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Houston djmtrttal The Home Journal’s SANDLOT ON DECK Major League Baseball Today ■ San Francisco at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m., Fox Sports Network High school Softball Thursday ■ Northeast at Perry, 5 p.m. ■ Dutchtown at Northside, 5:30 p.m. ■ Houston County at Rutland, 5:30 p.m. Friday ■ Warner Robins at Colquitt County, 5:45 p.m. Saturday ■ Valdosta at Houston County, 11 a.m. High school Volleyball Thursday ■ Jackson and Americus at Perry, 5 p.m. ■ Northside and Luella at Warner Robins, 4 p.m. ■ Houston County at Ola (against it and a team to be determined), 5 p.m. Saturday ■ Warner Robins at Mundy’s Mill (against it, Luella and Union Grove), noon High school Cross country Today ■ Westfield at Stratford, 4:30 p.m. Saturday ■ Warner Robins at Valdosta Invite, 10 a.m. High school Football Friday ■ Perry at Hawkinsville, 7:30 p.m. ■ Northside at Houston County, 7:30 p.m. ■ Westfield at John Milledge, 7:30 p.m. Saturday ■ Warner Robins versus Parkview, in Georgia Dome, 2:45 p.m. IN BRIEF RAFB Bowling Center to hold registration The Robins AFB Bowling Center will be holding registra tion for youth bowlers ages 5 - 21 Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. The cost is s2l which, according to a release, includes a bowling shirt. Registration is open to any youth that have access to Robins AFB. Bowling will begin Sept. 16. Call Marge Corzine, who is the youth coordinator at Robins, at 923-5618 for more informa tion. 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 information, call 328-7745. Landings begins After School program The Landings Golf Course has begun its After School Golf Program, an eight-week program. It is being 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. The cost is $l2O for nonmem bers and sllO Landings members. Call 923-5222 for more informa tion. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2006 HoCo drops first match, but adds 4 more to W column Special to the Journal The Houston County Lady Bears varsity volleyball team took their undefeated record - 4-0 overall (0-0 in Area 2-AAAAA) on the road this weekend and to the North Cobb Invitational in Kennesaw. The team played Grayson (8-AAAAA), North Cobb (5- AAAAA), Osborne (5-AAAA), South Cobb (4-AAAAA) and Chattahoochee (6-AAAAA). Their unbeaten string ended, but: “The Lady Bears played well and walked away with four wins and one loss improving their record to eight wins and one loss,” said head coach Tony Jones. HbCb 2 (games!, Grayson 0 The Lady Bears started out by playing Grayson. In the first game they fell behind - at one time the score was 16-3. However, they rallied and won 25-23. They then finished the match win by defeating the Lady Rams 26-24. Jones said he was “disap pointed” in the way they —aipffpifc: ————r— -rr-'s; —rmnrnrrmm ojj « ■ 7:£ . is m r ipsd **•'-'**' suf aM H.rw.n Westfield's Hanna Jones applies a late tag to a Tattnall player Monday at Westfield. Westfield wins in a walk-off By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer The Westfield softball Hornets were “chomping at WESTFIELD HORNETS Westfield 2, Tattnall Square 1 (8 innings) ground-ball single to right field in the bottom of the eighth inning, Westfield won its first non tournament game of 2006 in walk-off fashion Monday, 2-1 against Tattnall Square at home. “It was a little too excit ing, but I will take it,” said coach Rodney Culverhouse. “Obviously it took some time for us to get cranked up, but in the end we got it right.” Winning pitcher Kelsey Gilliam held Tattnall Square to two hits in eight complete innings. She struck out six, but was on the wrong end of a 1-0 score all the way through the last of the sev enth inning. 4 , | ***~ Submitted A Lady Bear player digs the ball out during play at the North Cobb Invitational this weekend in Kennesaw. started to play, falling so far behind. “We got off. the bus and played like we were still asleep.” But, he added, “Once we woke up, we played well!” The Hornets out-hit the visiting Trojans from Macon, but had no runs to show for it. Audrey Clearman then led off the seventh with a hit, and Westfield eventually loaded the bases. Clearman scored the tying run on a wild pitch. The Hornets had a chance to win in regulation, but had a missed bunt opportunity that led to a caught stealing at third base. The eighth inning meant the international tiebreak er rule (the last batter of the previous inning starts the eighth on second base). Tattnall Square had its own failure with the bunt, which led to a strikeout. The Hornet defense then got two groundouts to keep it 1-1. Westfield’s eighth start ed with a good bunt from Daryl Ann Thompson, which moved Mason Moreland to third base. Moreland scored on the Jones hit. The Hornets improved to 3-3 overall. Of the two games rained out last week, the team was scheduled to make up its contest with First Presbyterian Day in a doubleheader in Macon on Tuesday. the bit” to get back into game action after having two games last week washed out by heavy rain. On Hanna Jones’ Sports HoCo 2 (games), North Cobh 1 In the next match, the Lady Bears took on host North Cobb. This was a “highly con tested match,” Jone said, "Obviously it took some time for us to get cranked up, but in the end we got it right." - Westfield fast-pitch head coach Rodney Culverhouse ' ■ ■ ENI/Gary Harmon Mason Moreland gets tagged out at home. and it took three games to determine a winner. The Lady Bears won the first game 25-22 but then dropped the second 25-17. That set up a third-game PAGE 6A showdown. “The ladies struggled to consistently put the ball in on serves,” Jones explained. “They were also troubled See MATCH, page ioA Warriors get revenge, nova iota second Special to the Journal The last time the International City Warriors and the Phenix City Falcons met on the grid iron, the game went into over time and resulted in jfib International City 22, Phenix City 7 a loss for the Warriors. Recalling that little bit of information, co-owner/gen eral manager of the team, James Hamp, said the local squad went on the war path, winning 22-7, Saturday night in Phenix City, Ala. As usual, Hamp said, the Warriors’ defense set the stage for some “exciting” action and only allowed one Falcon touchdown. Leading the fight was Donte Holmes with six tack les and one interception. Defensive captain, Defiance Leary also hit the Falcons hard with five tackles and a sack. New to the Warriors’ ros ter, Amaud McCants wasted little time making his pres ence known. He registered four tackles on the evening. Northside grad, See SECOND, page 7 A PY beats SW in make-up contest By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Perry High was one of those coun ty softball teams that got an unex pected - and probably unwanted ||| | PERRY PANTHERS - week off from game action last week due to a series of afternoon Perry 14, Southwest- Macon 5 thunderstorms in Middle Georgia. It their first game in 11 days, the Panthers defeated Southwest-Macon on the road 14-5 in a make-up con test from a Thursday post ponement. See CONTEST, page jA