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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
HoCo sweeps at Luella
Demonettes one match shy of perfect
Special to the Journal
The Houston County High volleyball
team continued its season last week playing
Tuesday against Northside and Jonesboro
High School at Northside. The Lady Bears
split the tri-match dropping to Jonesboro but
rebounding to defeat the host Lady Eagles.
The team then played Saturday, traveling to
Luella High School in Henry County to play
Area 2-AAAAA rivals Luella, Union Grove
and Mundy’s Mill. The Lady Bears started
the day by playing Luella High School. They
won in three games with scores of 25-19, 22-
25 and 25-21. Coach Jones commented,
“After struggling to hit our serving spots on
Tuesday,” said head coach Tony Jones, “we
spent the week working on that in practice
and it paid off in this match.”
In the second match against defending Area
2-AAAAA Champions Union Grove (it defeat
ed the Lady Bears in the Area Championship
last season).
The Lady Bears won the rematch, however,
2-1. Game scores for the match were 25-20,
18-25 and 25-17.
“After the area finals last year,” Jones said,
“the girls and I could not wait to get our next
shot at Union Grove. The girls refused to
lose and were the most focused I have seen
them. Morgan (Hollars) and Cat (Catherine
Goodman) were huge emotional leaders on
the floor.
“Coach (Maria) Huelsman (the Lady Bears’
assistant coach) noticed a weakness with
their middle hitter and drew a play to block
here and Adrienne Pate got two big blocks
and that was all we needed to take their
middle hitter out of the game. That meant
they were only attacking from one direction
and we were able to handle that.”
In the third match the Lady Bears played
Mundy’s Mill out of Clayton County. The
Lady Bears only needed two games to win the
match with scores of 25-13 and 25-16.
“After some confusion at the start (Mundy’s
Mill was out of rotation twice in the first two
points and an off-court issue with one of the
Mundy’s Mill scorekeepers),” Jones said,
“the girls settled in and handled them. We
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full time. She’s our No.
3 hitter for a reason. She
always makes solid contact
and always scores runs when
we have runners in scoring
position.”
Sarah Ling added two run
scoring hits for the Bears. Her
double brought in Kourtny
Thomas in what was a three
run opening inning overall
for the home team.
Tift County had eight hits,
and two (almost three) of
those cleared the outfield
fence. Blue Devil catcher
Kiysten Mangham homered
in the top of the second for
Tift’s first run (3-1).
Houston followed with
another three-spot in the
home second on four hits,
including a leadoff single for
freshman Katie Kratz.
April Collins executed
the sacrifice bunt, and
then Danielle Burkett sin
gled for her second straight
hit. Crawford held Kratz to
third base, but Burkett took
second as Tift threw the ball
towards home.
Kaitlyn Carriker drew
a walk to load the bases.
Ashlee Burkett kept the ball
in the park - and on the
ground - with a single up the
middle, but still drove in two
more runs.
Tift made a pitching
change, and Houston would
only get three hits the rest
of the game against the new
thrower. Ling had one of the
hits, which brought Carriker
home for the 6-1 lead. Ashlee
Burkett had hits in both the
fourth and sixth inning, her
sixth inning safety coming
after Tift turned a double
play.
Three of the first four Tift
batters in the top of the third
had hits, but there were no
runs as Collins in left field,
Thomas at shortstop and
Carriker at third base com
bined for a relay out. With
two outs, Rebecca Johnson
completed the whole day’s
scoring with a three-run
home run deep to left.
Tift’s biggest chance to tie
the game came in the fifth,
but the visitors hurt them
selves with an obstruction
call on a sacrifice bunt. The
leadoff Devil batter of the
inning walked, and she had
to stay on first with one out
as Kelly Dill drove a ball
that hit on top of the out
field fence, stayed in play and
resulted in a double.
were able to play all of the bench and the JV
players we brought in both games. That will
pay big dividends down the stretch.”
This week’s action brought the team’s
record to 15-7 overall. Plus, they are 6-0 in
Area 2-AAAAA, which puts them in first
place in the area.
The Lady Bears are in Area 2-AAAAA
action again this weekend at Warner Robins
(a date originally scheduled for Houston
County but had to be moved because of
the Middle George Cheer Classic cheerlead
ing tournament at Houston County) playing
Morrow, MLK and Warner Robins. The times
are 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m.
Warner Robins was also at the Luella
tournament with some pretty good results as
well. The Demonettes started off by beating
Mundy’s Mill 2-1. Mundy’s Mill won the first
game 25-20 but Warner Robins rebounded
to take game No. 2 26-24 and game three
25-23.
Next, the Demonettes played and beat
Luella 2-1. Luella won the first game in this
one, too, 27-25, but Warner Robins came
storming back with wins of 25-19 and 25-17.
Finally, it was time for Union Grove, with
it edging the Demonettes 2-0. If Warner
Robins could have gotten past the first game
- unlike in the other two cases - things might
have been different. But, it lost 25-23 and
then fell 25-14.
Singled out for their play by head coach
Tracy Fendley were: Katie Hotchkiss, who
had 12 aces on the day with nine kills, 10
assists, three digs and three blocks. Also,
Catherine Causey had five aces, six kills and
three digs, Deanna LeShoure three aces,
one dig, two blocks and three kills, Aletrius
Booker, 10 kills and three blocks and Symone
Wilkerson, six aces, three digs and nine
assists.
“Overall the team played well on Saturday,”
Fendley said. “We got behind early in the
matches against Mundy’s Mill and Luella,
but the girl’s showed a lot of heart and fought
back to win both matches.”
The team is currently 4-2.
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Houston County third baseman Kaitlyn Carriker tags a
Tift County player during the Lady Bears’ game against
the Lady Blue Devils Monday at Houston County.
With two in scoring posi
tion, Hancock struck out
Johnson swinging and got
a first-pitch grounder to
Carriker.
Hancock struck out six and
walked three.
“It keeps us up there
with Warner Robins and
Lowndes,” said Crawford
about Houston’s fifth region
win against one loss (to
the Demonettes). “We play
Lowndes (Saturday) in a
very, very big game for us.”
Over the weekend, the
Bears won four games in
a row to win the ‘silver’
bracket of the Watermelon
Invitational hosted by Crisp
County High in Cordele. The
wins came after an opening
loss to Cook 4-3.
“After the first game, we
brought our bats and out
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scored our opponents 45-1,”
said Crawford. “We had good
pitching from Brianna and
Kratz.”
The winning streak in
Cordele began with three
shutouts in a row against
Bainbridge (8-0), Lanier
County (18-0) and Turner
County (10-0). The Bears
completed the event by top
ping Cairo 9-1.
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