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THURSDAY,
DECEMBER 14, 2006
The Home Journal's
SANDLOT
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
GPB to broadcast
championship games
Georgia Public Broadcasting
will present live broadcast of the
Georgia High School Association
football championships Friday
and Saturday.
The broadcast Friday will
begin with Northside’s 7:30
p.m. game against Marist in
McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
It will continue Saturday
from Walter Cantrell Stadium
in Powder Springs, beginning at
7:30 p.m. and with the AAAAA
championships featuring the
Roswell Hornets versus the
Peachtree Ridge Lions.
Northside students,
teacher help out at Dome
Northside High students and
technology teacher Jim Fouts
assisted with the Georgia Public
TV broadcast of the GHSA play
off games at the Dome this past
weekend.
Three Eagle students shad
owed the film and production
crews along with Coosa High
School and helped out during
the Peach County, Dublin and
Northside games.
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 “quality colorful long
sleeve shirt on race day.”
To register or for more infor
mation call Race Director John
Hunter at 478-926-6686 (day) or
478-953-5335 (evening) or email
him at hunterjh@cox.net.
Warner Rollins splits matchups with Peach
Demonettes roll; Demons usher in new players
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Warner Robins and Peach County
met for the second time this season,
this time Tuesday in Fort Valley.
This time the results - in the case
of the boys - was different, as well.
The Demons beat the Trojans the
first time they played 68-58. This
time Peach County won 55-54. The
Demonettes beat the Lady Trojans
64-59 the first time they played and
53-36 this last time out.
Panthers win again
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Perry’s Akeen Felder (20 - in white) goes up for lose ball against a Dooly County player Tuesday in Perry.
Holds off Dooly County, improves record to 4-0
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Eric Askew and Trey
Smith each scored a clutch
offensive rebound basket
in the last two minutes of
regulation Tuesday allow
ing Perry High to hold off
Dooly County High 64-57
at home.
Kameron Felder, with a 3-
point field goal in-between
Perry girls go on scoring spree, dominate Lady Bobcats
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Trailing by two in the first
quarter, Perry High’s Lady
Panthers
went on a
17-0 run
that didn’t
end until
the second
quarter.
With a run
of 14 in a
row in the
Lady Panthers 68,
Lady Bobcats 32
second half, Perry’s girls
scored a dominating 68-32
win against Dooly County
High at home Tuesday.
Ashley West was one of
three Lady Panthers to
score in double figures,
and that total was close
to being five. West had 15
points with Kim Burgess
right behind with 14 points.
Ashley Robert s came off the
bench to score 10 points,
while Skeet Ragin and
Beße Brown each had nine.
Ragin blocked four shots in
the first half alone.
Perry was doing well
scoring from the floor as
Tiara Brown began the
game banking a 3-pointer
in, Ragin scored off a steal
and West stuck home an
offensive rebound.
See SPREE,page iB
Sports
Back to the boys: “I knew they’d
be tough,” said Warner Robins boys
head coach Chip Malone. “I figured
they’d do some things different.”
The Demons fell even though at
the same time they welcomed back
two players from the football team,
Ryan Reid and Xavier Jackson.
Their contributions were minimal,
however, explained Malone because
one, they only had one day’s worth
of practice and two, these things
take time, he said.
those two
stick
backs, had
the Perry
high with
18 points.
Antonio
Hubbard,
the only
Perry boys 64,
Dooly County 57
offensive weapon working
for the Panthers for most
of the second half, had 13
points while Askew finished
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Lady Panther Shay Newberry goes up for a shot.
“I figure it’ll take
about three or four
games,” Malone,
who was at least
happy he now has a
bench, said. “That’s
been my experience
(which is pretty
extensive consider
ing he’s had to go
through this every
year). They have to get in basketball
shape. They’ve got to get their shot
back and get used to getting up and
down the floor.”
And, “Even though they played
with 12.
Perry was looking at a
distinctive disadvantage
in height with two Dooly
County starters stand
ing well over six feet tall.
Those Bobcat forwards,
Eric Martin and Charsin
Washington, had the Vienna
contingent of spectators
charged up with their play
in the early going.
They impacted the way
Warner Robins girts
53, Peach County
36; Troians 55,
Demons 54
the Panthers shot the ball,
blocking four shots in the
first quarter, and Martin
had a rebound slam in a
quick 5-0 run for Dooly.
But things would set
tle down for Perry, and
Washington went to the
bench with two fouls at
5:19.
On a steal by Chris Willis,
Askew got a dunk for
See PANTHERS, page iB
last year, we’re doing some new
things this year. They’ve got to get
all that done.”
Three that have already jumped
those hurdles are Kenny Willis,
Pierre Miller and Braxton Dugger,
which means it should come as no
surprise they led the team in scoring
- all in double digits. Willis had 18,
Miller 16 and Dugger 14.
As far as the Demonettes, who
improved to 7-0 with the win, the
two clubs were tied at 8 after one.
That, however, was far from the case
at the break.
See SPLITS, page iB
HoCo, Perry
contend at
Baldwin
Special to the Journal
Northside’s wrestlingteam
opted out of the Baldwin
Brawl this past weekend in
Milledgeville, and who could
blame them as they went
instead to see the Eagles win
in the Georgia Dome.
Houston County and
Perry, on the other hand,
took their shot at the annu
al duals, a 10-team round
robin format in which each
team wrestled one another.
Translated individually, that
meant each wrestler had
nine matches.
As far as Perry, it finished
with a 2-7 record but, point
ed out head coach Randy
Mizell, “our largest margin
of defeat was 18 points.
“We forfeited 103 (pounds),
160 and 171 (losing out on a
possible 18 points).”
The Panthers did beat
Northeast-Macon 51-18 and
Westside-Macon 47-30. One
of Perry’s losses came to AA
perennial power Morgan
County 34-33;
But, “We actually tied 33-
33,” said Mizell, “but Morgan
won due to tiebreaker crite
ria in which we had more
forfeits.”
The Panthers also fell
to Alcovy 48-30, Houston
County 37-36, Baldwin 48-
36, Jones County 43-35,
Upson-Lee 45-36 and Pike
County 42-27.
But, the Panthers also had
four wrestlers take home
medals for finishing in the
top three of their weight
classes.
They were led, Mizell
See CONTEND, page iB
Georgia draws
an acceptable
bowl matchup
First, let me express
my approval of
Georgia’s matchup
with Virginia Tech in the
Chick-Fil-A Bowl (a real
Peach-y bowl from what I
under
stand).
This will
be the first
time the
Bulldogs
have faced
the Hokies
since
Virginia
Tech
became a
real promi
nent program and regular
bowl participant in 1993
under Frank Beamer.
That’s the kind of thingyou
hope for in regards to your
favorite team in the bowl
season provided your team
doesn’t reach the national
championship game.
You just want to see a
See BROWN, page iB
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Matthew Brown
Journal Sports Writer