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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
SANDLOT
"The down and dirty "
SCHEDULE
High school softball
Tuesday
• Region 1 -AAAAA tourna
ment in Cordele (through
Thursday), schedule to be
determined
• Perry at Crisp County, 5
p.m.
High school volleyball
Today
• Houston County
Championship at Houston
County High School, 9 a.m.
Tuesday
• Northside and Mary
Persons at Ola, 5 p.m.
High school cross country
Today
• Warner Robins at
Westover Invitational, time to
be determined
High school football
Saturday
• Coffee County at Warner
Robins, 7:30 p.m.
• Terrell Academy at Central
Fellowship, 7:30 p.m.
IN BRIEF
FCA groups to sponsor
‘Fields of Faith’
All the county Fellowship
of Christian Athlete clubs are
sponsoring “Fields of Faith”.
It will be held on the Houston
County High School soccer
field Tuesday at 7 p.m. It is a
national program that takes
place all over the U.S. Locally,
Scott Pilkington from Orlando,
Fla., and a praise band from
Atlanta will make up part of
the program. They are still
raising money for the event
which will cost approximately
$2,000.
For more information about
Fields of Faith you can go to
www.fieldsoffaith.com.
Goggin offers ‘deal you
can’t turn down’
From Bill Goggin at the
Landings: “Here is a deal you
can’t turn down. The incred
ible golf bailout is here. Have
you or someone else messed
up your golf swing? You pay
nothing and we help you for
free! Stop by the Learning
Center for a driver check on
our $4,000 high tech launch
monitor. If your swing is stink
in’ and you don’t know what
your thinkin’ then I will offer
you the 'tip of the, day’ that
has a great chance of getting
you out of your funk.”
Normal office hours are
9:15-11:45 a.m. and 4:30-7
p.m., Tuesday-Friday and
Saturday mornings from 8
a.m.- 2 p.m.
Offer good through Oct.
31 and you don’t need an
appointment, but Goggin rec
ommends one.
WR Rec Dept, preps for
basketball registration
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department will
begin registration for its 2009
Youth Basketball Program
Oct. 18, from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
The program is for boys ages
5-17 and girls ages 5-12.
Registration fee is $25 for
city residents, SSO for county
residents, and SBS for out of
county residents. The child’s
height is required at time of
registration. A birth certificate
is also required.
For more information, call
929-1916.
Exchange, Rainbow
House to hold tourney
The Exchange Club of
Houston County and the
Houston County Rainbow
House CRC will present its
2008 golf tournament Oct. 24
at Waterford Golf Club.
It will be held at Waterford
and begin with lunch at noon
and a shotgun start at 1
p.m. The format is four-man
scramble. The cost is S3OO
per team, $75 per individu
al. Corporate sponsorship is
$325. Drink cart sponsorship
is $250.
Prizes include SIOO per
player for the first place team,
SSO for each for second and
$25 for third. There will also
be hole in one prizes includ
ing the National Exchange
Club Foundation's “Million
Dollar Hole in One” charity.
Contact Billy Griggers at
478-225-6750 or Joe Collins
at 478-953-6070 for more
information. The deadline to
sign up is Oct. 10.
SPORTS
Lowndes ends Northside's streak
From staff reports
Northside and Lowndes gave fans
all they could ask for in their match
up Friday at Lowndes. The Vikings
won the game 24-7 but it was what
you could hope for from a No. 1
ranked team - the Vikings - versus
a No. 2 (in some polls).
The first six possessions - three by
each - ended in punts but there was
plenty of yards gained in between.
Lowndes, aided mainly by a 52-yard
run from. Greg Reid, struck first.
That was a two-yard touchdown run
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Westfield rolls past Bulloch Academy
By JOE SERSEY
Journal Correspondent
Westfield dominated visiting
Bulloch Academy 42-10 despite the
distractions of Homecoming.
“No coach likes Homecoming,”
said Westfield head coach Ronnie
Jones of the distractions his players
had to survive.
The Hornets did look a little dis
combobulated early. They stopped
the Gators’ first drive but went
three and out on their first posses-
Crisp deals Perry key region loss
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
With a halftime switch
to a wing-T offense, Crisp
County tal
lied 166
offensive
yards in the
second half,
and thus
dealt a crip
pling blow
to Perry
Crisp County 18,
Perry 15
High’s 2008 season by win
ning 18-15 Friday at Herb
St. John Stadium.
The Panthers dropped to
1-5 overall, but more impor
tantly they are 0-3 in Region
1-AAA with four games
remaining.
The Cougar offense wasn’t
the only thing to awaken
in the second half. Even
Perry’s game picked up sev
eral notches after a drab
first half. Senior Jacorey
Lane ended the night with
154 yards rushing, with 104
and both of his touchdowns
coming in the final two peri
ods.
Lane added an exciting 52
yards on a screen pass from
and came early in
the second quarter.
Not to be out
done, Northside,
which came in hav
ing won 35 straight,
stormed right back,
marching 80 yards
down the field and tying it up at 7.
Xavier Bacon bore the workload on
the drive, and all night long, but it
was finished off by K.J. Morton who
fooled the Vikings defense with an
end-around from 16 yards out. Devon
Pike provided the point after.
sion of the game.
Bulloch was the
first to wake up.
Using 10 plays,
the Gators drove
to Westfield’s 20
before their attack
stalled and Bulloch
had to settle for a John Harden 37-
yard field goal.
Trailing 3-0 with less that four
minutes left in the fourth quar
ter seemed to stimulate Westfield’s
offense.
first-time starting quarter
back Brent Gentry. That play
came on the Panthers’ final
effort to get on the score
board, down by three points
with 96 seconds remaining
in regulation. But the home
team couldn’t move forward
from there as the Cougars
ended it on a sack.
The first half ended with
Perry leading 3-2. It was
a half with more punts (8)
than first downs (7) and only
54 yards accumulated by the
visitors from Cordele. Perry
had 115 yards net offense
and a 23-yard field goal from
Mattie Hall.
Come the second half, it
looked more like varsity
football. Crisp County was
varying its sets from the
wing-T to four- and five-wide
spreads. But after a sideline
to-sideline kickoff return
got the Cougars going on its
own 43-yard-line, the coach
ing staff found out using the
two wingbacks with fullback
Joshua Waters would work
just fine.
First, quarterback Chris
Yowe hit tall target Bo
Northside dodged a major catas
trophe of its own making on the
kickoff to start the third. It fumbled
and Lowndes recovered - on the
Eagles’ 17. Three plays and two
huge losses later, however, found the
Vikings attempting a 49-yard field
goal. It was wide right.
The Eagles took over and drove
well into Lowndes territory but
stalled again.
What followed after the punt has
people scratching their heads today,
a series of penalties that had the
officials marking the ball off one
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Lowndes 24,
Northside 7
The Hornets scored two touch
downs in little more than a minute
to take a 14-3 lead. The first score
was inspired by Casey Young’s 64-
yard touchdown run.
Westfield’s second touchdown of
the first quarter was set up by the
Hornets’ Zach Crowe fumble recov
ery at Bulloch’s 21 yard line.
Three plays later, John Lee bulled
over from the Gators’ 6 for his only
touchdown of the game. Joel Revis
kicked both extra points as Westfield
led 14-3 after the first quarter.
A
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Westfield 42,
Bulloch 10
Carter in the flat, and with
some yards after the catch
Crisp made first down on the
Panther 35. Two plays later,
Waters blasted through a
right-side hole to score the
game’s first touchdown.
The try for two points
failed, so the new score
stayed at 8-3 Cougars.
Perry’s offensive line, mix
ing the veterans Clint Kirk
at center and Johnnie Farms
and Jonathan Clowers on
the left with newcomers
Bobby Pulsifer and Cole
Bledsoe, did some asserting
of its own. To cap off just
a three-play series, Lane
scored a 33-yard touchdown
off left tackle at 9:33 of the
third quarter.
The Panthers would also
try, and fail, for two points.
The lead still switched back,
but only by one at 9-8.
Crisp would also leave the
city owning a distinct edge
in the punting game. Not
once, but twice on the night,
a Cougar punt would die on
the Perry 5. The Panther
defense held on a drive
See PERRY, page jB
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2008 ♦
Lady Eagles edge Demonettes
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Northside’s Bethany Home helped crush a seventh
inning rally and Sarah Purvis pitched three-hit ball to
lead the Lady Eagles to a 2-0 win over Warner Robins,
Tuesday in the Lady Eagles’ last home game of the year.
The win improved Northside’s Region 1-AAAAA record
to 4-3 and secured the Lady Eagles a fourth seed for next
week’s region tournament in Cordele. The loss was the
first for the Demonettes, 5-1, in region play.
Horne’s play came from center field, an accurate throw
that cut down the lead runner trying to make it to third.
With the previous hitter, Jensen Barrett, also reaching
and taking second on the throw, it would have given the
Demonettes runners in scoring position without an out.
Instead ... well, you can see the damage done.
* See EDGE, page jB
Lady Bears go three-for-three
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Three games in three straight days, three more wins
for Houston County High softball. The most important of
the wins came Monday, and it secured third place for this
coming week’s Region 1-AAAAA tournament in Cordele.
In two non-region games, a couple of Bears’ bats silent
for most of the season came through in loud fashion.
On Monday at home, Houston County defeated Tift
County High 8-0 in five innings, seven of the runs coming
in the fourth inning to break a 0-0 tie.
See THREE, page jB
SECTION: B
way, then another ... and on and on.
Lowndes eventually took over and
took advantage, scoring with just
over three minutes showing before
the final quarter. The PAT, however,
missed.
The chance that might prove sig
nificant ended when a Joe Scott
pass was tipped into the hands of a
Viking. By then the two were in the
fourth quarter. It put the ball on 18.
One play later Lowndes scored. It
also converted the two points mak
ing it 21-7.
See STREAK, page jB
“When we scored that first touch
down, and especially the second
touchdown, the momentum start
ed,” Jones said. “We started playing
the way we’re supposed to play.”
Casey Young scored his second
touchdown of the game when he ran
wide for three yards for the score.
Revis’s extra point gave the Hornets
an 18-point custom. 21-3.
Young’s score was set up by his
22-yard run and Taylor Crook’s 29
yard run.
See WESTFIELD, page 3B
Westfield’s
John Lee
follows his
blockers up
the middle
against
Bulloch
Academy,
Friday at
Westfield.
ENI/Gary Harmon