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♦ TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2007
FINALS
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next played the Dodgers
(see results in an upcoming
Houston Daily Journal).
The Dodgers were actu
ally just a handful of outs
away from not being in the
winner’s bracket final. On
Saturday, the No. 3 Dodgers
faced the No. 2 Eagles. The
Eagles led most of the way
until the Dodgers rallied late
to send the game into extra
innings. The Dodgers won
6-5 in 11.
On Sunday, the Dodgers led
the Tigers by as much as four
but hit a scoring drought that
lasted five innings. The Tigers
chipped away and chipped
away before taking grabbing
the lead in the bottom of the
seventh. The Dodger offense
finally woke up and scored
two game-tying runs in the
top of the ninth.
Keith Crozier, the third
Dodgers pitcher of the con
test, gave up back-to-back sin
gles to Chapman and Jason
Vamadoe in the bottom of
the ninth. Andrew Meredith,
the starting pitcher for the
Tigers, was at the plate when
the Dodgers committed the
game-ending error.
The last comeback took
relief pitcher Brian Wilkerson
off the hook after a blown
save. The former Houston
County High and current
Georgia Southern hurler
pitched the last two innings
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TOURNEY
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WRALL started the scoring
off with six runs in the sec
ond - both went scoreless in
the first.
Florida answered with
four in the bottom of the
inning but WRALL added
four more in the top of the
fourth. Florida answered
again in the bottom of the
inning, this time, however,
with just one - its fifth and
final run. WRALL then
added a lone run in the fifth
and three more in the sixth
and final inning. Offensively,
Sato and Jeremiah Stephens
each picked up three hits for
WRALL. Sato was 3-5 with
two runs scored. Stephens
was 3-4 with a run scored
and four RBI.
Jones was also 2-5 with
MUSIC
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gave pushed the Music’s
record above .500 at eight
wins and seven losses.
During that nine-game
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for the Tigers; he entered the
game in the eighth with his
team up 8-7.
Wilkerson helped out in
other ways to see the Tigers
to that first lead. In the bot
tom of the seventh, with
the Dodgers up 7-6, Troy
Varnadoe led off with a dou
ble down the left-field line.
Wilkerson singled the tying
run home.
Ben Bailey batted next and
gave the Tigers a lead with
two innings to go.
In the home eighth,
Wilkerson’s turn to bat came
up again, and he delivered
a two-out RBI single just
past the reach of D. J. Decker
at third base. Micah John
Smith was on base to score
the ninth run as the Dodgers
booted his bunt.
The Dodgers touched up
Wilkerson the pitcher in
the top of the ninth for two
runs on three hits. Keith
Barker and Kyle Gore had
consecutive one-out singles,
and a wild pitch brought the
Dodgers within one at 9-8.
With two outs, Perry’s Corey
Jones beat out an infield sin
gle that allowed the tying
run home.
Evan Jones - along with
brother Corey a former Perry
High Panther - put the
Dodgers up first with a two
out, two-run single in the
second inning. Gore, from
Warner Robins High, led off
the second with a single.
Wilkerson started the home
second with a single, which
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three runs scored and three
batted in, Blake Jackson was
2-4 with two runs scored
and one driven in and Caleb
Daffron was 1-2 with three
runs scored and an RBI.
In Sunday’s 11-4 win over
Alabama, WRALL, which
was the home team this time,
countered one by Alabama in
the first with four in the bot
tom of the inning.
Then, the local 9-10-year
olds scored three in the sec
ond and four in the third
to finish off their scoring.
Alabama scored one in the
fourth and two in the fifth,
while being out-hit 14-4.
Seven WRALL players
accounted for those 14 hits.
Jones went 3-4 with two runs
scored. Jackson was 2-3 with
three runs scored and an
RBI. Sato was also 2-3 with
an RBI.
Broughton was 1-4 with a
stretch, the Music as a team
batted .232, but against
Bradenton, Macon hit .296.
Also during the nine
games, the Music pitchers
had a 3.11 earned run aver
age, but a 5.10 ERA in their
losses. After losing the open-
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set up a three-run home run
for Chapman. In that inning
the Dodgers could not get a
tag on Wilkerson for a pos
sible force out.
But the one-run Tiger lead
did not last as the Dodgers
scored five times in the top
of the third. The big hit was
a bases-loaded three-run
double for David Hunt that
broke a 3-3 tie. The Dodgers
had two walks and two
errors from the Tigers before
reclaiming the lead.
Crozier’s two-out hit later
in the third pushed the lead
to four, 7-3.
Afterwards, the Dodgers hit
into two double plays - one
started by Bailey at second
and the other by Wilkerson
at third base - and had just
four hits up to the ninth.
The Tigers meanwhile
got a leadoff home run from
catcher Jayson Holland in
the home third and an infield
hit RBI by Bailey, also in the
third (7-5). Smith scored on a
wild pitch in the fourth.
• After the extra-innings
loss to the Dodgers on
Saturday, the Eagles had to
play again that day and lost
to the Cardinals, the fifth
place team in the league.
The Kevin Poole champi
onship series begins Friday,
Aug. 3, at the Bibb County
Complex. It is a best-of-3 series
with Game 2 on Saturday
following the league’s home
run derby at Luther Williams
Field. If needed, a third game
takes place Sunday.
run scored and two driven in.
Stephens was 2-4 with a run
scored and two RBI. Trey
Maddox was 1-2 with two
RBI. Daffron was 2-2 with a
run scored and one driven in.
And finally, Jake Farrell was
1- with two runs scored and
an RBI.
As action headed into
the final day of pool play
Monday, two other teams
- plus WRALL - had already
punched their ticket to play
today. North Carolina and
Tennessee, like Georgia, were
2- The three were slated to
take on teams that were cur
rently 1-1 (with teams finish
ing 2-1 advancing). Alabama
was to play North Carolina.
Indiana was to play Georgia
(WRALL) and Florida was to
play Tennessee.
West Virginia (1-1) was also
slated to play South Carolina
(0-2).
ing game against Bradenton
5-4 in 10 innings, the Music
defeated the Juice 8-2 Friday
night and 12-2 Saturday
night.
Ashley Hooks earned his
fourth win in the Friday con
test, pitching six innings.
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SPORTS
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Brandon Golden pushes up 340 pounds during the bench press competition at the
Night of Champions held at Perry High School Friday.
CHAMPIONS
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keeping them. I think it’s a
matter of kids enjoying play
ing, we have a great coach
ing staff, we take care of
them and we have really
good kids.”
The weight lifting maxi
mums, or “maxes,” refer
to the largest amount of
weight a player can lift in
the various categories such
as the bench press. The
bench press and the power
clean were on display at
the “Night of Champions.”
When the week was over,
Scott announced 205 new
maxes by his upperclass
men.
This number also includes
a player’s best time run
ning the 40-yard dash and
“The Grind.” The latter is_
a course that features pull
ing, pushing, throwing and
running.
“The one thing that disap
pointed me is that we have to
MAJORS
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Wynn held Buckhead score
less in the second, including
two strikeouts.
WRALL got rolling in the
bottom of the inning, play
ing “home run hopscotch”.
Keaton Allen homered to
lead off.
One out later, Micah Wells
did the same. And one out
later, Dalton Carriker added
a solo shot. Home runs were
a staple for the WRALL
team during the entire tour
nament. During their five
games in Brooks, they tal
lied 28 roundtrippers.
Wynn had another no-run,
two-strikeout inning in the
third. Then WRALL showed
it could play “small ball”
as well as the power game.
Leading off, Wynn reached
second base following an
errant throw on his ground
er. The next hitter David
Umphreyville laid down a
CLARK
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Overall, he has 195 ring
ers out a possible 600 for a
32.50 ringer percentage.
Fellow club member
Larry Myers, competing in
the Mens D 1 Division, went
3-2 the first day and 2-3
the second. That had him
in eighth heading into the
final day Friday.
He then went 3-2 again,
finishing the tournament
Nick Utley improved to 3-
1 by pitching six innings of
two-hit baseball for the win.
The Music traveled to
Aiken Monday for a three
game road trip before return
ing Thursday to play host to
Bradenton.
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make it harder,” said Scott.
“Our kids in the past have
run it and passed out. Now,
our kids - 30 minutes after
they did it - were out there
playing touch football.
“I think it has a lot to do
with how hard they work,
the fact that they were here
pretty much every single
day. If you get in good con
dition, you can do stuff like
that.”
Scott also said this sum
mer has brought some
unprecedented attention to
the Perry High football pro
gram.
For one thing, three mem
bers of the senior class
already have college foot
ball scholarship offers. One
member of the junior class
earned rare invitations to
major college camps and is
already being touted as a
serious prospect at his posi
tion.
Lineman Kanorris Davis
has an offer from Purdue
University in Ft. Wayne,
Ind.; quarterback Casey
perfect sacrifice bunt, so
perfect that he beat it out
for a single. Umphreyville
promptly stole second base.
Hunter Jackson singled
both runners home, tak
ing second on the throw.
Allen then laid down anoth
er bunt. When the throw
got past the first baseman,
Allen lingered between first
and second base to draw the
throw while Jackson scam
pered home - a delayed sac
rifice.
Buckhead added a run in
the top of the fourth on
hit batter, a wild pitch, and
a single by Niels Nicholas,
making the score 6-2. In the
fifth, both starting pitch
ers would reach their pitch
count limits. Kendall Scott
relieved Wynn and James
Seaman relieved Schultz.
Neither team would score in
the inning.
Going into the sixth, the
tension was thicker than
the air on the Georgia sum
mer evening. Three more
in second at 8-7.
He connected for 217
ringers out of 600 total
for a ringer percentage of
36.17.
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Hayward has an offer from
Middle Tennessee State; and
end Tony Davis has an offer
from Jacksonville State.
“I know all three of them,
as they continue through the
year, will have many more
offers,” said Scott. “We have
a lot of kids who are going
to get a lot of attention as
they go.”
Several Panthers made a
bit of a camp circuit this
summer at places like
Georgia and Auburn. Junior
tackle Johnnie Farms also
went to a camp at Florida
State.
“He’s going to be a great
player,” said Scott. “He’s
getting contacted by schools
everywhere. To be as young
as he is, 6-3, 295 pounds,
bench-pressing over 300
pounds, squatting over 500,
he’s something else.
“He has to stay humble,
hungry and understand the
only way he got where he
is is through hard work.
That’s with eveiy kid.”
outs for the state! But Spain
Short led off with a walk for
Buckhead and Brant Wells
followed with a double. A
sacrifice fly plated a run,
Wells advancing to third.
Scott fanned the next bat
ter. Following a hit batter,
Scott squeezed a pop-up for
the third out. And the cel
ebration was on.
“This team started slow,”
said WRALL head coach
Mickey Lay, “but they’re a
great group of kids. They
worked really hard and
we’ve gelled very well.
Nobody on this team thinks
he’s the best player, and
nobody on this team thinks
he’s the worst. Everyone
contributes.”
Carriker, who had a walk
and a double to go with his
home run, echoed his coach,
“We win as a team and we
lose as a team.”
No one’s sure about
that second part, however,
because it hasn’t happened
yet.
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