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Mmtsimi iiaily TJounral 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 Ik ENI Gary Harmon 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 Sports l Match 1 / M I -Houston \ m 3 I County 25, / P I Jackson High I 8: Houston • ) County 25, I LADY A > Jac k son High 6 I Match 2 D - Houston l\ County 25, Ola 11; Houston ■k W County 25, fjm ° iai ° 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 ■IINSI P w vbhHh # * }: fi ijiHpß vT A- - : yt fk mk l 1 y y* — Submitted 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 B 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;