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77ie Perry Junior League All-Stars 8 and under team placed second in a tournament
in Telfair County recently. There were 10 teams in the tournament. The team is as
follows, from left to right: Coaches Heath Dykes, Mark Morgan, Scott Tarrer, Eric
Zammit, Eric Brown and sponsor: Ron Hutcheson (second from right). Players Hunter
Hughes, Clayton Davis, Bryce Morgan, Chance Stewart, Parker Lee, Colin Zammit, Trey
Ham Andrew Tarrer and Cayden Hairrington. Bottom row: Trevor Dykes, Eric Brown,
Chandler Conger, John Micah Law and Andrew Newhouse.
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The 5-6-year-old Braves won the Perry Junior League Championship this past week.
They won their first game 21-9 and the championship game 24-9. The Braves, per a
release, “had a terrific season and were also regular season champs.” The team was
coached by Jarrod and Andrea Sells and sponsored by Buice and Associates. They are,
front row: Travis McDonald, Cooper Maddox, Grey Brannen, Colby Hill, Trey Adams and
Andrew Fowler. Second row: Zeke Taylor, Caleb Morgan, Lane Rucker, Payne Sells, Hall
Buice and Ryan McDuffie. Third row: Coach Jarrod Sells. Not pictured: Cade Mitchell.
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T/ie Rangers won the Perry Junior League 9-10 Championship game 11-10. The team
was coached by Dyron Adams and Bill Hill and sponsored by Jalisco Grill. Team mem
bers are as follows, front row from left to right: Chandler Hill, Caleb Bohannon, Jacob
Hatcher, Chandler Crosby and Max Denney. Second row: Peyton Sells, Troy Pudder,
Jake Adams, Will Reagan and Callum Henry. Third row: Jarrod Sells, Dyron Adams and
Bill Hill.
FEARS
From page iB
She said. “I enjoyed playing with Lacey
(Fears) and Anna (Keith). They kept things
really relaxed.”
A total of 28 players (those with a handi
cap index of 14.4 or lower) competed for the
overall title and were divided into three
flights - Championship A, B and C. The
Championship flights played 54 holes with
a course setup of 5,971 yards and a par 71.
Telfair runner-up
PJL 5-6 champions
PJL 9-10 champions
The top four overall finishers - Stackhouse,
Wright, Fears and Keith - have been invited
to represent Georgia in the third annu
al Georgia-South Carolina Girls’ Junior
Challenge Match, a match-play team com
petition between the two states.
This year’s competition takes place July
18-19 at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons
Island.
Entries were open to female amateur golf
ers between the ages of 9 and 17 who are
GSGA members or dependents of GSGA
members.
SPORTS
Peppy horseshoe pitcher earns
first place in Marietta tourney
ByDONMONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Add a new name, or let’s just say one not
seen often in regard to tournament compe
tition, to the long list of Perry Horseshoe
Pitcher’s Club champions on the road.
Gene Rowell, who actually lives in
Thomaston but has been a member of the
Perry club for approximately two years - a
good reason why, explained Perry Publicity
Director Buddy Ayer, is that not many
club’s in the state are sanctioned like
Perry - is that person.
He won the D Class of the Marietta Open
held in Marietta June 14. He did so with
a 4-1 record. He pitched 68 ringers out of
250 thrown for a 27.20 ringer percentage.
Perry also had two second-place finish
ers and one coming in fifth. The Warner
Robins Horseshoe Pitcher’s Club had one
finish sixth. That was Dane Clark. He
Erickson's charge comes up short
Special to the Journal
Oh how Tyler Erickson
probably wishes he could
have started the way he
finished.
The Bonaire golfer shot
77 the opening day of
the 43rd Annual Georgia
Junior Championship that
ran through Wednesday at
Augusta Country Club.
That mired him all the
way down in 57th place,
along with about two dozen
other golfers out of the
starting field of 144.
On day two, he carded
74 and as a result climbed
11 spots into 46th. That
BROWN
From page iB
are based solely on my observations of all
of our schools. I will start with the All-
Houston County girls.
FIRST TEAM
Mason Moreland, Westfield
Tai Brown, Northside
Symone Wikerson, Warner Robins
Tonia Williams, Houston County
Kim Burgess, Perry
SECOND TEAM
Shay Newberry, Perry
Tiandra Billings, Warner Robins
Haley Way, Westfield
Josie Tolliver, Northside
Arnishka Nelson, Northside
THIRD TEAM
Mallory Eubanks, Westfield
Danielle Gazaway, Warner Robins
Janesa Johnson, Houston County
Farrah Lewis, Houston County
Chan Fann, Northside
Now, the All-Houston County boys bas
ketball team:
FIRST TEAM
Kenny Fluellen, Warner Robins
Chase Russell, Perry
Casey Hayward, Perry
Roderick Jones, Perry
John Peake, Westfield
SECOND TEAM
Trey Smith, Perry
Akeen Felder, Perry
Michael Walker, Perry
Kameron Felder, Perry
Antonio Hubbard, Perry
THIRD TEAM f
Matt Amrit, Westfield
Geo Stotts, Houston County
Kenya Ward, Northside
James Hagan, Northside
Keenan Malone, Westfield
With all of the drama of Georgia’s first
two games in the College World Series,
and the conclusion of the amateur base
ball draft (which did not yield any direct
local results, though there was a Carlos
Moncrief picked in the 14th round by
STANDINGS
From page iB
these numbers are sig
nificantly different than
the non-bracketed num
bers, as well i.e. for non
bracketed it starts with
10, 12, 14 et cetera but
with non-bracketed, the
first 16 slots all receive
25) are: Soccer, volley
ball, softball, lacrosse,
football, basketball, base
ball, tennis and wrestling
(duals).
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in turn also ensured he
made it to day three, as the
field was cut in half at that
point.
And then on the final day
he shot 68. That zipped him
way up the leader board
to finish 11th - three over
par.
Had he had that kind of
success early, who knows?
The overall winner turned
out to be Augusta native
Chase Parker who carded
a final-round 70 to over
take first-round leader Lee
Knox, also of Augusta, and
run away with the title.
The top eight finishers,
Grand Re-Opening
Bobby Jones
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finished 2-3 in the C Class, connecting for
67 ringers out of 200 pitched and a 33.50
ringer percentage.
Finishing with the same record as him
was Larry Myers - the aforementioned
fifth-place finisher. He also finished with a
2-3 record but had a better ringer percent
age, with 71 ringers out 200 horseshoes
pitched and it being 35.50 percent.
Also in that class, Ronald Lallier finished
second. He was 3-2 with 77 ringers - out of
204 - and a 39.22 ringer percentage.
Also finishing runner-up was Mary Ann
Gibbs. She pitched in the A Class and fin
ished 4-1. She had 126 ringers out of 200
horseshoes pitched for a ringer percentage
of 58.50.
Next up for the Perry Club will be the
Georgia Doubles tournament. That is set
for today with pitching beginning at 10
a.m. Ayer and Myers are defending champs
at that venue for Perry.
of which you now know
Erickson was not, go on to
represent the Peach State
in the 33rd annual Georgia-
South Carolina Junior
Challenge Match, which
takes place at Hawks Ridge
Golf Club in Ball Ground,
July 18-19.
The par-72 layout at
Augusta Country Club
played to 7,053 yards.
Entries were open to male
amateur golfers between
the ages of 14-17 as of June
16, who are Georgia resi
dents and GSGA members
or dependants of GSGA
members.
Cleveland which raised Gary’s and my
suspicions), it makes me think back to my
little involvement in college baseball with
South Georgia College.
In past pieces, I’ve written about being
a part of South Georgia basketball in
Douglas from 1988-90, but I did pull dou
ble-duty in those days and worked with
Tiger baseball. I bring this up now because
I believe there is something unique about
those teams, something perhaps no other
college program in the state from that era
can boast.
As of the conclusion of the 2008 high
school season, not one, not two, but three
of my former SGC classmates held head
baseball coaching positions. And we can
add a fourth one as a leader in the college
ranks.
I had a chance to reunite with two of
them while covering games in Warner
Robins. Wayne Puckett is the head coach of
Upson-Lee High, which played Northside
the last two years. Eric McCranie finished
his first year at Colquitt County High (his
alma mater and Region 1-AAAAA mem
ber) after coaching at Clarke Central in
Athens.
A note about Eric is that his brother,
Chris McCranie, played football at UGA
in the 19905.
The third one I have yet to meet up
with again because none of my schools
have faced his. But both Wayne and Eric
talked about Winder-Barrow High’s head
coach Brian Smith, who has been with
these Bulldoggs (yes, two g’s) for several
years now
But even before these meetings, I
encountered Bryan McClain when he was
assistant coach at Georgia Southwestern
State in Americus.
He earned Division II All-American
honors at West Georgia after playing at
South Georgia, and in 2005 he became
head coach of the Hurricanes just prior to
their move to the D-II level.
There were some other players from our
Tiger team drafted into the pros, but none
were able to make it to the bigs. Maybe
this is better, or they wouldn’t find the
time to speak to their former scorekeeper
turned sports writer.
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