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8 Rebound Hornets seek return to glory By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Snorts Writer How exactly does a school's football pro gram - one that is accustomed to winning more than half @f its games season after sea son - react to that one year that comes along where the win total amounts to a mere two? Westfield Schools had the chance to find that out the hard way this off-season. 2006 was a year to forget in Hornet football: two wins, seven losses, one tie and a list of key starters going down to injury that seemed to grow week after week. The ensuing winter and summer wasn’t a time for panic, though, or a complete rewrit ing of the game plans and workout regimens, not with a 30-yearplus coaching veteran in charge with about half of his career spent on the Perry campus. “I was real proud of the kids this summer,” said Westfield head coach Ronnie Jones. “I think there was 35 days possible and 99 per cent of our kids made the number of times we asked them to come. We had some that went over and beyond that. “We did a lot of stuff in the weight room and a few things outside. We probably didn’t do enough not knowing how this heat was Westfield « ' Schools y .'T:Mii~.¥.3:..y-V..*i*-i-¥...i...¥ ..>.:.¥■ 478-987-0547 Date Day Time Aug 31 Fri 8:00 PM Sep 07 Fri 8:00 PM Sep 14 Fri Sep 21 Fri 7:30 PM Oct 05 Fri Oct 12 Fri Oa 19 Fri Oct 26 Fri Nov 02 Fri Nov 09 Fri 8.00 PM USt ° n ca^t^l^ re Visit our website at www.hhc.org "We haven't had a 2-7-1 year here at Westfield in a long, long time, in 14 years at least. It didn't feel real good, and I know our kids worked hard enough and they have the attitude to want to do something about that." - Westfield head football coach Ronnie Jones going to be, but I was encouraged by the way they turned out. “We haven’t had a 2-7-1 year here at Westfield in a long, long time, in 14 years at least. It didn’t feel real good, and I know our kids worked hard enough and they 2005 Hwy. 41 S. Perry , Ga Opponent John Milledge Academy (3N-IAAA) Mount de Sales (3N-IAAA) Tattnall Square (3N-lAAA) Brentwood School (1-IAA) Stratford Academy (3S-IAAA) First Presbyterian (3S-IAAA) Deerfield-Windsor (3S-lAAA) Pinewood Christian (3S-lAAA) Southland Academy (3S-IAAA) Sherwood Christian (3S-IAAA) Houston Lake Pavilion Med-Stop Med-Stop N. Houston Rd at Hwv 127 & Moodv Rd. Houston Mall 478-988-1865 4789-923-2843 See HORNETS, page 17 Location Home Away Home Home Home Away Away Away Away Away * SrlwiM '»• Wk & T ' -«***>■& h.mTw w The Hornets work out at the school Wednesday. GO AIL THE WAYHORN tlj^j H gPH IWtl Irfrl FPPft Mril ffeV. rift* PPh'fl mfflL A DIVISION OF PATTEN SEED COMPANY a • Centipede • Tifway 419 Bermuda • Emerald Zoysia I or Pickup I on lligtmin 96 (<> 1-75 (47S> ON7-0770 50680 HOUSTON COUNTY FOOTBALL 2007 * Mercedes St. Augustine * TifSport Bermuda * Zenith Zoysia ENI/Gary Harmon ! pr ,ikii.i ff,i <47N> N 25-7422 I-.SOO-5.55- 1320 *1209 . M