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IN BRIEF
Jim Herrin Memorial
Stampede set
The 2007 Jim Herrin Memorial
Stampede is set for Aug. 11 with the
5 and 10Ks slated to begin at 7:30
a.m. and the one-mile fun run set to
begin at 8:15 a.m.
The race will begin at the
Centerville Galleria Mall.
The cost is sls for the 5 or 10K
if postmarked on or before Aug. 17
- $lO for participants 19 years of
age or younger - or $lB on race
day. Registration on race day is from
6:15-7:15 a.m.
The cost for the one-mile run is
$lO. An event T-shirt is guaranteed,
according to a release, to those who
pre-register. Refreshments will also
be available after each race, the
release reads.
Awards will be given. See http://
robinspacers.org/ for additional race
info or to register online. For further
information, contact David Erpelding
at 478-328-3208.
Perry Middle to hold
golf tournament
Perry Middle School will hold a
two-man scramble golf tournament
fund-raiser at the Perry Country Club
Aug. 18. The event will begin with
an 8 a.m. shotgun start. Prizes will
include S4OO for the first place team,
S2OO for second and SIOO for third,
as well as a hole in one prize of
an ‘OB Ford Mustang from Wayne
Morris Ford.
The cost is SSO per player, which
includes lunch as well as door priz
es. Call Randy Moss at 988-6291
or e-mail him at rdmoss@hcbe.net
to register.
MGMABL to hold
home run derby
The Middle Georgia Men’s Adult
Baseball League, in conjunction with
Akadema sporting goods and Team
Sports, is holding a home run derby
Saturday at noon at Luther Williams
Field in Macon.
There is a S2O registration fee
for all hitters, and contestants must
register by calling 478-256-3422.
Other information is available at
www.georgiabaseball.net. Bats will
be provided by georgiabaseball.
net. Baseballs will be provided by 1
Touch Wireless. General admission
for spectators is $4.
HoCo, NS to hold
softball fund-raiser
Houston County and Northside
will be holding a fast-pitch softball
fund-raising scrimmage game Aug.
11 at 1 p.m. at Northside.
The cost is $5 for adults, $3 for
students.
Soccer referee
course to be offered
An entry level soccer referee
course will be offered at Northside
high school Aug. 17 and 18. The
Friday class will be from 6-9 p.m.
and the Saturday class will be from
9 a.m.-4 p.m. The cost is $55.
For more information visit www.
gareferees.com or contact Russ
Grant via e-mail at russ.grant@cox.
net or via phone at 478-396-0727.
WR Rec preps for
softball season
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will hold team registra
tion for the 2007 Fall Softball League
Monday and Tuesday. Teams may
register between the 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
at the department, which is located
at 800 Watson Blvd.
Per a release, they will register
the first 28 coed teams and the first
21 men’s teams only. League play
will be Monday through Thursday for
a 12-game season. The entry fee is
$348 per team. The fall season will
open Sept. 4. Participants must be
16 by Sept. 1.
For more info call Martha Ann
Lumpkin at 929-1914 or 929-1916.
Cheer Booster Club to
host golf tourney
The Warner Robins High School
Cheer Booster Club will host its Fifth
Annual Golf Scramble Saturday.
The event is slated to begin with
a shotgun start at 2 p.m. The cost
is SSO per person, which includes
lunch, green fee, cart, door prize,
raffles and course refreshments.
For details and sign up, call Kelly
Segars at 808-5455.
Kids group to sponsor
charity game
Kids R Us Inc., is sponsoring a
charity basketball game Aug. 25 at
7 p.m. at the Macon Coliseum. The
event, according to a release, will be
used as a fund-raiser for 2-year-old
Aj'ah Gary, who is currently battling
the cancer (neuroblastoma). Call
478-284-1578 for more.
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 3, 2007
WMLL 9-10-year-oMs
win toimev if champs
By DONMONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Warner Robins American
Little League’s 9-10-year-old
All-Stars are the best. They
made that official beating
North Carolina 6-3 in the
finals of the Tournament of
State Champions Wednesday
in Ceredo, WV
To get to that point, the
local All-Stars, representing
Georgia via their state title,
beat Florida 14-5, Alabama
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Poole poised for possible world pitching title
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Chuck Poole is poised for a
championship. That doesn’t
mean the Perry Horseshoe
Pitcher’s Club member and
Warner Robins native is
going to get one but he defi
Music dominate Aiken for fifth-straight win
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Macon used a six-run first
to power its way past Aiken
for the second-straight
day. The Music beat the
Foxhounds 15-5. In fact, by
the time the South Carolina
host had gotten on the board,
Macon - via four more runs
Sports
11-4 and Indiana 17-2 in
pool play. That gave them
the top seed in the “knock
out” round where they
first watched Alabama beat
Florida 8-6 then beat that
same Alabama team 12-8.
That put them in the finals
against North Carolina.
Up until that point, accord
ing to the tournament’s
website, WRALL had scored
60 runs and had 69 hits.
Against North Carolina
- a team that had scored
On the loose
nitely put himself in position
for it with his performance
at the World Horseshoe
Pitching Championship,
which started July 23 and
is slated to run through
Tuesday.
For Poole, there is no
Tuesday. There is only
in the third
and one in the
fourth - was
up 11-0.
Aiken,
which left
Macon 15,
Aiken 5
10 men on base - Macon
stranded eight - scored
two runs in the fifth
See M USIC, page 4B
30 runs of its own in three
games - however, the website
said WRALL had to resort to
pitching and defense. (Note:
Calls to two coaches were
not returned, but in their
defense, those calls - after
a long evening of baseball
- were made early Thursday
morning.)
First, according to the
website, Conner Smith
shut down North Carolina
through five innings.
See CHAMPS, page 4B
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Thursday - the last day of
pitching for the Elder Mens
“30” Foot Division, which
is the bracket he is compet
ing in. (Which has also been
held but results were not
available as of presstime.)
After pitching to a 3-
2 record his first day and
South Coast League standings (as of Wednesday)
W L Pet. GB Streak Lst 10
South Georgia 13 6 .684 0.0 L 2 7-3
Macon 11 7 .611 1.5 W 5 6-4
Bradenton 10 8 .556 2.5 W 1 4-6
Anderson 9 11 .450 4.5 W 2 6-4
Aiken 8 12 .400 5.5 L 3 3-7
Charlotte County 5 12 .294 7.0 L 4 3-7
Greg Nix leaving
Houston County
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Greg Nix, Houston County High School boys basket
ball coach for the past six years, planned a trip back
home to Alabama Thursday. He and his family were to
be the guests of the superintendent for Boaz, Ala., city
schools at their board’s regular meeting.
Nix said Wednesday night that, while strange things
happen sometimes, he expected to be named boys bas
ketball coach at Boaz High School.
Boaz, Nix explained, is 20 minutes away from where
he grew up and where his mother still resides. Nix
said his father passed away two years ago and that his
mother had a stroke 20 years ago.
See NIX, page 4B
FAR LEFT:
Head coach
Andy Scott
uses an
oversized
medicine ball
to run play
ers through
defensive
drills.
LEFT: A play
er touches a
sign - a man
datory exer
cise - head
ing out to the
practice field.
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being in seventh, Tuesday
he went 4-1. That’s where
the: he put himself in posi
tion comes from. Now, he
is 7-3 and fifth. Even better
is the fact those pitchers in
positions two through four
are also 7-3. They just have
See POOLE, page 4B
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WRNL falls
to Louisiana
Finishes WS
co-runner-up
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Warner Robins National
League’s Belles All-Stars
finished runner-up at the
Dixie World Series held
this week at Marianna,
Fla.
WRNL, which suffered
its first loss Tuesday (9-6
to Tennessee) - coupled
with three wins to open
the tournament (the only
team to do that) - entered
Wednesday’s play needing
a win over Louisiana to
earn a finals berth.
It couldn’t man
age, being shut out by
Louisiana 2-0.
Louisiana, on the
other hand, wasn’t fin
ished. For starters, both
it and Tennessee earned
title berths via the losers
bracket. Tennessee lost
on the first day of play to
North Carolina.
It then went on to
win three games before
playing and beating the
local Georgia (WRNL)
squad. Louisiana fell to
Mississippi the second day
then followed the same
pattern. In the end, the
two aforementioned teams
squared off for the cham
pionship with Louisiana
winning 11-1.
Because, according
See WRNL, page 4B
Riley struggles
at amateur event
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Sports Editor
Mary Riley’s first day at
the 2007 Georgia Women’s
Amateur championship
was a struggle to say the
least.
The Perry resident,
according to a Georgia
State Golf Association
release, shot a 91 the
first day of competi
tion Wednesday at the
event being held through
Thursday (results of that
day pending) at Augusta
Country Club in Augusta.
Subsequently, she is cur
rently tied with one other
golfer for 40th on the list.
Four players, including
defending champion Jean
Reynolds and hometown
favorite Laura Coble,
are atop the leaderboard
with sub-par rounds. Two
others shot even par to
lead the field of 43 of the
state’s top women’s ama
teur golfers.
Jean Reynolds of
Newnan shot 70 and
See RILEY, page 4B