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Major League Baseball
Today
■ Washington at Atlanta, 7:35
p.m., TBS
High school
Softball
Today
■ Warner Robins at Gwinnett
Tourney, times and teams to
be determined
■ Houston County at
Valdosta, 6 p.m.
Saturday
■ Houston County at
Lowndes, 11 a.m.
■ Warner Robins at Gwinnett
Tourney, times and teams to
be determined
High school
Volleyball
Saturday
■ Houston County and
Warner Robins at Morrow,
times and teams to be deter
mined
High school
Cross country
Saturday
■ Westfield at Viking Invite at
Georgia Children’s Home in
Macon, times and teams to be
determined
■ Warner Robins and
Northside at Spalding
Invitational, times and teams
to be determned
BRAVES CORNER
PIRATES 5, BRAVES 3
ATLANTA - Several of the
Atlanta Braves have been bat
tling some sort of flu-like virus this
week. Coughing, fever, et cetera.
But that's good news com
pared to what’s now making the
entire team feel sick. That would
be the fact that, with a 5-4 loss
to Pittsburgh on Wednesday at
more-sullen-by-the-day Turner
Field, the Braves just dropped
two of three to the worst team in
the National League.
For the second consecutive
night, the Braves left the game’s
fate in their bullpen’s hands. And
for the second consecutive night,
they lost.
Danys Baez’s four-run eighth
killed the team Tuesday. Chad
Paronto’s sinker didn’t sink
Wednesday, and the reliever gave
up a deciding solo shot to Freddy
Sanchez with two out in the sev
enth inning of 4-4 game.
Although he’s hit near .350 all
year, it was just Sanchez’s sixth
homer of the year. The Braves
had just scratched back into the
game with two runs in the bottom
of the sixth.
The lowly Pirates entered the
week with just 47 victories - and
15 on the road. But they took the
series from an Atlanta club that
simply cannot string together wins
- especially in its home park.
The Braves (59-67) haven’t
won three consecutive games at
Turner Field since a four-game
sweep of Florida in mid-May.
They're 5-10 here since the All-
Star Break.
It’s been one step forward,
four back for Atlanta, which had
a chance to gain ground on
Cincinnati and a couple of other
wild-card leaders in the still-open
wild-card debacle.
Tim Hudson was 2-1 with a
2.30 ERA in his four previous
August starts, but he didn’t find
much of a rhythm Wednesday.
Hudson battled to go six
innings, but he gave up four runs
and put the offense behind the 8-
ball for the majority of the night.
- By R. Travis Henry
Morris News Service
IN BRIEF
WR Rec holding
volleyball signups
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department has begun registra
tion for volleyball. Registration
is open 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.
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 25, 2006
WR Rec seniors finish second at state
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Warner Robins Recreation
Department’s Senior League
Boys All-Stars recently
contended at the Georgia
Recreation and Parks
Association state tourna
ment in Augusta and fin
ished second.
The team beat Savannah
12-8 in its opener and then
cruised past Augusta 17-2 in
the semifinals.
That put them in a
rematch against Savannah
in the championship round,
with the Warriors from the
coast having to win twice.
They did, first 9-1 in four
innings and then 16-12 in a
slugfest.
Camel
WR Rec 12, Savannah 8
Three Warner Robins
pitchers, along with, accord
ing to a release, “outstand
ing hitting,” proved to be
the difference in this one.
For WR Rec, Matt Stoner
started on the mound. He
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Perry Middle School Aug. 17.
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a new tradition to its athletic
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the establishment of the
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allowed one run in three
innings of work and struck
out four. Josh Pisani was
next. He lasted until there
were two outs in the fifth
and until errors paved the
way for four Savannah
runs.
With the bases loaded,
however, William Braswell
came in and worked out of
the jam - striking out the
hitter to end the inning.
He stayed in and fin
ished the game while being
charged with one hit and
two runs.
Offensively, the local squad
pounded out 17 hits in the
seven-inning contest. Brice
Chatfield put WR Rec on
board first when he led off
the second with a home run
to center.
John Cater then dou
bled, was pushed around
and scored. Warner Robins
added another run in the
third, and then, with Jimmy
Wilson standing on second,
Chatfield hit another home
run to make it 5-0.
See STA TE, page 2B
have been in Perry practi
cally their whole lives,” said
Perry Middle School athletic
director Randy Moss.
The Mims’ came to Perry
in 1962, where he taught
at PHS. From 1963-1970,
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High - where the Board of
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out during the state tournament held recently.
time, said Moss. While at
Perry Junior, he coached
football and girls and boys
basketball with “no assis
tant coaches,” Moss said.
“Although Houston County
did not have the Athletic
Director title until 1970,”
said Moss. “I would consider
Ray Mims the AD during
this time.”
In 1970, Mims became the
first official athletic direc
tor at PJH. He held the
title until his retirement in
1991.
“Coach Mims established
many traditions here at
Perry Middle,” Moss said,
“that we still uphold today.
I am very fortunate to be
a part of a program, which
already had an upstanding
name.
“Coach Mims was, and
still is, a prominent figure
in the Perry community,”
added Moss. “He believes
in community support in
order to achieve a successful
See TRADITION, page lB
A couple of things I found
e-VENT-ful this past week
Oh that was slick.
What Ray
Evernham lacks
in loyalty to his drivers
- or maybe that should be:
Lacks in loyalty to drivers
over the age of 26 (mean
ing of course Chase-mak
ing-the-past-two-seasons
Jeremy Mayfield) - he
makes up in busy savvy.
Case in point: Elliott*
Sadler takes over the 19 at
Michigan and what does he
do? Sits on the outside pole
and posts the first Top 10
the team has had all year.
Good for thein. Bad for
Jeremy. Evernham makes a
big deal of it - still making a
big deal of it in Thursday’s
weekly organizational
Ayer notches first at
Summer Fun tourney
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
The “fatted calf”
approach didn’t work for
Newberry horseshoe pitch
ers when members of the
Perry Horseshoe Pitcher’s
Club contended in the
Summer Fun Open last
year in that particular
South Carolina city - they
still won a bunch of tro
phies - and it didn’t work
this time around ... mostly.
In way of a wiay-too-long
explanation, the “fatted
calf” approach is not a
reference taken from the
Bible - even though one can
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CAR,
accord
ing to a Dodge release,
“designed “especially for
Michigan.” The other cars
I would venture should
have said in prior releases:
“Designed , especially for
kiddie rides at the fair.”
It - the new car - is the
same car (the others, the
See MONCRIEF, page zB
be found regarding idols,
Moses and all that - and it
certainly isn’t to insinuate
that anyone from the local
club is overweight.
It’s just the organizers’
standard operating proce
dure of, according to Buddy
Ayer of the Perry club, pre
paring a large banquet for
competitors. They then eat
- and presumably eat and
eat and eat; Ayer added he
wasn’t complaining - and
then are expected to go out
approximately three hours
later and throw horseshoes.
The conspiracy theory
See A TER, page iB
Perry
Horseshoe
Pitcher’s
Club mem
ber Buddy
Ayer shows
off the
trophy he
won at the
Summer
Fun Open
Horseshoe
Tournament
held this
past week
end in
Newberry,
S.C.
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