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IN BRIEF
Robins AFB youth
center to hold camps
The Robins Youth Sports
Program will host Harlem Legend's
Shoot for the Stars Basketball
Camp June 9-13. It will be con
ducted by Michael Douglas, for
mer Harlem Globetrotter and is
open to players ages 7-10 and
11-14. The camp fee will be $65
per player.
The organization will also host
British Soccer Camp July 28-
Aug. 1. It will be conducted by
Challenger Sports and is open to
players ages 3-4, 5-9,10-16. The
camp fee is S6O for ages 3-4 and
SB3 for ages 1-16.
Call Ronald Hayes at 926-
2110/3276836 or come by Youth
Center to register or get more
information.
HCHS coaches to host
fast-pitch camp
The Lady Bears fast-pitch soft
ball camp will be held June 4-6
from 9 a.m.-noon each day.
It is open to those ages 6-10.
The cost is SSO per child or S6O
after June 3.
Sill development will be taught
by coaches and college players
and include instruction on: Hitting/
bunting/slapping, pitching, catch
ing, infield and outfield. There will
also be contests on Friday.
Call Angela Crawford at 478-
988-6339 (at the school), 478-
960-9028 (cell) or e-mail her at
acrawford@hcbe.net.
Perry HS coaches to
offer football camp
Perry High School Head
Football Coach Andy Scott and
his varsity coaching staff and
players will again host their
annual football camp. It will be
held June 4-6 in Herb St. John
Stadium from 9 a.m.-noon daily.
At the camp, you can learn fun
damentals and skills.
The camp will be broken down
into two groups, the first consist
ing of third, fourth and fifth grad
ers and the second being made
up of sixth, seventh and eighth
graders. The cost is S4O, which
includes lunch and an event T
shirt. Contact Scott at 988-6319
or 256-8007 for more information
or to fill out an attendance form.
Westfield slates
summer sports camps
Westfield School has slated
the following summer camps.
Basketball: June 3-6 for boys
in current grades 4-7. Cost is
$65. Contact Jake Walls at 987-
0547 or jwalls@westfieldschools.
net; June 9-13 for boys in cur
rent grades K-3. Cost is $65.
Contact Jake Walls at 987-0547
or jwalls@westfieldschools.net.
Tennis: June 3-6 for children in
current grades k-5. Cost is $75.
Contact Wendy Bryan at 987-0547
or wbryan@westfieldschools.net.
Cheerleading: June 16-
19 for girls in current grades
1-6. Cost is $75. Contact
Anita Arnett at 987-0547 or
aarnett@westfieldschools.net.
Northside HS to hold
basketball camp
The Northside High School
Hoop Dream Basketball Camp
will be held June 2-4 from 5-8
p.m. The cost is SSO. It will be
held in Northside High School's
gym and is for fifth through 10th
grade girls and boys.
For more information, contact
Coach Casaundra Wilson at 929-
7858 or 929-7881 from 1:45 p.m.
to 3 p.m.
Second Baptist signing
up for Upward soccer
Second Baptist Church of
Warner Robins is beginning
Upward soccer registration.
Early registration has begun. The
cost is $75 per child. After June
30, the cost is SBS. The deadline
for registration is July 10. Soccer
shorts are included in registration
price. Evaluations will begin July
7. Practices will being Aug. 4. The
first game will be Aug. 23.
Visit the church office anytime
between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday to sign
up. For more information, call the
church at 478-923-7101 or visit
www.sbcwr.org.
Northside to host
wrestling camp
Northside High School's Tabor
Gym will be the location for the
Triple Option Wrestling Camp.
The camp, according to a
release, “offers a unique system
that has produced multiple indi
vidual state champions and team
championships.
The camp will be held June
9-12 and is for all ages. The cost
is SIOO. Instructors include Eagle
coaches Dan Kelly and Dusty
Dykes, as well as Corey Harris
and Clay Dykes - both having
won state championships among
other awards. For more, contact
Dykes at 478-213-1009 or via
e-mail to dustydykes@hotmail.
com.
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ENI/Gary Harmon
Westfield’s Tyler Brooks dives for a pop fly that falls into shallow left during the Hornets’ GISA AAA state playoff doubleheader loss to Tattnall Square
Saturday in Macon. Charging in for the Hornets is John Peake.
Tattnall knocks out Westfield
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Hornet pitcher James Wurster delivers to the plate.
Three HoCo soccer players sign scholarships
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Where did Houston County
High soccer draw a lot of
its strength from this past
season? A strong argument
could be made that it was the
midfield. At least three dif
ferent colleges thought so as
three senior Bears from that
midfield line signed national
letters of intent Monday.
Some may refer to him as
the ‘Real Deal,’ but Richie
Wimsatt received quite a big
deal on Monday with a chance
to play at the NCAA Division
I level at Mercer University
in Macon. Alex Baughman, a
threat to score and stop oth
ers from scoring, is staying
in state as well to play for
Darton College in Albany.
Lewis McDaniel, who came
off Chris McCook’s bench,
is on his way to Mississippi
and Itawmba Community
College.
Wimsatt had quite a busy
weekend before Monday’s
ceremony. He played in
two matches Saturday in
Gwinnett County. One was
the Georgia high school All-
Star game (Class AAAAA
SPORTS
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Houston County’s Richie Wimsatt signs a soccer scholarship with Mercer University,
Monday at the school, as his father Ricky, mother Fredia and Bear coaches Tony Jones,
left, and Chris McCook look on.
against the other four classes
combined) where he scored
in a 3-2 win for his side, and
the other was as a mem
ber of the Atlanta Fire club
team against the U-18 U.S.
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
As much behind-the-scenes discussion
there was about the most recent Deerfield-
Windsor basketball team being
able to compete with any high
school - GHSA or GISA - in
Georgia, the same argument
could be made about the 2008
Tattnall Square Academy
baseball squad.
After what happened
Saturday in Macon, the
Westfield Hornets would
surely agree.
The Tattnall Trojans
waltzed into the GISA AAA
y 7
• Tattnall 10,
Westfield 0
• Troians 16,
Hornets 1
semifinals by sweeping Saturday’s double
header with Westfield, and they needed just
nine of a possible 14 innings in which to do
it. Game 1 ended 10-0 when the 10th Trojan
run crossed the plate in the bottom of the
fifth; afterwards, even the Tattnall Square
bench proved unstoppable in a 16-1 four
inning rout in Game 2.
D’Andre Smelter, Trojan sophomore, set
the tone for the afternoon with a dominat
ing shutout performance on the mound.
By - according to one radar gun - consis
National Team.
McCook said Winsatt is
one of the first true four
year lettermen for the
Houston County High pro
gram with a school-record
tently throwing between 90 and 92 mph,
Smelter limited Westfield to one hit and two
See WESTFIELD, page 3B
Sellers leaving
By DONMONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Nothing to do with the Hornets’
state playoff loss to Tattnall Square,
but Westfield baseball Head Coach Billy
Sellers is leaving the school.
Sellers is going to be Stratford’s assis
tant baseball, football and basketball.
He, his primary job at Westfield physical
education, is also going to be “web-relat
ed” activities for the school - something,
he said, he has also done at Westfield.
“In 14 years here,” Sellers said, “(I
feel like) I’ve gone about as far as I can
go. I thought it was time to explore the
grass on the other side of the fence ... do
some different things.”
Sellers was modest but he does leave
his own legacy at Westfield. As an assis
tant coach on Hornet football teams,
, See SELLERS, page 3 B
total in assists (60) and an
11-goal, 20-assist season as
a senior.
“I hope to go (to Mercer)
and do well academically
See SIGN, page jB
SECTION: B
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008
Wolfe misses
cut at Mid-Am
championship
Special to the Journal
Edwin Wolfe of Warner
Robins shot 77 the first
day of competition at the
Georgia Mid-Amateur
Championship. That
had him in 58th place in
the annual event, which
took place Friday-Sunday
at Cuscowilla on Lake
Oconee.
He shot 78 Saturday.
That gave him a two-day
total of 155 - the same
score as 10 other golf
ers. They, the group of
10, were in turn ranked
higher than 58 other golf
ers.
To their chagrin, how
ever, they were right at
the very top of the cutoff
- it being the low 70s and
ties, with the cut line fall
ing at 14-over 154 and 74
players advancing - and
did not see action the
final day.
The overall winner was
See WOLFE, page yB