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Wednesday,
March 6,2013
Tribune & Qeorgian
Sports
Holding serve
Camden County High tennis Wildcats host six-
school tournament.
see 2B
B Section
CCHS
Wayne is first victim for Wildcat nine
scores
nine in
soccer
victory
Boys start
with 1-0 loss
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
A Joe York hat trick high
lighted a lopsided win last
Wednesday for the Camden
County High soccer boys,
who came up just short in
the region opener two days
later at Lowndes.
The Wildcats netted seven
unanswered goals to rout
Brunswick, 9-1 in a non-re
gion affair. Grant Gabriel
scored and had two assists
for Camden, Logan Clark
had a goal and an assist, and
Austin York chipped in with
two assists as the hosts won
their third match of the sea
son.
Donnie Anderson, Danny
McClendon, Cedric Barn
hart and Dario Savage also
connected against the out-
manned Pirates.
Camden needed just 1:47
to get on the board, Ander
son doing the honors off a
Gabriel assist. McClendon
was next with Austin York’s
help about 17 minutes later,
and after Brunswick scored
off a deflection, Joe York
(from Gabriel) and Clark
(from Austin York) reaf
firmed Camden command
by intermission.
Joe York scored the first
and last goals of the second
half, McClendon and Clark
assisting. In between,
Gabriel buried a 2 8-yard free
kick, Barnhart hit off a de
flection, and Savage scored
on a Campbell assist.
Jared Warner went the
first half in goal for CCHS,
and Josh Witt the second.
On Friday, the Vikings
scored the only goal in the
first half on an oddly spin
ning shot from about 35
yards out. Camden also had
some chances — with nine
attempts on goal — but was
unable to convert in an excit
ing, back-and-forth match
that could have gone either
way.
“It’s what you expect in
your first region game,”
Camden coach Rob Gabriel
said of the strong Lowndes
side. “I wish we could play
them again.”
JV nets five in
win over Bradwell
Chris Close provided two
goals and an assist, and
Dylan Merry added a goal
and a helper as the Camden
See KICK, page 3B
Walks pave
way to 3-1 win
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
Still swinging for that elusive
first victory, the Camden County
High diamond ’Cats used a bene
ficial dose of late patience Friday to
turn the tables on non-region
Wayne County.
Trailing 1-0 entering the bottom
of the sixth inning, CCHS did all
of its damage without the help of a
hit, drawing five straight walks
with one out and scoring three
runs on wild pitches to sting the
Yellow Jackets, 3-1.
“That was a large win, to get that
first one out of the way,” Camden
head coach Jay Lasley said.
The paths between each dugout
and home plate were worn heavy
with hitters returning after strike
outs, as Camden righthander
Wyatt Holloway and his starting
counterpart Clayton Coatney com
bined for 22 whiffs. The teams to
taled 26 on the night.
But while each starter went five-
and-a-third innings, the difference
was control and pitch counts. In 73
pitches, Holloway walked just one
while striking out 10, while Coat
ney’s command deserted him in the
sixth, three destructive free passes
capping a 95-pitch, 12-strikeout,
four-walk outing.
“He kept us in the game,” Lasley
said of Holloway, who fanned eight
straight batters and nine of 10 be
tween the second and fifth. “Him
keeping it close was the thing that
gave us a chance.”
Tristan Jones, who coaxed one of
the walks in the sixth, pitched the
final inning-and-two-thirds for
Camden, striking out two and
working
around a lead-
off hit in the
seventh.
Coatney, a
USC-Aiken
signee who
struck out 11
in four innings
earlier this sea
son against
Pierce, didn’t
allow a ball out
of the infield
and faced the
minimum nine through three in
nings. However, once Camden got
its first baserunner — a Chandler
Cross leadoff hit in the fourth —
the hosts’ confidence grew.
“His velocity dropped enough to
where guys got a little more com
fortable in the box,” said Lasley,
whose team got two runners on
with one out in the fifth before
Coatney wriggled off the hook
CCHS pitcher
Wyatt Holloway
struck out 10
batters Friday
night.
That was a large win, to get
that first one out of the way.
— Jay Lasley
CCHS head baseball coach
with two punchouts.
The tiring Wayne righty began
the sixth with what became his
final strikeout, then walked Cross,
Jones and Cody Ilgenfritz to jam
the bases. Reliever Sid Royal
tossed two run-scoring wild pitches
wrapped around a walk to Logan
Page, and another errant delivery,
this one by Payton Phillips, meant
an insurance run.
Phillips had two of Wayne’s
three hits, and Aaron Palmer went
1 -for-2 with a walk and scored the
Jackets’ only run in the first.
See FIRST, page 3B
Andy Diffenderfer | Tribune & Georgian
Camden County High golfers Bradley Carter (above) and Hailey Bower (below) tee off Saturday morn
ing in tournaments on Jekyll Island. Carter shot a 77, and Bower teamed with Shelby Banta for the same
score in a two-player team format.
Chilly start for ’Cat golfers at Jekyll
Boys card 337; girls
duos place in top six
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
Playing in weather more suited for a British
Open, the Camden County High boys and
girls golf teams teed off their seasons Satur
day at Jekyll Island.
The cold and fierce wind making shots and
club selection an adventure, the Wildcat boys,
playing in the A Division, put up a 337 in the
Johnny Paulk Invitational at Pine Lakes. The
tournament attracted more than 30 schools
from across the state.
“We survived it, and that’s what these first
tournaments are about,” said Wildcat coach
Sonny Stewart.
Mitch Lomis was lowest for Camden with
a 75, and Bradley Carter was two shots higher
at 77. Mitch Wagner shot 92, Erick Hupp-
mann 93, Jake Reynolds 96 and Hunter
Carter 99.
For some of Stewart’s youngsters, Saturday
was a chance to cut their varsity teeth in a
crowded tourney field.
“When I look at their scorecards, I see a lot
See IRONS, page 3B
Wildcat
track
second,
fifth at
Bradwell
Andy Diffenderfer
sports@tribune-georgian.com
The Wildcat boys track team
finished second out of 11 schools
and the girls fifth on Saturday at
the Tiger Relays hosted by Brad
well Institute.
With two sprint wins from Justin
Leggett, and individual victories
from Demonte Johnson and Travis
Johnson, the Camden County boys
tallied 108 total points, only behind
the host Tigers (122.5).
The 100 (11.09) and 200-meter
(22.31) dashes belonged to Leggett
— who won the latter by nearly a
full second — and Demonte John
son ran a winning 51.17 in the 400.
A half-inch was the winning mar
gin for Travis Johnson in the shot-
put, his 42-314 throw nosing out
runner-up Kwazie Murphy of
Statesboro.
Camden also had three second-
place finishes in the relays.
Leggett, Demonte Johnson, Chan
dler Nichols and Matt Geter ran a
43.74 in the 400 and a 1:40.3 in the
sprint medley, and Leggett, De
monte Johnson, Fred Wallace and
Kentre Jackson a 3:38.6 in the
1,600.
In individual events, Jackson was
second in the high jump (6-0); Jack
Kolodziejczyk third in the 1,600
(4:58.64); Rafael Hardee third in
the shotput (41-214); and Gaylord
Russell fourth in the triple jump
(41-6). Also earning points were
Nichols, sixth in the 200 (23.84);
Kevin Hutchinson, sixth in the 400
(54.04) and seventh in the triple
jump (39-114); and Chris Williams,
seventh in the long jump (19-544).
The team of Kolodziejczyk,
James Oakes, Klayton Cook and
Jacob Wilson took third in the dis
tance medley (12:23.35), and
See PLACE, page 3B
Dinner honoring Herron will be March 16
A farewell dinner honoring Camden
County High School head football
coach Jeff Herron will be Saturday,
March 16, from 6-9 p.m. at the Cam
den Community Recreation Center.
The cost will be $20 per person, and
all proceeds will benefit the Camden
Quarterback Club. For more informa
tion, contact Allen Rassi at (912) 552-
1764 orafrjr@tds.net.
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