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Houston ißatltj .^Journal SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT SCOREBOARD High school softball Friday GHSA Sectionals ■ Warner Robins 11, Hiram 0 (5 innings). Amber Conlon picks up the win. The big blow turns out to be a Jensen Barrett three-run double as the Demonettes score five runs in the first. ■ Warner Robins 4, Union Grove 0. Kristin Graham pitches a five-hitter with four strikeouts. This time Warner Robins scores three runs in the first. Next: Versus Newnan, today, 2 p.m. at Southern Pines Softball Complex in Dublin. ■ Houston County 10, Paulding 0 (5 innings). Brianna Hancock picks up the win. In four innings she strikes out 10 batters - a school record. All 10 are consec utive - another school record. ■ Luella 5, Houston County 0. The Lady Bears manage only three hits in the loss. Next: Versus winner Jackson-Hiram, today, noon, in Dublin. Note: Check out Tuesday's Houston Daily Journal for a report on all of the games. High school football Friday Georgia High School Football Scores By The Associated Press ■ Salem 31, Rockdale Co. 10 ■ Sequoyah 37, Lithia Springs O ■ Shiloh 26, Meadowcreek 6 ■ Spalding 24, Henry Co. 14 ■ Spencer 34, Jordan 6 ■ St. Pius 21, SW DeKalb 7 ■ Statesboro 49, Richmond Acad. 7 ■ Towers 42, South Atlanta 27 ■ Troup 40, Columbus 0 ■ Ware Co. 34, Greenbrier 7 ■ Wheeler 21, Sprayberry 7 More - 3B ON DECK High school Softball Today ■ GHSA state Sectionals at Southern Pines Softball Complex in Dublin: Houston County and Warner Robins - to be deter mined. High school Cross country Today ■ Westfield at GISA state tour nament at Georgia Children’s Home in Macon, 9 a.m. High school Football Today ■ Coffee at Warner Robins, 7:30 p.m. IN BRIEF WR Rec to begin basketball registration The Warner Robins Recreation Department will begin basketball registration today. It will be held from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the department’s office off Watson Blvd. Participants must be at least 5 by Dec. 31 in order to partici pate in the basketball program. Fees are as follows: $25 for city residents, SSO for county resi dents 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. 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. lift County edges HoCo in overtime By MA TTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Houston County High has two losses in Region 1- AAAAA football, and in both the kicking game stood tall as the final determining factor. The Bears fell to 2-2 in the region Thursday at McConnell- Talbert Mm TiH County 20, Houston County 17 Stadium when Tift County High’s Charlie Edwards kicked a game-winning 32-yard field goal in the first overtime. The kick was the first and only play the Blue Devils ran in overtime to get the 20-17 win after Houston County’s effort of 38 yards missed wide left. Each team gets an equal number of drives in over time starting at the 15, and Houston, after a strong rush ing attack, lost six yards in two plays before the field goal miss. Back on Sept. 29, the Bears lost to Warner Robins fl§ V m r 1 m / ENl'Gary Harmon Panther quarterback Casey Hayward runs away from Peach County defenders Friday in Perry. Peach County gets Panthers again By JOE SERSEY Journal Correspondent “They were bigger, faster, meaner and tougher,” Perry head coach Andy Scott said of Peach County after his Perry Panthers fell to the Trojans 43-14 Friday night at the newly named Herb St. John Stadium. “They beat us at just about everything they did,” he said. “We couldn’t score and we couldn’t defend.” Peach County began domi nating on the first possession of the game. The Trojans drove 65 yards on nine plays and finished with a Bryan Former HoCo resident breaks U.S. swim record Special to the Journal Virginia Swimming, Inc. held its annual banquet Oct. 8 to honor the top age group swimmers in the state of Virginia for the 2005-2006 season (Sept. 1, 2005 through Aug. 31). AJex Vance, son of 1985 Northside High School graduate Steven Vance and 1989 Central High School gradu ate Trudy Harpin Vance) was recog nized during that time as the Virginia State Male Swimmer of the Year for the 11-12-year-old age group. Sports 10-9 when a missed PAT try after a last-second touch down couldn’t send that 1- AAAAA into overtime. One other phase of football that played an important role in the Houston-Tift bat tle Thursday was the punt return game. Each team lost a fumble returning a punt that the other team turned into a touchdown drive. There was another return - perhaps a return for Tift County that shouldn’t have happened - that led to the visiting team scoring seven. Bears running back Eric O’Neal had 30 carries for 189 yards and a touch down. Dexter Holman and Princeton Dean, a pair of seniors on the defensive line, each played a strong game in putting pressure on Blue Devil quarterback Sean Baxley, who ran a majority of his plays out of the shot gun. Edwards, a Tift County senior, opened the game by knocking home a 45-yard field goal at 8:30 of the first quarter. It was on a drive in See OVERTIME, page iB & Peach County 43, Perry 14 Ellis 17- yard touch down pass to Udom Umuh, the first of two for the duo. The Trojans scored again on their next possession, driving 68 yards, using 12 plays before Rayfield Everett bulled over from the one to put Peach County up 14-0. Juan Rodriguez kicked two of his five extra points in the game. The first-quarter score might have been different had a call gone the Panthers’ n VANCE yard individual medley. In March while representing the state of Virginia at a swim meet in I iwp If mm ENI Gary Harmon Houston County's Bryson Polhill takes the legs out from under a Tift County runner Thursday at McConnell-Talbert Stadium. way. At the end of Perry’s first three plays of the game, Panther punter J.R. Lassiter’s punt was partially blocked. As the ball started to roll dead at the Peach County 32, a Peach player touched the ball to kill it not real izing the ball was in play. The whistle blew and after a long conference, the offi cials decided on a “do over” instead of giving the ball to Perry. Lassiter’s next kick settled on Peach’s 32 and the excla mation point was Everett’s touchdown a la William “Refrigerator” Perry. During the short course season, swam in a 25-yard pool, Vance achieved times among the fastest 16 in the nation in four events. The events included the 100-yard and 200- yard breaststroke, and the 100-yard and 200- Everett is a defensive line man used as a running back on short yardage situations. Peach County’s offense held the ball almost 10 of the game’s first 12 minutes. The Trojans took advan tage of a Panther turnover in the second quarter to take a 22-0 lead. An errant pitch was recov ered by Peach County’s Kip Pearson on Perry’s 14, and four plays later, Everett added his second touchdown of the game. Umuh ran in the conversion for two points. The Panthers offense See PANTHERS, pageyß Long Island, N.Y., he established a new Virginia State record in the 200-yard breaststroke. During the 2005-2006 long course season, swam in a 50-meter pool, Vance achieved times among the fastest 16 in the nation in four events. These events included the 50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke and the 200- meter individual medley. In June, while swimming in Raleigh, N.C., he swam the fastest time in the United States in the 200 meter See RECORD, page jB SECTION B NS blasts Upson-Lee By JAMES TIDWELL Journal Staff Writer With October starting to come to a close, post- season math moves to the forefront for high school football coaches. t*sii Northside 41. Upson-lee 7 While the playoff equa tion is complex for many gridiron squads, it is very basic for Northisde. Following a road win over previously unbeaten See BLASTS, page (B Deerfield gets past Westfield From staff reports As bad as Westfield needed a win, it didn’t get it Friday night at Deerfield-Windsor. The Knights beat the Hornets 28-14. Things started off rocky for the m Deerfield 28, Westfield 14 vsitors from the get-go. Not only did they drive down the field only to have that chance to score See WESTFIELD, page 4B Local golfers play to first From staff reports Lori Soles of Perry, teamed up with Bonnie Brannin of Reynolds carded a two-day total of 150- 80 for day one and 70 for two - to earn first in Flight No. 2 of the 21st annual Championship held Tuesday-Wednesday at The Hampton Club in St. Simons Island. Sissi Gann of Kathleen, along with her teammate, didn’t fare as well in the same bracket - they were eighth with a two-day total of 157 - but Brenda Duke of Perry did. She was teamed See FIRST, page 4B