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THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
The Home Journal's
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ON DECK
High school
Football
Friday
■ Lee County at Northside, 7:30
p.m.
■ Houston County at Newnan,
7:30 p.m.
■ Perry at Cairo, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday
■ Mundy's Mill at Warner Robins,
7:30 p.m.
High school
Basketball
Today
■ Westfield girls at Central
Fellowship tourney, teams and
times to be determined
Friday
■ Westfield girls at Central
Fellowship tourney, teams and
times to be determined
Saturday
■ Westfield girls at Central
Fellowship tourney, teams and
times to be determined
■ Warner Robins and Northside
at Ladies Night Out tourney in
Griffin, teams and times to be
determined
Monday
■ Warner Robins and Northside
at Ladies Night Out tourney in
Griffin, teams and times to be
determined
High school
Swimming
Saturday
■ Warner Robins and Perry at
the Sixth Annual Blue Devil Invite
in Columbus, time to be deter
mined
IN BRIEF
Perry Youth Wrestling
Club sets registration
The Perry Youth Wrestling
Club will be hold registration
Dec. 5 at 5:30 p.m. in the Perry
High School multi-purpose
building.
All students ages 5-14 are
eligible. The cost is S2O which
includes a club T-shirt.
Also, each wrestler will be
required to purchase a USA
wrestling card on-line prior to
the first practice. The card is
$35. Cards can be purchased at
Team Georgia Wrestling at the
website www.themat.com.
The club will also be selling
wrestling singlets for S3O for the
ones who want to compete at
the local tournaments.
The club will meet Tuesdays
and Thursdays (practice begins
Dec. 5). Any day that school is
closed due to inclement weather
or winter holidays, there will be
no practice. For further informa
tion, call Coach Randy Moss at
988-6291.
Also, the club will hold a golf
tournament fund-raiser Dec.
16 at Perry Country Club and
the Perry Takedown Classic
Wrestling Tournament will be
held Feb. 10.
Warner Robins playoff
tickets go on sale
General admission tickets
- and any reserved seat tick
ets left over from a Monday
sale - for the Demons’ Saturday
playoff game against Mundy's
Mill will be on sale in the front
office at the school.
All tickets, reserved and gen
eral admission, are SB.
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.
Prep Sports + to air
cheerleader competition
Prep Sports + announced
it will air the GHSA State
Cheerleading Championship
today at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 6
p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 p.m.
on Georgia Public Broadcasting.
Perry placed second at the
championship.
Warner Robins girls open swim yenr with win over HoCo
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Warner Robins’ Rachel Sundry and Houston County’s Annie Bratcher finish the 200
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Warner Robins defensive coordinator David Bruce talks to the squad during Tuesday's practice.
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Just what is, or where is,
Mundy’s Mill?
That had to be the ques
tion floating around Warner
Robins High football faith
ful last weekend.
No, it’s not a place to get
cornbread. It is a Jonesboro
area high school making
its first appearance in the
GHSA Class AAAAA foot
ball playoffs in its four-year
history. Mundy’s Mill, for
For one Demon the grass is finally Green-er
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Imagine the kind of high
school football career Tim
Green could
have had if
not for mid
dle school
ball.
Not a
knock
against the
feeder pro
grams of
Houston
County,
GREEN
but it was at that level
that Green had all kinds of
injury problems that would
wind up limiting his playing
time on the varsity level. In
2006, his senior year, Green
is finally a full-time fixture
in the starting lineup as a
Warner Robins High corner
back.
“When I came here in the
9th grade, I had a pretty
Sports
Mundy’s Mill at
Warner Robins,
Saturday, 7:30
p.m.
that first
postseason
game, gets
to play the
Demons,
with four
state cham
pionship
seasons
in its history, on Saturday
at McConnell-Talbert
Stadium.
One thing this team called
the Tigers has on Warner
Robins is a longer current
winning streak. The No. 3
good season on the fresh
man team,” said Green after
a practice on the Demons
campus for this Saturday’s
opening game of the GHSA
Class AAAAA playoffs.
“When I was a sophomore,
I tore a tendon in my finger.
Then last year I had to have
ACL surgery from when I
tore my ACL in the seventh
grade, but I was too young
to have surgery. I had to
wait until a bone in my knee
stopped growing.”
And then there’s the shoul
der. He had an operation on
his shoulder during the last
semester of the 2005-2006
school year. It was to fix
an old dislocated shoulder
injury, again from playing
middle school football.
As Warner Robins head
coach Bryan Way stated
in the preseason, Green
was a player with a bright
See GREEN, page iB
seed from Region 4-AAAAA
has won three in a row,
including a 27-17 triumph
over Newnan High, which
happened to win the top
seed from that region.
The Demons, meanwhile,
snapped a little two-game
skid last Friday by help
ing deny Lowndes High,
the two-time defending
state champions, a spot in
the playoffs. Warner Robins
beat the Vikings on the
road 16-6 to finish No. 2 in
Region 1-AAAAA at 4-2.
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The Demons’ Tim Green (4) works on defending during
Tuesday’s practice.
Bears turn tide on Demons
Special to the Journal
If you wanted to start the
season off on the right foot -
figuratively
and literally
- why not do
it in style?
That
is what
Warner
Robins’
did to open
their swim
year. The
Demonettes
defeated
Houston
County 139-
125 in both
teams’ open
ing dual
Warner RoMm/
Houston County
dual meet, Tuesday
at Fountain Pool
Girls - Houston
County 139, Warner
Robins 125
Boys - Houston
County 155, Warner
Robins 92
meet Tuesday at Fountain
Pool.
“It has taken since 2003
for the WRHS girls to come
out on top this early in the
“They are very athletic,
and they’re well-coached,”
said Way as he prepares
to lead the Demons against
the Tigers for the first time.
“They are very multiple in
what they do offensively,
and defensively they are
just the opposite. They play
one defense and do a pretty
good job of it.
“They are definitely play
ing good right now. They
beat the No. 1 team in that
region a couple of weeks
See DEMONS, page iB
SECTION
B
season against the Bears,”
said Warner Robins coach
Barbara Hawkins.
Top scorers for the
Demonettes were return
ing state swimmers and
senior co-captain Abigail
Cunningham who contrib
uted 16 points - the result
of finishes in the 100 free
and 100 back - while junior
teammate Anne Culpepper
also earned 16 points. Hers
came from swim finishes in
the 200 and 500 freestyle.
Also placing first in their
events were: Holly Odom in
the 50 free, Rachel Sundry
in the 200 intermediate med
ley and co-captain Shannon
Sulik in the 100 fly.
The 200 free relay team
of Brittani Wharton,
Cunningham, Culpepper
and Sundry also earned 10
See SWIM, page iB
Falcons are sick
because they
stick with Vick
At the beginning of
football season I
said that the Falcons
would never make the Super
Bowl with
Michael
Vick at
quarter
back.
I stand
by that
statement
despite the
maudlin
yawps of
my manag
ing editor.
Joe Sersey
Journal
Correspondent
Everybody but slipped into
ecstatic dreams of Falcons
success after Vick’s perfor
mance against Pittsburgh.
What’s he done since then?
Let’s see, quarterbacked a
team with back-to-back-to
back losses to teams which
couldn’t beat the clock,
much less a quality team.
If rapid eye movement sig
nifies dream states, then I
suggest fans keep their eyes
on the goal - a Super Bowl
victory.
Vick is a good football
player, but he isn’t a pro
quarterback. The notion
that having someone behind
center who gives the Falcons
an added dimension to their
offense ignores the contribu
tions of quarterbacks who
can come from behind and
win without running for
their lives.
Look at the stats from
Sunday’s loss to Cleveland,
another team which has won
three games despite its best
efforts.
Vick accounted for 268 of
Atlanta’s total net yards.
Why isn’t he a running
back? Easy, the Atlanta
football nation is convinced
See SERSEY, page iB
"The notion that
having someone
behind center
who gives the
Falcons an added
dimension to their
offense ignores the
contributions of
quarterbacks who
can come from
behind and win
without running
for their lives."