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plouaicm .Sailg journal OUR 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 .. y-- »3|P|[||ij|| , #jj|p ENI/Gary Harmon Tennis coach Windy Bryan talks to some of the kids attending the Westfield camp this week about the drills they will be doing. tv- ji’ ' »,;• K 'JF . '• • — i. ENI/Gary Harmon Cameron Black returns a serve. 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 See REID, page 10A "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. In addition to plenty of other successes, he led the warn g Net gain college to the SoCon cham pionship in 2005. 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.” Most of what was taught mR *£>' Jifl/ mK' 4 Jf jP ISPI $8 I? • "#l*s. '■"Qx&’gf* ; Jh| 7■ 7 Vta^l ENI/Gary Harmon Mikel Huckabee, Grayce Bearden, and Anna Davis take a break from the heat. 11 wBBSffiW^ •—... s>&i, *v v m ■ - m Jr W*^§ ' : M MSji.m Mimsm ' . all# 1 ' ENI/Gary Harmon 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 7A 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 ing camp. ENI/Gary Hannon 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.