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S ri.arfcs, BASKETBALL HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL iWmm »\"W Je ■■ 'Fm , ENI/Gary Harmon Perry quarterback Casey Hayward touches the Panther statue for good luck en route to the team’s play-in game against Jackson this past Friday. Perry will host LaGrange Friday. Perry preps to host LaGrange By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer With a state-championship legacy that dates back to the 19205, LaGrange High School knows something about win ning foot ball. Steve Pardue, the coach who’s LaG range at Perry, Friday, 7:30 p.m. kept that tradition alive in the 21st Century with three state championships, says it’s all about getting good players, maintaining a coaching staff and living in a town that doesn’t get too high or too low over any one result. Perry High opens the 2007 GHSA Class AAA state play offs against those LaGrange Grangers that finished third in Region 2-AAA with a record of 8-2. 2-AAA is an 11-team region that isn’t subdivided, so the entire regular season consists of region games. LaGrange’s two losses came to Carver- Columbus and Shaw, but the Grangers came close to a third loss last weekend to its county rival Troup High at Callaway Stadium. LaGrange had its share of mistakes in this game, including a lost fumble that gave Troup its first score to cut a 10-0 lead down to three at halftime. The Grangers got back up by 10 only to give up a 51-yard touchdown pass on third-and-long and another after a fumbled punt in the fourth quarter. LaGrange would score the game-winner late, but still needed an interception in the end zone to seal it after Troup had a 60-yard pass play on a 4th-and-17. “That’s always a big rival ry,” said Pardue in a phone interview Monday with the Houston Home Journal. “We SCHEDULE High school swimming Friday ■ Warner Robins at Cobb Relays and time trials at Mt. View Aquatic (through Saturday), 5 p.m. Saturday ■ Warner Robins at Cobb Relays and time trials at Mt. View Aquatic, 7 a.m. Saturday ■ Perry at Wildcat Invitational at Steve Lunquist Aquatic Center in Jonesboro, time to be determined. scored more points. That was the plan going in.” Pardue hasn’t had to sweat out too many other games in 2007 as LaGrange has six shutout victories. “We kind of hang our hats Second-half surge helps Panthers get past Jackson By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Through second-half domination by the Panther offense, Perry High paved a way into the GHSA Class AAA state football playoffs Friday by besting the Jackson High Red Devils 21-14 at Herb St. John Stadium. This was a play-in game to end the regular season between Perry, which mil " . jmsmSgr Jbß mUhKM MW ENI/Gary Harmon Jacorey Lane runs through a gaping hole in the Jackson defense in the Panthers’ win this past Friday at home. High school swimming Friday ■ Warner Robins High school football Friday ■ LaGrange at Perry, 7:30 p.m. ■ Creekside at Northside, 7:30 p.m. IN BRIEF WR Rec to hold ‘team’ signups The Warner Robins Recreation Department will hold on our defense and special teams, then we try not to beat ourselves on offense,” he said. LaGrange uses an eight man front and has allowed just over 1,000 yards rush-, won first place in the south sub-region, and Jackson, which grabbed the fourth spot from the-north sub-region. It was also the second meeting of 2007 between the Panthers and the Red Devils from Butts County. The First game took place in Jackson in September, and Perry won that game with a second-half See SURGE, page 4B ing in 10 previous games. The leader is a 200-pound junior linebacker named Qua Huzzie. Of his 133 total vtackles, 20 are for lost yards and three are See PREPS, page 8B team registration for its 2008 adult basketball league Dec. 3 and 4. Divisions will include Men's Open (five-on-five) 18 years and older and Men’s Open (three-on-three) 45 years and older. The entry fee for the five-on-five league is $395 per team and the three-on-three league is $270 oer team. Both leagues will play a 10-game season. The season will run Jan. 14-Feb. 29. 2008. The entry fee is due at the time of registration. Team registration will be taken between the hours of 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the athletic office, which is located at 800 Watson Blvd. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2007 ♦ Eagles, Demons and Bears to Be in seme clessificaOon From staff reports According to figures released by the Georgia High School Association Friday afternoon, all three Warner Robins high schools will reside in the same clas sification for a two-year stretch beginning in the fall of 2008. The 2008-2010 reclassifi cation numbers show that Houston County High, Warner Robins High and Northside High all fall in the state !s highest clas sification, which is Class AAAAA. Houston and Warner Robins were placed in 5A for the current two year span that began in the > fall of 2006 while Northside stayed in Class AAAA. The GHSA changed the procedure for making the new classifications, which are based on a school’s full time enrollment count. For a public school, the FTE is an average of that school’s spring 2007 count and fall 2007 count. A total of 66 schools fell in the 5A classifica tion, and all have an FTE average of 1,850 students Four local moo to contend In Georgia Senior 4-Ball tourney Special to the Journal iuiifel Baker qpd arid Eddie Wiggins, all of Warner Robins are also all listed to contend in the Georgia Senior Four-Ball Championship, which takes place today through Friday at the Jekyll Island Golf Resort - Oleander and Pine Lakes, Jekyll Island. The format is 18 holes of four ball stroke play each day. The field of 96 two-man teams - Baker and Smith are grouped together as are Baggett and Wiggins - is divided into five flights by handicap index. The Championship flight will compete on the Oleander course with the first through fourth flights play Hornets wrap up winning year From staff reports Sherwood was known as a team that faded down the stretch. Friday at Westfield on the Hornets’ Senior Night, that didn’t turn out to be the case. The Eagles scored six points in the third quarter and a whopping 26 in the fourth. The good news for the Westfield faithful was the Hornets, who scored 14 points in the first quarter and seven in the second to take a 21-0 halftime lead, scored 20 of their own in that final 12 minutes en route to a 41-26 win. Even better in the grand scheme of things as far as Head Coach Ronnie Jones “The down and dirty" Needed will be: Entry fee (payable to WRRD), team name and coach(es) name, address and phone numbers for confact. For more info call 929-1916. Soccer referees needed/wanted Want to become a Georgia High School soccer referee? They are in need. A certification class will be held Jan. 26, 2008 in the Westside High School cafe'. It is slated to start at 10 a.m. Also, other classes are available. Contact Patrick Walsh at 478-397-6115 for more information. or better. Houston County High’s average is 2,185.5 (2,140 for spring of 2007 and 2,231 for fall of 2007). Warner Robins High has an average of 2,002 (1,933 for spring of 2007 and 2,071 for fall of 2007). Northside came in at an average of 1,902 (1,865 for spring of 2007 and 1.939 for fall of 2007). Perry High School remains in the AAA classi fication, which has 81 total schools. It’s FTE average is 1,088.5 (1,052 for spring of 2007 and 1,125 for spring of 2007). The reclassification pro cedure isn’t finished. Any school wishing to challenge its numbers of to play in a higher classification must inform the GHSA in writ ing by Nov. 26. The GHSA reclassifica tion committee then meets on Nov. 29 to place the schools in regions. Schools can appeal in writing for a lateral transfer by Dec. 14, and the GHSA Reclassification Committee will hear those appeals on Dec. 17. ing the Pine Lakes course. Entries were^^^^^- golfers who are frienSSbrsof a GSGA member club, resi dents of Georgia and who have reached the age of 55 by November 14. The Georgia Senior Four-Ball Tournament began in 1992. This year marks the 16th annual event. Columbus-native Bill Ploeger owns the most titles in tournament his tory with four. Jekyll Island Golf Resort - Oleander Course will play at 6,357 yards and a par 72. Jekyll Island Golf Resort - Pine Lakes Course will play at 6,303 yards and a par 72. had said leading up to the contest was the win enabled the Hornets, who failed to make the playoffs for the second-straight year, to fin ish with a winning percent age at 6-4. That was some thing they could build on he had said prior. Sherwood’s year ended at 1-9. As far as the game, quar terback Casey Young, who had been questionable coming in due to an earlier injury, hooked up with Joel Revis on a 41-yard pass play to get things started. Young finished the night 6-13 for 171 yards and no interceptions. Thirty nine more of those yards See WINNING, page 4B 3B