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WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 20, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
ON DECK
High school
Softball
Thursday
■ Baldwin at Northside, 5:30
p.m.
■ Southland at Westfield, 5:30
p.m.
■ Perry at Northeast, 5 p.m.
Friday
■ Colquitt at Warner Robins,
6 p.m.
Saturday
■ Valdosta at Warner Robins,
11 a.m.
High school
Cross country
Thursday
■ Perry and Northside at
Northeast, 4 p.m.
Saturday
■ Westfield at Tiftarea, 9 a.m.
High school
Volleyball
Thursday
■ Perry at Northeast, 4 p.m.
■ Northside at Northeast, 4:30
p.m.
Saturday
■ Houston County at Raider
Rally at Southeast Whitfield, 8
a.m.
High school
Football
Friday
■ Beach at Warner Robins, 7:30
p.m.
■ Northside at Jones County,
7:30 p.m.
■ Houston County at Parkview,
7:30 p.m.
■ Westfield at Brentwood, 7:30
p.m.
■ Jackson at Perry, 7:30 p.m.
IN BRIEF
Registration begins for
Upward Basketball
Registration has begun for the
2006-2007 Upward Basketball
season. The cost per child is
$65. After Saturday, the cost
goes up to $75. Where you sign
up and register is where you
practice and play the games.
You may -register at the follow
ing locations in Warner Robins:
Second Baptist at 2504 Moody
Rd (923-7101), Friendship
Baptist at 1322 Feagin Mill
Rd. (953-9509) or Shirley Hills
Baptist at 615 Corder Rd. (923-
5571).
Museum to host Georgia
Invitational golf tourney
The 17th Annual Museum of
Aviation Foundation Georgia
Invitational Golf Tournament will
be held Sept. 28-29 at the Pine
Oaks Golf Club at Robins Air
Force Base.
The two-day tournament,
according to the release, is the
largest outing in Middle Georgia
and is made up of three sepa
rate rounds - one that Thursday
and two Friday - with separate
prizes for each round. The total
value of prizes and giveaways is
more than $30,000. Foursomes
will compete in a “scramble”
handicapped format. Tee times
are noon on Thursday and 8
a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Friday.
Golfers receive a commemo
rative golf shirt, a Thursday night
traditional “Plantation Supper,”
luncheon buffets and a barbe
cue awards dinner. The single
player fee is $250. Sponsors
and players can sign up by call
ing the Museum of Aviation at
478-923-6600 or emailing june.
lowe@museumofaviation.org or
marylynn.harrison@museumofa
viation.org.
Perry’s boys track team to
sell Fair tickets
The Perry High School boys
track team will be holding a
fund-raiser. The group will be
selling a three-day student pass
(ages 11-18) for the Georgia
Nationa Fair. The tickets are for
gate admission and cost $lO (a
savings of $8).
The pass is good for Oct. IQ
-12. Tickets can be purchased
at the Perry High School front
office. The last day to buy will be
Sept. 29. Money raised will help
buy uniforms and equipment for
the team. Contact Cassandra
Dixon at 988-6299 for more.
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Horseshoe pitchers, locally and throughout the state, admire trophies - including the Interleague team champi
onship trophy - before the start of competition Saturday at Rozar Park.
Enough horsing around
Perry club repeats as Interleague champions
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
What do the Braves and the Perry
Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club have in
common? Titles and lots of them.
Each year since 1998 the Georgia
Horseshoe Pitcher’s Association has
held the Interleague Championship.
Perry won it the inaugural year,
1999, 2000 and 2001. Hull, the only
other team, to hold the title, won it
in 2002, ’O3 and ’O4.
Perry took it back in 2005 and won
it again Saturday at Rozar Park. Do
the math and you’ll see that’s five
Following bye Panthers to get back in action
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
It’s back to the grind (don’t worry
Panthers, you don’t have to do that
obstacle course again for another
year) for Perry High School football
players.
After a week off of game prepara
tion, the Panthers are getting a look
at what may be the best of the north
ern half of its region Friday at the
Panther Pit.
Perry has already seen two champi
onship-caliber clubs in Hawkinsville
and Dougherty and came out even at
1-1. Week 3 offered an early bye, but
in week 4 the Panthers are hosting
Hornets hope for healing at Brentwood
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
If the athletic trainers for
Westfield football have a boring
and uneventful night after kick-
off Friday in
Sandersville,
that would
be quite all
right with the
Hornets and
head coach
Ronnie Jones.
As far as the
veteran side-
jS.
Westfield at
Brentwood,
Friday, 8 p.m.
line mentor is concerned, those
folks have had enough work
already in 2006,
Before halftime last week
end at Marvin Arrington
Stadium, senior running back
Zach Young and senior lineman
Jeremy Rowland both occupied
the training table with inju
ries.
They had little playing time
as the Hornets became the
latest victim in the onslaught
Tattnall Square Academy is
See HEALING, page 3B
Spopfs
titles out of the past eight years.
Finishers behind the local club
Saturday - in what Dane Clark of
the organization called the “largest”
turnout ever - were Brunswick in
second with a 26-17 record, Hull in
third at 20-25, Marietta, 19-25, in
fourth, Cordele, 18-26, in fifth and
Stone Mountain, 15-30 overall, in
sixth.
The format for the competition was
for clubs to take their top three pitch
ers in league play from the spring and
then have them represent the club in
head-to-head competition against the
iSlfe
Jackson at
Perry, Friday,
7:30 p.m.
battle things out with Peach County
and Central-Macon for positioning in
the other sub-region.
. Head coach Andy Scott hopes
this will be the first of 13 weekends
in a row of football at Perry. With
last week’s open date, the Panthers
took the opportunity to toughen up,
still thinking about the mistakes
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Westfield’s Casey Young gets hit after releasing the ball Friday in the Hornets’
home loss to Tattnall.
an experienced, ath
letic and wide-open
bunch of Red Devils
from Jackson High
School. Jackson sits
with Spalding and
Mary Persons in one
sub-region of 4-AAA
while Perry will soon
others.
For Perry, that was Mary Ann
Gibbs, Dave McKim and Howard
Kuehn. Combined they were a domi
nating force.
All told, they finished with 35 wins
against 10 losses. Individually, out
of the 15 competitors other than
Perry pitchers, only one had a better
won-loss record than any of the local
three.
That was Chris Hallman from
Brunswick. He finished 11-3.
And that wasn’t as good as Gibbs.
See INTERLEAGUE,page 6B
that led to the loss on Sept. 1 at
Hawkinsville.
“We just tried to get better,”
said Scott. “We practiced full gear
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
and gave them Friday off. We tried
as hard as we could to get physically
better. We pounded on the kids as
much as we could, continued to work
in the weight room and tried to get
their bodies regenerated for the rest
of the season.”
Knocking off Dougherty, which last
year played for the state title in Class
AAA, at home helped ease those
hard feelings of turnovers in the
red zone and defensive lapses in the
See ACTION, page jB
SECTION
B
Houston County
beats Lowndes;
alone in first
From staff reports
Chelsea Burroughs posted
her second-straight shutout
as Houston
County’s soft
ball team took
over sole pos
session of first
in Region 1-
AAAAA with
a 2-0 win
over Lowndes
Saturday.
The Lady
Bears and
HOUSTON COUNTY
BEARS
Houston
County 2,
Lowndes 0
Vikings entered the game
undefeated in division play
- with Warner Robins hot on
the heels of both with one loss
(that being to Houston County,
however).
“We played solid defense,”
said Houston County head
softball coach Cristi Griffin of
the win. As for Burroughs, she
struck out four and only gave
up three hits.
The Lady Bears scored both
of their runs in the fourth.
Leading them at the plate
were: Ashlee Burkettm who
was 3-4 with two RBI, Kourtny
Thomas, 2-4 and Bethany
Crenshaw, who was, 2-3.
Chelsea Burroughs and April
Collins were also both 1-2 with
two runs scored.
YMCAto IraM
spruce-up day
Seeks 50 volunteers
to help with work
Special to the Journal
The Houston County YMCA
has set a spruce-up day for
Sept. 30.
During that time, according
to a release,
the staff, along
with volunteers
- that’s where
they’re hoping
you will come in
-will get togeth
er to update the
interior of the
building.
The time will
be from 7:30
a.m.-2 p.m. and
the organiza
tion is looking
for 50 volun-
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What: Houston
County YMCA
spruce-up day
When: Sept. 30,
7 a.m.-2 p.m.
Where: YMCA
located at cor
ner ot Moody
Road and State
Road 96
teers to give of their time.
Mike Crean, YMCA Board
member and Properties Chair
will lead the effort to spruce
up the current facilities and
“make it more attractive and
functional for program and
membership use,” he said.
Based on volunteer hours
and contributed materials, the
YMCA, in the release, said it
hopes to complete the equiva
lent of more than $4,000 in
kind work. Wal-Mart will also
provide a continental break
fast, and an area minister will
lead the group in a devotion
prior to the work portion of the
day starting at 8 a.m.
The YMCA is located on the
corner of Moody Road and
State Road 96.
Also, during the second half
of 2006, the YMCA is being
guided by a 180-day, short
range plan aimed at strength
ening the organizational infra
structure of this young six-year
old YMCA.
Potential for membership
growth, program diversity in
the areas of Child Care, Youth
Sports, Teen Leadership Clubs,
Family programming, Armed
Services Military work and
mission based outreach work is
great according to Jim Mercer,
CEO and 27-year YMCA pro
fessional.
“The board and staff feel
that the start of that grow
will come from bringing
See YMCA, page jB