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Jiuustmi JBatly TJmmral THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006 The Home Journal's SANDLOT -w 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 $35. Cards can be purchased at Team Georgia Wrestling at the website www.themat.com. The club will also be selling wrestling singlets for S3O for the ones who want to compete at the local tournaments. The club will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays (practice begins Dec. 5). Any day that school is closed due to inclement weather or winter holidays, there will be no practice. For further informa tion, call Coach Randy Moss at 988-6291. Also, the club will hold a golf tournament fund-raiser Dec. 16 at Perry Country Club and the Perry Takedown Classic Wrestling Tournament will be held Feb. 10. Warner Robins playoff tickets go on sale General admission tickets - and any reserved seat tick ets left over from a Monday sale - for the Demons’ Saturday playoff game against Mundy's Mill will be on sale in the front office at the school. All tickets, reserved and gen eral admission, are SB. Waterford to hold Junior Golf Clinic Waterford Golf Course will hold a Junior Golf Clinic Nov. 20-21. Times are: 10-11:15 for ages 5-10:11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. for those ages 11 and up. The cost is SSO which includes lunch for both day, prizes and more. Visit the course to sign up. Prep Sports + to air cheerleader competition Prep Sports + announced it will air the GHSA State Cheerleading Championship today at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Perry placed second at the championship. Warner Robins girls open swim yenr with win over HoCo ***•■♦- * •• * '&■ *££&**■ » ' ■ ’'Alik-, ~ £ . • 4 i /$/ -i f Contributed Warner Robins’ Rachel Sundry and Houston County’s Annie Bratcher finish the 200 freestyle relay during the two teams’ dual meet Tuesday at Fountain Pool. Mundy draws WR in first state bid w, ? r, : Iff ffi ENI/Gary Harmon 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. ® vtAiifc -f- j ■ ■ ENI/Gary Hannon 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."