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Mnustmt BailiJ Jjmmtal 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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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 ENI/Gary Harmon 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- AT A ] 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