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TSnueitm Patlg TJmmral SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT '"■mwiwr ON DECK 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 V ,v ! I Bab»aaaai. j■juL;. / * '• lS» ’ tBHb Ok pRBf '' si * ’ "ouraaPMaiffiew^Krown Casey Young, one of Westfield’s quarterback candidates, starts a 32-yard run against the 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. J-' ENI/Gary Hannon Will Palfrey admires his latest addition. SECTION B 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 side-