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THURSDAY,
AUGUST 31, 2006
The Home Journal’s
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Major League Baseball
Today
■ San Francisco at Atlanta,
7:20 p.m., TBS
High school
Softball
Today
■ 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
Today
■ 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
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at Valdosta
Invite, 10 a.m.
High school
Football
Friday
■ Perry at Hawkinsville, 7:30
p.m. 19
■ 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.
American Fish, Game
Club expands to Georgia
The American Fish and Game
Club announced its expansion into
Georgia. The club is the report
edly the largest bass club in the
Southwest with more than 90 loca
tions, 26 lodges and 650 members.
There are already 10 locations
in Georgia and memberships are
now available to local fishermen.
The club also seeks partner
ships with landowners that own or
control lakes and ponds from 2 to
250 acres. For more information
on The American Fish and Game
Club view their website at www.
AmericanFishandGame.com or
call 888-303-4822.
W. Laurens deals PY setback
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Staff Writer
With about double the amount
of hits, West Laurens pounded
Perry High on the
Panthers’ home
softball field 13-
3 Tuesday. Perry
went to 1-1 in
Region 4-AAA
play.
“They hit, and
we didn’t,” said
head coach Jeff
Sans. “They hit
it sharply, and
they pitched
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West Laurens
13, Perry 3
well. They just beat us.”
The Panthers had just five hits
while giving up 11.
“We have things to work on to
hit that type of pitching,” said
Sans. “We’ve seen a lot of slow
er pitching. We need to speed
our hands up better and make
adjustments.”
Perry has a chance to get back
in the win column in region play
at home today against Northeast-
Macon.
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One of Westfield’s quarterback candidates runs a bootleg during practice Tuesday at the school.
Westfield preps for opener
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
The most unique aspect of opening
week in a high school football season
is the unknown. There are no up
to-date game films to
study, and about all
of practice are spent
working on your own
schemes and trying to
find new starters.
For Ronnie Jones
at Westfield and Ken
Johnson at John
Milledge Academy,
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Westfield at
John Milledge,
Friday, 8 p.m.
there is the factor of familiarity. Both
coaches are banking on that as a key
to victory on Friday when the two
schools kick off the 2006 campaign
against each other in Milledgeville.
To say a bit of a rivalry has devel
oped between the Hornets and the
Trojans would not be a stretch. For
the past two seasons, John Milledge
beat Westfield in close contests to win
first place in the three-team Region
4-AAA of the GISA. This year’s game
is non-region as the two clubs were
placed in different regions of the new
alignment of the AAA class.
“It’s hard to say,” said Jones on how
this year’s John Milledge club looks.
“There’s not a whole lot you can find
out. I know they don’t change a lot
of things that they do, and they lost
some good seniors.
“In the first game, we’re more con
cerned about ourselves. We’re still
working on the basic stuff.” .
For one thing, Westfield is still trying
to settle its quarterback position. In
last week’s home scrimmage against
Tiftarea, Jones gave equal playing
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Laura Thompson applies a late tag at home to a West
Laurens player Tuesday in Perry.
time to Chase Ellis and Casey Young.
Both excelled in different areas, Ellis
in the passing game and Young as a
runner.
The backfield looked solid with
Austin Madruga anchoring the wing-
T at fullback and Zach Young scoring
two touchdowns from a wing slot.
The defensive unit did not give up a
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The Hornets drill in preparation for their opener.
Lady Hornets split
matchup with FPD
By MA TTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
The eighth inning gives,
and the eighth inning takes
away.
One day after winning
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WESTFIELD
hornets
FPO 3,
Westfield 2;
Lady Hornet* 4,
FPO 2
the night
cap of a doubleheader, the
Hornets taking Game 1 4-
2.
Westfield left Macon
with a 4-4 overall record.
The teams played two in
order to make up a rained
out game last Wednesday
in Perry.
touchdown in 30 plays all starting on
its side of the 50.
“I was happy with our aggressive
ness,” said Jones. “They completed a
couple of passes, but we played well
up front versus the run.”
As for the objectives on Friday, the
first one would obviously be getting
See OPENER, page nB
In the first contest,
Kelsey Gilliam earned the
win by scattering four hits
and striking out four. She
also had two hits with a
run batted in.
Shae Horsting added an
RBI triple. Westfield had
a 4-0 lead after the top
of the fifth inning, then
the Vikings had all of their
runs in the bottom half.
First Presbyterian, which
won the Freedom Park
Invitational at the start of
the season despite losing
to the Hornets in pool play,
saved its top pitcher, Katie
Maddox, for the second
game Tuesday. Horsting
pitched for Westfield, tak
ing the loss after giving
up seven hits and striking
out two.
“We had chances early
on with runners on third
base,” said head coach
Rodney Culverhouse.
See HORNETS, page nB
in extra
innings
at home,
Westfield’s
softball
club lost
an eight
inning con
test at FPD
Tuesday in
Macon 3-2.
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From staff"reports
Warner Robins’ Kristen
Graham pitched a no-hit
ter and struck out 12 while
leading the
Demonettes
to an easy 6-1
win at Coffee
County
Tuesday.
“We didn’t
hit the ball
like I thought
we would,”
said head
coach Brenda
Arnett. “(But) Kristin did a
good job on the mound.”
Warner Robins led 2-1
early, then added a run or
two here and there along
the way - 3-1, 5-1 and 6-1
- along the way.
Graham, Lauren Graham
and Amber Conlon led the
Demonettes on offense. The
first was 3-4 with a double,
the second 2-4 and Conlon
hit a double, scored a run
and also drove one home
with a sacrifice.
The Demonettes are now
6-1-1.
Lady Eagles lead
all but final tally
From staff reports
Northside’s fast-pitch
team went on the road
Tuesday and lost a tough one
to ‘ Baldwin,
6-4.
“ W e
made four
errors, they
made one,”
said Lady
Eagles head
coach Mitch
Horton, add-
ing they also
had seven hits to the Lady
Braves’ one.
What happened?
“We had 11 walks, six in
the sixth inning,” Horton
said.
Those six in turn result
ed in three runs crossing,
which also in turn countered
Northside’s lead of 4-3.
As far as the other runs,
Baldwin scored one in the
bottom of the first. Northside
tied it with one in the sec
ond. The Lady Braves then
went up 3-1 with a pair of
runs in the third but the
Lady Eagles countered that
with two of their own in the
fourth. Northside then took
the lead briefly with a run in
the fifth.
SECTION
B
A
WARNER ROBINS
PEMOHS
Warner
Robins 6,
Coffee 1
NORTHSIDE
EAGLES
Baldwin 6,
Northside 4