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Muustmx 3Jmmtal 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 Il* ■ < Wt ENI/Gary Harmon 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 I 1 ENI/Gary Harmon 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 SECTION B Matthew Brown Journal Sports Writer