 2007 World Champion Ivan Stevie of Serbia make the
Toyota-United Professional Cycling Team (USA) one
to watch. Second overall in the 2007 NRC standings,
the team is also home to Dominic Rollin of Canada
who finished first in the sprint competition at this year’s
Amgen Tour of California.
Lending a truly international flavor to this year’s race
is the GE Marco Polo Cycling Team presented by Trek,
a team based out of China. The Chinese squad will
be making its American debut at the Tour de Georgia.
Leading the roster is Fuyu Li, a transfer from the
Discovery Channel Professional Cycling Team, who
expects to represent his home country in the Beijing
Olympic Games this summer. The team also features
Dutch athletes Bart Brentjens, a former Olympic, world
and mountain bike champion, and Leon van Bon, an
Olympic and world road champion. Other members of
the team should be Russian sprinter Sergey Kudentsov,
currently ranked fifth on the UCI Asia Tour, and
Australians Jai Crawford and Rhys Pollock.
Tennis
Lady Panthers
beat Loganville
BY JUSTIN POOLE
The Jackson County lady ten
nis team does it again, beating
Loganville 3-2. The next opponent
for the team is Habersham County
on Thursday, March 27. In a previ
ous match against Habersham, the
Lady Panthers lost 4-1. The match
on Thursday offers the team a chance
for payback.
Number one singles Maggie
Broome lost 2-6, 1-6. Number two
singles Sarah Duff won 7-6, 4-6, 7-6.
Number three singles Paula Henzel
won her sets 6-2, 6-4. Number
one doubles Andrea Camacho and
Jocelyn Ryan won 4-6, 6-4, 6-0,
and number two doubles Heather
Carolus and Elena Jackson lost 3-6,
4-6. The win over Loganville leaves
the ladies 2-5 overall.
MEN’S PLAY
The Panthers are showing some
grit, but can still not break their los
ing streak. The loss to Loganville on
Thursday leaves the Jackson County
men’s team with a 0-8 record. Coach
Tammi Gowen said that the boys
played strong against Loganville but
were just unable to make it hap
pen. The Panthers will be facing
Habersham County on Thursday,
March 27. In a match earlier in the
season, Habersham swept Jackson
County 5-0. The rematch will be at
Habersham at 4 p.m.
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