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Spencer Sanders takes a throw from Panther player J.D. Howard at first as the campers
learn the proper way to receive a throw.
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Trevor Dykes digs for a throw at first.
Contributed
In April, Mike Weddington and Christine Ethridge, representing the Warner Robins
National League youth baseball and softball program, went before the review board
for Operation Flint Round Up in Reynolds. They applied for a grant to do field repairs,
replace freezers, bases and equipment at Simpson Park and were granted a total of
$4,500. The grant came at a good time, for on Mother’s Day, with all the storm dam
age in Macon, Simpson Park received a good bit of damage itself (pictured below).
According to Ethridge, the wind got into the third base side dugout and literally took
off the first two or three rows of cinder blocks and the entire roof and set it out in left
field. Pictured: Operation Flint Round Up representatives present the grant check to
WRNL representatives in May.
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Elijah Sisa learns fundamentals of the catcher’s position as Perry High School varsity player Brent Gentry delivers the
pitch. Sisa was taking part in the baseball camp hosted and held at Perry High School recently.
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Local skeet shooters earn third
Special to the Journal
Young skeet shooters from
across the state earned state
titles - with many quali
fying to represent Georgia
at upcoming national cham
pionships - at the recent
Scholastic Clay Target
Program Georgia Skeet
State Championship.
The competition was held
June 7-8 at Ocmulgee River
Gun Club in Macon and,
according to a release, fea
tured young shooters in five
divisions: varsity, junior var
sity, intermediate advanced,
intermediate entry and
rookie.
Locally, Houston County
was represented by Gavin
Garner and Torrey Messer
of Warner Robins. They
were partnered with Taylor
Dykes out of Macon to form
the ORGC Clay Busters.
Combined they hit 427 tar
gets out of a possible 600
and earned a third-place fin
ish.
SCTP, for youths in grades
12 and under, is a program
of the National Shooting
Sports Foundation man
aged in partnership with
the national govern
ing bodies for shooting
sports: USA Shooting,
Amateur Trapshooting
Association, National Skeet
Shooting Association and
National Sporting Clays
Association.
With remarkable growth
over the past eight years,
the program, according to
the release, is considered
“the Little League of shoot
ing sports.” Some 8,000 to
9,000 students from over 45
states are expected to com
pete this year.
Georgia teams participat
ing in the state title shoot
qualified for the SCTP
National Championships
July 31-Aug. 5 at the World
Shooting and Recreational
Complex in Sparta, 111.
The best of these young
shooters could be selected
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to attend an Olympic devel
opment camp in Colorado
Springs, and some will go on
to compete at the collegiate
level.
For more information,
visit www.nssf.org/sctp.
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LEFT: Billy
Gordy learns
how to flip off
the mask to
catch a pop up.
BELOW: Adam
Nelson for the
Panther base
ball team, shows
Jamie Layson
how to lead off
third without
getting picked
off.
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