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SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 16, 2006
The Home Journal's
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SCOREBOARD
High school
Basketball
Saturday
■ Windsor girls 47, Westfield
31; Knights 60. Hornets 42 (See
Tuesday’s Houston Daily Journal
for game writeup)
ON DECK
High school
Basketball
Today
■ Westfield at Central Fellowship,
4 p.m.
High school swimming
Today
■ Houston County/Northside
Invite, 9:30 a.m., at Fort Valley
State University
IN BRIEF
Perry Takedown Club to
host golf tournament
The Perry Takedown Club will
host a golf tournament today.
The format will be two-man
scramble. It will be held at Perry
Country Club with a shotgun
start beginning at 1 p.m. The
cost includes lunch and door
prizes. Mulligans will also be
sold and strokes given. The
first-place team will receive
S4OO. second S2OO and third
SIOO. Contact Randy Moss at
988-6291 for more.
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.”
Entry fees are SBO for a relay
team, S4O for the marathon, S3O
for the half marathon and $lB for
the 5K run/walk.
A variety of trophies/awards
will be offered. The start time
for the marathon and half mara
thon is 8 a.m. The 5K run/walk
will start at 8:15 a.m. To regis
ter 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, contact June Lowe or Mary
Lynn Harrison at 478-923-6600
or email MaryLynn.Harrison@m
useumofaviation.org.
On-line detailed race informa
tion can be found at http://robin
spacers.org or www.museumofa
viation.org.
STHTE CHAMPS!
Northside dominates Marist for title
....
ENI Gary Harmon
The Eagles’ Nick Bass scores in Northside’s state championship win Friday in McConnell-Talbert Stadium.
ByDONMONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
The wait is over. Northside has its
football championship.
It took the school 336 wins and 43
years to get it, but when they did,
they made it big.
The Eagles dominated the War
Eagles of Marist 30-6 to capture the
Georgia High School Association’s
AAAA state title Friday in McConnell-
Talbert Stadium.
“I owe it all to these guys,” said
Northside head football coach
Conrad Nix. “God has really blessed
us. These guys played hard, they
practice hard.
“This is just great for the
Northside community,” he added.
“The Northside community has had
to take a lot of heat but this is a
great place. This is a great school.
“These guys won it but they won
it for all the guys in the past.”
One of those “guys in the past”
was Jason Respert who in his senior
year witnessed firsthand an improb
able Lowndes rally that knocked the
Eagles out in the Georgia Dome in
‘99.
Warner Robins snaps Perry's win streak; Demonettes hold off Lady Panthers
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Kenny Willis’ 3-pointer
with three seconds remain-
ing ended
a thrilling
boys basket
ball contest
Thursday
at Warner
Robins High.
Willis and
the Demons
prevailed
over the
Perry High
Panthers 61-
58.
It was the
first loss of
the season
Warner Robins boys
61, Perry 58
for Perry in its fifth game so
far this season. For Warner
Robins, it was the first game
coach Chip Malone had his
full varsity squad in uniform.
Without the Demon football
players, Warner Robins split
two games with Peach County
and lost to the Panthers
See SNAPS, page SB
Sports
Now, one of the Eagles’ coach
es, one of Respert’s students was
Tijuan Green. Green was a phenom
enal force, rushing for well over 200
yards. He had plenty of blocking but
even on the few times he didn’t, the
War Eagles played havoc bringing
him down.
“He’s a credit to himself,” Nix
said. “He’s worked hard. He’s done
a good job.”
Marist took the opening posses
sion of the game on its own 24.
It ran it five yards on first down
but gained nothing on the following
handoff. Deonta Jordan made the
stop on third down to force a punt.
Northside, following that, took
over on its 28. Green took the first
handoff from scrimmage and burst
through an enormous hole for 10
yards and a first down.
Marques Ivory ran wide left on the
Eagles’ next play. He picked up 10-
plus more yards putting the Eagles
on the Marist side of the field.
They then switched to the pass.
Ivory hit Kevyn Cooper on a short
route to his right. Cooper fought
his way to the 28 and another first
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Perry’s Kim Burgess shoots from the field as Warner Robins’ Kittery Maine attempts
a block during the two teams’ matchup Thursday at Warner Robins.
down.
On a couple of runs and a com
pleted pass that came up short on
a third-and-nine, Northside stalled
there.
It then called on Devon Pike. He
booted a 37-yard field goal to give
the Eagles a 3-0 lead.
Marist, following the kickoff, took
over on its own 25. The War Eagles’
first run from scrimmage yielded
only two yards but on the second,
the runner found daylight around
left end and sprinted all the way to
Northside’s 42.
The Eagles stiffened but a delay
on third-and-nine enabled Marist to
get it to the 30 and pick up another
first down.
Once again the Eagles bowed their
backs. This time on third-and-nine
Northside’s Eric Fields came around
and pulled down Marist quarterback
Gary Marshall from behind for a
two-yard loss.
It then turned to Colin Gallagher.
He kicked a 43 yarder to tie it at
3-all.
The Eagles, following the kickoff,
took over on their 20. Green fought
SECTION
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his way to a first down on a third
and-three before trouble struck.
On the next play from scrimmage,
Ivory’s pitch was mishandled, actu
ally not handled at all. The War
Eagles recovered on Northside’s 23.
Marist’s first run picked up five
yards and signaled the end of the
first quarter. Jordan stopped the
runner at the line on the next play
and then on the one following he
slowed the runner two yards behind
the line. That enabled Eric Fields to
stop him well short of a first down.
Gallagher, however, was spot on
again from 43 yards again to make
it 6-3.
The Eagles began the next drive
on their own 20. From there it
took them nine plays to score. Ivory
started it off with a run of four yards
and finished it off with a 35-yard
pass to a wide-open Nick Bass on the
right side of the field. Ivory was five
of-five for 71 yards at that point.
In between on the drive, there
were highlights including: Green’s
run of 18 and a run - by Green again
- of eight yards on a fourth-and-one
See CHAMPS, page yB
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
What started out looking
like a laugher turned into
Demonettes 70,
Lady Panthers 66
that led Warner Robins to a
70-66 win at home Thursday
against Perry High.
The Demonettes led by as
many as 20 in the first quar
ter after scoring the first 10
points of the girls basketball
contest.
The foul shooting numbers
See OFF, page 8B
quite the
nailbiter for
coach Tom
Mobley and
the Warner
Robins High
Demonettes.
Sym o n e
Wilkerson
salvaged
what was
dreadful foul
shooting by
the home
team with
two clutch
free throws