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Giles’ heart OK; just acid reflux
NEW YORK - A day after Marcus
stiles was warned by a Philadelphia
physician that he might need surgery
to repair a heart defect, the Braves sec
ond baseman learned, after a battery
of tests in Atlanta, that
he has no problems with
his ticker.
Turns out, it’s just
acid reflux. It’s some
thing that can be con
trolled by a pill. It’s a
big-time false alarm.
“The good news is he’s
fine,” Atlanta GM John
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Schuerholz said, later
showing his frustration with the two
drastically different ends of the diag
nosis spectrum.
“I didn’t go to medical school,” he
said, “but I can tell you there’s a big
difference.”
Giles, 28, rejoined the team just
before Monday night’s game here
against the Mets. He wasn’t available
to reporters before the game because
of his late arrival.
Manager Bobby Cox didn’t start
Giles, allowing him a day to clear his
head. He should return to the lineup
tonight.
“He went through a hell of a scare,”
Cox said. Giles missed Saturday and
Sunday’s doubleheaders as he tried to
determine what was wrong.
It was a doctor at Philadelphia’s
Methodist Hospital who told Giles that
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championship history than
just last season. Scott said
he didn’t see much differ
ence in the game he saw
Saturday and the game he
saw last year.
“They are very talented at
the quarterback position,”
he said. “Even though the
young man’s a sophomore,
he’s a very gifted player.
They really like to get him
into space, so we have to
do a good job of containing
him.
“They have a running back
(No. 9) who’s very talented.
They have a kid who played
last year, probably their lone
returning starter, who is
a tight end, wide receiver,
punt returner, very good. We
have to find out where he is
on the field.
“They like to run basic pro
I formations, some trips and
some twins to try to spread
people out. The offensive
line is big and athletic. We’ll
have our hands full.”
Like last week against
Hawkinsville and in the
Northside scrimmage, Perry
is faced with a 4-3 defensive
set.
“They’ll roll the secondary
down a little bit and play
some cover 3 behind it,” said
Scott. “They won’t always
play a two-deep scheme.
They run around real well.”
But it still will be a young
team when compared to last
year’s runner-up. However,
these players, while not as
experienced as far as game
time goes, were a part of
the excitement of a winning
season.
“One thing that a lot of
people don’t understand is
that when you play for a state
championship, that gives
your ninth graders and 10th
graders five more weeks of
practice everybody else does
not get,” said Scott. “When
you throw in spring practice,
they are seven weeks ahead.
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“We were up and cruising
and we let them get back
into the game and that gave
Mundy’s Mill a lot of confi
dence going into the third
game.
“It ended up being a nail
biter that could have went
either way.
“Fortunately, it went our
way. I am very proud of the
team in spite of their fatigue
and own mental mistakes,
they persevered and won.
The wins improved the
Lady Bears’ overall record
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Ayer edged him out on
ringers - by one. He had 46
to Howington’s 45. That was
he might have an improperly function
ing heart valve.
“She indicated one of possibilities
was this, as it was related to the
heart,” Schuerholz said. “Then, it took
on a life of its own - and unnecessar
ily.”
When Giles got back to Atlanta
on Sunday, the Braves made spe
cial arrangements for him to see the
team’s cardiologist, Dr. John Cantwell.
Cantwell informed Giles that he had
no reason to worry, that medication
could curtail the symptoms he was feel
ing in his chest and abdomen.
“Our doctors eliminated, unequivo
cally, any heart defect and diagnosed it
as acid reflux,” Schuerholz said.
When asked by a New York Times
reporter how Giles can now be treated,
Schuerholz quipped, “I take antacid.”
SIDING WITH CHIPPER: Chipper Jones
said the aggravation of his strained
left side is more serious than the initial
injury he suffered more than a month
ago.
The stressed oblique muscle “bit
him” during Saturday’s doubleheader
in Philadelphia. The final straw came
on a swing and miss in Game 2 of
Sunday’s twin bill.
“It buckled me good. I almost went
down,” said Jones, who’s hitting .318
with 23 home runs and 79 RBIs in 101
games this year. “It took the breath out
of me. I’ve just got to try to get better
quickly as possible.”
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Perry works on fundamentals during a recent practice.
"Against Hawkinsville, as good as it
was, we moved the ball pretty good up
and down the field, we did a poor job of
controlling it."
-Perry head football coach Andy Scott
Carrol Wright’s a great foot
ball coach. He knows what
he’s doing.”
Scott’s focus on his own
defensive side is not giving
up the big plays, but instead
making the tackles at the
space where the plays begin.
For the offense, which has
yet to score, it’s a matter of
holding on to the football.
“Against Hawkinsville, as
good as it was, we moved
the ball pretty good up and
down the field,” said Scott.
“We did a poor job of control
ling it.
“Hindsight being 20/20, I
felt like we won everywhere
but the scoreboard. It was
frustrating to turn the ball
over as many times as we
did. We had it inside the 10
twice and fumbled.
to 11-3 and 2-1 in Area 2-
AAAAA.
Stats for the matches:
HCHS vs. Luella
/ Devon Preston - seven
aces
/ Jennifer Doebereiner
- two kills
/ Catherine Goodman - two
kills, three aces
/ Nicole Williams - one kill,
two blocks
/ Morgan Hollars - eight
assists, one block
/ Brittany Pierce - one
assist, two digs
/ Dhwani Patei - four digs
/ Samantha Moncada
- three digs
out of 240 horseshoes pitched
for both competitors.
Clark, in third place, fin
ished the event 2-2. He was
also on the receiving end
of a tiebreaker, edging out
Howard Hawes in fourth.
“Defensively, in the third
quarter we allowed them to
sustain some drives with big
plays. Our offense wasn’t
able to establish anything
because defensively we
couldn’t get off the field.
Hawkinsville’s defense did a
good job of controlling us.”
To add to the frustration,
allowing just 16 points to a
state contender is as good
a performance as any coach
could ask for. Scott, though,
said his concerns lie in the
secondary, where big plays
should be prevented. He
liked the way the Panthers
played near the goal line
with two important stands.
“I think (for the offense)
it’s finishing what you
start,” said Scott. “You take
away four turnovers from us
HCHS vs. Union Grove
/ Preston - one kill, one
block
/ Doebereiner - two kills,
one block
/ Goodman - two kills, one
assist, one block
/ Hollars - two assists, one
dig
/ Pierce - one kill, one dig
✓ Patel - two digs
/ Moncada - two digs
HCHS vs. Mundy’s Mill
/ Preston - one kill, nine
aces
/ Doebereiner - one kill
/ Goodman - three kills,
three aces
Clark’s ringer percentage
was 42.78.
He had 89 ringers out
of 208 horseshoes pitched.
Hawes had a ringer percent
age of 39.50, albeit he only
threw 200 horseshoes.
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Jones said the first time he hurt the
side, in mid-July, it took about 10 days
to recover. He said he’d attempt to rush
a return if Atlanta can hang around in
the wild card chase. Otherwise, he
would allow it to recover more fully.
“Quite obviously, if we win some
ballgames and get back in this thing
and make it close,” he said, “it’s going
to be tough to sit out when I want to
contribute.”
Jones, 34, has also missed time this
year because of a bad foot and, the first
week of the year, a sprained knee.
WRIT AND SEE: The Braves still haven’t
decided on a starter for Wednesday
afternoon’s series finale here.
Oscar Villarreal and Kyle Davies both
threw in the bullpen before Monday’s
game and Cox said he’d make a deci
sion by today.
If it’s Davies, there’s nowhere to go
but up for the 22-year-old. In his first
start back since groin surgery in May,
Davies gave up seven earned runs
on 10 hits in 2 1/3 innings Saturday
against the Phillies.
LEREW GONE: Evidently, Atlanta wasn’t
all that impressed by Anthony Lerew’s
outing Saturday. In relief of Davies,
Lerew, who’d just been recalled from
Triple-A Richmond, allowed five runs
in two innings. He was sent back to
Richmond on Monday, even though the
R-Braves have no more games left and
Atlanta can carry as many as 40 play
ers on its roster.
and we played a good offen
sive game. I think coach
Alligood had a good plan. We
took away their best play
ers ... they didn’t make a lot
of plays. We did a good job
controlling the line of scrim
mage with a young group.
But when we start a drive,
we have to finish a drive
strong.”
What is also giving Scott
good feelings about this
weekend and the rest of the
season is how much madder
his Panthers got with each
viewing of the Hawkinsville
film.
“They saw all the oppor
tunities they missed,” said
Scott. “That’s the beauty of
having a team that’s eager
to learn.
“We practiced on Labor
Day at 9 o’clock in the morn
ing. Not one kid missed
practice. That was really a
big deal. To have 95 kids and
not one miss or be late com
ing off a loss, our kids under
stand how good Hawkinsville
was. They have a chance
in single-A run the table.
Hopefully we won’t say the
same mistakes again.”
/ Nicole Williams - three
kills
/ Hollars - 17 assists, one
block
/ Pierce - two kills
/ Moncada - four assists
/ Adrienne Pate - one
assist
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in last weekend’s 26-14
opening loss to Northside.
He often talked about mak
ing improvements from the
first to the second week,
and he said it’s important
for the offensive line and
the secondary on defense
to step things up a notch.
“We have to run the foot
ball better,” said Johnson.
“We threw the ball really
well; that was a plus. But
we didn’t control the foot
ball. The offensive line has
to do a better job.
“Defensively, we played
pretty good up front, but
didn’t do well against the
pass. That has to get bet
ter. Those are two glaring
spots ... hopefully we’ll get
those corrected.”
Quarterback Martrez
King had 182 passing yards
and two touchdowns. DJ
Dodson had 45 rushing
yards in the first half, but
none in the second. The
Bear team netted just 19
yards on the ground after
halftime.
From the standpoint
of mistakes, it was a
fairly even game. It was
Northside, though, that
had a major edge in points
after opponent’s mistakes.
The Eagles got a field goal
after a roughing-the-kicker
foul and a touchdown after
a Houston fumble in the
first half. The Bears had
two takeaways (fumble
recovery and interception)
in the second half, but
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cashed neither one in.
“We did some things like
running into the punter,
which was not a good deal
for us,” said Johnson. “We
had a 4th-and-l we jumped
offsides on, go to 4th-and-6
and end up having to punt.
Those things are big in a
ball game, but when it’s us
and Northside, you can’t
make a lot of mistakes. We
had 10 penalties way,
way too many.”
Linebacker Chris Prewett
had both the fumble recov
ery and interception for
the Bears defense, which
allowed about 120 rushing
yards. But Houston gave
up 162 yards through the
air.
“They had the one run
right out of the shoot and
scored, and after that our
defensive front made it
tough for them to run,” said
Johnson. “Across the board
most of those guys played
pretty good. We just have
to get our secondary more
confident and to believe in
themselves. We had three
new guys and they might
have been overwhelmed in
that first game.”
As for offensive improve
ments, Johnson said it’s
just a matter of better block
ing. Eric O’Neal, a veteran
back, was held in check
most of the night except
for a couple of swing-pass
receptions.
“We didn’t give him any
where to go,” said Johnson.
“You need a little bit of
room. Our offensive line’s
going to do it, or we’re in
for a long season.”
goose population also con
tinues to increase in the
state. There are special
restrictions that apply for
hunting waterfowl on the
following Georgia Power
lakes: Burton, Seed, Rabun,
Tallulah Falls, Tugalo,
Yonah, Oconee and Sinclair.
Additionally, there are spe
cial restrictions for hunting
waterfowl on Lake Lanier,
Lake Walter F. George and
Lake Seminole. Visit www.
gohuntgeorgia.com for
more information on these
special restrictions.
For more information
visit www.gohuntgeorgia.
com or contact the WRD
Game Management Office
at 770-918-6416.
904 Jernigan St.
Perry, GA 31069
478-987-2443
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