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TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 31, 2006
The Home Journal’s
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High school
Football
Friday
■ Houston County at Valdosta,
8 p.m.
■ Colquitt at Warner Robins,
7:30 p.m.
■ Northside at Westside, 7:30
p.m.
■ Southland at Westfield, 8
p.m.
■ Northeast at Perry, 7:30 p.m.
Youth
Football
Saturday
Optimist Bowl at
McConnell- Talbert
Stadium
■ 8:55 a.m. - Welcome and
invocation
■ 9 a.m. - Mighty Mite introduc
tion
■ 9:10 a.m. - Mighty Mite con
solation game
■ 10:15 a.m. - Mighty Mite
championship game
■ 11:25 a.m. - Mite introduction
■ 11:35 a.m. - Mite consolation
game
■ 12:55 p.m. - Mite champion
ship game
■ 2:25 p.m. - Midget introduc
tion
■ 2:35 p.m. - Midget consola
tion game
■ 4:10 p.m. - Midget champion
ship game
IN BRIEF
South Coast League to
hold tryout camp
The South Coast League of
Professional Baseball today
announced that its inaugural try
out camp will be held Nov. 11 in
Bradenton, Fla.
The camp will be held at
Robert C. Wynn Field on the
campus of Manatee Community
College, home of the South
Coast League's Bradenton Juice.
All participants are required to
pre-register for the tryout. To pre
register, go to http://www.south
coastleague com/tryouts.
The cost to tryout is S4O,
which can be paid by credit card,
check, or money order. South
Coast League uniform player
contracts - including the Macon
Music, which is part of the league
- will be offered on the day of the
camp to qualified participants.
In order to participate in the
camp, players must have prior
professional baseball playing
experience or have played at
least two years of college base
ball within the last three years.
Directions from I-75: Take Exit
217 (old No. 41). This is a west
bound exit onto State Road 70.
Take SR-70 to 34th Street West
(about eight miles). Turn left at
the traffic signal at 34th Street
West. Go south through the traf
fic signal at 57th Avenue West
and the field is on your left.
Bradenton recently joined
Charlotte County, FL, Albany,
GA, Macon, GA and Aiken, SC
as the fifth member of the SCL.
The South Coast League will be
a six-team based independent
professional baseball league
located in the Southeastern U.S.
Habitat to hold softball
tourney fund-raiser
The Houston County Habitat
for Humanity will hold a softball
tournament Monday, 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.
Waterford to hold Junior
Golf Clinic
Waterford Golf Course will
hold a Junior Golf Clinic Nov.
20-21. Times are: 10-11:15 for
ages 5-10; 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. for
those ages 11 and up.
The cost is SSO which includes
lunch for both day, prizes and
more. Visit the course to sign
up.
Lady Bears make it to Sweet 16
Special to the Journal
The Lady Bears volleyball
team traveled to Parkview
High School Saturday for
their playoff appearance.
This was the Lady Bears’
first trip to the state play
offs.
The team’s first round
opponent was Bradwell
Institute from Hinesville.
The Lady Bears defeated it
three games to none (state
playoffs are best three out of
five games).
Scores for the match were
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County cross country championship held Thursday at Pearl Stephens Elementary
School. The duo were the first of the Panther finishers, crossing third and fourth,
respectively.
Houston County Championship, held Thursday at Pearl Stephens
Elementary School
Team scores for girls:
1. Northside High School 37
2. Houston County High School 45
3. Warner Robins High School 46
4. Perry High School 19
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Runners, including Houston County’s Megan Breitbach, who finished second, and
Northside’s Elizabeth Lambert, who finished third, maneuver through the woods.
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25-22, 25-23 and 25-15.
“The ladies were nervous
as they took the court,” said
County championship
Sports
State tournament
Saturday at Parkview
Versus Bradwell Institute
Game 1 - Houston County 25, Bradwell 22;
Game 2 - Houston County 25, Bradwell 23;
Game 3 - Houston County 25, Bradwell 15
Versus Harrlaon
Game 1 - Harrison 25, Houston County 4;
Game 2 - Harrison 25, Houston County 10;
Game 3 - Harrison 25, Houston County 10
Team scores for boys:
1. Perry High School 28
2. Warner Robins High School 38
3. Northside High School 82
4. Houston County High School 90
Houston County head volley
ball coach Tony Jones, “and
that showed in the early in
the first game. But, they
gutted it out.
“I thought we were in for
a long match in the second
games as well as we kept
making mistakes.
“We finally played ‘our’
game in the third game.”
The win advanced the
Lady Bears to the Sweet
16 round where they faced
the second ranked Harrison
Lady Hoyas.
Unfortunately, the Lady
Hoyas ended the Lady Bears’
season in three games.
Scores for the match were
Tift County beats
Warner Robins
From staff reports
Tift County had to wait
an extra day before facing
Warner Robins but when it
did, it made the most of it.
Inclement weather result-
ed in the
Demon-
Blue Devil
match
up being
moved
from
Friday to
Saturday
- with the
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Tift County 17,
Warner Robins
10
location, in Tifton, being
the same.
For the Demons, playing
under rainy/muddy condi
tions a day earlier might
have been better as Tift
County pretty much domi
nated Warner Robins en
route to a 17-10 victory.
The score doesn’t say
“domination,” but the stats
and the play did. The Blue
Devils, led by Kaream Hess
who had 146 yards on 23
carries - 91 (on 10 carries)
of those coming in the first
quarter alone - amassed
223 yards in the first half
alone. Warner Robins had
50 during that same time
span.
Further, the Demons
went three-and-out on its
first three possessions. By
then they were down 10-
0, the first score coming
when Tift County drove
47 yards for a touchdown
and the second on Charlie
Edwards’ 35-yard field goal
seconds into the second
quarter.
Warner Robins kept itself
in the game, or rather Tim
Green did when he inter
cepted a pass from about
Demonettes knock out
HoCo; fall to Collins Hill
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
With only one hit that
did any damage in two
games, Warner Robins
High saw its most success
ful fastpitch softball season
come to an end Saturday
in the losers bracket of the
Class AAAAA Elite Eight
at South Commons Park in
Columbus.
The Demonettes lost to
Collins Hill 2-0 in their sec
ond elimination game of
the day. The first was a
1-0 win against Houston
County High on a seventh
inning walk-off home run
by senior first baseman
Kittery Maine.
The Warner Robins-
Houston County match
up, pitting the two county
teams that battled for the
Region 1-AAAAA champi
onship this season, was a
losers bracket contest orig
inally scheduled for Friday.
However, a rainy forecast
forced the postponement
of all games in the state
tournament that day to
Saturday.
SECTION
B
25-4, 25-10 and 25-10.
Were they really that good?
Oh yeah.
“Harrison was the best
team that we have seen all
year,” Jones said. “They had
an answer for everything we
threw at them.
“That being said, before
the match I told the team
that we met all of our season
objectives and regardless of
this round they should be
proud of their season and
that I was, HOCO was and
their parents were definitely
proud of them.”
30 yards out and ran it
back for a score.
That made it 10-7 with
just over eight minutes to
go before the break.
The Blue Devils respond
ed to Green’s interception,
however, by driving from
their own 29 on the subse
quent possession and scor
ing again.
The Demons picked up
their first first down of the
half on their next posses
sion but did little more fol
lowing. The half came with
Tift County up 17-7.
As expected, Warner
Robins made some adjust
ments during the break.
That worked for the
defense but not for the
offense. The defense held
the Blue Devils to just 26
yards in the third quarter
but the Demons’ offense
only netted 36 during the
same period.
The grand result for both
then was: Punts.
Tift County’s Edwards
did miss a 39-yard field
goal with 7:38 left to play
before Warner Robins
mounted its most impres
sive, or perhaps longest is
a more appropriate term,
drive of the night.
The Demons started on
their own 20. After three
plays netted little they
lined up as if to punt.
Instead they hiked the ball
to Jeremy Grant who ran
it for a first down. Three
plays later, they found
themselves in pretty much
the same situation. This
time, however, there was
no deception. They lined
up to go for it.
And they made it but
See BEA TS, page iB
The Bears had the
Demonettes’ number all
season with
a sweep
of the two
r, e g i o n
games. But
Warner
Robins got
the win
that would
extend
its season
thanks to
the first
career home
run for
Maine. It
came with
one out in
the bottom
of the sev
enth with
no score on
the board,
i Maine’s
offensive
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WARNER ROBINS
DEMONS
GHSA state
tournament
Game 1 -
Warner Robins
1, Houston
County 0.
Game 2
- Collins Hill
2, Warner
Robins 0
HOUSTON COUNTY
BEARS
production was one of
the big surprises for the
Demonettes in the play
offs. Batting in the No.
9 slot, she had an RBI
double in a three-run
See FALL, page iB