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WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER 13, 2006
The Home Journal’s
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ON DECK
High school
Basketball
Friday
■ Windsor at Westfield, 6 p.m.
Saturday
■Westfield at Central Fellowship.
4 p.m.
High school swimming
Friday
■ Warner Robins at Landmark
Christian, 5 p.m.
Saturday
■ Houston County/Northside
Invite, 9:30 a.m.. at Fort Valley
State University
High school football
Friday
■ Marist at Northside, 7:30 p.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. according to
a release, will be full of games,
songs and seasonal crafts.
Experienced camp counselors,
campers are well-supervised,
structured program. The cost 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 center
offers: gymnastics, jiu-jitsu, fit
kidz. dance and much more. A
family membership consists of
an SBS joiner's fee plus the first
month of S4B. Under the promo
tion, you pay SBS and the first
month is free.
The offer will expire Dec. 31.
Museum to host its
annual walk/runs
The 11th annual Museum of
Aviation Foundation marathon,
half marathon and 5K run/walk
will be held at the Museum of
Aviation Jan. 13, 2007.
All three courses are USA
Track and Field certified and all
threes are also run on Robins Air
Force Base.
Runners and walkers whose
registrations are postmarked by
Jan. 5. 2007 are guaranteed,
according to the release, a “qual
ity colorful long-sleeve shirt on
race day.”
A variety of trophies/awards
will be offered. Entry fees are
SBO for a relay team. S4O for
the marathon, S3O for the half
marathon and $lB for the 5K
run/walk.
Each marathon and half-mara
thon runner will receive a medal
lion with ribbon as they cross the
finish line.
The start time for the mara
thon and half marathon is 8 a.m.
The 5K run/walk will start at 8:15
a.m.
Race packets may be picked
up at the Museum of Aviation
Century of Flight Hangar on race
day only between 6:30-7:30 a.m.
A picture ID is required at regis
tration/check-in. Award ceremo
nies start Jan. 13, at 9:30 a.m. in
the Museum's Century of Flight
Hangar.
A $5 surcharge applies for
registrations after Jan. 5. To
register or for more information
call Race Director John Hunter
at 478-926-6686 (day) or 478-
953-5335 (evening) or email him
at hunterjh@cox.net. Or, con
tact June Lowe or Mary Lynn
Harrison at 478-923-6600 or
email MaryLynn.Harrison@mus
eumofaviation.org.
On-line detailed race informa
tion can be found at http://robin
spacers.org or www.museumofa
viation.org.
Demonettes swim to third-straight second
Special to the Journal
When is second place
acceptable, or at least tol
erable?
When you beat 18 teams
to get there.
Such was the case for
Warner Robins’ girls swim
team. The Demonettes fin
ished runner-up - for the
third-straight meet (they
also have a tournament win
on their record) at the Bear
Cat Bash in Bainbridge.
The team came in behind
Columbus High, 74-57.
The Demons (26-12) at
the same meet were sixth
out of 20 teams. Bainbridge
High was first on their side
of the house.
Northside also competed
at the meet with its girls
finishing fourth with 51
points and the Eagles fin
ishing 13th with 5.
As far as the girls in
regard to scoring, Senior
Abigail Cunningham and
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Journal. Don Moncrief
The Georgia Independent School Association’s 25th Annual All-Star football game was held this past Saturday at
Mount de Sales’ Cavalier Fields in Macon. Westfield’s representatives for the annual event were (pictured): head
coach Ronnie Jones (as an assistant) and Ryan Campbell and Zach Young. The players, seniors, were selected by
GISA coaches.
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Reflecting on some little-known contributions
High school football for us all
comes down to one game in
2006. I will take this oppor
tunity to reflect on some of what has
happened since Sept. 1. There are
several things I know a lot of local
fans, players and coaches would just
as soon forget, so I will not drudge up
those unpleasant memories.
In terms of positions on the field,
there were some significant strides
made by players not even on the radar
screen in all of my preseason chats.
Take placekicker for example, where
a pair of freshmen came on strong.
They are Devon Pike of Northside and
Ray Guin of Perry.
Pike has been calmly and consis
tently making his PAT tries ever
Sports
Junior Anne Culpepper led
the way. They both scored
12 points each.
Cunningham won the
200 Free with, according
to coach Barbara Hawkins,
a “stunning finish” at the
wall to out touch Northside
High School’s Lindsey
Duprey.
“Abby lengthened her
strokes to really beat her
to the wall,” Hawkins said.
Culpepper also placed sec
ond in the 100 Back and
won the 200 IM with,
Hawkins said, an “amaz
ing” state cut while she
went on to swim the 100
Fly and place second
behind Duprey.
Rachel Sundry also con
tributed eight points for
the Demonettes. She was
second in the 500 Free and
fourth in the 100 Back.
Brittani Wharton also
scored five points - earned
See SWlM,page jB
Hornet All-Stars
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Matthew Brown
Journal Sports Writer
to qualify for the state playoffs.
The real kicker to make a splash
this year was David Clark at Warner
Robins. He was the only freshman on
the 2005 roster, and now he is in the
school-record books as a sophomore.
An area that was really fun to watch
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Contributed
Demonette swimmers celebrate their second-place finish at the Bear Cat Bash this past
weekend in Bainbridge.
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since Day 1. Perry
coach Andy Scott
must have wondered
where Guin’s kick
ing was early in the
season (see Jackson
game for reference),
but the youngster
did provide some key
points late against
Spalding wfygn the
Panthers attempted
was the defensive line, especially at
Houston County High games. Those
guys, from Princeton Dean to Dexter
Holman, could move. And keep a big
eye on big Kanorris Davis at Perry.
It’s like he doesn’t have a set position,
more like a hybrid of some sort.
Northside is going for that elusive
state championship against Marist,
but even as the Eagles kept winning
games this year I would bring up this
point in our offices. Northside may
well win it all, but will we be wonder
ing if last year’s team that came up
short against Statesboro was overall a
better squad?
My main point of argument in that
was the running game.
See BROWN, page zB
SECTION
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Bears take
Chatham
Invitational
From staff reports
It turned out to he a very
productive weekend for
Houston County’s girl’s and
boy’s swim teams as they
competed in the Chatham
County Invitational held
Saturday in Savannah.
For starters, and perhaps
most important, the squads
qualified two boys and two
girls relay teams - the 200
Medley and the 400 Free
- for the state tournament
to be held in February in
Atlanta.
In addition, said head
coach Jamey Richardson,
the team has qualified for
nine individual events and
he listed them - the names
of the people who have qual
ified as well as the event(s)
they have qualified in - as
follows: Sophomore Annie
Bratcher, who has quali
fied in the 200 Free and the
100 Breast; Junior Justin
Burkholder, who has quali
fied in the 200 Individual
Medley and the 100 Breast;
Junior Joey Morgan, who has
qualified in the 200 and the
500 Free; Senior Cameron
Tufts, who has qualified in
the 200 Individual Medley
and the 100 Free; and Senior
Brennan Lawson, who has
qualified in the 100 Breast.
The other good/great news
from this weekend was
the fact the Bears defeat
ed Benedictine - in part,
Richardson said, to the 58
relay points scored for the
meet title.
“A key here,” he said,
“was the performance of the
younger swimmers as they
delivered 14 points in the
200 Free Relay and finished
third with 12 points in the
400 Free Relay.”
Also, added Richardson,
Sophomore Nathan Meece,
Freshman Michael Morgan,
Freshman Karsten Tufts
and Burkholder performed
“well” to finish second in the
200 Free Relay (less than a
second behind).
Overall, Lawson led the
way in terms of points con
tributed to the team’s finish.
He had 18. He also teamed
with Josh and Joey Morgan
and Tufts to claim 18 points
in the 200 Medley Relay and
18 more in the 400 Free
Relay.
Tufts finished with 16
points, Josh Morgan, 16
and Burkholder and Joey
Morgan, 13.
As far as the Lady Bears,
See BEARS, page jB