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Lady Panther Stephanie Smith, with Evan Jones and some other Lady/Panthers in tow,
sprints onto the field in the team’s game against Peach County Friday.
Bleckley County Cross Country Invitational
Saturday in Cochran
AAAA/AAAAA team results (girls)
1. Northside - 77
2. Woodland-101
3. Warner Robins - 155
4. Houston County - 177
5. Westside - 296
6. Jones County - 343
7. Lee County -NS
AAA/AA/A
1. Bleckley County -45
2. Spalding- 197
3. Mary Persons - 206
4. West Laurens - 346
5. Calvary Day School - 356
6. Dublin - 401
7. Swainsboro - 426
8. Montgomery County - 483
9. Pike County - 521
10. Fitzgerald - 673
11. Crawford
12. Perry
13. South Effingham
14. Hawkinsville
15. Toombs County
16. Lamar County
17. East Laurens
Top Ten
Ashley Arnold - Bleckley County - 19:52
Brittney Stewart - Warner Robins - 20:30
Brittney Skiles - Lee County - 20:43
Kelli Arnold - Bleckley County - 20:51
Megan Breitbach - Houston County
-21:22
Elizabeth Lambert - Northside - 21:34
Lindsey Barber Mary Persons - 21:35
Janay Wilson - Northside - 22:00
Danielle Atkins - Warner Robins - 22:09
Kirsten Wharton Houston County - 22:10
Middle School Race
Caroline Mauldin - second
STICKS
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of television. If the cameras
hadn’t been able to focus
on Rogers hands, we would
have never known.
Sometimes, too much
knowledge is a bad thing.
For example, I didn’t need
to know about Monica
Lewinski and Bill Clinton.
I never need to be informed
about anything Owens does.
Just tell me when he’s dead.
And I don’t care about ille
gal shocks on a race car or
tar on a baseball. Even when
he removed the offending
substance, well before any
one made an official inqui
ry, Rogers still stifled the
Cardinals.
And one shock on a
NASCAR vehicle doesn’t
make the driver any better.
Now, if the car had an
additive like STR I’d be real
ly upset. Little rascals are
trying to go faster.
Only the media is disturbed
about it. The ball players
aren’t surprised. They say
that type of behavior is com
mon in cold weather. The
Cardinals were overheard in
their shower after the game
saying that applying a sticky
substance to their hands
was the only way a pitcher
can grip the ball. What an
ESPN commentator was
doing hanging around the
shower is another thing I
don’t want to think about.
Maybe his name is Foley.
To the players, a pitcher
applying sticky stuff to his
hands when temperatures
Hard charging
Lauren Clark - 31st
Boys team results:
AAAA/AAAAA
1. Warner Robins - 114
2. Woodland-199
3. Lee County - 216
4. Jones County - 342
5. Northside - 359
6. Houston County - 364
7. Westside - 603
AAA/AA/A
1. Spalding -50
2. Bleckley County -71
3. Perry-136
4. Calvary Day School - 194
5. Pike County - 325
6. Vidalia - 351
7. Schley County - 380
8. Toombs County - 437
9. Lamar County - 472
10. West Laurens - 472
11. Fitzgerald - 618
12. Dublin-629
13. Mary Persons - 653
14. Swainsboro - 659
15. Montgomery County - 809
16. Hawkinsville - 1,013
17. East Laurens - 1,121
18. Crawford County
Top Ten
Will Ficklin - Spalding - 17:40
Ethan Bragg - Bleckley County - 17:51
Marc Kushinka - Warner Robins - 17:55
Dylan Fletcher - Bleckley County - 18:07
Ben Woodard - West Laurens - 18:10
Ty Magner - Schley County - 18:10
Karl Burkhardt - Warner Robins - 18:20
Devin Simpson - Perry - 18:27
Blake Hartsfield - Schley County - 18:39
Brandon Skiles - Lee County - 18:43
"To the players, a pitcher
applying sticky stuff to his hands when
temperatures fall below 80 degrees is
business as usual."
fall below 80 degrees is busi
ness as usual.
Alas, ESPN doesn’t have
Owens to kick around right
now, so the talking heads
have to blather about a non
issue, but I don’t’ expect
that to last because Terrell
can’t stand to be out of the
public eye. He needs to steal
Paris Hilton’s dog, and then
they’ll all be in the news.
Keep the dog away from fire
hydrants.
ESPN needs to be careful.
If Rogers gets upset, he may
push another cameraman. I
expect him to remain true
to form and assault some
one smaller than himself to
ensure he doesn’t get his
butt whipped on national
TV
I’m waiting for the reli
gious right to get in on the
act. The Christian commu
nity can’t stand this kind of
behavior. Jerry Falwell once
prayed to find a shortstop
for his Liberty College team.
Maybe he can utter a few
hosannas for Rogers’ con
trol.
I pray that Rogers is more
careful in the future and
doesn’t get caught.
Since the deed was cap
tured on camera by FOX
and commented on by the
announcers Joe Buck and
Tim McCarver, I hope what
they did wasn’t inappropri
ate. They could quickly go
the way of Steve Lyons who
made a joke I didn’t under
stand.
Evidently the one person
in America who knows the
meaning of “hidalgo” was
offended, and Lyons was
shown the door. Lyons didn’t
know it, but it’s a sin to call
someone a noble.
Lyons' should have been
fired for not being funny.
I can only thank ESPN for
taking my mind off Sonny
Perdue, Max Collins, Jim
Marshall and all the other
political skanks who have
been lying to me since the
election season started.
I used to think the NBA
season lasted forever.
Thank you ESPN for
reminding me that pine tar
is worse than Afghanistan,
Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
I’d rather be nuked by an
Arab terrorist than know
that a professional athlete
plays to win.
Kenny Rogers please run
for President. I want some
body in that office who will
do what it takes to win.
There’s an easy fix to
this. Stop playing baseball
when it’s cold. Start the sea
son in May and end it in
August with the playoffs in
September.
SPORTS
O’NEAL
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me some antibiotics, and
I got better. It took a while
(to get the weight back).
I had to eat a lot and lift
weights more and a little
bit harder.”
O’Neal must be back, for
he’s getting one attempt
after another to pick up
those yards in Doug
Johnson’s wing-T offense.
He already has more than
150 totes in seven games
(an average of 22 per game),
and he’s quick to point out
that his senior offensive
line has much to do with
his own success.
“I think we’re having a
great season,” said O’Neal,
whose father was a run
ning back at Lamar County
High. “We’re clicking on all
cylinders right now.
“I appreciate the O-line.
They’re going a good job. I
just run behind them, and
they lead the way.”
O’Neal looks to San Diego
Chargers star running back
LaDainian Tomlinson as
his main role model.
“I think I’m alright,”
he said. “I still have some
stuff I need to work on
and get better. I like how
(Tomlinson) plays.”
As a sophomore in 2004,
O’Neal earned a few starts
late in the season when the
Bears were making a run at
the Class AAAAA playoffs.
The offense under Johnson
hasn’t changed much since
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Westfield’s Mallory Eubanks works her way through traffic during the Georgia
Independent School Association state cross country meet held Saturday at the
Georgia Children’s Home in Macon. Results, according to Hornet head coach Wendy
Bryan, had yet to be finalized as of deadline. Check out Thursday’s Houston Daily
Journal for more.
REEL
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the way to 1-20 using jigs
of several different colors.”
And, “most of their fish
came in six-eight feet of
water, but (they) got hits at
all depths.”
First in that division was
the team of Danny and
Beth Williamson of Camilla.
They caught a combined
weight of 9.41. Second went
to Ricky Gill of Gray and
Troy Thiel of Gordon. Their
catch was 7.94.
The Williamsons have now
qualified for the Cabela’s
Crappie USA Classic, while
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then with all of its traps,
counters and sweeps.
“We’ve been running it
so much over these four
years, I know what to do
now,” said O’Neal. “It’s
like second nature to me.
My bread and butter is the
buck sweep. That’s what
we do.”
Leading a region like 1-
AAAAA with the likes of
Valdosta, Lowndes and
Warner Robins should be
enough to attract some
college scouts’ attention.
O’Neal said he’s seen a
little bit of interest from
Louisville and Georgia
Tech.
“I want to be there,” he
said about the college scene.
“I want to get up there and
be able to play.”
His own high school expe
rience, with the likes of
Warner Robins, Northside
and Valdosta on the sched
ule every year, is certainly
comparable to the collegiate
atmosphere.
“It’s a real football town,”
said O’Neal. “Everybody
loves football. The whole
city comes out. It’s like all
eyes are on you. It pumps
me up, keeps me focused.
In the big game, you know
have to do what you heed
to do.”
In 2006, Houston County
has had more success away
from the hometown setting,
winning at Parkview and
Lowndes. All three losses
have been at McConnell-
Talbert Stadium, including
a 10-9 setback to Warner
State meet
Howard, Deason and the
rest of the top 10 teams
in each division advance to
the regional event which,
according to a release, “will
have a major payback.”
Also with a strong show
ing for Houston County
- just in the Amateur
Division - were the team
of Mai Gore of Bonaire and
his fishing partner Mike
Gore of Oakland, Tenn.,
along with the duo of Allan
Brown of Warner Robins
and Chuck McLendon of
Macon.
The first finished fourth
with a combined weight of
7.47, while the second group
was fifth, weighing in at
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Robins and last week’s
overtime loss, 20-17, to Tift
County High.
“We have to look past
them and look towards the
future,” said O’Neal. “In
this region, you can’t take
anybody lightly. It could be
like that every week.”
The Bears, when they
face 1-7 Valdosta, can not
only help their chances of
making the state playoffs,
but can also shut the tra
dition-rich Wildcats out.
That is, provided Valdosta
can beat Coffee County this
weekend.
What could then make or
break the Houston season is
the Nov. 11 finale at home
with Coffee. Currently, both
teams are tied for fourth
place at 2-2.
“I think we’re going to
be 0.K.,” said O’Neal about
the upcoming stretch run.
“We’re focused right now,
and we need to win out. We
feel good about our next
couple of opponents.”
He remembers how last
year, when the season
ended at 5-5, how Houston
was the only team in the
county not playing in the
postseason.
“We had nothing to
brag about,” said O’Neal.
“Everybody else was in the
playoffs.
“When we make it to the
playoffs this year I’ll be
ready. Our No. 1 goal is the
state. We want to get that
state championship. We can
start a tradition, and start
it off right.”
7.21. Both groups received
S2OO.
Gore and his partner,
according to the release,
were “fishing 1/28 ounce
Bab-Flies in three-seven
feet of water in Richland
Creek.”
Brown and McLendon
“shot docks all the way to
1-20 using purple and blue
jigs. The team found most
of their fish in 10-20 feet
of water lying right on bot
tom.”
Brown and McLendon
also finished second for the
Big Fish Award with a 1.95
pound crappie.
The team received $153
for that effort.