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SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 18, 2006
The Home Journal's
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ON DECK
High school
Football
Today
■ 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
■ 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
Today
■ 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 build
ing. 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 Hall 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
forages 5-10; 11:45a.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.
AAA state championship
to be televised
The GHSA announced
recently the AAA State Football
Championship will be televised
live Dec. 16 on Comcast Sports
Southeast. CSS is available in
5.5 million homes across the
Southeast. The game is sched
uled for 3 p.m.
The class AAAAA and AAAA
finals will continue to be tele
vised live on GPB, along with
all 10 semifinal games from the
Georgia Dome Dec. 8-9.
Perry yields to Caipo in second half
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Perry’s season came to an end
Friday with a 17-6 loss at Cairo
in the first round
of the GHSA AAA
state tournament.
The Panthers
started off .well.
They won the toss
and promptly drove
down the field. The
drive was high-
&
Parry 17,
Cairo 6
lighted by, among other gains, the
Panthers going for and making it
at one point (midway through the
drive) on fourth down and Casey
Hayward picking up a first down on
the Cairo side of the field. That was
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By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Northside played 48 min
utes of football but needed
only 19 seconds to take the
lead for good.
The Eagles defeated visit
ing Lee County 41-0 Friday
night at McConnell-Talbert
Stadium to open the first
round of the AAAA football
playoffs.
Northside will host
Hunter bags twin killing
By MATTMASSEE
Special to the Journal
As you all may know,
November is one of the best
times of the year to kill a big
Whitetail.
Something happens to
the deer that changes their
whole attitude and their
ways of thinking. It makes
me think of the difference in
attitudes between a 30-year
old man and a 16-year-old
boy.
It’s called the rut and
every hunter knows what I
am talking about when I say,
it’s finally here.
During this time of year
you have a good chance of
seeing and taking deer in
your area that you never
knew existed - just as I did
Nov. 9 ...
Sports
on a third-and-21.
The only problem was the
Panthers turned it over deep inside
the Syrupmakers’ redzone.
That wouldn’t have hurt so much
had Perry been able to capitalize
when Cairo turned it right back over
on its first play from scrimmage.
Instead, they ran three plays and
got back inside the redzone where
they were faced with fourth and less
than a yard.
Head coach Andy Scott opted to
try a field goal at that point but it
sailed right.
Cairo picked up its first first down
of the contest minutes into the sec
ond quarter and then picked up its
second on the next play following. It
the win
ner of the
Bainbridge/
White Water
game 7:30
p.m. Friday
night at
McConnell-
Northside 41, Lee
County 0
Talbert.
Because the Eagles ’ defense
checked the Trojans’ offense,
that means Northside need
ed only Tijuan Green’s
60-yard touchdown on the
It was just like any other
morning. I got up around
5:10 a.m., put my coveralls
on, grabbed my 30-06 and
headed out the door.
I parked my truck at 5:30
a.m. and started my 450-
yard walk to my stand.
As I was approaching
my stand a deer spooked.
It trotted about 40 or 50
yards towards the bedding
area and stopped not really
knowing what I was.
I climbed into my climber
as quietly as I could and
started my way up the tree,
an oak. It was a few minutes
after 6 a.m. when I got situ
ated and everything started
quieting down.
I was not there long when
two does came bouncing
See HUNTER, page 3B
liked it so much it picked up another
- this one on a pass that put the ball
on Perry’s 15 - before the Panthers
stiffened.
The Syrupmakers did get a 29-
yard field goal out of it, however,
to take a 3-0 lead. That came with
just over six minutes left before the
break.
Perry was forced to punt on its
next possession but Michael Walker
got it back with an interception.
Kenny Davis took the ball on two
subsequent handoffs and pushed it
to the Cairo’s 20. Dexter Johnson
got it five yards closer before Davis
ran it to the 7. Three plays later
Davis punched it in from the 2. The
extra point was missed making it
second play of the game to
notch the win.
But Northside put on
another first-quarter offen
sive show, scoring 27 points
in the opening 12 minutes
that took almost an hour to
play.
While the Eagles were
racking up mileage, the
defense played its bend-but
not-break pass defense that
garnered three intercep
tions in the game, a couple
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Matt Massee shows off the two deer he bagged during a recent hunt
of sacks, a bunch of knock
downs and a Trojan first
half rushing total of minus
one yard.
Things went bad for the
Trojans from the pre-game
coin toss. In a burst of mis
placed optimism, Lee County
won the toss and deferred
until the second half.
Picking heads or tails
was the . easiest choice
the Trojans had all game
See BLASTS, page jB
6-3.
Both took a possession following
that but could gain little, so that’s
how the half ended.
A flag negated a kickoff return that
would have given the Syrupmakers
good field position to start the third
- on the 40.
That didn’t stop them, however, as
they still drove 88 yards and scored.
A big chunk of those yards came on
a 40-plus pass play. The point after
gave them a 10-3 lead with the clock
closing in on three minutes left to
play in the third.
Even though they were only a
score away, things began to sour for
Perry from there.
See PERRY, page jB
HoCo rushes
past Newnan
By MATTHEW
BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Houston County shoved
the ball down Newnan’s
throat - to the tune of
433 rush
ing yards
- and
picked
up a 35-
21 win
on the
road in
the first
round of the GHSA
AAAAA playoffs. Eric
O’Neal had 180 yards and
accounted for all five Bear
touchdowns.
Martez King also had
161 rushing yards and
D.J. Dodson added 86
more on the ground.
Newnan, with its very
tall quarterback, had two
fumbles after pass recep
tions in the first quar
ter. Both times Houston
County recovered on its
own 17-yard line.
Rico Hendrick recov
ered the first one and it
set up a five-play scoring
drive. O’Neal cashed it
off with a 35-yard run off
right tackle and Michael
Thompson kicked the
PAT to make it 7-0.
Newnan’s second drive
went up to the Houston
county 24 but on a first
down the Cougars fum
bled again. Dedrick Early
recovered that one - also
on the 17-yard line.
This time Houston
County took their time
getting down the field.
In fact, the Bears ran
14 plays in all - the key
being one on fourth down
and five from the 24 of
Newnan. The old attempt
to draw them off sides
worked and gave Houston
County a first down.
Four plays later
O’Neal scored his second
touchdown from nine
See RUSHES, page
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Houston County
35, Newnan 21