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14-and- Under Team One
makes it to championship
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
The Forsyth 14-and-Under base
ball All-Star Team One advanced
to Tuesday night’s GRPA District
7 Championship game with a 5-2
win over Habersham Monday
night.
More details on Monday’s and
Tuesday’s games in Friday’s
Forsyth County News.
The Forsyth 14-and-Under All-
Star baseball teams had mixed
results over the weekend at
Sharon Springs Park.
After splitting two games
Saturday, Coach Dennis Howell’s
Team One is still alive, with a late
game Monday night determining
whether they would move to
Tuesday’s championship.
“They’re playing excellent,” said
Howell of his team. “But the com
petition is tough.”
Coach Paul Dees’ Team Two
also split Saturday. But combined
with a tough one-run loss Friday
night, that was enough to elimi
nate them.
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well, but they faced a team that
never seemed to miss a play.
Madison started off the first inning
with three quick runs off of a field
er’s choice, a single and an error.
Forsyth threatened a two-out rally
in the bottom of the inning, but
Mickey Waller was caught in a run
down between second and third for
the final out.
In the top of the second, Madison
increased their lead to 5-0 on an
R. 8.1. single. However, a great per
formance from catcher Katie Mann
at the plate got the out and saved
another Madison run.
The lone Forsyth run was batted in
in the bottom of the fourth, when
Waller singled and drove in Mann.
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the Stars were quickly quelled.
In the bottom of the first, Forsyth
came out smoking with six runs
on four hits.
Jeremy Boles, who paced the
Stars’ nine-hit attack with three
hits and two RBIs, led off the
inning with a solid single to left.
Chris Shadburn followed with a
hit-and-run single to advance
Boles to third.
Boles scored Forsyth’s first run
on a wild pitch and Randy
Castleberry put the Stars up 2-0
when he launched a double into
the left field corner to score
Shadburn. Castleberry came
home following a wild pitch and a
Commerce error.
Forsyth loaded the bases on
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Team One
Good defense, pitching and
timely hitting helped Team One to
rally to a 4-2 victory in their first
game Saturday.
Trailing 2-1 in the fifth, Forsyth
struck with a double from Alvin
Hall, singles from Brandon Sims
and Brent Howell and a triple off
the bat of Cody Schmotz. The last
three hits plated runs to give the
team their winning margin.
Meanwhile, Jared Green,
Michael Long and Dusty Tate
combined to give up just two runs
on the mound and Coach Howell
praised his team’s defense.
Winder Team One, however,
provided a much tougher chal
lenge in Forsyth’s next game.
“The buck stopped there,” said
Howell. “They were a very good
hitting team.”
The Stars led 3-2 and were tied
at five, but could never pull ahead
after that. Sims, Tate, Long and
Howell had two hits each.
Team Two
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with nine strikeouts and did not give up a single hit.
10-Under Team Two
Team Two won by a resounding 12-3 against Commerce
Thursday.
Robby Williams logged a two-run homer over the Centerfield
fence in the second to tie the game. Williams was three-for-three,
almost going the full cycle with a single, double and home-run.
Not to be outdone, Brett Malone hit a 2-run inside-the-park home
run in the third and had an R. 8.1. triple in the fifth.
Friday night, Team 2 bested Thursday night’s blowout with an
even more impressive performance, defeating Jackson County 17-
7.
Mike Tucker drove the ball to the fence in the first, which was
enough to give him a three-run inside-the-park homer to put
Forsyth up by four.
Forsyth slowly increased their lead, until they rallied again in the
fifth inning, scoring eight runs.
walks and went ahead 4-0 when
Justin Seay drew a walk. Boles
singled to right for his second hit
of the inning to stake the Stars to
a 6-0 lead.
Forsyth added a single run in the
second inning when Samples dou
bled home Kevin Phillips, who
singled to lead off the inning. The
early 7-0 advantage proved to be
more than enough run production
tor Samples. He pitched the dis
tance for the win, allowing six
hits and striking out eight.
In Saturday’s game, Commerce
rallied for a run in the bottom of
the seventh inning for a 4-3 win to
force the tournament’s outcome to
Monday night’s winner-take-all
rematch.
Baseball at S.Springs
After a whitewash victory in
their first game, Team Two
dropped a slugfest to end their
tourney drive.
Great hitting and a three-hit
shutout by Steven Crowley gave
the Stars a 15-0 triumph over
Winder Team Two Saturday
morning. “That was the best game
they’ve put together,” said Dees.
“We ran and ran and ran on
them.”
Matt Tennyson had two doubles
and scored twice and Jason Power
smacked a two-run double. Jack
Flemming added to Winder’s mis
ery by drawing four walks and
scoring three times.
But later in the day, in what
Dees called “the weirdest game
I’ve ever been in,” Forsyth was
beaten by Jackson, 20-10. The
Stars were in the game until the
last few innings, when Jackson
used a six-run burst to pull away.
Flemming was 3-for-4 in game
two.
Reed Pruitt led the Stars overall
in the tourney with a 6-for-8 hit
ting performance.
Overall, Dees was pleased with
how his team did. “The kids
played good. We had some good
offense (36 runs in three games)
... and the kids worked real hard.”
Forsyth pitcher Kevin Phillips
kept Commerce batters off bal
ance through the first five innings.
He allowed just one run on four
hits and struck out five as the
Stars clung to a 2-1 lead entering
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Upon Further Review...
Spirit of Olympic Games
overcomes 90’s stoicism
Do you remember what hap
pened on September 18,1990?
On that date, International
Olympic Committee President
Juan Antonio Samaranch
announced the awarding of the
Centennial Olympic Games to the
City of Atlanta.
That was 2130 days ago. What
seemed like an eternity at the time
has now boiled down to just two
days.
For 17 days, from Friday night’s
Opening Ceremonies to the
Closing Ceremonies on August 4,
the whole world will be watching.
Almost 11,000 athletes will
compete for 197 countries at 25
different venues. Two million vis
itors are anticipated. These
Olympic Games will be the
grandest ever —larger than Seoul
and Barcelona combined.
And yet, many among us view
the Games with a stoic indiffer
ence usually reserved for
Philadelphia sports fans.
They cite the common com
plaints: the traffic will be terrible.
The crowds will be overwhelm
ing. The costs are outrageous. The
heat will be oppressive .
The naysayers opine that the
Braves have the right idea —get
out of town until the whole thing
blows over.
These folks have made me ques
tion my place at the other end of
the spectrum. Am I the one who is
out in left field? Why am I so
fired up for these Games?
Am I just tired of watching Jeff
Blauser try to play shortstop?
Maybe it’s the spirit of the ‘6o’s
and ‘7o’s that lives on in those of
us of a certain vintage. The feel
ing that you can make the world a
better place.
After all, its called the Olympic
movement. Back in the ‘6o’s,
there were a lot of movements.
The Civil Rights movement. The
the bottom of the sixth. As
Phillips began to tire, Commerce
scored twice for a 3-2 advantage.
Forsyth, however, refused to fold
after falling behind for the first
time in the game.
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Anti-War movement. Woodstock
was an event. Big as it was, it
wasn’t big enough to be a move
ment.
The Olympics bring’together the
whole world for two weeks of
peaceful competition. The
Olympic spirit transcends national
boundaries. It gives the whole
world a chance to know itself a
little better.
This from President Clinton:
“The Olympic Games remind us
vividly that families and commu
nities everywhere share the same
hopes and dreams for their chil
dren —a peaceful future, where all
are treated equally and with digni
ty; a society where courage, deter
mination, and the effort to excel
are both recognized and rewarded.
“By celebrating the Centennial
Olympic Games together in
Atlanta, we come closer to the
day when such hopes and dreams
become a reality.”
Maybe it was hearing Brendan
Harris on the radio Sunday morn
ing. Harris, an official with the
Olympic Torch Relay, spoke of
the amazing crowds that followed
the flame across America.
“You expected big crowds in the
big cities. But most amazing were
the small towns, where the whole
town would turn out, even at five
in the morning, just to see the
flame.
“To me, the flame is the symbol
of world unity and peace, of the
world community coming closer
together through the Games. The
flame passed within a two-hour
drive of 90 percent of the
American population, and the
great crowds convinced me that
these are America’s Games, the
World’s Games and that the
Olympic spirit lives.”
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the Olympic Village for the vol
unteers and their guests.
To see the Village, where the
world’s greatest athletes will
reside during the Games, was
inspiring. The swimming venue.
The NBC studio. The huge “mess
tent”, able to seat 3,000 at a time,
the size of four football fields.
While admiring the enormity of
the mess tent, I felt a tap on my
shoulder. “‘Scuse me, mate, but
would you mind taking a picture
of the group?” Soon I was
immersed in photographing and
conversing with a group of
Australians in for the Games.
It’s not every day you make
friends with folks from halfway
around the world. Suddenly, the
world didn’t seem so big. Or for
eigners so different. And maybe,
just maybe, that’s what these
Games are all about.
Later, we bumped into Billy
Payne himself, the man whose
dream brought the Games to
Atlanta. From the bustling center
of the Village, all I could think to
say was, “Thank you.”
Maybe it’s okay to be excited
about these Games. Maybe it’s
okay to feel touched by the
Olympic spirit. And may the
Games’ goodwill touch even the
naysayers among us.
Denton Ashway is a partner in
the law firm of Lipscomb,
Johnson, Ashway and Sleister. His
phone number is 887-7761.
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