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TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
SCOREBOARD
High school
Volleyball
■ (Match one) Houston County
26, Redan 10; Houston County
25, Redan 15; (match two)
Houston County 25, Stephenson
13, Houston County 25,
Stephenson 22; (match three)
Houston County 25, Lithonia 6;
Houston County 25, Lithonia 9.
(Note: See Wednesday's Journal
for complete writeup)
ON DECK
High school
Softball
Today
■ Colquitt at Houston County,
5 p.m.
■ Perry at Peach County, 6:30
p.m.
■ Westfield at Southland, 5:30
p.m.
Thursday
■ Tift County at Houston County,
4 p.m.
■ Coffee at Warner Robins, 5:45
p.m.
■ Southwest at Perry, 5 p.m.
■ Deerfield at Westfield, 4:30
p.m.
■ Northside at Upson-Lee, 5:30
p.m.
Friday
■ Lowndes at Warner Robins,
6 p.m.
Saturday
■ Lowndes at Houston County,
11 a.m.
■ Northside at Warrior Fast
pitch Classic, teams and times to
be determined
High school
Cross country
Today
■ Houston County, Northside
and Perry at Warner Robins
Invite, 5 p.m.
Thursday
■ Perry at Mary Persons, 4:30
p.m.
Saturday
■ Southland at Westfield, 9
a.m.
■ Warner Robins at Jekyll Island
Invite, time to be announced
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ Houston County at Warner
Robins, 5 p.m.
Saturday
■ Houston County, Northside
and Perry at County champion
ship at Warner Robins, 10 a.m.
High school
Football
Friday
■ Berkmar at Houston County,
7:30 p.m.
■ Warner Robins at Central
Gwinnett, 8 p.m.
■ Northside at North Clayton,
7:30 p.m.
■ Tattnall Square at Westfield,
8 p.m.
IN BRIEF
Perry teams to host
golf tourney
Perry High School’s fast-pitch
and cross country teams will
be hosting a two-man scramble
golf tournament Saturday at
Perry Country Club.
The cost is SSO per player,
which includes lunch, door prizes
and more - first place gross and
net teams each receive S3OO.
Mulligans will be sold/strokes
will be given. Contact Heather
Sans at 971-1392 or Jeff Sans
at 955-7550 to sign up or for
more information.
HoCo cheer squad to hold
open house/barbecue
Houston County’s Cheer
Booster Club and Port-A-Pit
BBQ will host a school Open
House/BBQ dinner Sept. 19
from 4-7 p.m. in the school caf
eteria.
Plates are $8 each, which
includes: 1/2 chicken, beans,
potato salad, Texas toast and
dessert. You can dine in or
carry out. Tickets are available
at Houston County High School.
Tickets should be purchased by
Wednesday.
Demonettes go 5-0, win Evans tournament
From staff reports
Warner Robins High School’s
Demonettes struck some gold over
the weekend, win
ning the tourna
ment hosted by
Evans High School
with a perfect 5-0
record.
Included in that
run of wins was
a 6-4 win against
Houston County
COMING
Lady Panthers
finish 4-2 at Tiger
Classic
See Wednesday 's
Houston Daily
Journal
High, which was coming off a big 1-
O region win at Warner Robins High
last Tuesday.
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A Houston County defender wraps up a Windsor Forest ball carrier Saturday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
Bears cruise past Knights
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
It was a good night to be a
lineman wearing silver and
black.
Houston County High’s
football
Bears
punished
W 7 i n d s 0 r
Forest of
Savannah
3 5-6
Saturday at
MeConnell-
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Houston
County 35,
Windsor
Forest 6
Stadium. The Bears won
for the first time in 2006 in
what was essentially a one
half game. Houston County
scored 35 unanswered
points in the first half,
which brought on the run
the-clock rule and made the
second half go by in a flash.
Behind a senior offen
sive line, the Bear running
backs had plenty of room to
amass almost 200 yards in
the ground for the first 24
minutes. Who were they?
Starting with Reggie Smith
at center, there’s Zach Polk,
Michael Cuppett, Jimmy
Bailey, Dylan Thompson
and Ben Collins.
With their help, DJ Dodson
• had 76 yards on nine carries
with two touchdowns and
Eric O’Neal gained 68 yards
on nine carries with two
scores.
But there was a whole
other line of scrimmage
that played in dominating
fashion for the home team.
The Houston County defen
sive line, especially late in
the first half, had some
body in the Windsor Forsest
backfield before the Knights
could even get their play
started.
Windsor Forest ran 22
offensive plays in the first
half, 10 of which ended on a
tackle for lost yards.
Sports
WARNER ROBINS
DEMONS
Lauren Graham took a strong bat
on the road trip, turning in an aver
age for the tourney of .529. She had
two home runs during the Houston
County game, one being a grand
slam.
Cherie White hit .385 for the
Demonettes.
The Knights, the first of
three non-region foes for
the Bears from their 5-A
classification, won the coin
toss but deferred their
option for the second half.
After the opening kickoff,
Houston County began a
60-yard scoring drive that
set the tone for the rest of
the evening.
It took five plays for the
Bears to cover that dis
tance. The longest play was
Dodson’s 24-yard touch
down run at 9:45 showing
on the quarter clock. Taylor
Jones booted the PAT kick
through for the 7-0 edge.
Houston’s interior defen
sive front didn’t waste time
pushing Windsor Forest ball
carries in the wrong direc
tion. Princeton Dean and
Gavin Whitfield made it
3rd-and-13 from the WF 19.
With a 12-yard punt return
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Evans tournament
Warner Robins 5, Houston
County 4; Demonettes 5,
Harlem 2; Warner Robins
3, South Effingham 2;
Demonettes 2, Evans 1;
Warner Robins 5, North
Oconee 1
by Dedrick Early, Houston
was looking at a 41-yard
offensive drive.
Three plays later, O’Neal
blasted up the middle on a
25-yard scoring run. Only
five minutes of game-time
expired as Jones kicked the
Bears to a 14-0 lead.
The Knights gained two
first downs on their next
series to the WF 48. Chris
Prewett, however, run a
quarterback bootleg for a
two-yard loss and Roddy
Nixon had a 12-yard sack
on third down.
Later in the quarter, Dean
recovered a fumble on the
Knight 27. The third play
of the ensuing series was
also the first of the second
quarter. Dodson powered
his way right tackle for an
11-yard touchdown. Jones
put in his third straight
PAT (21-0).
Coach Brenda Arnette’s top defen
sive player of the tourney was Jenson
Barrett. She played shortstop and
had no errors.
Warner Robins won its pool, which
put it in the gold bracket among
other unbeaten pool teams.
Warner Robins beat Harlem
3-2. Amber Conlon was the win
ning pitcher with eight strikeouts.
Then the Demonettes edged South
Effingham by a similar 3-2 score.
Kristen Graham was the winning
pitcher, and like Conlon she too tal
lied eight strikeouts.
Against the host school, it was
A blitzing Prewett got
help from Dexter Holman
to again send the Knights
into negative territory. Josh
Nelson returned the punt
to the Houston 49, but the
home team would lose this
series on a fumble.
O’Neal would get his sec
ond touchdown with 2:07
left in the half. It finished
a series of eight plays and
61 yards with three first
downs. Lydel Jones had
his best gain on an inside
reverse. He went between
two blockers for 29 yards to
the Knight 22.
From the 17, O’Neal put
on vintage running back
moves to get the six points.
Jones kicked in the sev
enth.
Thanks to a time
out by the Bears with
about 18 seconds left and
See CRUISE, page jB
another one-run contest for Warner
Robins. K. Graham was back in
the pitcher’s circle, and she bested
Evans 2-1 behind 13 strikeouts. She
was also the winning pitcher against
Houston County.
Finally, the Demonettes claimed
the championship against North
Oconee 5-1. Conlon pitched her sec
ond win.
Warner Robins improved to 12-2-
1 overall. Up next are back-to-back
Region 1-AAAAA contests at home.
First, Coffee County visits Thursday,
then Lowndes plays the Demonettes
in a Friday tilt.
Waraer Robins
boys llpst, NS
llrls second In
2-mile Classic
Special to the Journal
Warner Robins continued
to roll and Northside’s girls
aren’t doing too shabby,
either.
The Demons won their sec
ond meet of the season, cap
turing the Two-mile Classic
held Saturday in Cochran.
For the Lady Eagles, it
was at least their second
runner-up finish, and at the
same venue.
As far as the boys again,
Warner Robins finished with
47 points. Houston County
was second with 81, followed
by Bleckley County with 99,
South Effingham with 127'
and the Eagles in fifth with
147.
Baldwin County was sixth
with 180, Southeast Bulloch
was seventh with 227,
Montgomery County was
eighth with 259, Toombs
County was ninth with 270
and Dublin rounded out
the top 10 with 293. Dodge
County with 415 was 11th,
Jackson High 12th with 422,
Hawkinsville 13th with 521
and East Laurens 14th with
534.
Marc Kushinka led the
Demons individually by fin
ishing second and in 11:26.
Karl Burkhardt for Warner
Robins was fifth at 11:46,
Jeffrey Nakayam ninth at
12:15, Madison Holland
14th at 12:27 and Matthew
Drapeau 17th at 12:40.
As far as the girls, Bleckley
County was first with 49
points. The Lady Eagles had
76 and just edged out the
Demonettes who had 77.
South Effingham was
fourth with 98. Houston
County was listed as fifth,
although it, too, had 98
points.
Dublin was sixth with 223,
Toombs County seventh
with 249, Southeast Bulloch
eighth with 265 and Macon
County ninth with 396.
Brittney Stewart led the
See CLASSIC, page jB
Panthers take
first at lift meet
Special to the Journal
Perry’s boys cross country
team won the Tift Invite
this weekend and, per head
coach Jerry Gatzke, by a
“wide margin.”
There were 13 teams in
all, Gatzke said, of .which
the Lady Panthers finished
ninth.
They were led by Stephanie
Smith.
The boys, Gatzke said,
were led by Ontorio Johnson
who finished fifth, Devin
Simpson who crossed in sev
enth and Nicholas Felder,
who was ninth.
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