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•SATURDAY,
JULY 22, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANPLOT
ON DECK
Today
Major League Baseball
■ Atlanta at Philadelphia,
1:355 p.m., TBS
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.
Jim Herrin Memorial
Stampede set
The 2006 Jim Herrin Memorial
Stampede takes place Aug. 12.
The 5K and 10K runs start at
7:30 a.m., and the 1 Mile Fun
Run starts 8:15 at the Galleria
Mall in Centerville.
Each year, the Robins Pacers
Running Club sponsors a SK/10K
Road Race as a memorial to the
late Jim Herrin, past president of
the Robins Pacers.
The proceeds of this race will
be split evenly to fund two annu
al one-time scholarships for a
senior boy and a girl graduating
from a high school in Houston
County who has significant track
and field and/or cross-country
participation and college ambi
tions.
Entry fees are sls post
marked on or before Aug. 7, $lO
for participants 19 and younger
(anytime), $lB for Race Day reg
istration from 6:15-7:15, and $lO
for the One Mile Fun Run (any
time).
Refreshments will be avail
able for all participants after each
race.
There are awards for overall
top three male and female finish
ers in 5K and 10K, overall top
male and female masters in 5K
and 10K, top three finishers in
the following 5K and 10K age
categories:
9 and under, 10-14, 15-19,
20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-
44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64,
65-69, 70-plus, and overall top
male and female runner in the 1
Mile Fun Run
See robinspacers.org for
additional race information and
results.
For further information, contact
David Erpelding at 328-3208.
Registration can be done online
at active.com.
WRNL girls sets sights on World Series
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
These young ladies don’t
want to wait for the third
time to be the charm.
For the second year in
a row, the Warner Robins
National youth softball pro
gram is sending a team to the
Dixie Youth World Series.
After winning the state
tournament in Forsyth,
the I's-and-under All-Stars
have a place in the World
Series starting July 29 in
Alexandria, La.
Last year, Warner Robins
National sent a 12-and
under All-Star team to the
Dixie Youth World Series in
Dothan, Ala.
Three of those players
are on the current 15-and
under team about to travel
to the town located in the
heart of Louisiana.
The All-Stars were picked
from three teams that
played in the Warner Robins
National regular season at
Simpson Park.
They had to win five
games in a row at the state
event, including consecu
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Country Summer Series held Thursday at Pearl Stephens Elementary School. For results and more pics, see 58.
Peppy pitchers earn variety of awards
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
While Buddy Ayer of the
Perry Horseshoe Pitcher’s
Club was busy contending
at the World Championship
two weekends ago, fellow
members of the club were
at home and out and about
competing as well.
The first of those were
David McKim, Mary Ann
Gibbs, Howard Kuehn,
Dane Clark, John Rackley,
Larry Myers, Chuck Poole,
Richard Thompson, Maureen
Thompson, Tom Carter and
Fears, Erickson to contend in Junior Challenge
Special to the Journal
Bonaire golfers Lacey Fears and
Tyler Erickson are listed as contend
ers at the 33rd Annual GSGA Junior
Sectional Challenge Match to be held
at Fields Ferry Golf Club in Calhoun
Monday and Tuesday.
Fears is down to compete in the girls
13-and-under division and Erickson in
the boys 14-15-year-olds.
The event is 18 holes of stroke play
(nine holes each day) for the youngest
age divisions and 36 holes of stroke
Sports
tive wins against the Perry
Junior League squad and an
upset of last year’s national
champions from Columbia
County.
“We’re looking forward to
going to Alexandria,” said
coach Mike Gordon. “The
program here is really get
ting strong and starting to
grow though there is a lot of
travel ball.
“Leagues like this are still
doing pretty good with the
talent they are still bring
ing in.
“We have four good pitch
ers. Sarah Purvis, our ace,
had 20 strikeouts the last
two games of the state tour
nament. Sheldon (Hiley) was
a three-game winner, and
Rachel (Hubbard) was kind
of our hidden talent and
won a game for us. We have
a chance to win against the
other teams in Alexandria.”
Gordon said the World
Series experience also helps
Warner Robins National
grow as an organization.
This year, he said a travel
team joined the league and
See WRNL, page 8B
Green peace
Jerome Kennedy.
They were all pitching in
the Perry Peach Pits tourna
ment at home July 8.
McKim, Gibbs and Kuehn
were all in the A Class and
finished first, third and fifth,
respectively. McKim went 4-
0 and tossed 127 ringers out
of 200 shoes (63.50 ringer
percentage).
Gibbs was 2-2 - as was
Milton Vinson ahead of her,
but he edged her out on
ringer percentages (48.00 to
42.50). She pitched 85 ring
ers.
play for the remainder of the field.
Players earn points on their individual
finish within their age bracket.
Participants earned the opportunity
to compete and represent their sec
tion in the tournament by accumulat
ing points in their section’s qualifying
events.
Each of the seven geographic sec
tions sends their top four point earners
from each boys age division and the
top two from each girls division to the
Challenge Match. The boys divisions
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Members of the Warner Robins National League 15-and-under All-Stars break huddle
during Thursday’s practice at Simpson Field. ,
Kuehn threw 104 ring
ers for a 52.00 percentage,
but couldn’t get the wins to
match it. He went 1-3.
Clark, Rackley and Myers
were all in the B Class. They
finished second, sixth and
seventh (which, unfortu
nately was next-to-last and
last), respectively.
Clark was 4-2, Rackley
was 2-4 and Myers finished
1-5. Clark threw 84 ringers
- this group threw 240 total
horseshoes. Rackley threw
55 and Myers 83. Clarks’
ringer percentage was 35.00,
Rackley’s was 22.92 and
Myers’ was 34.58.
In the C Class was
the combo of Poole and
Thompson. Poole won the
bracket with a 6-1 record
while Thompson was sixth at
2-4. Poole threw 80 ringers
- out of 260 available shoes -
and had a ringer percentage
of 30.77. Thompson’s was 65
and 27.08, respectively.
Maureen Thompson and
Tom Carter contended from
the D Class. She finished
first. He finished fourth.
See AWARDS, page 3B
are 16-17, 14-15, 12-13, and 11 and
under. The girls divisions are 14-17
and 13 and under.
The Junior Sectional Program began
in 1974 and was established as a grass
roots effort to provide juniors across
the state with the opportunity to expe
rience competitive golf.
Each of the sections conducts four to
five one-day events during June and
July.
Juniors earn points in each
See JUNIOR, page 3B
SECTION
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I'm not a tan
of Interleogue
play; cheaters
don't get it
Add the Major
League Baseball
All-Star game to
recent televised sporting
events I’ve bypassed this
summer.
Somehow this whole
home
field
advan
ta g e
for the
World
Series
being
on the
line
has
run its
course.
I think
people
have
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HHJ Sports Writer
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forgiven Commissioner
Bud Selig for that tied
score four years ago.
There may be a few
National League people
who would agree.
Selig once said - with
out providing an explana
tion - that baseball needs
to know which league
has home-field advantage
for the big championship
before the postseason
begins.
That doesn’t seem to
be a problem for the NBA
or the NHL, which goes
strictly by which team of
the two has the better
record.
The old rotation
between the National
and American leagues
year after year seemed
to be a fair way to handle
the World Series schedul
ing ... that is before inter
league play began.
In any given year, one
league could be top to
bottom tougher than
the other, so winning 90
games on the tough side
may be more of a feat
than getting more than
100 in the other side.
Inter league play kind
of skewers that. And in
case you haven’t figured
it out, I don’t like inter
league play.
Back when it began
(due to another knee-jerk
reaction from the com
missioner’s office after
the major strike of 1994),
all you heard about
See BROWN, page 5B