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t—FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-SUHDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1904
Sports Corner
FOOTBALL
VARSITY FOOTBALL
Forsyth County 0 0 6 8 l4
Murray County 14 14 7 12 47
Scoring
Murray County (9:39 Ist qtr.) Dailey 3-yd. run (Baynes kick), 7-0.
Murray County (4:38 Ist qtr.) Baynes 4-yd. run (Baynes kick), 14-0.
Murray County (11:47 2nd qtr.) Rainey 36-yd. pass from Baynes (Baynes
kick), 21-0.
Murray County (2:08 2nd qtr.) Swilling 3-yd. pass from Baynes (Baynes
kick), 28-0.
Forsyth County (4:41 3rd qtr.) Marks 2-yd. run (conversion failed), 6-28.
Murray County (0:31 3rd qtr.) Dailey 6-yd. run (Baynes kick), 35-6.
Murray County (8:00 4th qtr.) Mathis 5-yd. run (kick blocked), 41-6.
unty (3:54 4th qtr.) Pruitt 25-yd. pass from Chambers (Holbrooks run), 14-
41
Murray County (2:44 4th qtr.) Mathis 5-yd. run (kick failed), 47-7.
TEAM STATISTICS
Forsyth County
18
271
35 104
167
12-24 2
11 129
4 2
2 34 0
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing: Forsyth Marks 14 40 ITD; Holbrooks 8-34 1 PAT; Chambers 9-19;
Payne 2 11. Murray Dailey 10-66 2TDS; Baynes 9-65 ITD; Chadwick 8-62,
Mathis 8 45 2TDS; Payne 1-38, Rainey 2-13.
Passing: Forsyth Chambers 10-21 167YDS, ITD; Payne 2-2 18YDS;
Holbrooks 0-1 lINT. Murray Baynes 512 123YDS, 2TDS, lINT.
Receiving: Forsyth Pruitt 7-119 ITD; Curl 1-23, McCalllster 1-15; Marks 1-
15; Shadburn 1-13; Ingram 1-10. Murray Swilling 3-45 ITD; Black 1 42;
Rainey 1 36 ITD.
SOFTBALL
Forsyth County Lady Bulldogs
Brookwood 4 Forsyth County 1
Brookwood 0 0 0 0 1 3 X 4
Forsyth County 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Player Position AB R H RBI
Bennett SF 3 0 1 0
Major 3B 3 0 0 0
Sutko SS 3 1 1 0
Woodham IB 3 0 2 0
Bagley PR 0 0 0 0
Waters P 3 0 1 0
Fries PR 0 0 0 0
Wood C 3 0 0 0
Waldroop 2B 3 0 0 0
K. Diggle LF 2 0 0 0
Ledbetter RF 2 0 0 0
Lathem CF 1 0 0 0
Taylor PH 1 0 0 0
Totals 27 1 5 0
Errors: Major (2), Sutko (2), Woodham, K. Diggle.
Doubles: Bennett.
Winning Pitcher: Hicks.
Central Gwinnett 5 Forsyth County 4
Parkview 40000001— 5
Forsyth County 00201020 7
Player Position AB R H RBI
Bennett SF-CF 5 3 3 0
Major 3B SF-CF 4 2 2 0
Sutko SS-3B 5 0 2 0
Woodham C 3 0 0 1
Gazaway PR 0 0 0 0
Waters P 5 0 2 3
Fries PR 0 0 0 0
Wood 1B 4 0 0 1
Waldroop 2B SS 3 0 0 0
K. Diggle LF 5 0 3 0
Ledbetter RF 1 0 0 0
L, Diggle PH 1 o 0 0
Tfylor RF 3 0 1 0
Lathem CF 2B 10 0 0
Monday PH 1 o 0 0
Dixon PH 1 0 0 0
Bagley 2B 0 0 0 0
Totals 44 5 13 5
Errors: Bennett, Major, Waldroop (2), Bagley, Lathem.
Double Plays: Major Waldroop Wood, Sutko-Wood
Winning Pitcher: Lewis.
Forsyth County Recreation Department
Fall Softball League Standings
Lanierland 70
Silver City 6 1
Forsyth Floor 6 1
No Names 4-2
Misfits 43
The Generals 4 4
The Rebels 3 3
Cumming Stereo 2-5
Hoover Universal 2-5
American Boa 1-6
Community Bible Church 0-9
TENNIS
Cumming Tennis League
Scores For Week of Oct. 1
Women's A Lower Pts. Total
Martha Yoder 16 63
Nancy Gravitt 14 62
Doris Peckham 18 60
Gail Sullivan 17 56
Brenda Waldrip 12 53
Teresa Cowart 12 47
Arlene Ingram 11 39
Judy Willingham 11 39
Women's B Upper (D) Pts. Total
Wynell Hunt 17 68
Jennifer Woods 13 55
Cindy Yates 15 54
Dottie Naus 14 54
Carol Rudder 13 52
Nita Higginbotham 10 52
Margaret Miller 14 48
Evelyn Grossman 2 23
Women's B Upper (N) Pts. Total
Peggy Bell 18 69
Kathy Moseman 13 59
Susan England 18 58
Janice Simmonds 12 57
Mary Cornell 12 52
Nancy Wood 15 50
Wilma Moore 14 44
Jeanne Cowdrey 10 41
Sports Calendar
Week of OCT. 15-21
Football
Otwell 7-8, 9 v. South Forsyth, Thursday, 4 p.m.
Forsyth JV at Riverside, Thursday, sp.m.
Forsyth V v. Dacula, Homecoming, Friday, 8 p.m.
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BULLDOGS Continued from Page 9A
which was capped by Baynes’ three
yard scoring strike to Swilling.
A Chris Mitchell interception on the
goal line denied the Indians a fifth
score on the final play before inter
mission.
To add injury to insult, literally,
no fewer than six Bulldog players
were forced to the sidelines with
injuries, including Payne, Shadburn,
Freeman and Mitchell, each of whom
suffered blows to the head that
brought them out of the game.
In fact, Forsyth’s injury plight be
came so bad in the third quarter that
the Bulldogs almost found them
selves without a quarterback. With
Jackson still hobbled by an ankle
injury suffered two weeks ago, Cham
bers was forced to play the entire
second half after Payne left the game
despite suffering a recurrence of
the jaw dislocation that sidelined him
in the first half.
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LADY BULLDOGS Continued from Page 9A
extra innings.
The play of the game came in the
eighth when, after a one-out single,
Sutko sprung high into the air to
snare a sharp line drive and then
rifled a throw onto first for a double
play-
Sutko gave a repeat performance
one inning later, again leaping to get
a glove on a hard liner and catching
the ball on its way down for a leadoff
out. Diggle followed that play by
preventing an extra-base hit with a
tremendous running and leaping
catch in left.
The Lady Bulldogs dodged two
more bullets in the 11th as, with one
out and the bases loaded. Sutko
ranged to her left to field a grounder
and threw out the potential winning
run at the plate. With darkness fast
approaching and the Lady Bulldogs
one out away from escaping die
threat, Fowler lined a shot just inches
outside third and Forsyth breathed
another sigh of relief.
tions were a group of officials that
constantly drew the ire of the Forsyth
coaches and fans whistling the Bull
dogs for 129 yards of penalties, while
flagging the hometown Indians for
only 46 yards.
“I don’t want to make excuses —we
played poorly and the best team won.
But that was probably the worst
exhibition of officiating I’ve ever seen
in my life,” said Coach Jackson after
the game, adding that if his judge
ment is substantiated by game films,
he plans to draft a letter of complaint
to the officials’ organization as well
as to the Georgia High School Asso
ciation office.
A pair of five-yard touchdown runs
by Jeff Mathis ended the Indians’
highest point production of the sea
son, but the Bulldogs also recorded
the highest point total scored on the
Murray defense when Jeff Pruitt
pulled in a 25-yard touchdown pass
from Chambers that, combined with
But the final bullet struck home, as
Fowler delivered a single to left that
sewed the winning ran, and sent the
Lady Knights' bench into a dance of
jubilation while Forsyth was once
again resigned to waiting until next
year.
Forsyth’s fate was sealed by the
fact that the Lady Bulldogs stranded
14 runners in the contest, eight of
them in sewing position.
“We just couldn’t get the tag hit
when we needed it,’’ a disappointed
Tallfc *. surmised, noting that the
majority of Forsyth’s scoring threats
developed with two outs. In the four
extra innings, the Lady Bulldogs
managed but one hit, while Central
Gwinnett rapped out four.
“I thought we would win it espe
cially when we took the lead (in the
seventh). But we just didn’t get the
job done.”
The Lady Bulldogs' recent fielding
slump (24 errors in their last four
games) also had Tallant perplexed.
Holbrooks’ conversion run, ac
counted for the final score of 47-14.
If there was a bright spot on the
night for the Bulldogs, it was the play
of Pruitt, who starred as Forsyth was
forced to the air to play catch-up. The
senior split aid caught seven passes
for 119 yards, including a 35-yard
reception on which he outleaped a
Murray defender to get a hand on the
pass and caught while falling down,
thus setting up the first Forsyth
touchdown.
Of the Bulldogs’ 271 total yards, 186
came through the air, with Chambers
completing 10 of his 21 attempts for
167 yards and Payne connecting on
both his passes for 18 yards. Marks
led the Bulldogs' ground game with 40
yards on 14 carries, while Holbrooks
finished with 34 yards on eight car
ries.
Dailey, Baynes and Gary Chadwick
paced a balanced Indian running
attack that rolled up 289 of Murray’s
“It seems like we finished up with our
worst four games in the field. I don’t
know why. But even so, when you
hold teams to four and five runs, you
ought to be able to hit well enough to
wm.
“We scored six runs all day and
three of those came borne on two
sacrifice flies and a double play
groundout We just didn't come
through with the big hit," Tallant
said.
An impressive Brookwood defense
limited the Lady Bulldogs to five hits
and one run, that coming in the final
frame of a 4-1 loss.
The two defenses waged an even
battle through the first four innings,
but Brookwood broke the scoreless
deadlock in the fifth on Becky Holla
way's sacrifice fly.
Forsyth's batting fortunes were
exemplified by two plays on balls bit
by Wood during the contest
With Forsyth threatening in the
second, after leadoff singles by Wood
412 total yards. Baynes also com
pleted 5-of-12 passes for 123 yards and
two touchdowns.
“We put ourselves in such a bind
early with all our mistakes that we
just couldn’t come back. You can’t
make mistakes like we did against a
good football team and expect to
win,” a disappointed Coach Jackson
said after the game.
“We made mistakes from the out
set with fumbles, interceptions and
penalties and one mistake led to
another and it just snowballed.
“We know we didn’t play up to our
capability, and Murray being such a
good team had something to do with
that. But we’re making mistakes that
we shouldn't be making this late in
the season. And we’ll have to play
much better next week if we expect to
win,” Jackson said, referring to the
Bulldogs' first home game in over a
month with Dacula.
9th GRADE
Continued from Page 9A
(V the jayvee squad that fluctuates
between 20 and 25 players, depending
on how many are brought up each
week to fill varsity slots. “So it’s
pretty obvious that the current setup
is not getting the job done.”
Coughlin and Orr concurred on one
primary reason for the high dropout
numbers between the players’ ninth
and tenth grade years.
“With no more players than what
we have, there’s no competition for
jobs on the team. Everyone is as
sured of playing,” Orr said. “The
competitiveness facton within our
team is not existent. They’re not
pushed by anyone to be better or to
reach their potential because they’re
guaranteed of playing time. They
have to play because they don’t have
anyone behind them.
“That makes them lazy, and then
when they get to the high school it’s a
shock because they have to work and
improve to get playing time. And a lot
of than had just rather quit at that
point.”
This is the first «f three articles
dealing with the problems earned by
the current junior high school athletic
feeder system. Wednesday's edition
of the News wfll cover the advantages
the junior high school coaches feel the
consolidation of the county’s three
ninth grades would offer, while next
Sunday’s News wfll feature responses
of Forsyth’s varsity football and bas
ketball coaches.
ham and Waters, Wood screamed a
liner up the middle that the Lady
Broncos’ pitcher got a glove on and
dropped. But with the runners frozen,
Brookwood managed to turn a double
play that erased the threat.
In the seventh, Wood again came to
the {date, this time with the bases
full- But her sharply hit grounder was
fielded flawlessly by the Brookwood
shortstop and converted into another
double play.
The run that scored meant nothing,
as Brookwood had used a four-hit
sixth to open up a 4-0 advantage.
Brookwood went on to capture the
region title despite a loss in its second
game to Parkview. After defeating
Central Gwinnett in the loser’s
bracket finals, Brookwood rallied
from a 3-0 deficit to defeat Parkview
7-3 on Thursday and then banded the
Lady Panthers a 3-2 loss on Friday to
advance to the state tournament.
The beginning of the region tourna
ment was postponed one day because
of Tuesday’s rainy weather.