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The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
ON DECK
High school
Softball
Today
■ 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
Saturday
■ Warner Robins and Northside
at Westover Invitational, time to
be determined
High school
Football
Today
■ 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 Opt. 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
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).
Goggin to play 100 holes
of golf for charity
Each Fall Landings Golf Club
PGA Professional Bill Goggin
has played 100 holes of golf
in one day to benefit local
charities. This year's proceeds
will go to a new women and
children's homeless shelter in
Warner Robins, The Community
Outreach Service Center.
To that end, Goggin will
be playing “100 holes for the
Homeless" Oct. 23.
Call him with your pledge
today at 478-923-5222 Ext. 4
or e-mail your pledge to him at
Bill@goggingolt.com.
Donations are 100 percent
tax deductible.
THIS WEEK
10 years ago...
The Perry Dugout Club held
its inaugural meeting. Claude
Thorn left Atlanta to become
head professional at Houston
Lake Country Club and in foot
ball, Bleckley County ran past
Perry and Westfield blasted
First Presbyterian Day thanks
to some long touchdown runs
by J.T. Shy.
HE SAID IT
“We had a strange and won
derful relationship; he’s strange
and I’m wonderful.”
- Mike Ditka, on his rela
tionship with Jim McMahon
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 6, 2006
HoCo volleyball squad
notches wins 30,31
Special to the Journal
The Lady Bears volleyball
team traveled to Ola High
School in Henry County
Tuesday and picked up
their 30th and 31st wins of
the season.
The first came by way
of defeating Jackson High
School from Butts County
two games to none and with
scores of 25-8 and 25-6.
“The Lady Bears played
well and earned the vic
tory through spot serving
and forcing the Lady Red
Devils into making mis
takes,” head coach Tony
Jones said. “Devon Preston
started us off well in the
first game. She served for
16 points, of which she was
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Westfield sophomore quarterback Chase Ellis drops back for a pass during practice Wednesday at the school. He
is likely to see his first action since Sept. 8 in tonight’s Stratford game.
WF bye's time to get healthy
By MA TTHEWBRO WN
Journal Sports Writer
It would be hard to find any football
player anywhere five weeks into a
season who isn’t feeling some kind of
soreness. The way things have gone
for the Westfield Hornets in 2006, it
must feel like a fast-spreading epi
demic.
Thank goodness for a bye week. The
1-2-1 Hornets sat out last weekend’s
slate of action, and the No. 1 goal for
head coach Ronnie Jones and staff
had to be: just get healthy.
Rumph wins Houston
Lake’s Mel Tolleson Cup
Special to the Journal
Practice pays ... If you take a look at
the practice facilities at Houston Lake
Country Club on any given day you
will likely see a tall slender, smooth
swinging teenager hard at work.
Ryland Rumph, a Westfield senior
is a dedicated and disciplined young
man, as seen through the eyes of those
at the club. Earlier this month his
hard work paid off as he held off some
stiff competition down the stretch
to capture the Houston Lake Club
Championship, which is named the
Mell Tolleson Cup in honor of the late
Mell Tolleson.
Tolleson was one of the Founders of
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responsible for the first
12.”
In her two runs she had
eight aces, he added.
In the second game of the
match, he also added, she,
Jennifer Doebereiner and
Catherine Goodman each
served a run of six points.
Stratford at
Westfield,
today, 8 p.m.
Academy tonight at Marvin Arrington
Stadium. “(Zach) Young’s moving a
little better. He hasn’t played in three
weeks now. Chase Ellis is moving bet
ter. Jeremy Rowland never missed a
whole lot, but he’s moving better on
HLCC and won the Club’s inaugural
Club Championship.
Rumph, in securing his name in
the record books, relied on solid ball
striking and a sharp short game to
fire rounds of 70 and 72 for a two-day
total of 142. That made him the lone
player among the field of 60 players to
break par.
Rumph played an 8-iron shot to
within 10 feet of the hole on the
treacherous par four 18th hole and
cautiously two-putted for a two-stroke
victory over Mitch Greer of Perry.
“The course is in excellent con
dition and the greens are perfect,”
Rumph said in praising the club’s
See CUP, page iB
Preston had four aces
during that time, while
Doebereiner and Goodman
had two each.
The Lady Bears followed
that up by beating Ola High
School 25-11 and 25-10.
“Solid defense and
superb front row play with
some key blocks and kills
supported another serv
ing exhibition by the Lady
Bears,” Jones said.
In game one of the match
Preston and Doebereiner,
Jones said, had “big runs.”
Preston had a five-point
run with two aces and
Doebereiner had two runs,
one for six points and one
for four with three aces.
Sam Moncada had a
See WINS, page iB
“We still have some
people who aren’t 100
percent, but we got
better,” said Jones,
spending this week
preparing his club for
its first Class AAA
south sub-region game
against Stratford
NS splits region
tourney games
ByDONMONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Northside’s opener in the Region 3-AAAA softball
tournament Wednesday in Lovejoy was far from what it
NORTHSIDE
EAGLES
Griffin 4,
Northside 3;
Lady Eagles
11, Love|oy 3
after one and held it until the third. Griffin, which just
outhit the Lady Eagles 6-5, tied it in the third and then
went up 3-1 in the bottom of the fourth.
Northside tied it in the fifth with a pair, and
See REGION, page 2B
his knee. So is (Matthew) Mcßride.
“We’ve just had a bunch of things.
The only person we don’t have out
here who started at the first of the
year is Austin (Madruga). It seems
everybody’s getting a little better, and
that’s what needs to happen in these
region ball games.”
Young is a major part of Westfield’s
wing-T running game, and he was
out two plays into Westfield’s home
loss Sept. 15 to Tattnall Square with
an ankle injury. He didn’t play two
weeks ago when the Hornets tied
See TIME, page iB
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Chris Murman, owner and Head Golf Professional at Houston Lake
recognizes Ryland Rumph for winning the club championship.
had hoped.
In fact, it was as head coach Mitch
Horton described it: “A heartbreaker.”
That statement came via the fact the
Lady Eagles lost 4-3 in the bottom of the
seventh to Griffin.
It did get better, however, as'Northside
easily beat Lovejoy in the game that fol
lowed 11-3. To that end, the Lady Eagles
were slated to play Stockbridge at 4 p.m.
Thursday (results pending) in an elimi
nation game.
As far as the team’s game against the
Lady Bears, Northside took a 1-0 lead
Lady Hornets
prep for state
tourney opener
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
WESTFIELD
HORNETS
6ISA state
tournament
Westfield ver
sus Stratford,
Saturday, 10
a.m. in Dublin
(in best two
out-of-three
format)
nament format for soft-’
ball teams in Class AAA,,
Southern Pines is host
ing four best-of-3 series
Saturday. The four teams
that can win twice against
their respective opponents
move on to the state final
four the following weekend
for a double-elimination
battle for the state champi
onship.
The one series of inter
est in Houston County is
between the Region 3-AAA
champion Westfield Hornets
and Stratford, the runner
up from Region 2-AAA. For
both teams, the final place
ment in their regions came
down to the last league
game, Westfield winning its
against Sherwood Christian
and the Eagles falling to
First Presbyterian.
Both teams also have had
plenty of rest from game
action this past week since
neither club had to com
pete in a play-in round on
Tuesday. That’s because
the regions they were
See OPENER, page iB
SECTION
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Two out of
three certain
ly won’t be
bad for either
Westfield or
Stratford
when all the
dirt settles at
the end of the
day Saturday
at Southern
Pines’ soft-1
ball complex
in Dublin.
Under a
new GISA,
state tour-1;