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Registration
continues for
summer
hoops camps
All three county high schools
are holding basketball camps for
youth, starting in early June.
Forsyth Central
Head boys coach Greg Dirst,
brand-new girls coach Steve
Barnes and Forsyth Central will
once again have camps through
the Cumming Recreation and
Parks Department.
The boys camps will run from
June 15-19 and the girls on June
22-26. Both will be at the new
Central gym.
Youth ages 11-14 will convene
each week in the morning from 9
a.m.-noon and the 8-10 year-olds
will meet in the afternoon from
1:30 p.m.-4 p.m.
Cost of the camps is $35 per
session. For more info, call 770-
781-2030.
North Forsyth
North Forsyth will hosting the
North Lanier basketball camps
again this summer.
Their youth individual camps
for 3rd-9th graders (three differ
ent sessions) will be held June
15-18. Fifth and sixth graders
meet from 8-10 a.m., third and
fourth from 10:30-noon and sev
enth through ninth from 1:30
■p.m.-4p.m. s
The following two weeks will
see coaches Bobby Smith and
Tracey Bryan holding specialty
clinics for guards (June 22-23),
posts (June 24-25) and for shoot
ing (June 29-30) - all of which
will be for 7th-12th graders and
run from 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
For more information, call
Smith or Bryan at 770-781-6637.
South Forsyth
South Forsyth coaches and play
ers will lead the War Eagle bas
ketball camp the week of June
22-26 as well. Athletes will
attend in the mornings and the
age range is 6th-9th graders.
For more info, call coach
Richard Porter at 770-781-2264.
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Little steps up as new Cumming Rec/Parks Director
Canon takes Cobb post; Bennett new AD here
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
If the City of Cumming had to lose their
Recreation and Paries Department director,
they could hardly have picked someone
more qualified to take his place.
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U-ll Premier Rowdies
show they’re learning
to win at Canterbury
After a trying regular season,
the U-l 1 Premier Rowdies con
tinued to show they’re learning
to win at a new level with their
performance in the Canterbury
Cup during Memorial Day
weekend at Lassiter High
School in Cobb County.
Winless in nine regular-season
matches, the Rowdies picked up
their first win of 1998 with a
decisive 5-1 win over GSA
Sting Black. A narrow loss in
their final outing of the tourney
was not enough to take away
the good feeling had from the
victory.
Brandon Stathes scored the
first goal of the GSA Sting
Black match off of a pass from
Nick Sheffield.
Jonathan Wojciechowski
opened the second half with his
first goal of the match, with the
assist going to P.K. Graff.
Daniel Madison then put the
match out of reach, adding two
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Ashway on the Bulls'
sixth title try
After 12 years heading the department,
Eddie Canon has moved on; next Monday
he will begin as the Deputy Director in
Recreation Services of Cobb County.
But this week, a man who has served as
Athletics Director for the Cumming
department for most of an even longer
more goals, with both assists
coming from Wojciechowski.
Alex Levensalor completed
the scoring for the Rowdies
with his first goal of the season,
with Wojciechowski assisting.
The Rowdies’ keepers,
Levensalor and Graff, had a
great match- both making
numerous saves. The defense
also stepped up their play and
shut down the Sting, allowing
few good shots in the match.
The Rowdies, who won their
division in the fall, were moved
up this spring and competed
against some of the state’s finest
clubs.
While they ended the division
season with a disappointing
record, the team was competi
tive at this level of play (their
division included No. 1-ranked
Gwinnett Soccer Association
and No. 3-ranked Athens).
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span here - 14 years - is settling into a
new position. Greg Little is sad to see
Canon go, but looking to take on the new
challenge.
“It’s a great opportunity for him ... but
we hate seeing him go,” said Little
Monday. “You can’t imagine how much.”
“I’m excited about the opportunity, but I
know I’ve got some big shoes to fill,” he
added.
Put your head down
and go!
Participants in last Saturday’s
Amicalola Fitness Festival
start pushing on the bike
course (above). At left, South
Forsyth High’s Thomas Setser
finishes off the field in the five
kilometer run.
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SF's Setser wins
Fitness Fest 5K
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
Numerous runners, bikers and
biathletes braved rainy conditions
with threats of storms Saturday
morning to participate in the
Amicalola Fitness Festival in
Dawsonville.
The race fields included many
athletes from Forsyth County who
made the short trek north to par
ticipate. Among them was soon
to-be South Forsyth HS graduate
Thomas Setser, who easily took
care of the field in the five-kilo
meter (3.1 -mile) road race.
Setser, who placed third in the
Class AA 1600-meter run this
spring and has last fall’s cross
country crown (also SK) among
his many Forsyth county titles,
traversed the moderately hilly
Sports Editor
War Eagle track teams
honored at banquet
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
The South Forsyth HS track
and field program celebrated an
outstanding year with a season
ending banquet last Friday at
Deckers restaurant.
Head coach Randy Wolford’s
boys team had one of their best
ever campaigns - winning the
county meet, finishing second in
the Region 7-AA meet and send
ing five athletes to the Class AA
championships.
Meanwhile, the girls team
under new coach Regina Fields
was low in numbers at season’s
end, but spirit was high with the
young group and the advance
ment of several athletes to finals
in the region meet gave hope for
the future.
Boys team members who set
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While there may have been a few that
knew of Canon’s inquiry into the Cobb
position, the process was so long and
uncertain that it was not surprising that
others did not pick up on it. So most of the
department and city was stunned when
Canon announced his intentions.
But in Little, the city has picked some-
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course in 17 minutes, one second
- just a few ticks from his person
al best time.
“I felt pretty good out there,” he
said. “It did feel odd with another
mile added (from the longest race
he did this spring) and to not be
running on the flat track.”
“It was nice to be back on the
roads, though.”
Setser said the second-place fin
isher, who from the results looked
to be Jarrett Holland, is a soon-to
be Cherokee County HS grad who
will be running cross-country at
Truett-McConnell College in
Cleveland, Ga. this fall.
Holland finished about a minute
behind Setser. The War Eagle did
say, however, that a pair of ath
letes in the biathlon pushed him
throughout the 5K before depart
ing to the transition area.
school records (including those
who made the state meet) were
awarded special plaques.
Wolford was obviously pleased
with the way his team performed
and progressed this year. “We
faced 28 teams through region
(some more than once) and we
beat 22 of the 28. Gilmer
County, White County and
Roswell were the only schools to
beat us,” he said. “That’s a big
compliment to these kids.”
The team was also lauded for
setting school records in nine
events.
While an MVP was not named,
Wolford’s words for senior
Thomas Setser told everyone
where he rated.
“He was basically it ... If I
could have named an MVP it
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