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Moustoit TJcrumai FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT TiiHVWVfHBT 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. PpS'l vi imii bwh; ' tea? ciuimimiH /. t> u it 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 (and iD the torch is A % jjl | fk M £ y ¥*\ Jfe - jf y f f “ M / i ggg I / mmm. ENI/Gar>' Harmon 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- ■ j 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 & 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