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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Sandlot
the down and duly
Schedule
High school swimming
Today
• Warner Robins at
the North Forsyth High
School Invitational in
Gainesville, 8 a.m.
• Perry at the Wildcat
Invitational at the Steve
Lundquist Aquatic
Center in Jonesboro,
time to be determined.
In brief
Northside to host
cheerleading clinic
A cheerleading clinic
for kindergarten-sixth
grade will be held at
Northside High School
Nov. 24-25. It will run
from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. There
will also be a special
exhibition Jan. 9, 2009
at a basketball game.
The cost is S3O before
Nov. 19, $35 after, with
half price for a family
of two or more. The fee
includes snacks and
drinks and an event T
shirt (up until the Nov. 19
date, then a T-shirt is not
included).
Contact the school for
more.
Perry Takedown
Club sets practices
The Perry Takedown
Club will hold practices
Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 5:30-7 p.m. (prac
tice will begin Dec. 2).
Any day that school is
closed due to inclement
weather or winter holi
days, there will be no
practice.
The cost is SSO, which
includes a team T-shirt/
shorts/hoodie. Also, each
wrestler will be required
to purchase a USA wres
tling card on-line prior
to the first practice. The
USA Wrestling Card is
$35. Cards can be pur
chased at Team Georgia
Wrestling, (www.themat.
com).
Registration will be the
date for the first practice,
Dec. 2 at 5:30 p.m. All
students ages 5-14 are
eligible.
For further informa
tion, call Coach Randy
Moss at 478-988-6291.
Goggin to play 100
holes for charity
Each year PGA
Professional Bill Goggin
of the Landings, plays
100 holes of golf in
one day to raise money
for charity. This year
he is slated to do that
Monday.
All proceeds will go to
the Community Outreach
Service Center. This is a
local homeless shelter
that offers temporary
shelter for men, women
and children in need.
The center is located
at 404 Duke Avenue in
Warner Robins.
Sponsorships are
available by hole (i.e. 10
cents per hole = $lO. $1
per hole = $100).
Contact Goggin for
more at 923-5222,
Ext. 4 or e-mail him at
bill@goggingolf.com.
Adult soccer camp
and registration set
Adult Soccer Camp
will be held Dec. 2
and, 6-8 p.m. at the
Central Georgia Soccer
Complex, HOSnellgrove
Dr., Warner Robins. The
cost is S2O per per
son. Also, the Central
Georgia Adult Soccer
League is registering
teams and individuals for
their upcoming Winter
Season beginning Dec.
6. Registration ends Nov
26.
For more information
call 478-218-4625 or e
mail info@cgasl.org.
Panthers recover from the crash
EDITOR'S NOTE: We have gone
back to our early printing sched
ule, which means we were unable
to get Friday night’s Northside
and Westfield results into this
paper. Please check our website at
hhjnews.com or Wednesday’s paper
for complete results. We apologize
for the inconvenience.
By MATTHEW BROWN
Journal Sports Writer
Wall Street investors may be the
best people to look towards for
empathy on what became of the
2008 Perry High football season.
From the state quarterfinals and
school records one year to 2-8 the
following, it’s the kind of crash that
can send any Panther fan into a
state of depression.
It wasn’t just going from one of
the top eight teams in Class AAA
to just one region win, but this past
season’s results broke a little string
of consecutive state playoff appear
ances for Perry football.
For Andy Scott, it was the first
time in his four head coaching sea
sons the year ended without a post
season game.
“It’s been a very humbling expe
rience,” said Scott, recapping . the
events of 2008. “Having had some
success early in my coaching career,
when you face adversity like that,
especially the way we lost and how
we had a tendency to beat ourselves
in the fourth quarter, you have to
take a hard look at yourself, what
you’re doing and how you’re doing
it.”
The entire off-season for Perry
was geared toward a monumental
meeting with Northside High and its
30-game winning streak and back
to-back state championships. For
one half of football at McConnell-
Talbert Stadium, the Panthers stood
toe-to-toe with the Eagles, which led
by a slim margin of one, 14-13, at
the break.
It was only a five-point game, 24-
19, with 9:37 left in regulation. But
Northside scored two more times
with the help of some personal foul
calls and won 38-19.
What happened next was a stun
ning loss to Wilcox County, a state
finalist in Class A one year ago,
in the home opener at Herb St.
John Stadium. Wilcox scored five
first-quarter touchdowns (four scor
ing passes and one interception
returned) and never looked back in
a 47-21 final.
Even with the 1-2 non-region start,
the games that mattered the most
were those in Region 1-AAA. As
Scott referred to, the Panthers had
tendencies to let games slip away
late this season. That was never
more evident than the Thursday
night at Hugh Mills Stadium in
Albany when the Panthers dropped
a 28-21 decision to Westover High
after leading almost the entire con
test.
Was that a night Perry just
couldn’t get over? Or were things
already sliding the wrong way with
Locals coitend at 4-hal tourney
From staff reports
Ron Baggett and Eddie Wiggins of Warner Robins went from 23rd after
the first day to 15th after the second round at the 17th Annual Georgia
Senior Four-Ball Championship. The tournament ran Wednesday-Friday
at The Hampton Club at St. Simons Island and The Golf Club at
Sanctuary Cove in Waverly. The Championship Flight is playing at The
Hampton Club, which is the flight Baggett and Wiggins are playing in.
They shot a first round score of 72 and Thursday carded 70 (Friday’s
results were still pending as of deadline). That put them two strokes
under par and 11 strokes off of leaders Don Marsh of Alpharetta and
Larry Clark of Kingston.
Also competing in the Championship Flight are the team of Richard
Farage of Warner Robins and Dennis Hanson of Macon. They shot 70 the
first day and were in ninth. But a 75 on Thursday dropped them all the
way to 35th.
Hall Baker of Bonaire and David Smith of Warner Robins are also in
the Championship Flight. They carded 75 the first day and were 41st. A
79 day two pushed them back to 45th.
And finally, also in the Championship Flight, Sebie Lacey of Warner
Robins and David Hooker of Macon were 43rd after day one. They shot
77. And then fell to 47th with an 82.
■The low 48 teams based on combined handicap index make up the
Championship Flight. The remainder of the field - no other local players
were noted - was determined by lottery and flighted by team handicap
index. Only the competitors in the Championship flight are eligible
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Perry’s Jacorey Lane looks for running room against the Eagles. The toss of him to injury was just one of
several hurdles the Panthers had to overcome during the 2008 season.
those first two losses?
“I think a lot of losses had a ten
dency to carry over,” said Scott.
“We’re going to be excited for the
opportunity to play Northside again,
to rebound against Wilcox. I think
those were two marquee games that
didn’t put us over the hump (this
year) like we thought they were
going to.
“When we look at our season, it
was a situation where we had oppor
tunities to win ball games and just
couldn’t do it. Our kids continued to
play hard and practice hard, but the
ability to make plays, that goes back
to us as far as coaches making sure
we put our kids in a position to be
Fall street
”lt's been a very humbling experience. Having had
some success early in my coaching career, when
you face adversity like that, especially the way we
lost and how we had a tendency to beat ourselves
in the fourth quarter, you have to take a hard look
at yourself, what you're doing and how you're
doing it."
- Perry Head Football Coach Andy Scott
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successful.”
When the Panthers stood at 0-3
in 1-AAA, those losses were by a
combined 25 points. That included a
three-point setback, 18-15, at home
against Crisp County. Perry still had
a chance to win out and sneak in to
the playoff chase, but the team suf
fered a major blow when senior lead
ing rusher Jacorey Lane was injured
early in a home game against Worth
County.
“Anytime you lose a kid the caliber
of Jacorey Lane, it hurts your foot
ball team,” said Scott. “At that point
in our season we had a lot of inju
ries. Jacorey has given us a great
four-year career and was somebody
Clay shoot, golf tourney
and Taste of Perry held
Special to the Journal
The Special Events Committee of
the Perry Chamber of Commerce
held the 11th Annual Fall Challenge
and taste of Perry Oct. 30. he event
included a clay shoot, golf scramble
and the Taste of Perry.
The clay shoot was held at the
Gamelands of Henderson Village
and had 40 participants. The win
ners were: First place, Scott Free,
Coldwell Banker Robbins and Free;
second place, Mike Hamrick; and
third place, Wilbur Rumph, Security
Bank.
The golf scramble was held at
Southern Hills Golf and Country
Club in Hawkinsville. There were
17 teams that participated. Teams
competed for first, second, and third
place as well as Longest Drive and
Closest to the Pin. The winners
were:
SECTION: B
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
who impacted the way we played.
“I was very proud of Brandon
Grace (junior) and Kaderius Felder
(junior) and the guys who stepped
up.”
Senior defensive tackle John
Mathis, a starter, also missed signifi
cant time due to injury but recovered
enough to play in the season-finale
against Dougherty High. Tight end
Tyler Martens also had back prob
lems but is expected to contribute
big as a senior.
While Perry did lose the last con
test to Dougherty, Scott and his
club can look back to one game
where things didn’t collapse in the
final minutes. It was again at Hugh
Mills Stadium, on Nov. 1, when
the Panthers rallied from 13 points
down to beat Monroe High 21-20.
“I told somebody down there
it was kind of like ‘Angels in the
Outfield,”’ said Scott. “One of those
deals where every ball bounced our
way. I think our kids deserved that
going against a team with as many
athletes as they had. We needed a
few breaks.”
The biggest break in that game
was when Monroe completed a
pass in the last 30 seconds, but the
See PANTHERS, page pB
First place: Houston Home
Journal
1. Mike Giles
2. Jeff Wilson
3. Danny Wilson
4. Shawn Hodge
Second place: Ascension Design
1. Andy King
2. Tony Bernado
3. Chad Lathan
4. Brad Nowell
Third place: The Telegraph
1. Mike Ande
2. Brett Taylor
3. George Broussard
4. Sean Davies
• Longest Drive: Robert
Painhour
• Closest to the Pin: Kevin
Thompson
The 11th Annual Taste of Perry
was held at the Southern Hills Golf
& Country Club.
See TASTE, page 9B