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SATURDAY,
AUGUST 26, 2006
The Home Journal’s
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Major League Baseball
Today
■ Washington at Atlanta, 1:20
p.m., FOX
High school
Softball
Today
■ Houston County at
Lowndes, 11 a.m.
■ Warner Robins at Gwinnett
Tourney, times and teams to
be determined
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ Houston County and
Warner Robins at Morrow,
times and teams to be deter
mined
High school
Cross country
Today
■ 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
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.
Registration fees are as fol
lows: $25 for city of Warner
Robins residents, SSO for coun
ty residents and SBS for out of
county residents. Call 929-1916
for more information.
Warner Robins chamber
to hold Playday Classic
The Warner Robins Chamber
of Commerce will hold the
Playday Classic 2006 Sept.
14, at The Landings Golf Club.
Registration deadline is Sept. 7.
Tee times available at 8 a.m.
and 1:30 p.m.
The registration fee of SBS
includes greens fees, a cart,
breakfast or lunch and admis
sion to the Celebration & Food
Festival.
Prizes include a set of tires,
a Nissan truck from Jeff Smith
Nissan, a SIO,OOO CD from
Sun Mark Bank and a Rolex watch
from Satterfield & Dempsey
Jewelers.
For infarmation, call 328-
7745.
Warner Robins Dome
tickets going on sale
Tickets for Warner Robins’
Georgia Dome game against
Parkview went on sale Monday.
They are being sold in the
school’s office from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m.
The game will be played on Sept.
2 at 2:45 p.m.
Landings to hold After
School program
The Landings Golf Course will
be holding its After Golf
Program, an eight-week program,
beginning Tuesday.
It will be taught/hosted by PGA
Golf Instructor Bill Goggin and will
meet each day from 4:30-5:30
p.m.
Children ages 5-6 meet
Tuesdays; ages 7-8 meet
Wednesdays; ages 9-10 meet
Thursdays; ages 11-and-above
meet Fridays. Classes, according
to a release, will be broken down
into “small groups."
The cost is $l2O for nonmem
bers and sllO Landings members.
The focus, Goggin said, will be on
“fun and fundamentals for your
junior (golfer).”
Goggin added to: “Ask about
(our) stay and play program after
group lesson.
Call 923-5222 ext. 4 to sign up.
Go to www.goggingolf.com fpr
more information.
Lady Bears volleyball team wins again
Special to the Journal
The Houston County Lady
Bears varsity volleyball team
continued their 2006-2007
campaign Thursday with
two more, according to head
coach Tony Jones, “very
impressive wins.”
The Lady Bears traveled
to Hogansville to play a tri
match with Callaway High
School and LaGrange High
School.
In the first match against
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Tiftarea defense Thursday in the Hornets’ scrimmage.
Scrimmage offers
WF plenty of insight
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
The defense kept Tiftarea
out of the end zone. There’s a
pretty good quarterback battle
brewing between two players
with different strengths. And
Austin Madruga may prove to
be one tough fullback to bring
down.
Those were just a few of
the things Westfield football
coaches and spectators saw
when the Hornets did a little
preseason live scrimmage with
Tiftarea Academy Thursday at
Marvin Arrington Stadium.
Head coach Ronnie Jones
had high praise for the
Westfield defensive unit when
play concluded.
He said Westfield, though,
would have trouble winning
games this year against pri
marily a Class AAA schedule
Softball teams win tourney divisions
Special to the Journal
The Team Georgia softball
team took the -championship
in three divisions at the 41st
Air National Guard National
Softball Tournament in
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 16-20.
The men’s open division No.
1 team dominated New Jersey
with 42 runs in the champion
ship game. They went unde
feated through the bracket
to bring home their fourth
championship since 2001.
The co-ed team also went
undefeated through the tour
Sports
LaGrange, the Lady Bears
needed only two games to
win. They posted 25-12 and
25-8 victories.
“The first game,” Jones
said, “was simply balanced
play and strong defensive
play by the team aided by sev
eral mistakes by LaGrange.
The team only netted three
aces in the game but served
consistently; and allowed
LaGrange only four points
off of their serves.”
if it only relied on its offense.
“Our defense is ahead of our
offense right now,” said Jones.
“There are a lot of little things
we need to do. We dropped a
lot of balls. Those things show
up in a ball game.”
Westfield didn’t have a lot of
outdoor practice time leading
up to the scrimmage thanks
to the severe weather that hit
Perry most of the week in the
late afternoon hours.
There was even some rain
on Thursday prior to the
game, but the skies cleared
up as the action got started. It
was enough, though, to make
the new playing surface a bit
soggy.
The scrimmage had a total
of 60 snaps, 30 for each team’s
offense. One side would run
10 plays in a row - with drives
starting on the opponent’s 40-
yard-line - then switch it over
nament, beating the defend
ing champion Arkansas ANG
for their first ever title in the
division.
Team Georgia defeated
defending over 35 division
champion Texas ANG in two
of three games to take their
second championship in four
years.
The men’s open division No.
2 team placed seventh despite
an early win over defending
champion Texas. They lost to
second place New Jersey.
The men’s No. 3 men’s
The second game of the
match was even more domi
nant, Jones said. Devon
Preston ran off a string of
seven straight points on
serves, six of which were aces.
In that game the Lady Bears
only allowed LaGrange one
point off of their serves.
In the second match the
Lady Bears jumped to the
lead in each game against
Callaway and won 25-10
and 25-12. They were led by
to the other team.
Tiftarea’s offense started it,
and with two completions in
a row had the football on the
15. Tanner Williams, senior
cornerback, knocked away a
pass in the end zone on the
10th Panther play.
On Westfield’s first series,
the visitors got more of
Madruga than they could han
dle. On three carries he picked
up about 41 yards (there was
a miscommunication on one
backfield exchange that lost
yards), 30 coming in one tote.
He was also stopped just
short of the goal line, but
fellow senior Zach Young fin
ished it off with a touchdown.
The Hornet defense played
even more spirited in its next
set. Senior tackle Jeremy
Rowland had consecu
tive solo tackles for a loss,
See INSIGHT, page SB
open team worked their way
through the consolation brack
et to meet the No. 2 Georgia
Team in the first ever Georgia
versus Georgia match-up.
Team 2 won the game.
Team Georgia consisted of
active duty and Air National
Guard members from the
116th Air Control Wing
at Robins Air Force Base,
the 202nd Engineering and
Installation Squadron at
the Macon Airport and the
165th Airlift Wing out of
Savannah.
consistent serving and some
superior net play, said Jones.
Overall, Morgan Hollars
had a total of 27 assists
throughout both matches.
Jennifer Doebereiner had
two blocks and two kills.
Leah Justin and Catherine
Goodman had three kills
apiece.
The attack was started,
Jones said, by several “key”
digs by the defensive special
ists Dhwani Patel who had
Foottafl start nears -
storms on dm horizon?
OK, Don, about
this weather
system a couple
of years ago that carried
my name with it;
When I heard about it,
Matthew was downgrad
ed to tropical depression
status.
This was at the same
time when Georgia
looked really, really bad
in losing to Tennessee.
All I could think of
was, “Depression? ...
Matthew?... Look no fur
ther than right here.”
See, folks, my boss
man Don thought he
would be real cute and
talk (in a column on 4A
last week) about how his
storm, if it should form
in the year 2011, will be
some blockbuster that
will send hoards of coun
ty citizens flying into a
panic. I, of course, felt it
would be nothing more
than a mere sprinkle.
Who does he say would
be the biggest victim of
Palfrey collection
far from paltry
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Will Palfrey has taken
an interest in sports in
an unusual direction. He
collects football helmets.
Not just any helmets.
He focuses on college
football helmets. The
kind the players wore
- the real deal - not the
little plastic replicas that
couldn’t take a hit from
a mouse.
His hobby has also pro
vided him with opportu
nities to meet the people
who wore those helmets.
“I started collecting
helmets six or seven
years ago,” Palfrey said.
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Will Palfrey admires his latest addition.
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four assists, Sam Moncada
who had six key digs and
Brittany Pierce who had
three assists.
The record for the Lady
Bears is 4-0 overall and 0-0*
in Area 2-AAAAA.
They next play today ip
Kennesaw at the North Cobb
Invitational playing Grayson
(8-AAAAA), North Cobb (5-
AAAAA), Osborne (5-AAAA),
South Cobb (4-AAAAA) and
Chattahoochee (6-AAAAA).
Matthew Brown
Jouriyil Sports Writer
tracked into talking
about the weather. It’s
already messed with
my schedule this week
forcing the cancella
tion of softball games.
Something big, though,
is coming up, and if I
don’t spend inches and
inches talking about it,
you, dear readership,
may forget about it.
Football season. Can’t
start a season without
line upon line of pre
season analysis. And
need I remind all of you
just how important this
game is in the state of
Georgia? Guess I have
See BROWN, page SB
“It was a wild hair, a sort
of unusual outlet.”
Palfrey is a college foot
ball fan, a Notre Dame
fan who graduated from
Tulane University where
he played tennis before
focusing on the ROTC
program there.
Although Palfrey
began his collection by
acquiring a few high
school helmets, most of
his 100 hard hats come
from college programs.
Staying true to his
Louisiana roots, one of
his first acquisitions was
an LSU helmet.
“It’s unique because
See PALFREY, page jB
all his
chaos?
That’s
right,
me.
I
cannot
allow
myself
to get
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