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Wednesday, July 3,2019
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Race
as he took the lead on lap 20
and held on for 52 laps before a
flat tire forced him into pit row
with eight laps to go in stage
one. Three more cars quickly
followed as Ryan Blaney, Kyle
Busch and Clint Bowyer all lost
tread with Bowyer’s flat lead
ing to the second caution of the
race after spinning into the
grass.
Denny Hamlin emerged from
the chaos with the stage victo
ry, followed by Brad
Keselowski and Michael
McDowell. Harvick still man
aged to finish in seventh place
to capture 4 stage points and
his No. 4 continued to be the
car to beat heading into stage
two.
Harvick led from the restart
but became locked in a tight
duel for the lead with William
Byron before a third caution
flag reset the field on lap 99.
Byron briefly challenged after
the yellow but Harvick grabbed
the front spot on lap 109 for
another 51 laps and the stage
two win.
After starting from the 13th
position and patiently working
his way through traffic, a surg
ing Chase Elliott found some
open track to move around
teammate Jimmie Johnson and
narrowed the gap to less than a
second to finish second in the
stage and put himself in a
strong position for the final leg
of the race.
What at first looked like a
very dangerous event turned
merely into a time-consuming
one, as the air hose of a pneu
matic drill got wrapped around
the right rear wheel tire of the
No. 9 Chevy forcing the team
to scramble for a solution as
Elliott rapidly lost ground and
emerged from pit row having
fallen 18 spots to 20th for the
restart.
Stage three started with Kyle
Larson cutting past Harvick to
take the lead, and Bowman
rounding out the top three.
Bowman’s opportunity came on
lap 171 when the No. 4 slid
high into turn one making solid
contact with the outside wall
and dragging the car along the
barrier into to turn two result
ing in a yellow flag.
Bowman led 88 of the final
96 laps and fought off challeng
es from Ryan Blaney, Rickey
Stenhouse Jr., a briefly resur
gent Harvick and, then finally
Larson as the lead changed
hands six times over the span,
to include two lead changes in
the final eight laps as Bowman
held off Larson by .546 sec
onds for the win.
It was the second year in a
row the Larson took second
after a last lap battle as Busch
ran him down in the stretch of
the 2018 version. Joey Logano,
Johnson and Keselowski com
pleted the top-5. Elliott finished
just outside of the top-10 in
11th place.
NASCAR will celebrate the
fourth of July with a return to
the Daytona International
Speedway for the Coke Zero
Sugar 400 on July 6.
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Tigers
success to the format itself.
“I like the way Pickens runs
the camp, it’s a good format,”
LeBlanc said. “Lets us work
on what we need to work on.”
Equally important in the
training process is the film
review. Less than 24 hours after
camp, coaches and players
gather in the Performing Arts
Center to watch a collection of
Go-Pro, drone and overhead
video of the previous two-days.
The ability to manipulate
the image to an exact spot
and watch frame by frame, in
slow motion or from different
angles has allowed the
Dawson County coaching
staff to zero in on the basic
fundamentals of football with
the young team. Moving
directly from the film room
to the practice field is just
another step in the process of
reinforcing the lesson as the
team walks through each
play with the corrections
fresh in their minds.
“Its just another way to
get repetitions, and repeti
tions equal experience,”
LeBlanc said. “Experience is
everything.”
The Tigers will not return
to the practice field until
after the Georgia High
School Association’s “dead
week,” when no high school
sports activity is allowed,
which takes place June
29-July 6.
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Defensive Coordinator Bradley Fowler walks theTigers through a series of plays June 28 taken from the second padded camp
of the summer.
Photos by Bob Christian Dawson County News
As the last minnow, Assistant Coach Will Anglin, is quickly overcome by
sharks on June 28 in a ball-handling game at theTigers basketball skills
camp.
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Camp
give girls five minutes of
time and they will stay
focused. The boys will be
climbing the walls.”
The Tigers and Lady
Tigers each only host one
camp during the summer
and the end of this week’s
camp marked the end of
the program for this sea
son as both coaches pre
pare to return to their
teams for the beginning
of another season of bas
ketball that they hope will
one day be influenced by
these camps.
“We have only been
doing this for two years so
we really haven’t had a
chance to see much
impact on the program
just yet,” Carly Anglin
said. “But we are both
home-grown Dawsonville,
so we already know most
of the kids and that makes
it fun.”
DCHSTiger AJ Moore teaches a camper how to "box-out" an opponent dur
ing the basketball skills camp.
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