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Mousion Bailg 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. r- 1 - —' — • " j| ■; * _ . «., * JJBMfe- / .Journal Don Monorief 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. : , Wmgm 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. •Journal Don* Monorief 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.”