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3Hmiston PatltJ TJmmtal The Home Journal’s SANPLOT ON DECK Today Major League Baseball ■ Atlanta at St. Louis, 8:10 p.m., Fox Sports Network BRAVES CORNER Braves 15, Cards 3 ST. LOUIS (AP) - The only thing missing on another huge night for the Atlanta Braves' offense was an extra-base hit from Chipper Jones. Brian McCann hit a grand slam and leadoff man Wilson Betemit was 4-for-6 with a homer and five RBIs in a 15-3 victory Monday night that snapped the St. Louis Cardinals’ seven-game win ning streak. Jones had to settle for a share of the major league record for extra-base hits in 14 consecutive games, set tling for three singles and two RBIs. He shares the record set by Pittsburgh’s Paul Waner in 1927. The Braves third base man has a 17-game hitting streak, and during his run he had eight doubles, a triple and seven homers. Adam Laßoche was 4-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs, Jeff Francoeur had three hits and reliever Jorge Sosa hom ered for the Braves, who have won a season-high six straight and scored in double figures the last four games, totaling 51 runs in that span. A season-high 20 hits helped Ramirez (5-3) bounce back from the worst outing of his career with five solid innings, the only damage coming on Jim Edmonds’ 12th homer in the fourth. He gave up one run and two hits, after lasting only one inning and giving up seven runs to Cincinnati on July 7. Jones is 37-for-69 (.536) with seven homers and 22 RBIs during his hitting streak. IN BRIEF Soccer association preps for its Fall session The Centra! Georgia Soccer Association is gearing up for its Fall session. All chil dren ages 4-19 are invited to join. Online Registration has already begun. The website is: www.gasoccer.org/cgsa. For those who don't have internet access, the office will be open July 28 from 4-8 p.m., July 29 from 9 a.m.-noon and July 31 from 4-8 p.m., for reg istration. In addition you can come by and register during their normal office hours Monday through Friday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Registration closes July 31. Contact CGSA’s Association Administrator, Bette Dillon, at 987-2455 or email her at playcgsa@alltel.net for further information. WR Rec Department sets softball signup dates The Warner Robins Recreation Department will hold team registration for the 2006 Fall Softball League, Aug. 7 and 8. Teams may register between the hours of 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the department, which is located at 800 Watson Blvd. They will register the first 28 coed teams and the first 21 men’s teams. League play will be Monday through Thursday for a 12-game season. The entry fee is $348 per team. The fall season will open Sept. 5. They will play all games at Peavy Park. Participants must be 16 years of age by Sept. 1. Contact the department at 478-929-1916 for any ques tions. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2006 .fr ij c c ■ j - - iJr &i| m ■t YiSkiafri ‘ ‘ r - .-AT Tigap mßc. ' - iMMI' ■iite :lp>L \*W*w>* NHRA Competitors battle it out at the 2006 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parks Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals this past weekend at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, Tenn. Among them were Parker and Schafer Suggs. The two brothers made NHRA history by being the first siblings to win a trophy at the same event in the same year. Suggs make history Brothers win big at NHRA event By DON MONCRIEF Journal Managing Editor A pair of local brothers made history and brought home a pair of Wally’s - drag racing’s most sought after trophy - at the 2006 NHRA O’Reilly Auto Parts Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern Conference Finals presented by Pure Power and held at Bristol Dragway in Bristol, Tenn. this past weekend. Parker and Schafer Suggs from Warner Robins each won their age bracket. The first won at the 12-year-old •s** 11 ■T.-^T; l r 1 J-f-r■(Tim ■ , ,-ft • »\i TiT'il F ife&Svl Hr Yr;wfoiiliU h jr f-T:'l' r \ H' r; : ' 1 *s*sifer HDJ Matthew Brown Under the watch of assistant coach Michelle Christesen, Houston County’s Lady Bear volleyball players anticipate the arrival of the ball at the net during a summer scrimmage at the Bear Den Monday. HoCo Icbs first volley Lady Bears use summer as tuneup for fall start By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer The status of the blood and the tears is unknown, but the Houston County High Lady Bear volleyball players are giving up a lot of sweat this summer in their efforts to raise the fall athletic program to a new level. On these hot summer afternoons, the Lady Bears have gathered for volun tary workouts that include weight conditioning and a working of their skills at Sports age group and the second in the 13-year-old age group. In doing so, it marked the first time in the NHRA’s history two siblings took home atrophy at the same event in the same year. Each not only earned the aforementioned Wally but a $5,000 U.S. savings bond to boot. The duo was also rep resenting Silver Dollar Raceway in Reynolds and contributing toward the overall team title. In the end, that went to Pacemakers Team 1, win and away from the net on the floor of the Bear Den. Before the program’s fifth season begins in August, the Houston County play ers will travel to a team camp for the first time ever. That camp takes place next week at the University of Florida in Gainesville. According to head coach Tony Jones, the main goal of summer workouts is to get the players in shape. One of the main models he uses in structuring his pre season rituals is Starr’s Mill ning over Silver Dollar in a double tie-breaker. As far as Parker, he won in the first round over Joey Cameron of Pataskala, Ohio - there were more than 600 competitors in all - with a , reaction time of .174, ET of 8.845 and dial-in of 8.90. Cameron’s reaction time was -.063. His ET was 9.804 - he red-lighted - and dial in was 9.85. In the semifinals, Parker faced off against Kyle Camp of Terre Haute, Ind. He won with a reaction See SUGGS, page 3B High School, the defending Class AAAAA state cham pions in volleyball from Fayetteville. “We spend one hour in the weight room lifting weights, getting stronger, getting faster and working on endurance,” said Jones. “Then we work on basic skills. A lot of the young ladies who are out there have never played before. Those who have played before, they’re instruct ing ... they work on (the See FIRST, page 3B Wooten earns silver, Bold; sets world record in bench Special to the Journal ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE - John Wooten, an avionics co-op trainee in the 402nd Maintenance Wing, competed recently in three categories at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Anchorage, Alaska, win ning a silver and two gold medals. The 53-year-old received a silver medal in the 200 meters and gold in the 100 meters wheelchair racing events. He won a gold medal and set a world record in weight lifting by body weight, com peting in the masters (over age 40) division. Wooten can press more than twice his weight and set a world record at 330 pounds. More than 550 athletes from 46 states, Puerto Rico and Great Britain competed in the largest annual wheel chair sports event in the world. i 9 $ » ,Vv ' ; ' • ’■ I hW U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs John Wooten prepares for competition. The 53-year-old Robins Air Force Base avionics co-op trainee recently earned two gold and one silver medal at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Anchorage, Alaska. Problems just seem to crop up from sunflower seeds I have long had doubts about the notion of evolution, but I am now convinced that humans evolved from parrots. How else can anyone explain the human ability to separate the sun flower seed from its shell? I’ve never seen apes do it. I sus pect it’s " Joe Sersey HHJ Correspondent eleanor|oe@Bn.net because they don’t play base ball. Nor have I seen felines lap up a wad of sunflower seeds and start shucking and spitting. I say cats because the only thing I learned in college biology was that cats’ jaw bones most match humans, and the swine circulatory 'Still, sunflower seeds are better than the professional ballplayer's old standby, chewing tobacco.' SECTION 1B Wooten lost both legs in 1971 when he stepped on a landmine while serv ing in South Vietnam with the 101st Airborne. In an interview earlier this year, Wooten said, “life is like a competition. When I came back from Vietnam, that’s when I started lifting. I was in the Veteran’s hospital in Augusta, and I said, ‘Hey I’m pretty good at this.’ And, some others thought so too and said I should get into competing, and I did.” “I love competing,” he said. “It keeps me young. You’ve got to do something right?” The games are present ed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Paralyzed Veterans of America and were hosted this year by the Alaska VA Healthcare System. The National Wheelchair Games showcase the remarkable athletic abilities and per sonal achievements of the nation’s disabled veterans. system is much like Homo sapiens. Not once have I seen Garfield with a wad of sun flower seeds in his jaw, how ever, nor did Napoleon the pig consume the seeds as part of his patrician diet. Why then must humans litter the stands at sport ing events or players muck up the infield with Planters’ residue? I am a traditionalist. What’s wrong with peanut shells littering the ground? They make cool crunching noises, like stepping on cock roaches, when I walk to my seat at the ballpark. Still, sunflower seeds are better than the profession al ballplayer’s old standby, chewing tobacco. And the shells don’t stick to the bottom of my shoe like gum. One argument players use for padding their cheeks with some substance or another See CROP, page 3B