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Muu&iuu ©miy .IJountai 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