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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
SANDLOT
"The down and dirty"
Schedule
High school baseball
Today
• Northside at Houston County, 6
p.m.
• Rutland at Perry, 6 p.m.
Thursday
• Peach County at Warner Robins,
5:30 p.m.
• Fullington at Westfield. 5 p.m.
Friay
• Westside at Perry, 6 p.m.
• Houston County at Suwanee tour
ney (versus South Gwinnett), 7 p.m.
High school soccer
Thursday
• Perry at Central, 5:30 p.m.
Friday
• Northside at Upson-Lee, time to be
announced
• Warner Robins at Coffee County,
6 p.m.
• Valdosta at Houston County, 5:30
p.m.
High school tennis
Today
• Bleckley County at Houston County,
4 p.m. (at Warner Robins Recreation
Department)
Thursday
• Tift County at Warner Robins, 4
p.m.
• Peach County at Perry, 3:30 p.m.
Friday
• Valdosta at Houston County, 4
p.m. (at Warner Robins Recreation
Department)
In brief
Local athletes continue
to lead the way
Former Westfield softball
pitcher Lana Mackey was
named Southern Conference
Pitcher of the Week on Feb.
25 for her work against
Presbyterian College on Feb.
20. In a doubleheader, Mackey
struck out 15 batters in 10
scoreless innings. She won a
2-hit shutout 1-0 with 13 strike
outs and one walk, and then
she saved Game 2 with three
innings of work.
Mackey came back on Friday,
Feb. 29, with another two-hit
shutout against South Carolina
State. She struck out 12 batters
with one walk as Furman won
14-0 in seven.
• Perry High's Al Thornton
has scored double figures in 14
of his last 16 games with the Los
Angeles Clippers. It's a streak
that began with a career-high
33 points in 33 minutes against
the Atlanta Hawks on Jan. 30.
Thornton matched those 33
points and had a career-best
12 rebounds on Feb. 29 against
the Denver Nuggets.
Some of Thornton’s other big
games of late were a 25-point
effort in 36 minutes at Milwaukee
on Feb. 11, 24 points and nine
rebounds against Washington
on Feb. 13 and 27 points in a
114-104 win against the Utah
Jazz on Feb. 22.
• Lindsey Duprey, Ali Sapp
and Melissa Bofto, all of Warner
Robins, all competed and
placed for Brenau University
at the NAIA national women’s
swimming championships
held Feb. 27-March 1 in San
Antonio, Texas. The trio was a
part of the 13th place 200-yard
freestyle relay team (1:46) and
the 15th place 400-yard medley
relay team (4:23).
Duprey was 11th in the 200-
yard freestyle (1:58.04) and
14th in the 1,650-yard freestyle
(18:44.03). Sapp was 13th in
the 100-yard freestyle in 55.2
seconds while Bofto swam to
14th place in the 400-yard indi
vidual medley (4:57.26).
Prior to the national meet,
Duprey won gold medals in
the 1,650-free and 200-free at
the Appalachian Conference
championships held Feb. 15 in
Bristol, Tenn.
She was also third there in
the 200-butterfly. Bofto placed
third in the 400 IM, Sapp third
in the 50-free and the three
were on a third-place 800-free
relay team.
- Compiled by Matthew
Brown
Warner Robins Rec in
need of track coaches
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department,
according to a release, needs
volunteer coaches for the 2008
Track Season. Volunteer coach
es need to have experience in
the following events: 50-Meter
Dash, 100-Meter Dash, 200-
Meter Dash, 400-Meter Dash,
800-Meter Dash, 1600-Meter
Run, 4 x 100 Relay, 1600-Meter
Relay, Standing Long Jump,
Softball Throw, Running Long
Jump and Shot Put.
For more information about
the program call 478-929-
1916 or stop by their office at
800 Watson Blvd., to fill out a
coaches application and back
ground check form.
HoCo shuts out NS squads;
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Houston County High soccer play
ers had to be itching for a game.
When they finally got one, they
made the most of it Friday by blank
ing Northside High 8-0.
The week for the Bears began
with two cancellations of a Region
1-AAAAA home meeting with
Lowndes High. These contests were
first slated for Tuesday, Feb. 26, but
stormy conditions made it unsafe
for Lowndes to travel from Valdosta.
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Eagles’ GHSA AAAA quarterfinal loss to the Lady Tigers, Saturday in Fort Valley.
Laiy Eagles come up short
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
In this high school basketball post
season, the Northside High Lady
Eagles broke the hearts of fellow
players from Griffin
to Glynn Academy.
On Saturday at
Ft. Valley State
University, it was
the Fayette Cotinty
High Tigers making
the shot that killed
the Northside hopes
of a return to the
Class AAAA Final
• Fayette
County 43,
Northside 42
Four. On a basket made off the glass
with about 40 seconds left, Fayette
County - champions of Region 2-
AAAA - won the Elite 8 match-up
with the Eagles 43-42.
Casaundra Wilson’s Northside
club rolled into Ft. Valley on a six
game winning streak, which includ
ed a miraculous Region 4-AAAA
tournament win against Griffin, a
tourney championship win against
Baldwin and state wins against
Northgate and Glynn Academy. The
most notable win, though, was the
one-point triumph against Griffin as
Chan Fann’s stick-back at the buzz
er meant the difference between
making and not making the state
AAAA field.
Against Fayette, the Eagles fought
from behind virtually the entire sec
ond half and appeared on the way
to swiping a return ticket to the
Gwinnett Center. Down by as many
as 10, 39-29, in the fourth quar
ter, Northside was watching the
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SPORTS
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The teams were to play the fol
lowing night, but could not due to
the GHSA’s rule prohibiting regu
lar-season games on a school night
where one team would have to travel
more than 100 miles one way.
The night was still on the chilly
side Friday, but it was a night
Houston boys coach Chris McCook
said his team finally got to put a
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Lady Eagle Ladarria Clark shoots a jumper.
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good week of practice to the test. He distributing the ball well. Defensive
did have to make some personnel captain Dallas Hall was lights out
adjustments for a red-card suspen- getting everybody organized. The
sion, putting freshman Karl Chester big thing was the shutout because
up top. (Northside) has some speed up top
“He gave us a big spark in practice and can hurt you.”
dll week,” said McCook. “He finishes McCook used all three of his goal
hard in the box, never gives up. He keepers in the Northside match. In
had a big night with four goals. He the early stages this season he is
has a good strong knack around the using a two-player rotation in the
goal. net with junior Mark Hoskins and
“Overall we played great as a sophomore Kyle Clodfelter.
team. Richie Wimsatt (captain) “It’s hard to pin it down
played lights out in the first half See OUT, page iB
SECTION: B
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008
INSIDE: Northside
powers past Houston
County in game Friday
Bears run
the table
on Perry
By JOE MATTHEWS
Journal Correspondent
It’s rare when two schools’
three baseball teams all face
each other on
the same day at
the same facil
ity. So it must be
rarer still when
one school takes
all three games.
That was the
case Saturday
at the Bears’
Den as Houston
County hosted Perry in a rare
triple-header. After the Bears’
.frosh team triumphed 9-3 and
the Junior Varsity scored a run
in the bottom of the seventh
to win 10-9, the two varsity
squads settled in for the HoCo
home opener. Superintendent
David Carpenter threw out the
first pitch (a change-up strike)
on a warm sunny afternoon
that stood in stark contrast to
the chilly evening games the
teams had experienced earlier
in the week.
The Panthers’ Perry Kiser
and the Bears’ Kyle Davis
quickly settled into a pitcher’s
duel, with each only giving up
one hit through the first two
innings. Things changed in the
third as Perry’s Sam Kinnas
stroked a booming triple off the
right field wall. John Randall
Lasseter’s sacrifice fly put the
visitors up 1-0.
The Bears clawed back for a
run in the fourth.
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Demons sweep
Mary Persons
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Warner Robins picked up its
first win in baseball and liked
it so well, made
it a sweep.
The Demons
beat Mary
Persons 10-4
at the home of
the Bulldogs
Thursday and
then that same
Mary Persons
club 6-0 Saturday,
this time at
home.
One of the
big stories in the first game
was that of the pitching per
formance of sophomore lefty
Chess Malone. He - like all
Demon pitchers, on a pitch
count of between 65-70 pitches
- worked four innings and scat
tered four hits. He gave up one
run and struck out seven.
“We were real proud of his per
formance,” said Warner Robins
Head Coach Bill Beatty.
Aaron Dobbs closed out the
evening for Malone, and he
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Houston County
2, Pony 1
WMj . 1
• Warner
Robins 10, Mary
Persons 4
• Demons 6,
Bulldogs 0