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WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 1, 2006
The Home Journal's
SANPLOT
ON DECK
High school
Football
Friday
M Hoi'Ston County at Valdosta.
8 p.m.
■ Colquitt at Warner Robins.
7:30 Dm.
■ Northside at Westside. 7:30
p.m.
■ Southland at Westfield, 8
p.m.
■ Nodh’ast at Peiry. 7:30 p m
Youth
Football
Saturday
Optimist Bowl at
McConnell Talbert
Stadium
■ 8:55 a m. - Welcome and
invocation
■ 9 a m. - Eighty Mite introduc
tion
■ 9:10 a m. - Mighty Mite con
solation game
■ 10:15 am. - Mighty Mi»e
championship game
■ 11.25 am. - 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
■ 410 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 wil 1 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 htipy'www.souih
coastleague com'tryouts.
The cost to tryout is S4O.
which car be paid by credit card,
check, or money order South
Coast League uniform player
contracts - including the Macon
Music, which is part of ihe league
- will be offered cn 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 wthin the last three years.
Directions from 1-75: 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 inrough 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 SOL.
The South Coast League will be
a six-team based independent
professional baseball league
located in the Southeastern U.S.
Habitat tn 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
Humanly The cost is S3OO per
team - teams must have at least
nine people with a maximum
of 15.
Trophies will oe award-id and
the first pitch is 6lated to be
thrown at 9 a m Call 218-5545
or e-mail kcnpe@tlmtemc com
Lx more information
Mfitalord to hold bmkm
Oolf Clinic
Waterford Golf Course will
hold a Junior Golf C«mc Nov
20-21 Tim** are 10-11 15 'v
aget 5-10:11 45 am-1 p m for
those aget 1* and up
The coat« SSO which include*
t J_L
ENI (Jary Harmon
Northside girls head basketball coach Cacajndri Wilson ha., a few words for the squad
during the Lady Eagles' practice Monday at the school. Th.it day marked the first day
the Georgia High School Association allowed sc iools to practice as a team. BELOW: A
Lady Eagle goes for a jumper.
W Ir
NVRA to hold its annual reunion
Special to the Journal
More than 50 NASCAR leg
ends, local racing heroes and
several hundred race fans are
expected to gather to renew
old friendships and relive the
glory days of Middle Georgia
Raceway Saturday at Westside
High School in Macon.
That’s when and where the
Second Annual Middle Georgia
Raceway Driver and Fan
Reunion will get under way.
The event is slated to start
at 10 a.m. and is free to the
public.
In addition to meeting the
drivers and getting their auto
graphs, lans can get a close
look at HeveraJ vin* *ge stock
cars, see a “Car Show and
Shine" made up of local dubs
vehicles, purchase coll'wtubiisi
at a charity auction of rac
ing memorabilia and enajv a
delicious homemade hartieqc*
lunch 'donations appreciated/
Middle Georgia Raceway was
located in Byron and opened
Hi 19M>
From thirit until it c*'t**d
operations in JfclMl Middle
Georgia Raceway hosted
many earning NARCAH
dee REUNION, page iM
Sports
Basketball begins
‘Gentlemen. Start you reunion’
Secon i Annual Middlt Georgia Raceway Driver
and Fm Reunion schedule of events, Saturday at
Wastage (in cafetorium; use main entrance and
follow signs)
10 a.ir - Welcome: and introduction of special
guests
11 a.a . - Charity acetic n (you must have a bidder's
card to :articipntfe) of rat- ig memoribilia and other
items, t):
• F iire MGR collect*' os autographed by Richard
Petty f'd Bobby A lison
• < ie-of a-kmd "Sat irday Night Special" art print
autogx jhed by Richard ->etty and more than 40
MGR * icinjj togerils plu-, other collectible items
No©* • Introduction of IAGR drivers and brief inter
views
12il p.m. - Pig in a | it barbecue lunch served in
♦he of -rtorium (individu* donations appreciated)
2 p«e . - MGk Legend* autograph end photo oppor*
tunny pick uj a free MC R reunion souvenir auto
gropt -erd)
All • if - MGR reumor souvenirs on sale In toe
'fiat urn ' exwon T-81 <u and toe*«baii cape
i moonshine mug , Saturday Night Special art
pip* it*
Act/vtVes In tti Behoof parking tot
10 i m.-l p.m. - Car ihow A bhtna and vintage
race erd»*piay
Spa.- Car enow aw i d» presentation
Ip a. - MGR reunion and*
Offensive line keeps
Northside rolling
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Before spring football
practice, Northside High
looked ahead to the 2006
season with two returning
starters
on the
offensive
line.
After
spring
ball, that
nu m -
her was
cut in
half. The
rebuild
ing job
for long-
Don't
miss
Eagle-
Serrrinote
battle has
plenty at
stake. See
Thursday’s
Houston Daily
Journal.
time Eagle assistant coach
Mark Stewart required a
little more in terms of new,
untested parts.
Will Zunino, a starting
sophomore on last year’s
14-1 state runner-up, tore
an ACL in his knee doing
a drill during spring prac
tice.
He joined then-junior
Robert Crawford along with
three seniors to make up
Northside’s front line that
made it to the state cham
pionship game, but then
found himself a spectator
for the start of preseason
camp in the summer and
the first eight games of the
2006 campaign.
Where did that leave
the starting offensive line
for the Eagles? The good
news is that, with the way
Stewart prepares all the
student-athletes who want
to block for Conrad Nix’s
sets, everyone is ready
when his time comes to
take a step up the depth
chart.
“I knew it was going to
take a little while, but our
second group works hard
just like the first group,”
said Stewart after Monday’s
practice as Northside gets
ready for Westside-Macon
for first place in Region
4-AAAA sub-region B. “We
kept working them, coach
(Jason) Respert, coach Nix
and me. We go against good
guys every day, so we knew
we would be fine.”
The news got even better
on Monday when Zunino
returned to practice in full
gear for the first time since
the spring.
He is gradually being
worked back into the
scheme of things and will,
if nothing else, add to
Northside’s line depth as
the playoffs stand just two
weeks away.
The Eagles haven’t
"On every play our thing is we are
going to butt heads with somebody
We’re putting bodies on bodies all the
time. Same thing.”
- Northside assistant coach Mark Stewart
Perry pitchers earn
first at Fall Brawl
By HON MONCRIEE
journal Sports Editor
It wan bent put like this:
“1 had my worst game
again*! him. He had bin
worst game against me ”
That wan how Buddy
Ayer summed up his play
at the Fall Brawl horse
shoe tournament held in
Cordele Saturday
“1 always have one bad
game,” he said “If I had
made my averages ..“
If he had made his aver
ages, he would have fin
ished first He didn't so he
BECTION
B
missed much of a beat with
an unbeaten 8-0 record and
39 offensive touchdowns.
The running game has
1,325 yards and 24 scores
while the passing attack
has netted 1,089 yards with
15 touchdowns.
“We go over so much stuff,
and we keep going over
it,” said Stewart about the
challenges of working with
new linemen. “It comes
second-hand to them. We
work technique all of the
time. We just keep doing it,
keep doing it, keep doing it.
We run a lot of plays with
them.
“I preach a family thing
with them. We have no
secrets on the line. The
right guard helps the right
tackle. The right guard
helps the left guard. In our
thing you have to be able to
play all positions.”
What an offensive line
also has to understand
is that it has to contend
with the best players on
the opposing team. Stewart
said a football team will
always have its best people
on defense.
“If you don’t get scored
on, you’re not going to get
beat,” he said. “My whole
thing is you have to keep
working at it. If you have
a guard that runs a 5.8
40, you have a linebacker
that runs a 4.5. You’re not
supposed to be able to get
there, so you have to keep
working your technique to
get there.”
Crawford is the only
senior who had starting
experience, but Stewart
said Brent Moore is a
senior who moved to tight
end after playing other line
positions. The coach said
Moore has exhibited good
leadership in his career,
and his junior class of line
men have grown as lead
ers.
When looking at the way
Northside runs its offense
today under Nix, Stewart
can recall the time when he
played for the Eagles under
Nix during the head man's
first tenure in Warner
Robins. Stewart was a line
man for a wishbone offense
that never threw a forward
pass.
“That’s a good coach,”
said Stewart about Nix’s
adaptation to a more open
approach to football offense.
“He’s evolved along with
everything in football. Now
we’re wide open and do all
kinds of things.”
See LINE, page iB
hud to settle for second. The
other guy, Bud Brake of the
Cordele Pitcher’s Club, in
only his first tournament,
had his bad gume against
Ayer. He still finished the
tournament 6-0 and won
the C Class. Ayer went 3-2
He had 47 ringers out of a
possible 200 - Brake had
63 out of 200 - for a ringer
percentage of 23.50.
As it turned out, Ayer
wasn't the only Perry
Horseshoe Pitchers Club
member in contention,
See PITCHERS, page lit