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Mouetmt Jjmmtal TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT WNW: hiW ON DECK 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 — •"" •"" « " HOUSTON COUNTY^ <C3L cmss covntw W ENI/Gary Harmon Perry’s Nicholas Felder (196) and Devin Simpson cross the finish line at the Houston 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 ."'4 Xffip JL just Mr , f Hii liBMBBIIHiB'V' v v' . j ml *JBS! , * »• -- - La- i Ms iilmlßJ—hmm—a—— ENI/Gary Harmon Runners, including Houston County’s Megan Breitbach, who finished second, and Northside’s Elizabeth Lambert, who finished third, maneuver through the woods. R ladyA) m 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 M 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 A 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