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The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
ON DECK
Major League Baseball
Today
■ Atlanta at New York, 7:10
p.m., Turner South
High school
Softball
Today
■ Houston County at Warner
Robins, 6 p.m.
■ Westfield at Deerfield-
Windsor, 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday
■ Perry at Americus, 6 p.m.
■ Northside at Jones County,
5:30 p.m.
Thursday
■ Sherwood at Westfield, 4:30
p.m.
■ Central at Perry, 5 p.m.
■ Stockbridge at Northside,
5:45 p.m.
Friday
■ Houston County and Warner
Robins at Evans tournament in
Augusta, teams and times to be
determined
■ Perry at Tiger Town Classic
in Adairsville, teams and times
to be determined
Saturday
■ Houston County and Warner
Robins at Evans tournament in
• Augusta, teams and times to be
determined
■ Perry at Tiger Town Classic
in Adairsville, teams and times
to be determined
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ Ola and Eagle's Landing at
Perry, 5 p.m.
Wednesday
■ Houston County at Pace
(versus it and Greater Atlanta
Christian), 5 p.m.
Thursday
■ Perry at Warner Robins, 5
p.m.
High school
Cross country
Today
■ Westfield at George Walton,
5 p.m.
Thursday
■ Northside at Peach County,
4:30 p.m.
Saturday
■ Westfield at Sherwood, 10
a.m.
■ Northside and Warner
Robins at Two-mile Invite in
Cochran, 9:30 a.m.
■ Perry at Tift Invite, 9:30 a.m.
High school
Football
Friday
■ Warner Robins at Northside,
7:30 p.m.
■ Mount de Sales at Westfield,
8 p.m.
■ Dougherty at Perry, 7:30
p.m.
Saturday
■ Windsor Forest at Houston
County, 7:30 p.m.
IN BRIEF
PY competition cheer
squad to hold clinic
Perry High School’s
Competition Cheerleaders will
be sponsoring a one-day cheer
clinic for children 4 years old to
sixth grade Sept. 16.
It will be held in the high
school’s multipurpose gym. The
cost is $35, with a $5 discount
given for each additional family
member. The cost includes an
event T-shirt, drinks and snack.
Registration and pictures for
those below third grade will be
from 7:30-8:15 a.m., with the
clinic running from 8:30-11:30
a.m. A performance for the par
ents is slated for 11:30 a.m.
Registration and pictures for
those third-sixth grade will be
from 7:30-8:15 a.m., with their
clinic running from 8:30 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. A performance for
those parents is set for 12:30
p.m.
E-mail mlangston@hcbe.net
or jmashburn@hcbe.net for an
application or more information.
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
Warner Robins dominates Parkview
From staff reports
Warner Robins must have had a
flashback to the last time it played in
Warner Robins
30, Parkview 3
Saturday, they faced oft against
Parkview and the result was the
same. Warner Robins rolled to a 30-
3 win.
In fact, it was so easy, the Demons
were able to pretty much unload
their bench - rest some legs for
Friday’s Northside matchup - mid
way-to-late in the fourth.
Warner Robins started off by scor
ing on its first possession. That came
via a reverse/60-yard touchdown run
by Laron Scott.
After holding the Panthers to
their second straight three-and
out, Parkview was poised to punt
again. But the snap went over the
punter’s head and into the endzone,
See DOMINA TES, page 3B
Pep boys ... and girls
ENI/Gary Harmon
As long as there has been football, there’s been pep rallies - maybe. Perry Middle School held its first - “Spirit Day”
- of what is presumed to be many to follow, Friday at the school. ABOVE: Students get “fired up.” BELOW: The cheer
squad fires them up. INSET: A pair of listeners - possibly thinking: “It’s gettin’ loud in here ...”
Shorthanded Warriors fall to South Georgia
Special to the Journal
The International City
Warriors headed south to
meet the South Georgia
Stars on their home turf for
what co-owner/team manag
er James Hamp called “the
toughest battle of the sea
son.”
the Georgia Dome.
That was in 2004
and against Ware
County in which the
Demons dominated
the Gators en route
to a semifinal win
and ultimately the
state championship.
South Georgia
28, International
City 6 7
28-6 loss.
For starters, the Warriors
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Warner Robins’ Dewayne Jackson looks for running room in the Demons’ game against Parkview Saturday
in the Georgia Dome. ,
The
• local foot
ball team
squad was
not quite
itself, how
ever, and it
showed in a
were missing starting quar
terback, Sheddrick Risper,
who had to stay home to
tend to his duties as Athletic
Director for Weaver Middle
School in Macon.
They were also with
out backup quarterback
Brandon Williams and a cou
ple other “key” players and
that, Hamp said, had them
severely handicapped.
Filling the cleats of the
missing quarterbacks was
Dennis Sturn.
Sturn, Hamp said,
stepped up in
See WARRIORS, page3B
SECTION
B
Gibbs sets
horseshoe
milestone
Special to the Journal
Members of the Perry
Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club
one
member
in par
ticular
- reached
a new’
milestone
during
league
play at
the club
Aug. 28.
During
that time,
Mary Ann
Gibbs
pitched
an 80
percent
GIBBS
INSIDE
Gibbs tops field
at Dog Days
Meltdown tourney
See 6B
ringer game.
According to a release
from the club, this marked
the first time anyone has
ever recorded that high of
a mark at the club.
Gibbs has been pitch
ing about three years
with the local club and
said in the release she
was “very grateful” to her
mentor Doyle “Shorty”
Johnson for teaching her
See MILESTONE, page 6B
Columbus' success
could be felt here;
Brave, UGA thoughts
Only one con
clusion can be
gleamed from
the recent events in
Pennsylvania: the rich
just keep getting richer.
Columbus, Georgia’s
Little League baseball
team
goes and
wins the
World
Series.
In the
U.S. divi
sion, this
group
beats
out clubs
from
Matthew Brown
Journal Sports Writer
Phoenix, Ariz., Oregon,
Missouri and other regions
to make the finals. Then
team Japan goes down in
the last round.
Now these kids can
look forward to growing
up and attending Shaw
High or Columbus High,
schools already with state
baseball championships,
See BROWN, page jB