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4B ♦ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2007 WR Aquanauts compete in USA championships Special to the Journal Per a release from the Warner Robins Aquanauts Swim Team: In keeping with the spirit of sports excel lence for Warner Robins athletes, six members of the Warner Robins Aquanauts Swim Team participated in the USA Swimming State Championships Meet at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center this past weekend. All six swimmers, according to the release, are longtime members of the Aquanauts and train year-round. The USA Swimming competition, according to the release, pits the best swimmers from Georgia in three days of exciting competition. Some participants in this meet are experienced competitors from the 2004 Olympics and others are hopefuls for the 2008 Olympic Games sched uled for Beijing, China. Swimming for Warner Robins were Kaylie Hamborg (home schooled), Patrick Cossart (Perry High School), BROWN From page iB superstar named Michael Vick leading his offense. Vick will not be playing for the Falcons now, next year, if ever again. Suddenly, the Falcons job became less and less appealing, and Petrino became less and less appeal ing to those players still there. So why are so many people in the Falcons organization angry? Something tells me it wasn’t so much that Petrino left with three games still to go, but that he left on his own. Maybe there were those like DeAngelo Hall hoping he would be gone at the season’s end, but these are the types who wanted the satisfaction of seeing him booted out, canned, fired. Nobody can say that ulti mately Petrino isn’t in a bet ter place for him. There are still questions about the tim ing and how he said his final “goodbyes.” What was the deal with having a press conference in Arkansas at close to mid night EST on Tuesday? That was about 24 hours after the end of the Monday Night loss to the Saints. Was Arkansas so worried about Petrino changing his mind that all this was thrown together at A MACON REGIONAL Help sdve A Grime 742-2330 • 1-877-68 CRIME (ay 4 0 3) Rewards of up to S I,OOO - Remain Anonymous! Korachee 0. Chastain - Violation of Probation Superior Court. LKL: 1024 King Blvd., Perry Deonta Antonio Lowe - Theft by Shoplifting. LKL: 218 Scuthview Ave., Warner Robins yoS&mm«&js, 'G&iSesjj?.. wb£M> Christopher A. Turner - Arrest Order. LKL: 110 Sunstede Rd., Warner Robins IF YOU DON’T LIKE SEEING YOUR PICTURE ON THIS PAGE, mm, Erik Hanson (Warner Robins High School), broth ers, Nathan and Aaron Meece (Houston County High School) and Brett Niemantsverdriet (Houston County High School). The swimmers are coached by Wes Hamborg and Tracy Burkholder and train at the Memorial Pool in Warner Robins. Hamborg set a gru eling training regime for the swimmers through the fall months in preparation for this competition. Approximately 500 swim mers competed in the events over the weekend. The WRA Men’s relay team set team records in the 200 medley relay, the 400 medley relay and the 400 free relay. The six swimmers realized 10 personal best times as follows: Hanson, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 100 Free; Hamborg, 100 Fly, 200 Fly, 100 Back, 100 Free; Cossart, 50 Free; Nathan Meece, 100 Breast; Niemantsverdriet, 100 Back, 200 Back. Hamborg, according to the the last minute? Why not make your decision to switch jobs on Tuesday, inform Arthur Blank and Rich McKay that same day, tell your players on Wednesday (because they had Tuesday off) instead of writing that letter, and then go to Arkansas and start “pig sooeying.” Maybe this is the answer: For Arkansas, Petrino was the second choice after the Wake Forest coach. But for Petrino, the Razorbacks were probably his third choice behind LSU and Auburn. BULLDOG TALK: With Georgia preparing itself for Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl, it’s a good time to look ahead to the 2008 campaign. Fellow Bulldogs, this is the schedule to end all schedules. Alabama and Tennessee are coming to Athens. We must face LSU in Baton Rouge and Florida on back-to-back weekends. But there’s one listing here that stands out for his toric reasons. On Sept. 20 the Bulldogs have a non-con ference game with Arizona State, the team that contend ed for the Pac-10 champion ship this year, in Tempe. Why is this historic? Georgia never goes out West to play a football game. For those of us who have been around for a half-century or less, we know of only a few Christopher Tyler Holder - Arrest Order. LKL 124 Windsor Dr., Warner Robins Victor Cueto - Bench Warrant Superior Court. LKL 220 Billy Ave., Warner Robins Taquez M. Moore - Arrest Order. LKL: 1005 Elberta Rd., Apt. 77, Warner Robins Renee Vashti McKenney - Theft by Taking Motor Vehicle. LKL: Robins RV Park Lot 9 Glenn Waters, Sr. - Arrest Orders X 3. LKL: 314 Johns Rd., Warner Robins Tauren Yates - Violation of Probation State Court. LKL: 320 Carl Vinson Pkwy., Warner Robins release, led the Aquanauts in number of events with seven. Hamborg set a personal best time in four events: the 100 Butterfly, the 100 freestyle, the 100 backstroke and the 200 butterfly. She was pre viously selected as the top women’s swimmer in a meet in Rockford earlier this fall. She has been swimming for seven years. When asked to comment on her swimming career she said, “I enjoy swimming," she said. "It is a big part of my life and a big commitment. All the hard work is worth it when I have a meet like this past weekend!” Hanson swam three indi vidual events and four relays. In the 200 yard butterfly, he swam a time of 2:07.41. That was a personal best and eclipses his previous best in this race by an astonishing eight seconds. The Aquanauts are a USA Swimming sanctioned com munity team. They swim at Memorial Pool in Warner Robins and participate in trips beyond the central time zone, and that’s a couple of Sun Bowls and a bowl game in Hawaii in 2000. Normally, the Bulldogs make the teams from California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming travel to Sanford Stadium. We certainly don’t venture fur ther north than Kentucky. The last time Georgia played more than two time zones away from Athens in the regular season: 1960 against Southern California in Los Angeles (we lost 10- 3). There’s also record of, in 1957, a trip to Ann Arbor to play the Michigan Wolverines (we lost by a shutout). Here are some fun, if not useless, facts about Georgia football you can share with Tech or Auburn friends. In their football history, Georgia has scored a grand total of 19 points in the state of California (five total games including two shutout losses to USC in the 19305, a tied game with St. Mary’s in San Franciscoin 1950 and the 9-0 Rose Bowl win against UCLA in the 1942 national champi onship season). Talk about trips up north, Georgia once had a string of nine games in nine sea sons (1923 to 1931) against the Yale Bulldogs (yes, our Bulldog cousins). Eight of those games were in New Wendy Manning - Violation of Probation X 2. LKL: 301 Millside Dr„ Apt. 403, Warner Robins or 186 Todd Rd., Perry Jeffrey Larkin - Arrest Orders X 2. LKL: 119 Brantley Rd., Centerville Donald Keith Sanders - Arrest Order. LKL: Unknown Quinton D. Rumph - Arrest Orders X 3. LKL: 120 Ignico Dr., Warner Robins David Everett Young - Violation of Probation State Court. LKL: Booth Rd., Warner Robins Janie Yvonne Yelverton - Bench Warrant Superior Court. LKL: 1100 Brookwood Dr., Warner Robins SPORTS -V. H ify » *-■ - ' JB s ,/^lg Contributed Pictured are Warner Robins Aquanauts swimmers. They are, from left: Aaron Meece, Kaylie Hamborg, Coach Wes Hamborg, Erik Hanson, Nathan Meece and Brett Niemantsverdriet. Not pictured, Patrick Cossart. meets throughout the year. Anyone interested in learn ing to swim and/or becom ing part of the team should access the club’s website at www.wraswim.com. Haven, Conn. Georgia’s over all record against Yale: 6-5. In fact, we’re looking at overall 0-for series against Navy, Miami-Ohio, Rice, Harvard and Holy Cross. We need to rectify that before talking about BCS Championship games. 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