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SANDLOT
ON DECK
Friday
Major League Baseball
■ Atlanta at San Diego, 10:05
p.m., TBS
IN BRIEF
Youth center sets registration
The Robins Air Force Base
Youth Center's sports registration
will be held July 15. Parents may
resister from 1-6 p.m. on that day
and from 3-6 p.m. the following
Monday-Friday.
Youth may register for cheer
leading ages 5-12, NFL flag foot
ball ages 5-10, tackle football
ages 11-12 and fall soccer ages
5-16.
Registration will continue until
teams are full. Also, the center is
currently accepting applications
for volunteer cheerleading/foot
ball/soccer coaches.
No experience is required.
Training will be provided though
the youth center. Apply in person
at Robins Youth Center or call
Ron Hayes at 926-2110.
Cross country series dates set
Warner Robins High School
head cross country coach David
Erpelding is hosting the Sixth
Annual Middle Georgia Cross
Country Summer Series at Pearl
Stephens Elementary School in
Warner Robins.
The races - two have already
been held - are open to everyone
and the following race is left: July
20: 5000 Meters.
The race is slated to start at
7:30 p.m. on the Thursdays listed
above. Awards will be given for
the top five in each age group
male female. 14-and-under,
15-19 and 20 and over.
Runners register on race day.
Contact Erpelding at 328-3208 or
via e-mail at Erpelding@bellsouth.
net for more information.
The entry fee is $5.
KLCC to host clinic, more
Houston Lake Country Club will
be holding a Junior Golf Clinic
Tuesday-Thursday, 9:30-11 a.m.
all three days. Each clinic is lim
ited to the first 50 golfers to sign
up. The cost is SIOO for members
and $l2O for nonmentbers. The
club will also have a Junior Club
Championship July 27.
Call the Pro Shop at 218-5252
to sign up or for more informa
tion. In addition, the 25th Annual
Ron Stafford Invitational Two-man
Best Ball tournament sponsored
by Coca-Cola will be held July 22
and 23 at the course. Sign up is in
the pro shop.
WR Rec to hold registrations
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will begin football and
cheerleading registration July 15
from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Registration
will be held at the WRRD located
at 800 Watson Boulevard.
The fees are as follows:
Cheerleading - City of Warner
Robins, $75; county, $100; out of
county, $l2O. Football: City, SSO;
county, $103; out of county $177.
Call 929-1916 for more.
You’ve got questions...
Heads up, all Houston County
golfers!
The Houston Home
Journal sports department is
putting together a new regular
feature aiming at improving your
understanding of the game of golf
and the way you play out of the
course.
For this “Ask the Pros” column,
we are asking you, the avid golfer,
to submit any question you may
have concerning the rules of the
sport or your golf swings, strokes
and putts. We will then forward
your question to a local golf pro
from one of five Houston County
golf clubs, and that pro will in turn
answer the question. That answer
will appear in the Home Journal.
Send your questions,
including your name and
where you live, via e-mail to
mbrown@evansnewspapers.com
or by regular mail to the Houston
Home Journal, attn: sports,
1210 Washington St., Perry, GA,
31069.
HE SAID IT
“Without a positive attitude,
you’re not going anywhere - in
racing or in life.”
- Brett Bodine
WEDNESDAY,
JULY 12, 2006
Former WR standout prepares for NFL
By MATTHEW BROWN
HDJ Sports Writer
Has anyone’s football life
been more impacted by two
special teams plays than that
of former Warner Robins
High star Willie Reid?
First, there was the Most
Valuable Player award for
the victorious Florida State
Seminoles in the Atlantic
Coast Conference champion
ship game. Then there was
an explosive showing in the
Orange Bowl against Penn
State.
Four months and count
less workouts and inter
views later, no less than
the recently-crowned Super
Bowl champion Pittsburgh
Steelers took notice. Now
Reid, who always believed
he would get as much out of
football as what he put into
it, has a chance to fill a role
for the standard-bearers of
the NFL.
“It’s been a real busy pro
cess since our bowl game
in January,” said Reid dur
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Panthers conclude successful wrestling camp
By DON MONCRIEF
HDJ Sports Editor
When you’re forced to
make the most out of a short
period of time, you: Make
the most out of a short peri
od of time.
Such was the case for Perry
High School’s wrestlers.
Head coach Randy Mizell
only had future Panthers
grapplers for four days.
To that end, he made “the
most out of a short period
of time” by sending/tak
ing them to the Workhorse
Wrestling Camp in Calhoun.
That was from June 12-15.
Eleven from the high school
and two from the middle
school made the trip.
Sports
ing his visit back home in
between a rookie camp in
San Diego and the opening
of Steelers summer camp
later in July. “Training for
the combine, waiting on
the draft, working out in
between. Right now it’s going
to mini-camps and coaching
sessions. It’s been non-stop
ever since January.”
The Steelers, back in April,
made Reid their third-round
selection in the NFL Draft.
It was the 95th pick overall.
Like many of his peers, he
visited several NFL cities
prior to draft day.
“You name the team, I’ve
probably been out there,”
said Reid. He said his con
versations with Pittsburgh
officials - as was the case
with the other franchises
- centered around where he
fit on their draft board.
“Every team has a differ
ent slot for you on their
draft board,” said Reid.
“Some teams might grade
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"We took a lot of veterans. But when we
left we were a mile ahead of where we
were. They learned a lot of good stuff
we'll be able to use."
- Perry wrestling head coach Randy Mizell
Terry Brands and some of
his assistants ran the camp,
Mizell said. Brands was the
head wrestling coach for
the University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga until 2005
when he resigned to become
the resident coach at the U.S.
Olympic Training Center.
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other successes, he led the
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As far as the format/sched
ule itself and its affect on
those who attended: “They
worked them to death,”
Mizell said. “They brought
two T-shirts (a day) and both
were soaked from sweating.
They learned a lot.”
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The campers practice during the hand/eye coordination drill.
during the seven-hour days
- minus an hour for lunch
- Mizell added were not
so much fundamentals as
“drills, drills, drills,” he said,
adding the last 30 minutes
were typically reserved for
mini-practices using “live”
wrestling.
“We took a lot of veter
ans,” Mizell said. “But when
we left we were a mile ahead
of where we were. They
learned a lot of good stuff
we’ll be able to use.”
They won’t be able to put
it into real practical use
until late-September, early
October, however, when
they begin team prepara
tion under the Georgia High
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Former
Warner
Robins
player
Willie Reid
takes part
in a sprint
drill as the
Pittsburgh
Steelers’
draft pick
gets ready
for his first
NFL train
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School Association’s rules.
In another piece of news,
Mizell will also have a new
assistant at that time, Kelvin
McDavis.
McDavis is a graduate of
Northside in Warner Robins
where he played football and
wrestled. He was also an
Area champion and state
qualifier. He was part of
Valdosta State University’s
National Championship
team two years ago and
comes to Perry following a
year as an assistant football
coach at Wilkinson County.
He will be, according to
head football coach Andy
Scott, the Panthers’ offen
sive line coach.