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Houston Jfeilg ijmmrai The Home Journal’s SANDLOT " I'HIDBWHBIffT" ON DECK High school Softball Today ■ Sherwood at Westfield, 4:30 p.m. ■ Houston County at Colquitt County, 5 p.m. ■ Tift County at Warner Robins, 5:45 p.m. ■ Perry at Central, 5 p.m. ■ North side at Dutchtown, 6 p.m. Wednesday ■ Westfield at Mount de Sales, 7 p.m. ■ Warner Robins at Rutland, 5:15 p.m. Thursday ■ George Walton at Westfield, 4:30 p.m. ■ Houston County at Lee County, 6 p.m. ■ Peach County at Perry, 6:30 p.m. ■ Jones County at Northside, ; 5:30 p.m. Friday ■ Northside at Brookwood Invitational (through Saturday), times and teams to be deter : mined High school Cross country Today ; ■ Westfield at George Walton, : 4 p.m. Saturday ? ■ Northside and Warner Robins at Mercer Invitational, time to be determined High school Volleyball Today ■ LaGrange and Houston County at Perry, 5 p.m. Thursday ■ Perry at Houston County, 5 p.m. Saturday ■ Martin Luther King at Houston County, 11 a.m. High school Football Thursday ■ Dutchtown at Northside, 7:30 p.m. Friday ■ Perry at Henry County, 7:30 p.m. ■ Houston County at Warner Robins, 7:30 p.m. IN BRIEF Demons-Bears tickets to go on sale Reserved seat tickets for the Warner Robins-Houston County game are $8 and for season ticket holders can be purchased at the WRHS TD Club meeting today at 7 in the cafeteria. Any remaining reserved seat tickets will go on sale to the pub lic beginning Wednesday morn ing in the office of the school. General admission tickets are $7 in advance, and can be pur chased at each school. All tickets at the gate will be SB. Booster clubs to hold 4 quarters for cancer Also, at Demons-Bears game Friday, the booster clubs from each school will be heading a fund-raising effort sponsored by the Rally Foundation called 4 quarters 4 cancer. All money collected will go directly to funding research to cure and prevent childhood can cer. 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 Friday. Money raised will help buy uniforms and equipment for the team. Contact Cassandra Dixon at 988-6299 for more. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 ! JT a 0 at u A mm mm jaß g BB- 1 • -l- mJttm wfßtßw Wornr hßbo 9 I W Iftffllit . fl LjL” tJA Br BL jJBJK 3A w* >* m pBB B® fl fl ENI/Gary Harmon Perry High School’s Class of 1981 football team held its 25-year reunion Friday at the school. The Panthers of that year won eight games, six of which were shutouts and the region championship, including wins over Peach County, Americus and Baldwin. Members of the team were (not listed in order): Robert West, Curtis Dugger, Joey Hendrix, Ken Grace, Greg Scott, Derrick Harris, Arthur Adams, Karl Smith, Joe Scott, Tracey Scott, Frank Kendrick, Gary Felder, Mike Smith, coach Willie Street, coach Jim Soles, Mike Parker, Ken Terrell, Herb Anderson, Undre Lester, Hoke Morrow, Blake Westmoreland, Stevie Rumph, Rodney Bridges, Bryan Davee, Mark Pike, Randy Findley, Amuel Whitehead, Darriyn Bryant, Coach Allan Shaw, Vic Worthy, James Holmes, Eric Glover, Johnny Bass, Paul O’Connell, Scott Taylor, Andy Morgan, Keith Fleming, Vincent Glover, Joe Riley, Mike Browning, Larry Felder, coach James Kinchen, coach Dave Crockett, Kenny Merritt, Cecil Tobler, Carlisle Davis, Jerome Johnson, Thomas Ragin, Rodney Norwood, Sam Ridley, Johnny Farm, Ricky West, Marcus Clark, coach Kenny Moore, Gary Clark, Jarvis Hart, David Scott and Ronnie Smith. vH s J&uV wl. &3B wm jGBKr Jr ■ \y.' Bfl * =L— ——— f ENI/Gary Hannon Roert West, Johnny Bass and Amuel Whitehead, members of the 1981 Perry High football team go through the food line at their reunion at the school. Warner Robins takes two Graham no-hits Colquitt; Conlon leads Demonettes past Valdosta By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer A no-hitter is impressive enough at the high school level, but Warner Robins High’s Kristen Graham did WARNER ROBINS DEMON Warner Robins 4, Colquitt County 0; Demonettes 12, Valdosta 2 run home run at the plate in a 4-0 per fect-game victory. Graham struck out 10 in leading the Demonettes to the first of two Region 1-AAAAA wins at home over the weekend. Amber Conlon, who also hit a home run in Friday’s game, took the pitcher’s circle Saturday against Valdosta. She pitched four shutout innings before the Wildcats got to her with two runs in the top of the fifth. All that meant was the Demonettes would get to hit in the bottom half, which is when the game ended with a 12-2 Warner Robins victory. “It was good for her and for us,” said coach Brenda Arnett about Graham’s pitching. “We hit better Kh j one better on her home softball field Friday. For Colquitt County High, it was 21 up, 21 down over seven innings against Graham, who also hit a two- ENI/Gary Harmon Warner Robins’ Kylee Barrett slides in safe at third during the Demonettes’ win over Valdosta Saturday at Warner Robins. (Saturday) even though we had the two home runs (Friday). We hit better over all as a team. We acted like we wanted to hit.” The first six outs Conlon recorded against Valdosta were strikeouts. She had nine overall. The first hit ’ she allowed led off the third inning, but her defense turned a 4-3-6 double play Sports Class of ‘Bl ■r~ i ° f|§|k >; i9| ' '» a**|i ■ > m B E rag I « -1 JBBy ■ L J / *4r fffi&v • ENI/Gary Harmon Gary Clark, Dana Allen and Audrey Clark look through some of the memorabilia. fielding a sacrifice bunt. The Wildcats had thee hits in five innings, but it was the bases on balls that would give Conlon problems in the fifth. She walked three to load the bases with one out, and two runs scored on a hit deep on the left-field line. Arnett said she was impressed with the way Conlon worked out of that shaky inning, which ended with her ninth strikeout. Katie Farinelli had three hits batting in the leadoff spot. She beat out an infield single in the home first. Lauren Graham bunted her over, then on the first pitch she saw Kristen Graham hit the ball on the ground. It rolled all the way to See TWO, page 6B SECTION B HOCO blanks Lady 'Cats Burroughs just misses out on perfect game By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Houston County High’s Chelsea Burroughs was one pitch - one strike away from five innings of perfect pitching Saturday. She may have lost her perfect HOUSTON COUNTY Il BEARS Houston County 13, Valdosta 0 game and no-hitter on one swing, but she was in no dan ger of losing her shutout or win against Region 1- AAAAA Valdosta High. Burroughs and the Bears trounced the Wildcats 13-0 in five to jump to 6-1 in the region, which is good for a first place tie with Warner Robins High. Houston County is 15-3 overall with a region game com ing up on the road today against Colquitt County. Burroughs struck out seven with no walks in five innings. The only Wildcat hit came on a 2- 2 count with two outs in the top of the fifth. “Not walking anybody, that’s always good,” said coach Cristi Griffin. “The defense did a good job, too,” Valdosta went for a bunt single in the top of the third, but Carriker, at third base, was on the ball and got it to Bethany Crenshaw, the second baseman covering first, in time. See BLANKS, page 6B Lady Bears finish third in tourney Special to the Journal The Lady Bears vol leyball team had another successful weekend. They traveled to Dalton to play in Southeast Whitfield’s Raider Rally and fin ish e d third overall. I n round robin play the Lady Bears went 2-1 beating Gilmer two games to one. The scores were 25- 21 (a loss), 25- 22 and 15-7 (the tourna ment rules were third game to 15). The .Lady uk dy A> Southeast Whitfield Raider Rally Saturday in Dalton Pool play: Lady Bears beat Gilmer and Southeast Whitfield 2-1, fall to Gordon-Lee 2-1 Quarterfinal play: Houston County beats Winder-Barrow 2-1 Semifinals: Lady Bears fall 2-0 Bears started out slowly, head coach Tony Jones said, but picked up steam as the match went on. “Serving consistently was what propelled the Lady Bears to victory,” Jones said. In the next match with See THIRD, page 6B