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Mims tot Ilatljj FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2006 The Home Journal's SANDLOT flif rmi nht ON DECK High school Football Today ■ 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 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. Racing Hail of Fame to hold Christmas banquet The Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Association will hold its inaugural Christmas banquet Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. at the American Legion located at 3914 Ewing Road in Austell. The cost is sls, which includes foot, festivities and entertainment. Reservations are a must and must be made before Nov. 24. Send a check made out to GARHoFA - along with the names of those attending - to: Susan Milam Morgan, 3071 Beaver Drive, Douglasville, GA 30135. Also, according to a release from the organization, everyone is asked to bring an unwrapped toy to be donated to Captain Herb’s Toys for Tots. Waterford to hold Junior Golf Clinic Waterford Golf Course will hold a Junior Golf Clinic Monday-Tuesday. 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. For Bears beating Newnan appears to be a lair order By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer In an expanded playoff system for high school sports, first-round games are supposed to be the easy ones for teams that win region championships. Don’t think, though, that the Newnan High football Cougars are breathing eas ily this week. JBb Houston County at Newnan, today, 7:30 p.m. The No. 1 seed from Region 4-AAAAA has drawn the fourth place team from Region 1-AAAAA, the Houston County High Bears. It’s a Bears team that is only a few points away from its region No. 2, maybe even No. 1, seed. In fact, Houston County High, which finished 3-3 in 1- AAAAA, is in the playoffs mainly because it beat defending state champion Lowndes High on the road earlier in the season, and then Warner Robins High went See BEARS,page iB M . * ? E E S 1 ' f M a—h__e—el_: Submitted Perry High School’s varsity coed competition cheerleading squad placed second at the Georgia High School Association’s state cheerleading tournament Nov. 11. Members of the squad are: Emma Albritton, Hillary Albritton, Sam Arrington, Hali Brown, Sami Corcoran, Sarah Evans, Adam Gibbs, Calandria Grace, Darion Gregg, Sierra Helmburg, Lindsey Horton, Emily Jones, Kayla Kratz, Bethany Loggins, Cody Martin, Dusty McDowell, Erin McLeod, Melissa Middlebrooks, Stephanie Patterson, Stella Saeger, Coach Melissa Langston, Coach Jennifer Mashburn and Coach Tony Morris. Georgia rebounds with a bang All it takes is one game and, guess what, you’re a good football coach again, Mark Richt. So what was at stake, what was there to gain for Georgia that led to such a monu mental beat-down of the No. 5 team in the Matthew Brown Journal Sports Writer nation? You like to think that the Bulldogs had some kind of a chance against an Auburn program on such a roll over these last few years. But with Georgia strug gling so much in losses to Vanderbilt and Kentucky and a win over Mississippi State, you would also think such an upset would come in miraculous fashion. Maybe Georgia, even in Snorts __ i ' ’-IT ENI/Gary Harmon Houston County’s Martez King (4) looks for running room in the Bears’ loss to Coffee County Saturday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium. They will travel and play Newnan today. 'Would I trade the victory over Auburn to get the two wins against Vandy and the UK Wilcats? Certainly not.” the good times under Richt, never really had a swagger, the kind you associate with the Miami Hurricane cham pionship teams. But it was sure great to at least get a groove back on Saturday. Bragging rights? Playing for pride? Don’t really per sonally believe in those types of statements. There is still nothing to be proud about in letting the bottom tiers of the Southeastern Conference catch up to you like it happened this year for UGA. I also don’t think any blue-chip recruit’s deci sion on where to sign is swayed by the outcome of one game. Would I trade the victory State runner-up against Auburn to get the two wins against Vandy and the UK Wildcats? Certainly not. I will repeat myself when I say that all con ference games carry the same value. The standings don’t care about rivalries or rankings. I’ll take all three of them as wins, topped off with wins against Florida and Tennessee. What else happened on Saturday? Freshman quar terback Matthew Stafford showed me that he could play and win in a big-time atmosphere. I told an old friend of mine that you have to have a quarterback in order to compete in the SEC. See BROWN, page zB Demonettes tip off year with scrimmage From staff reports Basketball has begun and Warner Robins’ girls are off and running. The Demonettes hosted Taylor County for a scrimmage Tuesday. At first glance, it would appear the Lady Vikings from Butler, a AA team, will be the ones to beat come state tournament time. After all they did win 62- Walken shares in senior lead Special to the Journal Aubrey Walker from Perry - paired up with Jerry Davis of Tifton shot a first round 74 and currently lead the third flight following the first day of play Wednesday at the Georgia Senior Four- Ball Championship, which is being held at Lakes at Laura BECTMN B 58. But, then there’s the pro verbial “rest of the story.” Warner Robins actu ally led 38-19 at the half but then head coach Tom Mobley decided to take a look/give the junior varsity a try during the third quarter. Not that he didn’t like what he saw but as a result the Demonettes’ lead went to a 47-42 deficit. See TEAR, page zB s. Walker in Waycross and Okefenokee Country Club in Blackshear. The tournament runs through today. Walker and Davis current ly enjoy a two-stroke lead in a bracket containing 26 other golfers. Other contenders from Houston County are See SENIOR, page zB