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2B I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, September 11,2019
Cross Country Tigers build on early success
By Bob Christian
bchristian@dawsonnews.com
Seniors Evion Reinhardt and
Jenna LeCours finished within
one second of each other to
lead the Dawson County Lady
Tigers cross-country team to a
third-place overall finish at the
North Hall Invite on Sep. 5 in
Gainesville. Crossing the line
in twentieth and twenty-first,
respectively, the duo led a tight
ly knit pack of Lady Tigers
through a field of 134 runners
to bring Dawson County to
their highest finish of the young
season.
They were followed by
juniors Molly Muenchen and
Celine Sapp and sophomore
Isabelle Kinsey, all of whom
finished within thirty seconds
of each other and less than a
minute behind the team front
runners to give the Lady Tigers
an overall score of 158, secur
ing their spot amongst the top
three teams.
Lor the boy’s team, senior
Ben McGinnis continued his
break-out season with his sec
ond top-ten performance of the
year as he crossed the finish
line in eighth place to lead
Dawson County to the line for
a sixth-place team finish.
He was chased by junior
Luke Hamby, who turned in his
best time of the year, finishing
twenty-first, along with a group
of runners that included sopho
mores Ethan Smith and Ryan
McGinnis, as well as junior
Brenden Swafford, all finishing
within thirty seconds of each
other in a solid upper tier per
formance in the men’s field of
151 runners.
Both teams improved their
standings within the region as
the short, six-race regular
reaches the halfway point with
the third race of 2019 on Sep.
14 at the Cherokee Warpath Photos courtesy of Wendy McGinnis
Invitational. Junior Luke Hamby races to the finish line on Sep. 5 at the North Hall Invite.
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Softball
Both pitchers recorded a strike-out
and a pair of walks as Moore took the
loss for the Lady Tigers, while seven
different Dawson players combined for
a total of eight errors on the day. The
loss interrupted a four-game winning
streak, and Head Coach Jim Pruett
acknowledged that it was not one of the
team’s better outings thus far.
“I don’t know if the week off of
games affected us or not, but we were
not ready to play Tuesday,” Pruett said.
The East Hall Vikings came to town
as the defending region champions, hav
ing won 20 regional games in a row, a
streak extending to the 2017 regional
tournament., and quickly opened a four-
run lead in the first inning.
Moore, in a seven-inning complete
game performance, continued to throw
strikes, and the Dawson defense redis
covered itself to keep themselves in the
game. But Vikings ace Macy Banks
dominated the circle, striking out 14 of
the 26 batters she faced and East Hall
extended their regional win streak to 21
games by a final score of 6 - 1.
“We played much better after the first
inning against East Hall,” Pruett said.
“The girls played hard Thursday, and it
could have very well been a 2-1 game.
Hopefully we can get back on track this
week, against a very good Lumpkin and
White County teams.”
Dawson County faced the Lumpkin
County Indians on the road on Sep. 10,
results were unavailable as of press
time, and will start a three-game home
stand when they take on the White
County Warriors on Sep. 12.
Photos by Bob Christian Dawson County News
Above: Junior Bella Henson rounds second base on Sep. 3 after blasting a
shot into center field against the Rabun Wildcats. Left:The Dawson County
Lady Tigers take the field on Sep. 3 for a game with the Rabun Wildcats dedi
cated to raising awareness for cancer victims.
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NASCAR
been on in the playoffs for
this many consecutive years,
it’s certainly disappointing,”
Johnson said. “Unfortunately,
we had a bad 25 races that
led to the position we were in
today. We needed a stellar
day and I think we were hav
ing a strong day and I’m just
really proud of my team and
where we were at and what
was going on.”
Johnson is the only mem
ber of the Hendricks-
Motorsports Racing team to
not make the post-season for
2019 as fellow drivers Chase
Elliott, Alex Bowman, and
William Byron all locked
themselves in with victories
earlier in the season.
Both Byron and Elliott
showed they were in top-
from as Byron notched his
third top-five of the season
with a fifth-place finish,
while Elliott overcame a
bizarre pit-row crash and
subsequent damage to his No.
9 NAPA Chevy to nab a
ninth-place finish, his elev
enth top-ten of the year.
Entering the playoffs com
fortably in the middle of the
pack, currently ranked sev
enth, Elliott acknowledged
that the opening round would
be the most difficult for his
team based on the tracks
involved in the early stages.
“This first round is going
to be tough. Michigan and
Charlotte haven’t been our
best two race-tracks,” Elliott
said. “So, it’s important for
us to not overlook it and put
some emphasis on the first
round and not just think
we’re going to breeze right
through.”
The Monster Energy
NASCAR Cup Series play
offs will start on Sep. 15 at
the Las Vegas Motor
Speedway with the South
Point 400 as the green flag
flies at 7 p.m.
CURRENT PLAYOFF FIELD:
1. Kyle Busch, Joe Gibbs
Racing: 2,045 points
2. Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs
Racing: 2,030 points
3. Martin Truex Jr., Joe
Gibbs Racing: 2,029 points
4. Kevin Harvick, Stewart-
Haas Racing: 2,028 points
5. Joey Logano, Team
Penske: 2,028 points
6. Brad Keselowski, Team
Penske: 2,024 points
7. Chase Elliott, Hendrick
Motorsports: 2,018 points
8. Kurt Busch, Chip Ganassi
Racing: 2,011 points\
9. Alex Bowman, Hendrick
Motorsports: 2,005 points
10. Erik Jones, Joe Gibbs
Racing: 2,005 points
11. Kyle Larson, Chip
Ganassi Racing: 2,005 points
12. Ryan Blaney, Team
Penske: 2,004 points
13. William Byron,
Hendrick Motorsports: 2,001
points
14. Aric Almirola, Stewart-
Haas Racing: 2,001 points
15. Clint Bowyer, Stewart-
Haas Racing: 2,000 points
16. Ryan Newman, Roush
Fenway Racing: 2,000 points
College Football
Round-up
By Bob Christian
bchristian@dawsonnews.com
The top-25 saw a bit of
a shake up this past week
end after Clemson faced
its first big test of the sea
son against the No. 15
team in the country, and
LSU demonstrated that
their over-the-top offense
was the real deal against
No. 9 Texas, while
Michigan and Nebraska
showed that reputation
sometimes exceeds skill
when it comes to polling.
Clemson maintained
their lock on No. 1 after
dominating the second
half against a determined
Texas A&M, while the
Aggies put the SEC East
on notice, going toe-to-
toe with the defending
champs.
Alabama and Georgia
rolled over a pair of lesser
teams to hold on to sec
ond and third, respective
ly, while the LSU Tigers
surged into fourth with a
45 - 38 win over the
Longhorns that saw Ohio
State transfer Joe Burrow
throw for 471-yards and
four touchdowns, both
school records.
Mike Harbaugh’s
Wolverines dropped three
spots, down to No. 10,
after barely holding off
the Black Knights of
West Point in two over
time periods, raising seri
ous questions about the
future of the program and
the Colorado Buffaloes
engineered a brilliant sec
ond half comeback to
snatch victory away from
the Cornhuskers in the
final minutes of the game,
putting a wet-blanket on
Scott Frost’s second sea
son in Lincoln.
TOP-25 SCOREBOARD
No. 1
No. 12
Clemson
Texas A&M
24
10
No. 15
Penn State
Buffalo
45
13
No. 2
Alabama
62
No. 16
Oregon
77
New Mexico State
10
Nevada
6
No. 3
Georgia
63
No. 17
Wisconsin
64
Murray State
17
C. Michigan
0
No. 4
Oklahoma
70
No. 18
UCF
48
South Dakota
14
FAU
14
No. 5
Ohio State
42
No. 19
Michigan State
51
Cincinnati
0
W. Michigan
17
No. 6
LSU
45
No. 20
Iowa
30
No. 9
Texas
38
Rutgers
0
No. 7
Michigan
24
20T
No. 21
Syracuse
20
Army
21
Maryland
63
No. 10
Auburn
24
No. 22
Washington State
59
Tulane
6
N. Colorado
17
No. 11
Florida
45
No. 23
Stanford
20
UT Martin
0
use
45
No. 13
Utah
35
No. 24
Boise State
14
N. Illinois
17
Marshall
7
No. 14
Washington
19
No. 25
Nebraska
31
California
20
Colorado
34
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