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WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 6, 2006
The Home Journal’s
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Major League Baseball
Today
■ Atlanta at New York, 1:10
p.m., TBS
High school
Softball
Today
■ 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
■ 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
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
Tickets on sale for
Demons-Eagles game
Reserve seat ticket sales are
currently on sale for the Warner
Robins-Northside game Friday.
Reserve and general admis
sion tickets are on sale - unless
and until they run out - are
being sold at Warner Robins.
Reserved seat tickets are $8
and advance general admission
tickets are $7.
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
clime 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.
Lady Bears volleyball team reaches a milestone
Win over Luella marks
first ever ‘Area’ victory
Special to the Journal
Houston County’s varsity volley
ball team won its first ever Area
matches Saturday as the Lady Bears
traveled to Luella High School and
played a quad match.
The Lady Bears won the first of
the day against host Luella in two
games 26-24 and 25-13.
Head coach Tony Jones said he
felt the play was balanced and that
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Stadium. The Bears will host Windsor Forest Saturday.
HoCo attempts new heights
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Anyone attending
Saturday’s Houston County
High foot
ball game
against
Windsor
Forest
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to bring a
stepladder
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Windsor Forest
at Houston
County,
Saturday,
7:30 p.m.
anything to
say to the visiting Knight
players.
When coaches talk about
size advantages in football,
they usually mean weight
and strength. This Windsor
Forest club from Savannah
is coming to McConnell-
Talbert Stadium not only
with some bulk, but a good
deal of height as well.
“Two years ago they made
the playoffs and got beat out
by Lowndes,” said Houston
head coach Doug Johnson
WRs' cross country teams finish 1 -2 at Wildcat Invitational
Special to the Journal
Warner Robins’ girls and boys cross
country teams competed in the Wildcat
Invitational Saturday in Valdosta and
came away quite well.
Overall, the boys finished first and
the girls finished second.
“This was the first look at some of
the teams in the new region,” said head
coach David Erpelding. “I was very
pleased with the performances of both
teams.
“We still have our work cut out for us
but it felt good to perform well the first
time around.”
The boys finished with 47 points. Tift
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he was pleased with the win.
“It was a huge relief to finally
get the first Area win,” he said. “I
"They are tall. That worries us a little
bit. They've had a little success in years
past. The kids believe they have it going
in the right direction."
-Houston County headfootball coach Doug Johnson
about the Knights’ recent
history. “Last year they
didn’t make the playoffs but
had a pretty good football
team. (Region 3-AAAAA) has
that tiebreaker deal where
sometimes teams get put out
that probably shouldn’t.
“(Allen Cartwright) feels
pretty good about the group
he’s got this year. They
didn’t play last weekend, so
this will be their first game.
They have a big group of
kids. The size concerns us.”
One offensive tackle for
the Knights reported
ly stands 6-6, weighs 340
pounds and moves well for
that size. Then there’s a
County had 85, Valdosta 92, Berrien
County 117, Cairo 149, Lee County
159, Coffee County 161, Bainbridge 240
and Fitzgerald 397.
Individually, Marc Kushinka led the
way. He was second overall, finishing
in 18 minutes. Karl Burkhardt was just
behind him and in third with a time of
18:18. Jeffery Nakayama was eighth
at 19:08, Asif Bader 16th at 19:53 and
Cameron Luck 18th at 19:55.
For the girls overall, Tift County was
first with 53 points. The Demonettes
were second with 56. Bainbridge was
third with 84, Lee County was fourth
with 91, Valdosta fifth with 160, Cairo
Match 1 - Houston
County 26, Luella 24,
Lady Bears 25, Luella 13
Match 2 - Union Grove
25, Houston County 16,
Union Grove 25, Houston
County 16
Match 3 - Houston
County 25, Mundy's
Mill 18, Mundy's Mill
25, Houston County 23,
Houston County 30,
Mundy's Mill 28
6-5 tight end who catches
the football well, a 6-2, 245-
pound middle linebacker
and a defensive backfield all
over six feet.
“They are tall,” said
Johnson. “That worries us
a little bit. They’ve had a
little success in years past.
The kids believe they have
it going in the right direc
tion.”
Windsor Forest presents
a two-back offense, running
either pro twins or an I for
mation. The Bears expect to
see a lot of basic traps and
sweeps and a fresh rotation
of tailbacks and fullbacks.
“They have four or five
felt we were close last year but just
could not close the deal; this year’s
team has been focused on finishing
a match.
The Lady Bears fell in the second
match to Area leader Union Grove
two games to none and by the same
score, 25-16.
“(I) felt this is one of the best
teams on our schedule and we played
well,” said Jones. “The score does
not indicate how closely we played
them.
“We had several long rallies that
could have gone either way, on
Saturday they went Union Grove’s
running backs they play,”
said Johnson. “They run
hard. They’re hard to tackle.
We will have to keep them
from getting anywhere.
“They don’t try to run
too much stuff. They keep
it simple and do what they
do well.
“They like to throw it up
to those receivers who are
fairly tall. They have a lot
of speed and a lot of things
that can hurt us. They seem
to have some really good
athletes.
“Defensively, they run a
4-3 with four secondary guys
who are as good-looking as
anyone we’ve seen. All of
them can run. We were look
ing in one book, and he lists
nine guys as college pros
pects. He feels he’s got some
pretty good players.”
What Johnson sees as the
most important match-ups
for the Bears against the
Knights are the same ones
that worked against them
See HEIGHTS, page jB
sixth with 189, Berrien County seventh
with 210, Coffee County eighth with
213 and Fitzgerald ninth with 325.
Brittney Stewart, in what will not
doubt be the first of many, finished first
with a time of 20:05. Danielle Atkins
was third with a time of 20:22, Brittney
Hill 6th at 23:32, April Meeks 22nd at
25:45 and Becky Atkins 24th at 25:52.
In other note, Erpelding wanted
to make known, Caroline Mauldin of
Huntington Middle School and in the
middle school two-mile race, was first.
Her time was 14:55. It was her sec
ond win of the young season, said
Erpelding.
way. When we left the court the ladies
really wanted a rematch, hopefully
for the Area Championship.”
The squad rebounded to win the
final match of the day. That was
against Mundy’s Mill and came in
rather “dramatic fashion,” Jones
said. The Lady Bears needed three
games and the scores were 25-18,
23-25 and 30-28 (normal match is 25
- win by two).
“(I) felt this was a match we should
have easily won,” he said. “(But) we
were tired and got sloppy in the sec
ond game.
See MILESTONE, page 3B
Perry finds
no rest from
its 'labors'
By MATTHEW
BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
It’s Labor Day. There
was only one thing for
the Perry High football
Panthers
to do: Get
to work.
Going
from one
state
champi
ons h i p
con
tender
to another to another,
there is no break time
in what Andy Scott and
the Panthers are try
ing to build in the 2006
season. After a frustrat
ing road loss on Friday
to Hawkinsville, ranked
No. 2 in Class A, Perry
will now host last year’s
runner-up team in Class
AAA, Dougherty High, on
Friday.
It’s that level of the
postseason, the last pos
sible game that decides
it all, that the Panthers
strive to reach. Dougherty
hosted Peach County in
Albany last December
only to fall to Perry’s top
rival in Region 4-AAA.
Scott was.at Hugh Mills
Stadium for that con
test and saw a talented
Dougherty Trojans club
that was about to lose a
senior class 36 strong.
“I think that’s kind of
a misnomer as far as the
number of players they
have returning,” said
Scott. “We saw them
play Northeast (Macon)
Saturday, and they are
very good.”
In fact Dougherty earned
the No. 7 preseason rank
ing in AAA. It is also a pro
gram that has more state
See LABORS, page jB
Ayer, Clark come
in second, third in
Jasper tourney
From staff reports
Slim pickens? Not real
ty
Dane Clark and Buddy
Ayer from the Perry
Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club
both competed at the
Pickens Open in Jasper
Saturday with the first
placing third and the sec
ond coming in, well, sec
ond.
Ayer pitched in the D
Class and finished the day
with a 3-3 record. One
other competitor did like
wise, but Ayer got him on
ringer percentages. Ayer’s
was 19.16. The other
pitcher, Lee Howington,
had an 18.75 ringer per
centage. Which means
See JASPER, page jB
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Dougherty at
Perry, Friday,
7:30 p.m.