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SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 2, 2006
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SANDLOT
ON DECK
High school
Basketball
Today
■ Westfield at Mount de Sales,
2 p.m.
■ Houston County at Perry, 6
p.m.
High school wrestling
Today
■ Perry at Southern Slam duals,
teams and times to be deter
mined
■ Northside and teams to be
determined at Bear Duals at
Houston County, 9 a.m.
High school swimming
Today
■ Warner Robins at PACE
Invitational in Atlanta, 5 p.m.
■ Perry at Coffee County Trojan
Invitational, 8:30 a.m.
IN BRIEF
Warner Robins Rec to hold
Christmas camp
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department is regis
tering boys and girls ages 7-12
for Holly Days Christmas Camp
to be held Dec. 21 through Jan.
4, 2007 (Christmas holidays
for Houston County Schools),
Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-5:30
p.m. except Dec. 25 and Jan.
1, 2007. Each day. accord
ing to a release, will be full
of games, songs and seasonal
crafts. Bring sack lunch each
day; drinks and snack will be
provided. Experienced camp
counselors, campers are well
supervised. structured program.
The cost for the entire program
is $75 for city residents; sllO for
county residents and $l4O for
out-of-county.
Call the department at 478-
929-6946 for more information.
YMCA offers special
sign-up promotion
The YMCA is currently offer
ing a special promotion where
they are giving away one free
month of gym membership to all
new members.
The family fitness center
offers: gymnastics, jiu-jitsu, fit
kidz, dance, parent’s night out
and mother’s morning out and
much more. A family member
ship consists of an SBS joiner’s
fee plus the first month of S4B.
Under the promotion, you pay
SBS and your first month of ser
vice is free.
The offer will expire Dec. 31.
Perry Youth Wrestling
Club sets registration
The Perry Youth Wrestling
Club will be hold registration
Tuesday 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 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.
Winter Players Pass
available for golfers
A Winter Players Pass is
now available for purchase at
three northern state park golf
locations. It’s valid for play
at Arrowhead Pointe at Lake
Richard B. Russell in Elberton,
The Creek at Hard Labor in
Rutledge and Highland Walk at
Victoria Bryant in Royston. The
card provides the holder with
unlimited green fees at the three
courses for three months and
costs SIOO.
The pass is available in lim
ited quantities and for a limited
time. It's valid from December
until February 2007. The pass
can be purchased at any of
the participating courses, online
at www.GeorgiaGolf.com or by
calling toll free 1-800-982-3691.
Local runners stay strong
HOI All-Houston County
CROSS COUNTRY
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
What can you say about cross country in
Houston County other than it had another
consistently strong year. Region winners,
local runners seen leading the pack at every
venue and individual and team state quali
fying efforts were as always, the norm.
That said, here is the Houston Daily
Journal All-Houston County cross country
team for 2006:
Houston Daily Journal All-Houston
County team
Coach of the Year
■ David Erpelding, Warner Robins
Girls
Runner of the Year
■ Brittney Stewart, Warner Robins
First team
■ Danielle Atkins, Warner Robins
■ Brittney Hill, Warner Robins
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Demonettes boast 6 returners
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Talent. Experience. Potential. All
are apt descriptions of what Tom
Mobley has on his roster of Warner
Robins High School girls basketball
players.
But a funny thing happened to
the Demonettes on the way to the
GHSA state tournament last year,
namely the region tournament,
where Warner Robins’ sparkling
regular-season record didn’t auto
matically lead to a spot in the field
of 32.
Sports
■ Megan Breitbach, Houston County
■ Kiersten Wharton, Houston County
■ Janay Wilson, Northside
■ Elizabeth Lambert, Northside
■ Mallory Eubanks, Westfield
■ Leigh James-Artigas, Westfield
Boys
Runner of the Year
■ Marc Kushinka, Warner Robins
First team
■ Karl Burkhardt, Warner Robins
■ Jeffrey Nakayama, Warner Robins
■ Matthew Drapeau, Warner Robins
■ Trevor Whelan, Warner Robins
■ Madison Holland, Warner Robins
■ Nicholas Felder, Perry
■ Devin Simpson, Perry
■ Jacob Parnell, Westfield
■ Hunter Wojohn, Westfield
Girls
Brittney Stewart
School: Warner Robins
Year: Senior
Position: Team’s No. 1 runner
Impact: Finished her career for the
Demonettes with seven school records
this year and 13 total. She won nine races
See RUNNERS,page zB
SEASON
PREVIEW
WARNER ROBINS
Mobley and his players don’t have
to worry about a crowded sub-divid
ed region, but they do have to feel
some concerns about playing up to
the 5A level and in a region with
more than a few teams that know
about contending on the basketball
See RETURNERS, page 5B
HoCo, Westside
split match-ups
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
It was a mixed bag for
Houston County’s basket-
Houston County
boys 58, Westside
55; Lady Semlnoles
47, Lady Bears 45
but rescheduled due to
the Bears’ football playoff
game, Houston County’s
bovs won but the girls
didn’t.
The Bears edged the
Seminoles 58-55 but the
Lady Bears came up a bas
ket - to at least force over
time - short 47-45.
As far as the girls,
NS girls face some rebuilding
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
It’s hard to put a label on what
kind of off-season it was for
Cassandra Wilson and Northside
High girls basketball.
As time passed through the spring,
summer and fall, Wilson experienced
more personnel changes than she
expected. While her main emphasis
is to maintain Northside’s two-year
string of reaching the Elite Eight
round of the GHSA tournament,
she also acknowledges that there is
some rebuilding work to be done.
ball squads
Thursday
as they
traveled
and played
at Westside
in Macon.
In a
match-up
that was
slated for
Friday
Heart,
height
Westfield host
ed the Heart
of Georgia
Cheerleading
Competition
Thursday. Check
out Tuesday’s
Houston Daily
Journal for more
(results and more
pictures). TOP:
Ashley Griffin com
petes and wins
Cheerleader of the
Year honors. LEFT:
The Lady Hornets
perform.
ENI/Gary Harmon
SEASON
PREVIEW
NORTHSIDE
“I really thought this year was
just going to be a continuation of
what we had last year,” said Wilson.
“During the summer we had a good
showing. But not only have I lost
kids from graduation, but I lost
two players from the summer I
See REBUILDING, page $B
SECTION
B
Houston County led the
first three quarters, just
not by much. The score
was 18-16 after one, 25-
24 at the break and 34-
33 heading into the final
quarter.
“The two game factors for
us,” said girls head coach
Sid Baxley, “was allowing
too many second-chance
points and not protecting
the ball offensively.
“We had too many turn
overs.”
That kind of tarnished
the double-digit night Tonia
Williams. She finished with
19 points. Janesa Johnson
for the Lady Bears had 9.
Shaniqua Pauldo, the for
mer Warner Robins player
from a couple of years back,
had 20 and Jelisa Caldwell
also had 13 for the Lady
Seminoles.
As far as the boys,
See SPLIT, page SB
My idea is
a 2-for-1
proposal
It’s amazing the things
you can dream up on a
long holiday road trip.
Tommy Tuberville,
Auburn head football coach,
has this year taken on the
role of sort of the spokesman
for how great Southeastern
Conference football is as
compared
to all the
wanna-bes
out there
in other
parts of the
country.
I’m wait
ing for
the day
he makes
these types
. ’MU
Matthew Brown
Journal Sports Writer
of suggestions:
• All other conferences in
Division I-A should move
down to I-AA.
• Since a list of the seven
wonders of the modern
world (as opposed to the old
list of the ancient world) is
being composed, SEC foot
ball should be ranked right
at the top.
I went back into that
familiar place in my mind,
the sports laboratory, and
dusted off some of the bea
kers and burners for anoth
er’experiment.
I threw together these
statements, plus others
I have made about college
football and comments other
commentators have made
about the greatness of the
SEC. You would not imagine
what popped out.
What I have devised here
is the ultimate proposition,
one that will finally separate
SEC football into the class
by itself all of the analysts
feel it so deserves.
So Commissioner
See BROWN, page zB