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FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 13, 2006
The Home Journal’s
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ON DECK
High school
Softball
Saturday
■ GISA state Final Four at
Southern Pines Softball Complex:
Westfield versus Tattnall, 10 a.m.
(game 1)
High school
Cross country
Saturday
■ Coach's Cup, hosted by
Warner Robins, 10 a.m. at Pearl
Stephens Elementary School
High school
Volleyball
Today
■ 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
Today
■ 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
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 depart
ment's office off Watson Blvd.
Participants must be at least 5 by
Dec. 31 in order to participate in
the basketball program.
Fees are as follows: $25 for
city residents, SSO for county
residents and SBS for out of
county residents.
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
Landings Golf Club PGA
Professional Bill Goggin will be
playing 100 holes of golf in one
day Oct. 23 to benefit the new
women and children’s homeless
shelter in Warner Robins. Call
923-5222 Ext, 4 or e-mail him
at Bill@goggingolf.com to make
a pledge.
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Habitat to hold softball
tourney fund-raiser
The Houston County Habitat
for Humanity will hold a softball
tournament Nov. 6, proceeds
of which are to go toward the
Houston County Habitat for
Humanity.
The cost is S3OO per team
- teams must have at least nine
people with a maximum of 15.
Trophies will be awarded and
the first pitch is slated to be
thrown at 9 a.m.
Call 218-5545 or e-mail
kcripe@flintemc.com for more
information.
Landings offers several
golf opportunities
The Landings Golf Learning
Center is currently offer
ing Junior Super Saturdays:
October Group Lessons. The
cost is $lO per visit with no
signup necessary.
The course is also mak
ing signups for its Winter Golf
Program. The cost is $250 up
front. The program runs from
November through February
2007. There is a limited signup.
Contact Goggin at 923-5222
Ext. 4 for more.
WR to host inaugural Coach's Cup
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Nobody will ever
accuse Warner Robins
head coach David
Erpelding of not hav
ing a sense of fair play.
Case in point:
Saturday, the Demons
and Demonettes will
host the inaugural
- or at least Erpelding
hopes it continues as
an annual event when
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A Perry player touches the Panther for luck en route to the field this past Friday against Central. Perry will take to
the road today for a matchup against West Laurens.
Tall order?
Perry gets a lesson on facing giants - just in time for West Laurens
By MA TTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
With time off this week from a class
schedule, Andy Scott took the Perry
High football Panthers out for a day
at the movies. Appropriately enough,
it was the football-based Christian
film “Facing the Giants.”
Scott may have also wanted to put
that label on West Laurens High game
film.
“They are a lot bigger than teams
we’ve faced in the past,” said Scott
about Perry’s upcoming opponent
tonight in 4-AAA south sub-region
action in Dublin. “They are big on the
offensive line. They play a more physi
cal-type game, a lot like we do.”
The Panthers, 3-2 overall, are 1-0 in
the sub-region after last Friday’s 35-
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Contributed/Harvey Gilbert Photography
A pair of Lady Hornets celebrate their win over Stratford
Saturday in Dublin.
Sports
passed to another
school in the next year
or so - Coach’s Cup on
the course behind Pearl
Stephens Elementary
School.
The Coach’s Cup
is Erpelding’s brain
child. Not only that,
but money to pay for
the Cup (trophies and
medals, actually - one
for an overall girls and
boys winner, one for an
individual girl and boy
winner and medals for
&
Perry at West
Laurens, today,
7:30 p.m.
region contest. The Trojans won it
39-14 despite West Laurens scoring on
its first, offensive drive.
Perry, known in Scott’s season-and
a-half tenure as a wishbone club,
took a different direction last Friday
running mainly out of an I set. It still
concentrated on the run with a few
key completions in the air from quar
terback Casey Hayward.
West Laurens, Scott said, will use
At A Glance
What: Coach's Cup cross
country meet
When: Saturday, 10 a m.
Where: Pearl Stephens
Elementary School
Who: Region 1-AAAAA
teams - Warner Robins,
Houston County, Colquitt
County, Lowndes County,
Tift County, Valdosta and
Coffee
Cost: Free
those finishing in the
top 10) is coming out
14 home win against
Central-Macon.
The West Laurens
Raiders are also 3-2,
but were paired with
the defending Class
AAA state champi
ons, Peach County,
for their first sub-
Lady Hornets hunt
fourth state trophy
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Said one fan to another:
“What do you get when you
match up two pitchers with
earned run averages of less
than one?”
“I don’t know. What do
you get?”
“A game that never
ends.”
Such may be the case
when Westfield and
Tattnall Square face off
Saturday in the Final Four
of the Georgia Independent
School Association’s state
playoffs.
The game may never end
because the Lady Hornets’
No. 1 starter, Kelsey
Gilliam, has, according to
the GISA Stats website, an
ERA of 0.951. The Lady
Trojans’ Logan Smith’s is
0.851.
The math averages out
to less than a run, so there
may never be a winner.
fir F
of the Warner Robins
program (it helped,
the flex bone option made famous at
Georgia Southern University by the
late Erk Russell. Much like with the
Central veer option, Scott said it will
be important to play sound assign
ment defense in Dublin.
The Raider defense, Scott said, is
much like other defenses the Panthers
have faced so far in 2006. The 4-4 and
sometimes 50 front line is big, plus
the secondary is cover 3, he said.
“Offensively, we just have to get bet
ter, execute and hold on to the ball,”
said Scott.
West Laurens, in the first half of
its season, didn’t do too well in the
games that may have meant the most
to its campus. The Raiders lost to
both inter-county rivals, Dublin High
See GIANTS, page 2B
Or, it may be Tattnall
if Westfield is unable to
follow head coach Rodney
Culverhouse’s gameplan.
WESTFIELD
HORNETS
GISA state
Final Four
Westfield ver
sus Tattnall,
Saturday,
10 a.m., at
Southern Pines
in Dublin
mistake free,” he said.
“Don’t wait on them.
You’ve got to come out and
outperform them.
“They’re a very good
defensive unit and they hit
really well. (Together) they
form a solid team. They’ve
See ADVANCE, page iB
Erpelding said, that
they made money as
being a co-organizer
for the recent Mercer
Invitational).
Now, here’s the kick
er - why he’s doing it.
“I just thought with
us being the host for
region (1-AAAAA and
that slated Nov. 2) the
fair thing would be
to let every team see
(run) the region course
before the region,” he
said.
What does
he believe
it will take
to beat
the Lady
Trojans,
a problem
the Lady
Hornets
solved back
in late
August
with a 2-1
win?
“(Play)
SECTION
B
See, a sense of fair
play most likely unpar
alleled in high school
sports.
Now that isn’t to
say sense of fair play
translates into “char
ity.” He still plans
on the Demons and
Demonettes heat
ing those in atten
dance - Houston,
Coffee, Colquitt and
Tift (the one team he
hasn’t already seen
See CUP,page iB
Perry goes 1-2
at region, fails
to make state
By MA TTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Perry High School’s soft
ball season ended Wednesday
after a 1-2
showing at
the Region
4-AAA tour
nament at
Jackson High
School.
Coach Jeff
Sans said
prior to the
tournament
that his club
needed to win
two games
before suffer
ing two losses
in order to
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PERRY
PANTHBtS
Region 4-AAA
tourney
Jackson 10,
Perry 2; Perry
23, Southwest
4; Ola 5,
Perry 0
qualify for the state field in
Class AAA. On Tuesday, the
Panthers got both a win and
a loss, making Wednesday’s
meeting with Ola High, a
brand new school in Henry
County, one with the season
on the line.
Ola won 5-0 despite being
out-hit by the Panthers. Ola
jumped out to a 3-0 lead in
the first inning. Perry had
six hits in all, but Sans said
they were spread out, and
the Ola pitcher did a good
job of working out of trouble
situations.
Jackson, the host school,
put Perry in the loser’s
bracket Tuesday by winning
the opening match-up 10-2.
Sans said there were some
costly errors early in that
game, and Jackson was able
to gradually add to its lead.
See REGION, page iB
I\IS, Baldwin
no strangers
By MA TTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
The last time these two
football teams met, the
setting was the cavernous
Georgia Dome in Atlanta
and a state
champion-
ship appear
ance was on
the line.
Almost 11
full months
later,
Northside
and Baldwin
Northside at
Baldwin, today,
7:30 p.m.
are set to face each other
again tonight.
This time it’s not a neu
tral site, but the outcome
could have long-reaching
effects on how each school’s
postseason path will be laid
out.
To say that the Eagles,
back on Thanksgiving week
end of 2005, had a dominat
ing win against the Baldwin
Braves in the Class AAAA
semifinals wouldn’t be far
from the truth. Northside
carried a shutout well into
the fourth quarter, won 28-
7 and punched a ticket to
Statesboro for the champi
onship game.
See STRANGERS,page iB