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THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT " "Wffwmt MBT" ON DECK 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 PERRY PAKTHKM 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. feiTliii '.-i •/». ■ ' * • ■ ENI/Gary Harmon 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, < u it 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 Sports ENI/Gary Harmon 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 - Jgak * -Hr ferjr * jf. tiy," 3b ?, & mnth, Tgjjm y $ £/ i ENI/Gary Hannon 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 A 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. This was Graham bo hits Coffee 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