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4\ , ■' V " v ' V* HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL Chick-fil-a Bear Brawl Day 1 belongs to the lifies By MATTHEW BROWN Journal Sports Writer Warner Robins High, up by 22 at halftime Thursday, lost a 66-56 decision to Westside High of Macon on opening day of the 2007 Chick-Fil-A Bear Brawl hosted by Houston County High School. Westside’s Quin Bivins had a game’s worth of foul shots in the fourth quarter alone. He was 15- for-18 at the line in that period with the rest of his Seminole teammates going 8-for -11 in those same eight minutes. Kenny Fluellen of Warner Robins had 27 points. Next in scoring for the Demons Enos with Chick-fil-A Bear Brawl, Thursday at Houston County: ■ Westside boys 66, Warner Robins 56 ■ Hiram boys 64, Houston County 50 ■ Warner Robins girls 48, Hawkinsville 37 ■ Houston County giris 51, Hiram 24 was Johnny eight. Westside, led by for mer Georgia Southern and Georgia football quarterback Joe Dupree, showed abso lutely no offense, but a whole lot of turnovers in the first half. Chip Malone’s offense for Warner Robins revolved around Jordan Sanders in the low post. Sanders, in the first quarter, took passes inside from Enos and Ricky Ritter to score and put the Demons up 9-5. Sanders, standing at a wing, returned the favor and assisted a Fluellen bas ket inside. Robbie Bailey came off the bench, grabbed an offensive rebound and passed the ball out for a Jared Fluellen jumper (15- 5). Enos ended the quarter hitting a 3-pointer that had the Demons leading 18-6. Malone got more bench help in the second quar ter as W.J. McAllister ran the break and passed to Michael Hickey for a short jumper. Kenny Fluellen’s baseline drive resulted in a three-point play and 24-6 lead. He would make a 3- pointer and score on one of Ritter’s three first-half steals. Warner Robins was in charge at halftime 35-13, but the second half told a much different story. This time, it was the Demons showing no offense while the Seminoles opened the third quarter on a 13-2 run. At 2:20 of the period, Westside ran the floor after a missed shot and cut it to nine, 39-30. Sanders and K. Fluellen tried to counter running the inside-out game with Fluellen making a 3-pointer. Things still went Westside’s way with a third-chance bas ket and points off an inbound steal. Enos ended this disas trous period for Warner Robins making a 3-pointer, which kept the Demons up by nine, 45-36, with eight minutes left. Not only did the Seminoles make up the deficit at the foul line, but through domi nance on the offensive glass. Westside finally went ahead for good, 48-47, on a 3-point shot at 4:32. Warner Robins’ only chance at a comeback came as Enos, at 2:40, made a steal and K. Fluellen con verted to bring his team within two, 51-49. > v a . "" T§t W~ f . ■*•::. '"' V .*" V.„. -■ v|f v Vi jaMSfeama&pA -aHMlßMattuw • »\ . _ ‘ mi j : **- ■■*■*?■ HBKL • E&tf' yMWjrA NW A. • JH - -v Hhk f 1® <£■ wgf jfip j ENLGary Harmon Warner Robins’ Jordan Sanders goes in for a layup as Westside players attempt to defend in the two teams’ Chick-fil-A Bear Brawl matchup Thursday at Houston County. The Demons would not be able to capitalize on a second takeaway, and the foul-shooting barrage really began. DEMONETTES 48, HAWKINSVILLE 37 -V y \ IcEril JggjHMflr ; gßfl| jl - /g ; i X \ 1 \f >y , ' , L«. flllt ■ \ ENI/Gary Harmon Demonette Drashiya Anderson posts up for a shot while being defended by a Hawkinsville player. Warner Robins High’s girls began what is this year a round robin format for the ladies’ division of the Bear Brawl with a win against defending Class A state champion Hawkinsville. Symone Wilkerson, despite cold outside shooting from the second period on, led Tom Mobley’s Demonettes with 15 points. Hawkinsville didn’t make a field goal in the first quarter, which ended See BRA WL, page 2B SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2007 ♦ Perry club holds annual meeting, awards banquet Special to the Journal The Perry Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club held its annual meeting and awards banquet Dec. 10 at Old Times Restaurant in Warner Robins. President Tom Carter directed the meeting, according to a release from the club, which included the elec tion of new officers. They are: Chuck Poole, vice president; Roland Lallier, league director; Dave McKim, tournament direc tor (appointed by the direc tor) and Roy Gentry, stat istician. Among the awards given out, Mary Ann Gibbs received the Most Improved Award (for the Thursday morning league), League Champion Award (for the spring Thursday On Bowls, Petrino and the Bulldogs Bowls. Bowls. Bowls. I love bowls. I grew up on bowls. And I don’t mean salad bowls or cereal bowls. College football bowls at the end of the year just seemed to have that unique bright ness and identity about them, and com ing along I looked forward to them each w .. i Matthew Brown journal Sports Writer and every year. Yes, much has changed about bowls. They multi plied like rabbits. Some are gone, like the Bluebonnet. And others, like the Citrfts, the Peach and the Tangerine, never really left, just changed their names to suit the corpo rate sponsors. Still others moved to bigger and nicer stadiums, like the Orange and Fiesta. No, I can’t buy into the potential thrill everybody wants to build over a play off system for the big boys. A Division I-A playoff will not put 50 inches of rain in Lake Lanier or cut gasoline prices in half. The other divisions, like the one formerly known as I-AA, should want things to stay as they are, because the first half of December is their time to shine on nationwide television. A 1- A playoff would bump the Valdosta States of the world back to the back pages just like it’s the regular season. Besides, if you really stop to think about it, an over load of bowl games is great. Teams are making bowl games at a time when their programs are in a state of dire shambles. If you like watching a good disaster movie, why settle for fic tion when there’s real-life controlled chaos right in front of you? I’ll provide a little list "Teams are making bowl games at a time when their programs are in a state of dire shambles. If you like watching a good disaster movie, why settle for fiction when there's real-life controlled chaos right in front of you?" morning league) and High Game-High Average Award (spring league summer). Dane Clark, on the other hand received the Most Improved Award for the spring league, Roy Gentry the Rookie of the Year Award for the spring league and Sheila Gentry the Rookie of the Year Award for the summer league. McKim was recognized as the League Champion for the summer league and was also singled out as the Club Champion for 2007. Lallier received the Rookie of the Year Award for the Thursday evening league, as well as the Sportsmanship Award. Karin Myers also received a Rookie of the Year Award, hers for the See CLUB,page §B here, and you could apply any label to most of the cur rent bowl teams, even those playing on or after Jan. 1. Here’s what you have play ing in 2007 bowls: ■ Teams that fired the head coach and turned things over to an interim coach ■ Teams that fired the head coach, hired a nevjsj coach, but are still run for now by an interim coach ■ Teams that fired a head coach and found a new one who is already in charge ■ Teams that had their head coach resign and turned things over to an interim coach ■ Teams that had their head coach resign, hired a new coach, but are still run for now by an interim coach ■ Teams that had their head coach resign and found a new one who is already in charge The Georgia Bulldogs twice fell into their own little category. They fired both Ray Goff and Jim Donnan but allowed them to coach a bowl game. I don’t think that’s happen ing this year nor has it hap pened in any recent year. That’s a great way to shift into talk about one of those coaches and schools. Bobby Petrino has been called a liar, a coward and a quitter. There will be no name-calling here only to say that Petrino is the ex head football coach of the Atlanta Falcons. But a bit of advice for Petrino: If you should lead your new Arkansas Razorbacks to the Southeastern Conference Western Division Championship, you might want to find an excuse to not make the trip to the Georgia Dome. You seem to be pretty good at that. Let’s lay out all the facts nobody can dispute about this story. Petrino came to Atlanta on the assump tion he would have a See BROWN,page 4B 1B