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Mcrusion lUttly Jjmmuil SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2006 The Home Journal's SANDLOT ~ l n_FTypTfrr 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 lafab, •***Bs’® • [ \ M jflg Harmon^ - % m Northside's Abry Jones (97) k Bk «. takes the legs out from under m * ■** JBBp a £*o County runner Friday in T) ‘ 1 McConnell-Talbert Stadium. * ¥ iyff jin ww s ' ~— ——-—> Northside blasts Lee County 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 "* v ‘^fe^^gaMk-'-vfefrflflfcrf v • .7. x - 4- *jflp * 4sH^l*i ... A**,h j-f^T^BMaßriijLtßlgkii<“'-* -*> . Submitted 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 SECTION B Jfe Houston County 35, Newnan 21