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Mmx&tsm 4§atlg TJourttal •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 W %£!► Jjs&jk asi i * ° iiiimwsjMj - 'Hr M jM mm - ”*w r JM .K-~, -Jg .. ~~ V ** * - mmm ENI/Gary Harmon Westfield runner Robert Brooks finishes up his first lap in the final race of the Sixth Annual Middle Georgia Cross 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 .... t \ 4, w ggri HHB r JJF Vjv %i qa s » iflßv ; '^K ( . -ifIEH lyiK '-^Hr ENI/Gary Harmon 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 IB 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 4 Matthew Brown HHJ Sports Writer n^owni^^BVflßßißWß|ioperß.coß 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