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Mansion Satlg THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANPLOT ON DECK Today Major League Baseball ■ Florida at Atlanta, 1:05 p.m., TBS BRAVES CORNER MARLINS 2, BRAVES 1 ATLANTA - Cody Ross hom ered twice and Anibal Sanchez won a matchup of unbeaten rookie pitchers, lifting the Florida Marlins over the Atlanta Braves 2-1 Tuesday night. Sanchez (4-0) won his third straight start, beating Braves left hander Chuck James. Sanchez allowed one run and seven hits in seven innings. He struck out three and didn’t walk a batter. Sanchez’s streak of 23 con secutive scoreless innings was snapped when Marcus Giles singled in a run in the sixth inning. The right-hander’s streak still broke the team rookie record of 19 innings by Dontrelle Willis in June 2003. James (4-1) struck out six and walked one in seven innings. He yielded seven hits, including the homers by Ross in the second and fourth innings. - The Associated Pres 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 Friday from 4-8 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon and Monday 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 Monday. Contact CGSA’s Association Administrator, Bette Dillon, at 987-2455 or email her at playcgsa@alltel.net for more. Rec volleyball signups set; cheerleaders needed The Warner Robins Recreation Department will begin registra tion for volleyball Aug. 14. It will run from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and is open to girls and boys 13-18. The age control date is Aug. 31. A birth certificate is required upon registration unless it is cur rently on file. Participants must also have the required fee at the time of registration. Registration fees are as follows: $25 for city of Warner Robins residents, SSO for county residents and SBS for out of county residents. Call 929-1916 for more infor mation. Also, the department still has openings for those interested in cheerleading. Call the aforemen tioned number for more. Panther football season tickets going on sale Perry High School season foot ball tickets are now on sale. The cost of a season ticket is $45 for six home games; tickets at the gate will be SB. Season tickets will be sold at the PHS office and will also be available at the Night of Champions event Friday (6 p.m. at the Panther Pit). For additional Panther Football information, visit their website at www.perrypantherfootball .com. 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. Entry fees are sls postmarked on or before Aug. 7, $lO for par ticipants 19 arid younger (any time), $lB for race day registra tion from 6:15-7:15, and $lO for the one-mile fun run (any time). See robinspacers.org for addi tional race information and results, or contact David Erpelding at 328-3208. Registration can be done online at aaive.com. WRALL 11-12-year-olds remain confident in state title chances By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Middle Georgia isn’t the only part of the state that’s been hit with severe inclement weather in the past several days. In the city of Augusta, where a few of the state’s best 11-12 Little League baseball teams have gathered to deter mine the 2006 state champions, rain showers put a damper on the schedule of tournament games. So much so that the Warner Robins American club had to wait until Wednesday to try for the top seed from its pool in the state championship bracket. Even with the outcome of Warner Robins American’s last pool game against Oconee American (originally Summer conditioning - T*** F‘£ C* ■» if's. <*» * z Z'" k,||. m inr"-“ ■■ *‘'lTr **■■■■■■■■ Z L ./A/ ' . ■»- - - & sis Stir lp*i i* mm ENI/Gary Harmon Northside - per the norm - has had a busy summer of voluntary workouts and conditioning in preparation for the official start of team practices next week. ABOVE: The Eagles work out with weights. > %. ™ yik « m 'JEM •• t —jt 2—.—— ENI/Gary Harmon Linemen work on blocking drills as Assistant Coach Mark Stewart gives his approval. Sports 'They didn’t play one of their batters... he didn't have a legal at-bat.' - Warner Robins American Little Leage 11- 12-year-olds head coach Barry Hattaway, on the team’s win over Buckhead scheduled for Tuesday) still pending at the deadline for this edition of the Houston Daily Journal , coach Barry Hattaway was still confident that his team, with two pool wins already under its belt, would be playing in the semifi nals on Friday. E jB BKI—L- a. EN I/Gary Harmon ABOVE: A player does presses. RIGHT: Players practice pass blocking. .jEw, _ fa Wiilk | v ENI/Gary Harmon Players practice blocking techniques using pads and f*Z>nh nthof m One of the wins so far for the 11-12 team came on the field, 11-0 against Peachtree City. The second game for Warner Robins American didn’t look promising on the field as Buckhead had a 1-0 lead at the end of regulation play. But Buckhead was guilty of a rules vio lation that one would think would be protested by its own fan base. “They didn’t play one of their bat ters ... he didn’t have a legal at-bat,” said Hattaway. “It was explained to us at district, and it was explained to us before the state tournament. You have to get your subs in. They’re real strict about that rule.” As a result, Warner Robins American was awarded the win 6-0. “(Buckhead) had a good team,” See STATE, page 2B BGCTION 1B Fears neb third at challenge From staff reports Lacey Fears couldn’t quite hangon. The Bonaire golfer shot a 42 the sec ond and final day of the GSGA Junior Sectional Challenge Match, played Monday and Tuesday at Fields Ferry Golf Club in Calhoun. That gave her a two day finish of 83 and third place - following a tie-breaker with sec ond-place finisher Caitlin Watts of LaGrange. Judy Name of Buford, who was third after the first day, shot a 39 and won the division - 13-and-under. Fears did have a bit of the “last laugh,” how ever, as she won the long drive competition held later that day as well as the putting competition. She drove the ball 225 yards and rolled it 17 times while putting. Another Bonaire golfer, Tyler Erickson, stayed the course and finished fifth. He shot a 75 the first day, and was in fifth, and then a 74 the second. His combined score then was 149 and his overall finish was fifth. Collin Ho of Albany, who led after the first day, won that division - the boys 14-15-year-olds. The venue for the chal lenge match was a state wide competition that brought together the top performers from the sum mer-long GSGA Junior Sectional Program, which was founded in 1974. Participants earned the opportunity to compete and represent their sec tion - Fears and Erickson were both representing the Middle section - in the tournament by accu mulating points in their section’s four qualifying events. Each of the seven geo graphic sections sends their top four point earn ers from each boys age division and the top two from each girls division See FEARS, page 2B Kishigian, Kennedy make cut From staff reports Thirteen golfers could feel his pain - if that were the right descriptor. That’s how many were tied with Ben Kishigian after the first day of contention at the U.S. Amateur Sectional Qualifying Tuesday at Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta. All shot a 72 - one stroke over. Steven Tiley of Atlanta led the event - 54 of the 144 listed made the cut for the next day - with a score of 64 (seven under). Jon Kennedy of Hawkinsville carded a 73 (two over), whereas Chris Wolfe, also of Warner Robins, shot a 78 - four strokes short of what he needed to make the cut. The field is contending for six qualifying spots and two alternate posi tions in the 106th U.S. Amateur Championship. That is scheduled to be held at Hazeltine National Golf Club See CUT, page 2B