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TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 3, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
ON DECK
High school
Softball
Today
■ Perry at Northeast, 5 p.m.
Wednesday
■ Northside at region tourna
ment in Lovejoy, matchups and
times to be determined
■ Baldwin at Perry, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday
■ Northside at region tourna
ment in Lovejoy, matchups and
times to be determined
■ Coffee at Houston County,
5:30 p.m.
Friday
■ Northside at region tourna
ment in Lovejoy, matchups and
times to be determined
Saturday
■ Northside at region tourna
ment in Lovejoy, matchups and
times to be determined
■ Warner Robins at Lowndes
and Valdosta, 11 a.m. and 3
p.m, respectively
■ Westfield at state tourney
at Southern Pines Complex in
Dublin and versus Stratford to
start, time to be determined
High school
Cross country
Today
■ Westfield at Gatewood, 4
p.m.
Wednesday
■ Northside at Stockbridge, 5
p.m.
Thursday
■ Perry at Northeast Invitational.
4:30 p.m.
Saturday
■ Warner Robins and Northside
at Westover Invitational, time to
be determined
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ Perry at Troup County, versus
it and Henry County, 5 p.m.
■ Houston County at Ola, ver
sus it and team to be deter
mined. 5 p.m.
Thursday
■ Morrow and Warner Robins at
Houston County, 5 p.m.
High school
Football
Friday
■ Stratford at Westfield, 8 p.m.
Central at Perry, 7:30 p.m.
■ Stockbridge at Northside, 7:30
p.m.'
■ Houston County at Lowndes,
7:30 p.m.
IN BRIEF
WR Rec to begin
basketball registration
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will begin basketball
registration Oct. 21. It will be
held from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the
department’s office off Watson
Blvd.
Fees are as follows: $25 for
city residents, SSO for county
residents and SBS for out of
county residents.
Participants must be at least
5 by Dec. 31 in order to partici
pate in the basketball program.
Registration will continue until
filled, during regular business
hours, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-
Friday.
In addition, coaches are also
needed. Call 929-1916 for more
information.
Registration begins for
Upward Basketball
Registration has begun for the
2006-2007 Upward Basketball
season. The cost per child is
$75.
Where you sign up and reg
ister 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 Cordcr Rd. (923-
5571).
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Local squads compete In Mercer meet
Special to the Journal
Brittney Stewart set a new school record - break
ing her old record by 1:13 - to help lead Warner
Robins’ effort at the Mercer Cross Country
Invitational held Saturday at the Georgia’s
Children’s Home in Macon.
Stewart finished the event with a time of 18:58.
That not only enable her to break her record, but
also to finish first individually.
Overall, the team didn’t fare quite as well.
Although, according to head coach David
Erpelding, they did run their best time “ever” at
the event. The Demonettes finished fifth while
Houston County was fourth and Northside third.
Bleckley County was second and Eagle’s Landing
first.
In one other note, Caroline Mauldin of Warner
Robins finished second in the middle school race.
For the boys in regard to team finishes, Warner
Robins was fifth. Houston County was 10th and
Northside 14th. North Gwinnett was first overall
followed by Benedictine.
The Demons’ Marc Kushinka, with a time of
17:21.7 was the only local individual runner to
score a top-10 finish -he was 10th.
Other results are as follows:
Boys team results
Team Score
1. North Gwinnett 29
2. Benedictine 103
3. Eagles Landing 115
4. Bleckley County 130
5. Warner Robins 141
6. Luella 180
7. Calvary Day 194
8. Valdosta 266
9. Colquitt County 271
See MEET, page iB
My advice: Owens should 'man up'
Terrell Owens needs
to “man up.”
According to a psy
chologist friend of mine,
men don’t use pills to off
themselves.
She says, besides tell-
ing me to
get help,
that men
are more
aggres
sive and
take more
extreme
measures
to commit
suicide.
She’s
says pills
Si
Joe Sersey
journal
Correspondent
are a woman’s method of
self-murder and as a result,
more women survive suicide
attempts than men.
That’s because men are
real men. They use guns.
Men who man up don’t
care about the mess they’ll
make.
My psychologist, I mean
friend, also says that when
women use guns in suicide
attempts, they don’t nor
mally swallow the barrel as
manly men do.
Am I the only one who
noticed how sports report
ers leaped on the Owens
Sports
"Anybody with half a brain would know
that Owens was going to deny any
attempt to completely self-destruct."
story? The local sports radio
station that carries ESPN
beat the story to death. Dan
Patrick said he was spend
ing so much time on Owens
because it was an important
story.
Yo, Dan, to whom?
Anybody with half a brain
would know that Owens was
going to deny any attempt to
completely self-destruct.
The police reported that
when Owens was asked by
hospital officials if he inten
tionally tried to hurt him
self, he said “yes.”
Thursday, Owens said that
his condition was an acci
dent. That’s what my folks
said about me. I believed
them more than I believe
Owens. But I expected that
response.
I bet he makes an excuse
every time he drops a pass.
“It was McNabb’s fault.
I was thinking about him
when Bledsoe threw the
ball.”
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Northside runners endure one of the hills on the course.
Or when he fails to block
downfield. “What, me block?
I can’t get attention that
way.”
Actually, Owens had a
press relations woman speak
for him. Through her he said
that he accidentally over
dosed by mixing his pain
medication with supple
ments and proved his point
by saying he emptied his
pills into his drawer.
Yeah, that’s the first thing
I do when I buy Via ... er
aspirin. I dump the bottle
into a drawer. It makes the
pills easier to grab because
who doesn’t hate fighting
those pesky child-proof bot
tles.
Owens, man up. You’re
embarrassed that you took
the sissy way to suicide. Get
help or buy a gun. You’re
an embarrassment to men
everywhere.
Actually, I think Owens
didn’t really want to
See OWENS, page zB
Westfield girls win
Deerfield invite
Hornets third; JV squads both first
Special to the Journal
Westfield competed in the Deerfield-Windsor-Randolph
Southern Invitational Saturday.
For the varsity Lady Hornets, that translated into a
first-place finish and for the varsity Hornets, it was third
overall;
For the junior varsity, it was first overall for both the
Westfield girls and boys.
Individually, Jacob Parnell once again led the way for
the Hornets. He finished second with a time of 18:48.
Also, Hunter Wojohn was fourth with a time of 21:33.
For the varsity girls, Mallory Eubanks and Leigh
James-Artigas finished third and fourth, respectively.
Eubanks crossed with a time of 23:18, which James-
Artigas finished in 23:56.
Complete results for Westfield are as follows:
Runner Time Finish
Jacob Parnell V boys 18:48 Second
Hunter Wojohn Vboys 21:33 Fourth
Evan Grantham Vboys 21:28 Fifth
Zack Hamsley Vboys 22:15 Seventh
Hank McCord Vboys 22:27 Eighth
Jared Howard Vboys 24:10
Will Walton Vboys 25:14
Jeremy Stubbs Vboys 27:43
Mallory Eubanks V girls 23:18 Third
Leigh James-Artigas V girls 23:56 Fourth
Callie Brown V girls 27:33 11th
Kim Campbell V girls 31:22
Elizabeth Stokes V girls 33:18
See INVITE, page zB
SECTION
B
Warner
Robins
cross
country
runner
Marc
Kushinka
leads the
Demons,
among a
field of
others,
during the
first leg of
the Mercer
Cross
Country
Invitational
held
Saturday in
Macon.
ENI/Gary
Harmon
ENl'Gary Harmon