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THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
ON DECK
High school
Softball
Today
■ 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
Today
■ Perry and Northside at
Northeast, 4 p.m.
Saturday
■ Westfield at Tiftarea, 9 a.m.
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ 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. ID
-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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Demons assistant coach Bob Davis and players look on from the sidelines against Northside Sept. 8. After
being shut out at Central Gwinnett this past weekend, Warner Robins will look to rebound when it hosts Beach
Friday.
Unfamiliar territory
Demons home but still in an unfamiliar place
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Finally. Enough with the state
contenders already. Bring on the
Bulldogs.
It would be understandable of those
are the thoughts of
Warner Robins High
football fans see
ing what’s next on
the schedule after
Parkview, Northside
and Central
Gwinnett.
All the Demons in
uniform know, how-
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Beach at Warner
Robins, Friday,
7:30 pm
ever, that at 1-2, they are not in a
position to take anyone lightly. Not
even the Beach High Bulldogs, a
team that gave up 60 points last
week to Charlton County High.
Head coach Bryan Way first point
ed out that Beach, from Region 3-
AAAAA and the Coastal Empire town
of Savannah, shares Warner Robins’
record at 1-2 so far in 2006. He
also reminds everyone that Charlton
Bears prep to take their shot at Parkview
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Is there ever a good time
to catch a high school foot
ball pro
gram of
such high
renown as
Parkview?
Warner
Robins
High may
have done
it on Sept.
2 at the
Georgia
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Houston
County at
Parkview,
Friday, 7:30
p.m.
Dome, leaving this team
that’s always accustomed
to being in the champion
ship hunt with only one
direction to go the rest of
the season.
Right in the path of
the Panthers is Houston
County High School. The
Bears, with a 2-1 record,
must go to the place called
the Big Orange Jungle in
Lilburn, where Parkview
just last week blanked
Union Grove 16-0.
Houston County head
coach Doug Johnson and
staff took the opportunity
to scout two future oppo
nents, Warner Robins and
Parkview, in the Dome
on opening weekend. The
Demons won with surpris
ing ease 30-3. Johnson
said Parkview did some
lineup switching during a
Sports
"I'm sure (Beach) is coming hi here looking for a
win. We have to make sure we get better. Than our
main focus this week. If we do the little things
better, we'll be OK."
- Warner Robins head football coach Bryan Way
County, a dominant program in the
state’s lower classifications, has the
talent to put big numbers up against
anybody.
“Charlton County’s probably a
lot better than we are,” said Way
after his team lucked out on avoiding
heavy inclement weather at the prac
tice field Tuesday. “I’m sure (Beach)
is coming in here looking for a win.
We have to make sure we get better.
That’s our main focus this week. If
we do the little things better, we’ll
be OK.”
The Demons find themselves in
that uncharacteristic position of
bye week after the Warner
Robins game and it showed
in the film against Union
Grove.
“They didn’t play too
bad (against the Demons),”
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Houston County head coach Doug Johnson goes over last-minute details with the
officials during the Bears’ game against Berkmar this past Friday. They will travel
and play Parkview Friday.
said Johnson. “They had
some mistakes but moved
the football some. They
just dug a hole so quick ...
being behind is not good
for them because they are
under .500, so the goal is to get
back on the winning track Friday
at McConnell-Talbert Stadium. That
means studying the tendencies of
Beach High with the same scrutiny of
Warner Robins’ previous opponents.
“They have an outstanding quar
terback,” said Way. “He looks about
6-4, 6-5 and throws aspirin tablets.
He really throws it. He has a couple
of good receivers who scare us to
death. We have to do a good job with
our coverages and get some pressure
on him.
“They have good quickness
See DEMONS, page 2B
not a quick-strike group
normally. They got out of
what they wanted to do.
“They beat Union Grove,
who made the playoffs
See BEARS, page 2B
SECTION
B
Rain gets most
but HaCo tails,
IMide wins
Roundup
From staff reports
Two escaped the weather.
Several others didn’t.
Perry, which was to play
at West Laurens, Westfield,
which was to be on the road to
Sherwood and Warner Robins,
which was scheduled to play
at Tift County were the three
latter.
Their softball games were
rained out - with reschedule
dates yet to be determined
for the Lady Hornets and
Panthers, said their coaches,
and the Demonettes reset for
Oct. 2. Northside was one that
didn’t - escape the weather
- and made the most of it.
The Lady Eagles traveled to
Westside and beat the Lady
Seminoles 12-2.
Becky Studstill was the win
ning pitcher for Northside,
while Kim Dominy and Ashley
Jackson led the team on
offense.
The team, according to head
coach Mitch Horton, also ben
efitted from “several stellar”
plays at second base from
Allison Dickey.
And then there was the
Lady Bears. They escaped the
weather but probably wish
they hadn’t.
They lost 3-2 in extra innings
to and at Coffee County.
Houston County scored both
of its runs in the third. The
Lady Trojans scored one in the
first, one in the seventh to tie
it and then the go-ahead run in
the eighth.
Kuehn no longer
lonely at the top
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Howard Kuehn has a little
company at the top.
Kuehn, who finished the
spring on top of the Perry
Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club’s
standings, had led the sum
mer standings since it started
Aug. 7.
A couple of pitchers, Buddy
Ayer and Dane Clark, began
encroaching on his lead - one
game back - following play
Sept. 11, and now as of Monday,
Kuehn has company.
He hasn’t lost the lead but
Ayer and Clark have come up
to join him. All three are cur
rently 12-9.
Not only that but Larry
Myers has joined in the fray.
He had a record of 10-8 Sept.
11 but now he, too, is 12-9.
Also in the mix is Mary Ann
Gibbs. She is now 11-10 and in
fifth.
Rounding out the
See TOP, page 2B
Golf giveaway
in full swing
Special to the Journal
The Georgia State Parks Golf
website at GeorgiaGolf.com is
currently offering the chance
to win “Georgia’s Great Golf
Getaway.”
The prize package includes:
Four two-day passes to the PGA
TOUR Championship at East
Lake in Atlanta taking place
the first weekend in November,
a round of golf for four at the
Creek at Hard Labor, a round
of golf for four at Highland
Walk at Victoria Bryant and
three nights lodging in a two
bedroom cottage at Hard
Labor Creek State Park, which
is located 45 minutes from
See SWING, page 2B