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WRALL Majors team
brings home state title
By JOE MA TTHEWS
Contributed
The Warner Robins American
Little League 11-12-year-old All-Stars
capped a triumphant run through the
state tournament Friday with a 6-3
victory over Buckhead Piedmont. The
win on a muggy night in Brooks gave
WRALL an undefeated record in state
tournament play.
They advance as the Georgia
state representatives to the Little
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Panther Kanorris Davis attempts lifting 300 pounds during the clean-and-jerk competition during the Night of Champions held Friday at Perry High
School.
Perry hosts 'Night of Champions'
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Is “The Grind” becoming too easy?
Is working out for an upcoming foot
ball season now becoming the “it”
thing to do for a Perry High School
youngster?
Andy Scott and the coaching staff
of the Panthers hope each ques
tion is answered with a resounding
Tigers earn finals berth with run in the ninth
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Dave Chapman stood on sec
ond base representing the win
ning run for the Tigers in the
bottom of the ninth Sunday
at the Bibb County Sports
Complex in Macon.
The Dodgers unfortunately
made his journey home easier
with an errant pickoff throw
that rolled into the outfield.
Chapman raced to the plate,
and the Tigers had a 10-9 win
in the winner’s bracket finals
of the Kevin Poole Middle
Georgia Adult Men’s Baseball
League 2007 playoffs.
The top-seeded Tigers, which
upended the Cardinals in their
first playoff game held Friday,
earned the right to play for a
second league championship in
as many years. The other final
ist was determined by two late
games on Sunday, including
an elimination game between
the Cardinals and the Red
Sox. The winner of that game
See FINALS, page 4B
TUESDAY,
JULY 31, 2007
League Southeastern Regional in St.
Petersburg Florida starting Friday.
The WRALL All-Stars had put
themselves in the title game against
Buckhead with wins of 7-3 against
Belvedere, 17-6 against Elbert County,
22-5 against Toccoa and then beating
Oconee 9-2 Thursday.
Gov. Sonny Purdue, a member of
the 1957 WRALL All-Star team, was
on had to throw out the first pitch, as
well as to make the trophy presenta
“Yes!” as it will mean a new corner
turned for this program. Regulation
practice begins later in the week, but
last week was the culmination of the
prelude with “The Grind,” Scott’s
new traditional obstacle course, and
a “Night of Champions,” a weight
lifting competition held outdoors at
Herb St. John Stadium for all inter
ested spectators to see.
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A Dodgers player slides into third during the team’s Middle Georgia Men’s Adult Baseball League playoff game
against the Tigers Sunday at the Bibb County Sports Complex.
Sports
tion afterwards.
WRALL - playing as the home team
- sent ace Clint Wynn to the mound.
Buckhead’s leadoff batter Alec Sard
walked to open the game, advanced
to second on a wild pitch, then scored
on a single by Pearce Howell to put
Buckhead up 1-0. WRALL loaded the
bases against Buckhead’s Nathan
Schultz in the bottom of the inning
without a hit, but failed to score.
See MAJORS, page 4B
Scott couldn’t help but brag
about several summer accomplish
ments by his football players to the
crowd of assorted family members.
Such points he stressed included
attendance and weight lifting maxi
mums.
“We had 20 ninth graders who had
perfect attendance,” said Scott. “We
had more than 70 upperclassmen
American 9-10-yer olds
roll at champions toorney
From staff reports
Warner Robins American
Little League’s 9-10-year
old All-Stars picked up two
straight wins to ensure they
would advance out of pool
play and into the second
round of the Tournament
of Champions, which began
Saturday and runs through
Wednesday at Mitch Stadium
in Kenova, W.V
WRALL opened pool play
with a 14-5 win over Florida.
That game featured a com
bined 12 pitchers between
with perfect attendance. We may
have had more than that. As a foot
ball team we had about 98.5 percent
attendance every . day. We pushed
over 100 kids every night.
“In the past, we’ve always had a
problem of keeping ninth graders
out. I think the problem now is get
ting them over here, not necessarily
See CHAMPIONS, page 4B
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the two teams.
Blake Jackson started
things off for WRALL, albeit
things got shaky after the
first inning. He gave up a
hit, four walks and four runs
before being relieved by
Justin Jones. Jones worked
an inning, Cortez Broughton
and Conner Smith one and
a third, Spencer Sato part
of an inning and then Caleb
Daffron finished things off
- also working part of an
inning.
See TOURNEY, page 4B
Clark earns
fourth at
world event
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Perry Horseshoe
Pitcher’s Club member
Dane Clark came up short
but did make a valiant
run at a world title at
the World Horseshoe
Pitching Championships,
which began July 23 and
are slated to run through
Aug. 7.
Clark, with each con
tender in the Mens E 2
Division competing three
days - five games each
day - went 3-2 Wednesday.
The day following, he
went 4-1. That had him
at 7-3 and in third - but
with the same record as
Justin Sipma from North
Dakota, who was in sec
ond with a better ringer
percentage. The leader
- and eventual winner
- James Miller was 9-1 at
the time.
Miller then went 3-2 the
final day Friday. That put
Clark, and some others,
within striking distance
but unfortunately, he was
only able to match Miller’s
, 3-2 mark.
With Sam Good of
Indiana, who was also 7-3
on day two of the com
petition, but was behind
Clark on ringer percent
ages, going 4-1, he was
able to move ahead of
Clark and Sipma for sec
ond. Sipma still finished
with a better ringer per
centage than Clark, so he
was third - with Clark
ending up fourth.
See CLARK, page 4B
Music take 2
over weekend
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
The Macon Music com
pleted a nine game home
stand, except three of the
games were away.
The Music took two out
of three from league lead
ing South Georgia in the
opening series that began
July 19 and ended July
21.
Macon then lost two of
three when the Anderson
Joes came to town July
23-25.
Bradenton was the next
visitor, but in the Juice’s
case, they played the
home team because they
don’t have a home field.
The series ran from
Thursday to Saturday,
and the Macon Music won
two of three.
Their 5-4 home stand
See MUSIC, page 4B