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Muusimt jHatly TJounutl TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2006 The Home Journal’s SANDLOT ON DECK High school Basketball Today ■ Peach County at Warner Robins, 6 p.m. (Note: This denotes a location change.) ■ Northside at Westside. 6 p.m. ■ Westfield at Stratford. 6 p.m. Thursday ■ Dutchtown at Northside, 6 p.m. (Note: Originally scheduled for Friday.) Friday ■ Perry at Warner Robins, 7 p.m. (Note: Awaiting - per boys head coach Chip Malone - word on probable reschedule.) ■ Westfield at Trinity Christian tournament, teams and times to be determined. Saturday ■ Northside at Perry, 6 p.m. (Note: This game rescheduled for Jan. 20, 2007 per Lady Eagles head coach Cassandra Willson.) High school wrestling Friday ■ Houston County, Northside and Perry at Baldwin tourney, 5 p.m. High school swimming Today ■ Warner Robins at Bearcat Bash in Bainbridge, 9 a.m. ■ Houston County at Chatham County Invitational, 9 a.m. High school football Friday ■ Northside versus St. Pius X, 6 p.m. in the Georgia Dome Saturday ■ Warner Robins versus Peachtree Ridge. 9 p.m. in the Georgia Dome IN BRIEF Demons playoff tickets go on sale Tickets for Warner Robins' semifinal playoff game Saturday will go on sale today at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Beginning Wednesday at 8 a.m., tickets can be purchased at the front office of the school. All tickets are sls, and are valid for all the games played Saturday. 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 $l4O for out-of-county. Call the department at 478- 929-6946 for more information. YMCA offers special sign-up promotion The YMCA is currently offer ing a special promotion where they are giving away one free month of gym membership to all new members. The family fit ness center offers: gymnastics, jiu-jitsu, fit kidz, dance, parent's night out and mother’s morning out and much more. A fam ily membership consists of an SBS joiner’s fee plus the first month of S4B. Under the promo tion, you pay SBS and your first month of service is free. The offer will expire Dec. 31. Perry Youth Wrestling Club sets registration The Perry Youth Wrestling Club will be hold registration today at 5:30 p.m. in the Perry High School multi-purpose building. All students ages 5- 14 are eligible. The cost is S2O which includes a club T-shirt. Two for the Dome Northside rolls; Demons shock Norcross By MA TTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer As clear as the path Deonta Jordan had to make a quar terback sack in the first quarter, so is the wide highway the Northside High Eagle defense paved out for a return trip 4$L Northside 34, Habersham Central 0 to Atlanta’s Georgia Dome and the GHSA Class AAAA semifinals. Northside shut down Habersham Central High, a team that didn’t penetrate past the Eagle 26-vard-line on offense, 34-0 Friday at McConnell-Talbert Stadium. Northside will take a 13-0 record for the second year in a row to the Georgia Dome, where this year the Eagles take on St. Pius X - a 34-33 quarterfinal winner against Thomas County-Central - at 6 p.m. on Friday. Junior running back Tijuan Green had 29 carries for 185 yards and two touch downs, but not one of those yards came easy against the visiting Raider defense. Green would break a big 20-yard plus jaunt here and there, but was also stopped close to the line for minimal gains on several tries. “They have a pretty good team,” said Green after the game. “We understood their defense, so we went out there and did the best we could, and we pulled it out. Going to the Dome! “Two years in a row, See NORTHSIDE, page iB Houston County unable to get past Roswell By JOE SERSEY Journal Correspondent Against M.L. King Jr., Houston County jumped to a 21-0 lead cour tesy of their opponent’s turnovers, but Friday night against Roswell, turn about was fair play. The Hornets took advantage of two Bears third quarter miscues to jump to a commanding lead and go on to win 42-21. Roswell scored on the opening r : ENI/Gary Hannon Westfield and Mount de Sales players battle for a rebound during their game Saturday in Macon. Westfield squads fall to Mt. de Sales By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer After days and days of practice, Westfield’s boys basketball team final ly saw some game action on Saturday, and the Hornets came within one shot of knocking off Mt. de Sales in Macon. Not many attempts would fall Sports A m \ ' w «p|§p llip V -1 A 4 sJI ENI/Gary Harmon Northside’s Charles McKenzie puts the drop on a Habersham Central player during the Eagle’s AAAA quarterfinal win Friday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium. Roswell 42, Houston County 21 game and after the extra point, the Hornets were up 7-0. Houston County tied the game midway through the second quarter for Westfield, though, and the last one was no different. The Cavaliers See FALL, page jB drive of the game when Dustin Taliaferro hit PJ. Beidel for a 24-yard touchdown strike. That was the first of three touchdown passes thrown by Taliaferro in the Mount de Sales boys 49, Westfield 47; Lady Cavaliers 46, Lady Hornets 26 when Jeff Thompson capped a 78- yard drive by diving over from the Roswell 1. Roswell wasted no time in recap turing the lead. Taliaferro complet ed four consecutive passes, the last a 12-yarder to Daniel Niedzwiecki to put the Hornets up 14-7 midway through the second quarter. The Bears couldn’t recapture the elan that inspired their first score and had to punt. Roswell had spent the first 12 min- Panthers improve to 3-0 By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Perry High’s boys improved to 3-0 Saturday as the Panthers with stood the challenge of county rival Houston County High 71-62 at Fluellen came out as the scoring leader with 14 points, but one point behind was Kameron Felder with 13. Roderick Jones was a major impact player in the second half, finishing with 11 points while Antonio Hubbard had a strong first half to tally nine. Eric Askew chipped See IMPROVE, jB Lady Bears edge Perry girls By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Brittany Torain and Chanel Crosskey drained long jumpers in a sec ond-quarter push that led Houston County High’s girls basketball team \ Houston County’s double inside threat, Tonia Williams and Kourtney Thomas, each scored eight. For Perry, Kim Burgess had 14 points and Ashley Roberts had 11. See EDGE, page yB utes of the game trying to develop a running game. When the Hornets realized the best route was through the air, they wasted no time exploit ing the Bears secondary. Taliaferro completed three-of-four passes for 61 yards including his last touchdown pass of the game to Will Naclerio for 24 yards. Roswell led 21-7 at the half. Actually, things looked good for Houston County at the beginning See PAST,page iB Perry 71, Houston County 62 '•LX, japr Lady Bears 49,Lady Panthers 44 SECTION B By JAMES TIDWELL Journal Staff Writer When Warner Robins head coach Bryan Way took over the Demons program in 2004, the squad was coming off its first non playoff sea son for the first time in many years. Way Warner Robins 14, Norcross 3 promptly guided Warner Robins back into the post season as the Demons rolled to a state championship. After a disappointing early playoff exit last year, Way faced a daunting gantlet this year in returning the Demons back to the Georgia Dome for the second time in three years. Warner Robins took a big step last week as the Demons rolled past GHSA Class AAAAA No. 2 Camden County 27-7 in the second round of the state playoffs. Warner Robins would have to do one better this week as unbeaten Norcross, the No. 1 team in the state and No. 19 team in the country, stood in the way. Demons’ fans should clear their calendar, a date Saturday in the Dome awaits. Warner Robins took a first half lead and never trailed as the Demons held on for a 14-3 win to advance to the Class AAAAA semifinals. The Demons improve to 9-4 and will face Peachtree Ridge, a 12-9 victor over Stephenson, at 9 p.m. at See DEMONS, page iB home. Coach Brett Hardy once again shuffled players in and out of the game - some times five at a time - and the result was a balanced scorebook at the end. Jared to a 49-44 win against Perry High Saturday in Perry. Torain had 14 points and Crosskey scored 11. All of Crosskey’s points came in the first half and from her reserve role.