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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
CHEER
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classification. In addition to
Houston County High win
ning in SA, Northgate High
won for AAAA, Columbus
High for AAA, Bleckley
County High for AA and
Bacon County High for A.
Andrea Myers, tournament
director, said that in com
petition cheerleading, each
squad does a routine for 2:30
in front of a panel of judges
who, for this event, Georgia
High School Association cer
tified and from the middle
Georgia area. Myers said
each routine must contain
all of the following elements:
RIGHT: The Lady Bears pose with the trophies they
earned at the Eagle Cheer Invitational held at Northside
Saturday.
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by two runs.
“I gotta get a hit,” said
Harman about her approach
to the plate. “If it don’t get
a hit ... it was just a really
scary situation. But you just
have to believe.
“(Ball) threw outside. It
was an outside fastball, and
I just swung with all my
might. It happened to go
right in the gap.”
And to the gap it went,
and as Brianna Hancock
took third base, Harman
made it safely to second on
the throw.
Sarah Ling batted next,
and Warner Robins threw
away her grounder allow
ing the tying runs to score.
After a long at-bat, Taylor
Fountain’s drive to deep
right won the game.
“We came out still kind of
flat,” said Crawford. “The
first couple of innings we
were slow and sluggish. We
were able to piece it together
at the end with big hits from
the bottom half of our line
up. It allowed the top half of
our lineup to cash them in.
“I think (Harman) has
confidence now. She was
clutch for us at the tour
nament, and now (Monday)
just making solid contact
and using her speed to her
advantage.”
Ball ended the game with
six strikeouts and four
walks in the complete game.
Hancock was the winning
pitcher with seven strike
PERRY
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Scott doesn’t want you fans to
change a bit. In fact, with Perry
being the home team for the 7:30
p.m. Friday contest, he said he’s
hoping you will continue to support
the team the same way you’ve sup
ported them so far - the trip last
week to Albany not withstanding.
“For a Thursday night,” he said,
“and at Westover. We still had more
fans than they did. I hope the peo
ple in Perry continue to support
the players and us as a group of
coaches.
“The biggest thing is I’m very
jumps, chants, running and
tumbling, partner stunts,
pyramids, cheering and
dancing.
The teams are judged
on degree of difficulty and
execution, Myers said. She
said a team, during its time,
must be moving once it hits
the mat to the end of the
routine.
Information on the
Houston County High
cheerleading squad can be
found at www.hococheer.net.
The Bears will next compete
at Luella High - this com
ing weekend. There also is
a competition scheduled at
East Laurens High in Dublin
in October.
outs and five hits allowed in
seven frames.
The game didn’t have a hit
or a run until the top of the
third. Hodges made a good
dive in left field, but umpires
ruled a trapped ball that
gave Kim Burgess a leadoff
single. Brianna Wright, with
one out, battled at the plate
to get a walk, one of only
two issued by Hancock.
Catcher Macy Brown
ripped a first-pitch single
to left driving in Burgess.
Warner Robins went up 2-
0 on a strange play where
Houston tried to get a run
ner that wasn’t stealing sec
ond. The throw went to the
outfield, and Wright scored.
The ball still in play, the
Bears made another throw
from home to second to get
the runner they were trying
to get in the first place.
Demonette shortstop
Jensen Barrett shined next,
first by catching a low liner
for a double play in the home
third and hitting a solo home
run in the fourth.
Warner Robins left four
runners on base over the
next two turns with Houston
shortstop Kourtny Thomas
making two strong force
out throws to Ling at third
base. Brown threw out a
runner trying to steal in the
fifth after hitting the ground
hard trying to catch a pop
up near the fence.
The previous meeting
between Houston County
and Warner Robins went the
Demonettes way on their
home field by a 9-1 score on
appreciative of the support we’ve
received from the community.”
Oh, and Westover even had a
handful of infiltrators on their side
of the bleachers as Scott said their
“whole staff” was there to scout the
Panthers.
Perry, on the other hand, hasn’t
seen the Trojans “live” but has stud
ied films of all their games, Macon
County, Rutland and Baldwin. The
first was a 42-6 win, the second
26-6 in favor of Peach and the last
one, against the Braves, a 13-3 loss.
A couple of notes: Macon County is
1-3 and has been outscored 102-22
(its win 20-0 over Lamar County).
Rutland is 0-4 and has been out
scored 92-18. Baldwin, on the other
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Sept. 16. Warner Robins still
has an edge in the 1-AAAAA
race with a 5-0 record and
two games remaining, but
the Bears (2-2 in region)
needed the momentum push
with a home game Thursday
against Northside High (also
3-2 region) that will count in
the standings.
Brookwood
Invitational Scores
(Sept. 19-20).
• Northside 2, Luella 2
(time limit)
• Loganville 2, Northside 0
• Northside 2, Shiloh 0
• Dacula 1, Northside 0 (9)
• Northside 3, Northgate 0
• South Forsyth 3, Northside
0
• Houston County 7, Dacula
1
• Houston County 8,
Peachtree Ridge 0
• Sandy Creek 5, Houston
County 1
• Houston County 3,
Brookwood 0
• Kennesaw Mountain 1,
Houston County 0
• Houston County 12,
Norcross 0
• Grayson 5, Warner Robins
1
• South Forsyth 2, Warner
Robins 1
• Warner Robins 1,
Kennesaw Mountain 0
• Warner Robins 10,
Peachtree Ridge 0
• Warner Robins 5, Wesleyan
0
• Warner Robins 16, Pike
County 3
hand, is 4-0 and has given up only
one touchdown. And just this past
week beat Carver, a team that gave
Northside everything it could han
dle, 22-0.
The thing of real note about
Peach County, Scott said, is it’s
made some changes to its offense
and defense to take advantage of
its speed.
And on that speed: “It’s every
where,” Scott said. “They’re not
as big as they were last year but
they’re a lot faster than they have
been in the past.”
Offensively, he said, they’ve gone
to more of a multiple spread, “very
similar to what we do,” Scott said.
Defensively he said they do a lot
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of “3-3, a lot of old South Carolina
‘Charlie’,” he said. “They’re strong
and very aggressive running down
in box. I think that brings a whole
different element to what they
do.”
As far as the Panthers, Scott
said they’ve made no major adjust
ments, nor do they plan on making
anything.
If anything, their games, their
losses - against teams that are now
12-0 combined, he added - have
been more a matter of: “Us not
doing ourselves any favors,” he
said. “Not protecting the football
or defensively or in the kicking
game. It’s been a situation of us
beating ourselves.
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“But at the same time, you play
the kind of teams we have to play
and you don’t do what you need to
do, you’re going to struggle.”
The bottom line, he said, was.'
“By no stretch of the imagination;
are we where we’re throwing out
every thing we’ve done and going
back to square peg one.
“We just need to do a better
job of coaching the little things
... Stance alignment, ball secu
rity, the whole nine yards of little
things like that. Not reinvent the
wheel, just tighten the lugnuts,
things like that.”
After all it’s just a game. (Writer’s
note: OK, that just doesn’t even
sound right.)
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Lady Bear
Lindsey
Harman
puts the tag
on Brenns
Byrd of the
Demonettes.
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