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Today
Major League Baseball
■Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:05
p.m., Fox Sports Network
BRAVES CORNER
Cards 8, Braves 3
By R. Travis Haney
Morris News Service
ST. LOUIS - Bound to hap
pen. No way around it. Simply
and logically, the Atlanta Braves
weren’t going to score 10-plus
runs every day and night until
October.
On a Thursday evening that
will be best remembered for a
violent, severe storm that delayed
the game’s start by two hours
and 12 minutes, the Braves’ his
torical run of offense came to a
predictable close in an 8-3 St.
Louis victory.
Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter
limited the Braves, who had
scored 65 runs in the past five
games, to two runs in seven
innings. And St. Louis shelled
journeyman spot starter Jason
Shiell for four runs in four innings,
Jim Edmonds providing a key
three-run homer in the third.
Carpenter, the NL’s reigning
Cy Young winner, helped to halt
Atlanta's seven-game win streak
and the team’s five-game run of
scoring 10 or more runs. The last
team to do that was the 1930
New York Yankees, led by Babe
Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Brian McCann's solo home run
in the seventh off Carpenter (9-4)
was his fifth in five games after
the 22-year-old All-Star hit six in
his first 65 games this season.
Chipper Jones stayed freak
ishly hot, too, going 2-for-4 to
extend his hitting streak to 19
games and tie his career long,
set in 2000.
IN BRIEF
Soccer association preps
for its Fall session
The Central Georgia Soccer
Association is gearing up for its
Fall session. All children 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 inter
net 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 registration. 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 more.
WR Rec Department sets
softball signup dates
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will hold team regis
tration 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 regis
ter 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 questions.
HLCC to host clinic,
Junior Club tourney
Houston Lake Country Club
will be holding a Junior Club
Championship Thursday.
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 begins signups
for football, cheerleading
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department has begun football
and cheerleading registration.
Call 929-1916 for more.
FRIDAY,
JULY 21,2006
Columbus stops WRALL's Minor girls
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Even at the youngest level
of softball competition, it’s
hard to beat a team from
Columbus.
That’s what the All-Stars
for Warner Robins American
Little League Minor Girls
softball found out Wednesday
at the state tournament
in Bogart. The Columbus
Pioneer squad from District
8 defeated Warner Robins
American 15-0 and thus
ended the summer season.
“It didn’t go the way we
wanted it to,” said coach
Ricky Albritton. “They have
a tough team.”
Warner Robins American
had just one hit, that coming
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Entry date nears for Senior Womens Championship
Special to the Journal
MARIETTA - Entries will be closing
in one week for the ninth annual GSGA
Senior Women’s Championship, which
will take place Aug. 21-22 at Callaway
Gardens in Pine Mountain.
This event is open to female amateur
golfers age 50 and above as of Aug. 21,
who are GSGA members and Georgia
residents.
The format of the event is 36 holes of
flighted stroke play over two days.
Last year, Greensboro’s Ena Harvey
Sports
RCJUNDUP
from Morgan Whaley. It was
the team’s second loss in pool
play, the other being against
Franklin County on Sunday.
“We had a fun, great year,”
said Albritton, whose team
went to state after winning
the District 5 tournament
in Macon. “All the girls are
stars. Everything just went
(Columbus’) way.”
In other state Little League
tournaments involving the
Warner Robins American pro
gram, the 10-11 boys baseball
All-Stars saw their season
come to an end in a tough
semifinals loss Tuesday, 5-3,
to Buckhead Little League in
Conditioning continues
posted a final-round, one-over-par 73 to
cruise to her second-straight win at the
GSGA Senior Women’s Championship.
Harvey’s final-round 73 tied the cham
pionship record for lowest round and
led her to carding the lowest overall
score in the championship’s history, a
five-over 148.
Qualified players may enter online at
the GSGA website (www.gsga.org) by
clicking the Online Registration quick
link. Paper entries are available by
request and may also be downloaded as
Lavonia.
According to reports from
wrall.org, Zane Conlon of
Warner Robins American
hit a solo home run in the
first inning. The 1-0 lead
held until the fourth when
Buckhead scored the tying
run. Keaton Allen, in the bot
tom of the fifth inning, broke
that tie with a two-out solo
home run.
But Buckhead came back
in the sixth with a four-run
rally.
Things are still looking
upward for the 9-10 base
ball All-Stars. At Fayette
County’s Brooks Area LL
Park on Monday, Warner
Robins American took its
second win of state pool play
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girls are stars. Everything Just went
(Columbus') way
- WRALL Minor Girts coach Ricky Albritton
against one loss by blasting
Toccoa 14-4 in four innings.
Jason Gifford pitched a
complete game with plen
ty of run support. Payton
Purvis hit a home run that,
according to website reports,
cleared a parked truck and
numerous other ballpark
structures. Hunt Smith con
tributed three hits.
In a strange turn of events
on Monday, Belvedere, which
a PDF file via the GSGA website.
The deadline for entries is Wednesday
at 5 p.m.
Entry periods are also currently open
for the Georgia Senior Championship
(through Aug. 9) and the Georgia
Public Links Championship (through
August 23).
Any questions regarding GSGA com
petitions may be directed to the Rules
and Competitions Department at 770-
955-4272 or 800-949-4742, or via email
at info@gsga.org.
SECTION
1B
fell to the Warner Robins
9-10 team on Saturday, beat
Columbus American, the
team that topped Warner
Robins on Sunday. Columbus
needed just one out to secure
a win, bbt two errors and
a hit to right-center gave
Belvedere the 4-3 win.
Both Columbus and
WRALL finished 2-1 and
advanced to the champion
ship rounds on Thursday.
WR attends
PC 7-m-7
league
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Warner Robins High
Schools secret to winning
a state championship this
year? Flag football.
Ludicrous? Yes, it dis
counts the other count
less hours of sweat and
plannihg that plays a
much bigger role.
Still, don’t discredit
the behefits gained from
attending a passing camp
glorified “flag football,”
said Demons head football
coach Bryan Way - being
held at Peach County and
in which Warner Robins
attended this past week
and will “probably” go
back again, said Way.
“It’s just something to
give the kids something
where they can compete
and work on things all
summer against some
one else,” he said. “It’s
something where they
can haVe a little fun but
compete and go against
somebody else.”
He added there’s no
“false sense of security”
in it, “Nobody’s rushing
the passer or things like
that,” he said, but, “It’s
a good chance to work
on stuff against other
people.
“It cuts down on the
amount of time you have
to spend on it when you
start for real.”
The format for the
camp is: Start on the 40-
yard liiie and you get four
downs to pick up “20”
yards for a first down.
If not, you turn the ball
over to the opposition.
You play 20 minutes Way
said and added there was
no scorekeeping - or at
least hC said the Demons
didn’t and that he didn’t
see anybody else keeping
score, either.
He also said you get
to pla>* however many
teams show up, which
Wednesday he said num
bered six.
This, attending the
passing league, or
“seven-on-seven” as Way
described it, has been
above and beyond what
Warner Robins has been
doing this summer to
prepare for the upcoming
season.
Typically their work
week/conditioning - all
voluntarily of course so
as not to violate GHSA
policy, has been Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday
mornings.
They’Ve been averag
ing 150 attendees, he
said, ninth-12th grade,
of which only those in
See LEAGUE, page 2B