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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT ON DECK High school Softball Today ■ 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 ■ 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 f High school Volleyball 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, 7:30 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. For more informa tion call the school or Cindy Smith at 478-988-0409. 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. Lady Bears volley squad rolls past Demonettes Special to the Journal Perhaps sending a message prior to the Houston County championship Saturday, the Lady Bears volleyball team traveled to the home of defending champion Warner Robins Tuesday and left with a solid win. Houston County beat Warner Robins 25-10 and 25-14. “I felt this was the best played match of the season,” head coach Tony Jones said. “When I talked to the girls wr IrifE. jMk-v 4£PSA T.SH j ■■ jgJHy riiT'lMKi l f i *l' 'mil w*iiiii,n JfyW- * SWiafc-iR ■ H f itflffii ENI/Gary Harmon Runners take off during the start of the Warner Robins Invitational cross country race held Tuesday at Pearl Stephens Elementary School. For more pictures, see 28. Girls Team Results 8. AAAAA/A 9. 1. Bleckley County - 59 10. 2. Spalding-130 11. 3. Central-218 12. 4. Northeast - 302 13. 5. Dublin-331 14. 6. West Laurens-334 15. 7. Dodge Co.-415 16. 8. Rutland-518 17. 9. Macon County - 577 18. 10. Perry-594 19. AAAA/AAAAA 20. 1. Northside-66 2. Warner Robins - 101 3. Houston County -103 1. 4. Tift County -167 2. 5. Westside - 206 3. 6. Upson-Lee - 524 4. Individual results 5. 1. Brittney Stewart - WR 20:00 6. 2. Ashley Arnold - Bleckley Co. 20:37 7. 3. Megan Breitbech - Houston C0.21:28 8. 4. Kelli Arnold - Bleckley County 22:03 9. 5. Elizabeth Lambert - Northside 22:07 10. 6. Danielle Atkins - Warner Robins 22:45 11. 7. Brittany Ferguson - Westside 22:54 Something’s fishy here ... oh, it’s my birthday! Today I turn 55. Denny’s and Shoney’s had better close their buffets because today I’m officially a senior citizen. I get the senior citizen discount at the movies. I wonder if the discount holds for “art” films. Since I’ve reached this milestone, I feel wise beyond my years. I take time to ponder important questions. Why do newspapers run fishing columns? My Muffin, who is aging more gracefully than I, pointed out that people know how to fish or they don’t. It seems to me that people make things more difficult than need be. What does it take to catch fish - bait, pole, hook. I find it hard to respect a species that allows itself to be tricked by plastic, but that was before modern science. When I think of the lures women use to snag men, I must reconsider. Sports G s *5 Warner Robins ver sus Houston County Match 1 - Houston County 25, Warner Robins 10 Match 2 - Houston County 25, Warner Robins 14 during warm-ups, I saw that we were ready and it About 600 strong Warner Robins Invitational top results Tuesday at Pearl Stephens Bementary School Jaime Maddox - Dodge County 23:09 1. April hallway - Houston County 23:20 2. Janay Wilson - Northside 23:23 3. Brittney Hill -Warner Robins 23:24 4. Sami Jacobs - Northside 23:33 5. Chelsea Sanders - Bleckley 23:34 6. Rachel Adams - Westside 23:36 Rebekah Shoup - Dublin 23:49 1 Kiersten Wharton - HoCo 23:49 2 Casheba Ellis - Spalding 23:51 3 Caley Cranford - Bleckley 24:10 4 Kelly McKinely - Northside 24:13 5 Brooke Bowen - Northside 24:18 g Boys Team results AAA/AA/A Q Spalding - 55 Bleckley County - 58 9 ' Perry-120 10 ' Central-308 11 West Laurens - 348 12 Lamar County - 425 13 - Southwest - 505 14 - Northeast - 533 15 - Dublin-551 16. Dodge County - 596 17. Hawkinsville - 737 18. AAAA/AAAA 19 At least a fish might break the line and But fishing is not rocket science; at hJs* § least it wasn’t when I started. These new . xvßjl fangled contraptions ‘ "y, take the fun out of ' , ~ f-Wng ,0 !„?r V What am I saying? Correspondent Fishing is never fun. It is even less enjoyable today. Gone are the boats with oars. Youngster, in my day going fishing meant slowing down, taking time to smell the bait. My father used some awful smelling stuff; we called it stink bait because he swore that fish had noses. Every creature downwind got a whiff of it and not even buzzards came near. Dad caught fish because he put his line in the water, went to sleep and left showed.” The clock doesn’t lie, to which Jones said he felt the match last 35 minutes total. “The ladies and I set a couple of goals early on, win in the Area, win the County Championship and make the state playoffs,” Jone said. “We feel we are well on the way to all of those goals.” Jones cited the set-up work of Nicole Williams as a key in the first game. She scored nine straight points on serves - only one an ace. Then, Jones said, Morgan Hollars followed with a “nice run of serves for points.” “What really helped us,” he said, “was the most impres sive display of defense. We had ladies scrambling after every ball.” The win improved Houston County’s record to 15-5 over all and 6-1 in Area 2-AAAAA - still in and are in second place in the area. They host Northside and Ola today, Martin Luther King Friday before the county champion- Warner Robins - 75 Houston County -139 Tift County - 252 Northside - 272 Upson-Lee - 341 Westside - 561 individual results Marc Kushinka - Warner Robins 17:54 Peton Hoyal - Upson-Lee 17:57 Michael Vinson - Central 18:04 Will Ficklin - Spalding 18:05 Dylan Fletcher - Bleckley 18:10 Karl Burkhardt - Warner Robins 18:27 Benjamin Woodard - W Laurens 18:31 Frankie Rias-Maldonado - HoCo 18:38 Cole Wilson - Spalding 18:42 Colby Kitchens - Bleckley 18:44 Tye Magner - Spalding 18:45 Matt Holland - Bleckley County 18:53 Ethan Bragg - Bleckley County 18:54 Jared Brittan - Spalding County 18:55 Devin Simpson - Perry 18:55 Russell Grant - Houston County 19:06 Michael york - Spalding 19:13 Kyle Ashcroft - Bleckley County 19:27 Jeffrey Nakayama - WR 19:34 it alone. Since the fish weren’t fright ened by the bait’s constant jerking, it would bite and find itself hooked. Pops would wake up, check the pole and reel in the catch, re-bait, and the cycle would repeat itself. Today, boats go too goldarn fast to suit me. Bass boats are revved up to outrun the DEA. Fishermen hurry to get someplace so that they can slow down. Those who can’t rush to go fishing can watch fishing shows on TV Why do the hosts of those shows always whisper? Do fish have ears, too? Those people run their boats flat out, making enough noise to wake an Iraqi terrorist, and then the occupants use their small voices to discuss lures, lines, and technique. Technique? Throw the line in the water. If there’s a hungry bass out there, it’ll strike. But modern See SERSEY, page 2B SECTION B ship Saturday. Lady Bear stats: Houston County vs. Warner Robins, Tuesday at Warner Robins ■ Jennifer Doerbereiner - 1 blocks, 2 aces, 1 kill ■ Catherine Goodman - 3 kills ■ Morgan Hollars - 19 assists, 3 aces, 2 kills, 1 block ■ Brittany Pierce - 2 aces, 4 digs, 2 assists ■ Leah Justin - 1 kill ■ Devon Preston - 1 kill, 3 aces ■ Samantha Moncada -12 digs, 4 assists ■ Dhwani Patel - 2 digs ■ Nicole Williams - 1 kill, 3 blocks, 1 ace HoCi blasts Cslqultt Co. From staff reports Two weeks ago, Houston County’s softball team was ranked No. ranked No. BEARS 10, again. It’sarevolv- Houston ine door County 11 ’ g r ' Colquitt sort of the County 1 way things went for the Lady Bears Tuesday at home against Colquitt County. Around and round the basepaths Houston County went - seven times in the first inning, three in the sec ond and once in the third. The Lady Packers went once - that coming in the fifth - and fell 11-1 in five innings. See BLASTS, page lB Peach County edges Perry From staff reports Peach County doesn’t have a junior varsity softball team. That might be good for Perry’s future but it didn’t help Tuesday as the Lady Panthers traveled to Fort Valley to take on the Lady mk\ PERRY PANTHERS Peach County 4, Perry 3 Trojans in a game moved from 6:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. - due to the fact Peach County doesn’t have a JV team. Perry came up short, 4-3 to Peach County. “We had three errors and too many walks,” explained Lady Panthers head See EDGES, page iB Lady Hornets shut out again By MA TTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer For the second game in as many days, Westfield’s soft- ball team left the playing field without scoring a run. On Tuesday, the lack of offense from the Hornet bats meant a Region 3- AAA loss, 2-0 WESTFIELD HORNETS Southland 2, Westfield 0 against Southland Academy in Americus. It wasn’t a no-hitter, though, as it was Monday at George Walton. Westfield had five hits, the same as the home Raiders. But Southland pushed See AGAIN, page 2B