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Houston Baiig 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). /~ i jfl hr _ wvNHBHHHH. bb.- 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.” ■ -W> A, ‘ ' •’• ■ • .'■' • *£l; “ TMctr-j 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