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WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 11, 2006
The Home Journal’s
SANDLOT
ON DECK
High school
Softball
Today
■ Perry at regionals in Jackson,
teams and times to be deter
mined
Thursday
■ Perry at regionals in Jackson,
teams and times to be deter
mined
■ Houston County at Tift County,
5:30 p.m.
Saturday .
■ GISA state Final Four at
Southern Pines Softball Complex:
Westfield versus Tattnall (best
of-three), 10 a.m. (game 1)
High school
Cross country
Today
■ Northside at Upson-Lee, time
to be determined
Saturday
■ Coach’s Cup, hosted by
Warner Robins, 10 a.m. at Pearl
Stephens Elementary School
High school
Volleyball
Friday
■ Houston County at Union
Grove for Area tournament,
teams and times to be deter
mined
Saturday
■ Houston County at Union
Grove for Area tournament,
teams and times to be deter
mined
High school
Football
Friday
■ Westfield at First Presbyterian
Day, 8 p.m.
■ Warner Robins at Valdosta,
8 p.m.
■ Perry at West Laurens, 7:30
p.m.
■ Northside at Baldwin, 7:30
p.m.
■ Colquitt at Houston County,
7:30 p.m.
IN BRIEF
Demons advance tickets
to go on sale
Tickets for Warner Robins’
football game at Valdosta will
be on sale today and Thursday
in the office of the school from
8 a.m.-4 p.m. Student tickets
are $5 and all adult tickets are
reserved seats and costs SB.
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 participate 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.
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@goggingolf.com. Donations
are 100 percent tax deductible.
Warriors recognize their
best gridiron players
The International City Warriors
football held an awards ban
quet Saturday. Top awards went
to the following: Outstanding
Offensive Player - Tamarco
Head; Outstanding Defensive
Player - Seanon Dinkins; and-
Most Valuable Player - Donte
Holmes.
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The Jets and Saints met as part of the Warner Robins Recreation Department’s grid
iron slate Saturday at Tanner. ABOVE: The Jets’ Curtis Harris tackles - for the second
consecutive play - the Saints’ Bryce Fickler.
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Oxygen holds lifting competition
Special to the Journal
The Oxygen Fitness Center
in Warner Robins hosted
the World Power Lifting
Federation in, according to
a release from Shawn Skrip,
WNPF Georgia state chair
man and Oxygen Fitness
Center assistant manag
er, the “first 100 percent
Drug Free Power Lifting
Competition in Middle
Georgia.”
Troy Ford, from Atlanta
and president of the WNPF,
visited to put on the meet in
what he said he hoped would
be the “first meet Qf many in
Warner Robins.”
There were 19 lifters and
several spectators.
In the competition, Buddy
Cawley from Tifton, and at a
body weight of 290 pounds,
Sports
Curtis-y call
bench pressed 675 pounds.
Shawn Skrip, assistant
manager at Oxygen Fitness
Center - weighing in at 169
pounds - won the deadlift
and Ironman Competition.
He also set two state
records.
Other notable lifters
included Dianna Cowles
a sales rep at Oxygen and
the only female lifter. She,
weighing in at 103 pounds,
set a state record also. She
deadlifted 175 pounds. Brian
Duckworth, in his first meet,
was the best teen lifter, set
ting two state records. Dave
Cowles, also in his first meet,
set a raw bench record in
the 165 weight class. Walter
James at 148 pounds bench
pressed 400 pounds.
“This was an exciting
LEFT: Jet
cheerlead
ers, from
left, Jordan
Mangold,
Kellie
Cornett
and Anaya
Crane intro
duce them
selves to the
fans.
BELOW:
The Saints
cheerlead
ers get
entertained
by the Jets’
cheer squad
during half
time.
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meet,” the release read,
“with the Warner Robins
Fire Department and Police
Department volunteering.
The meet was sponsored
by Brannen Ford in Unadilla
and Chic fil-A in the Galleria
Mall. Rick Poston from
Pappa Johns also provided
pizza.
“This was small but very
exciting with over 100 spec
tators at times,” Skrip said.
“Jeff Chapman had the wind
knocked out of him while
getting pumped up for a lift
and came back and set a
state record.
“This was a great meet,
and one of many more in
Warner Robins. Several lift
ers were drug tested. This
was a great meet that turned
into a community event.”
Demons travel
to troubled 'Cats
By MA TTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
For one South Georgia
town, it might as well be
universal Armageddon.
Valdosta High School has
a 1-srecord
in foot
ball. The
Wildcats,
which
welcomed
new head
coach Rick
Tomberlin
to town
M
Warner Robins
at Valdosta,
Friday, 8 p.m.
during the last offseason,
will try to stop a four-game
losing streak on Friday at
home against a team from
a town where winning foot
ball is also a top priority,
that being Warner Robins
High.
The 3-2 Demons them
selves have had to live
below the .500 level in the
2006 season and already
have three games without
scoring an offensive touch
down. But Warner Robins
owns a 1-0 Region 1-AAAAA
mark after a dramatic 10-9
home win against Houston
County High on Sept. 29.
After that game, which was
decided by a missed extra
point kick with no time left
on the clock, the Demons
took their bye week to
think about how to attack
the second half of their sea
son.
“You’re always never
sure how to approach (a
bye), or I’m not anyway,”
said Warner Robins head
coach Bryan Way. “We con
centrated on correcting our
mistakes and working on
our things. We didn’t spend
a whole lot of time prepar
ing for Valdosta except for
some preliminary things.
“We really think we made
some strides in terms of
our execution.”
Way does have reasons
to be concerned about the
team’s offensive execution.
In the Houston game the
Demons’ only touchdown
came on an interception
return by Ivory Petties.
During a two-week stretch
in September the only
points scored by Warner
Robins at all was on what
could have easily been a
disastrous punting situa
tion.
But if there is any foot
ball team that is worry
ing right now, it must be
Valdosta, which is 0-2 in 1-
AAAAA after last Friday’s
10-7 double overtime loss
to Tift County and a two
point loss the week before
against Colquitt County.
“Valdosta really squan
dered two scoring oppor
tunities,” said Way about
his staff’s visit to the game
against Tift. “They got
down inside the 15 twice in
regulation and didn’t get
any points. They probably
outplayed Tift, and they’ve
outplayed two or three of
the people who’ve beaten
them. They just had some
thing happen here or there
and ended up on the short
end. They haven’t stopped
playing hard.”
Taking a look at the his
tory between these two sto
ried programs, there aren’t
many games in the series.
What games have been
played, according to Way,
were won by the Wildcats.
“I know we’ve only beat
en them one time,” he said.
“How many times we’ve
played, I’m not real sure,
but they’ve won a whole lot
more than we have. I don’t
know if we’ve ever played
them in the regular season,
not in a long time anyway.
They have more tradition
than any other school in
the state.”
As would be expected,
Way said the Wildcats are
6A
"They are the
best 1-5 team I've
ever seen. I don't
know it there is a
good time to lace
them."
- Warner Robins headfootball
coach Bryan Way
not a typical 1-5 team,
considering that all loss
es are by a combined 18
points. The only win was
a 19-9 decision against
Chattahoochee.
Valdosta also has a
yearly meeting with a
northern Florida school,
and this year it was a 24-
21 loss to Lincoln out of
Tallahassee.
“They are the best 1-5
team I’ve ever seen,” said
Way. “I don’t know if there
is a good time to face them.
I’m sure they are looking
forward to getting their
First region win. By the
same token we’re looking
forward to getting back
to playing after taking a
week off. We understand
the importance of it.”
Valdosta brought in
Tomberlin to replace Rick
Darlington after his three
year stint leading the
Wildcats.
Tomberlin is a for
mer Lowndes High head
coach but is more known
for his successful run at
Washington County High,
which had dominant teams
at both the Class AAA and
Class AA levels.
“I’m sure (a new coach)
has something to do with
(the record),” said Way.
“He’s got his own system,
and they are doing differ
ent things scheme-wise
than what they did the last
three years under coach
Darlington. That’s going to
take some adjustment by
anybody.
“But they still have some
good athletes and tremen
dous quickness everywhere
which really scares us to
death.”
As could be said about
the Warner Robins sea
son, Valdosta isn’t losing
games due to giving up
tons of points. Way said the
Wildcat defense is loaded
with team speed. He said
the front line only averages
about 220 pounds and will
do all kinds of slanting and
stunting.
“From an offensive stand
point, they are very basic,”
said Way. “They don’t try
to do anything very fancy.
They primarily want to run
the football, but they have
the ability to get the quar
terback on the corner and
let him make some plays.
“The offensive line is
getting better. Their run
ning back is not a big kid,
short, stocky and pretty
strong, but he runs very
hard. They play two quar
terbacks, both very talent
ed and have the ability to
run and throw. Probably
their best athlete plays at
flanker and on defense and
is very dangerous with the
ball in his hands. We have
to know where he is at all
times.
“We have to do a much
better job executing. The
last couple of games we’ve
had nine guys doing what
we want them to do and
two guys not doing exactly
what they’re supposed to
do.
“They are going to be
a little more athletic tharl
we are. We have to be fun
damentally sound, be it
running or throwing the
football.”