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Forsyth County News - Sunday, June 7,1998
Sports
Flyers finish
great season
at AAU
state meet
The Flyers gymnastics team fin
ished the season with a wonderful
showing at their state meets and
celebrated with a team pizza
party at CiCi’s in Cumming.
The AAU Level 3 meet was
held in Marietta, April 25 and 26.
Ashley DePriest came home as
the state champion in the floor
exercise competition in the 11
year old age group and 2nd run
ner-up on balance beam.
She also had a 6th place finish
all-around and 16th place on
uneven bars.
Also competing in the 11 year
old division were Alycia Hayes
and Ashley Ringel. Alycia was
the only Flyer to receive a vault
Sward with a personal best score
of 8.25 to take home 16th place.
She was awarded 14th on bars,
where she also had a personal
best score, 12th on floor and 18th
all-around.
Ashley Ringel medaled on floor
I with a 7th place finish and was
awarded 12th on bars and 16th on
beam, after suffering a fall. She
also came home with 16th in the
all-around division.
All three girls are looking
toward moving to Level 4 in the
fall. In AAU level 4 competition,
Laurie Ray had solid finishes on
vault and floor, with an 8.05 and
8.2 respectively to win 21st place
in each event.
She finished 32nd on bars and
beam and 29th all-around with a
score of 30.5. She will be moving
ahead to Level 5 bepwmng in the
fall.
In AAU Level 2 state competi
tion, Jordan Rice, age-8, finished
the season with a personal best
score on bars to finish 49th. Her
all-around score of 26.25 brought
home 51st place all-around.
In the 9-year-old division,
Hayley Charbonneau received 8s
in all events to finish 14th on
vault, 15th on beam, 18th all
around and 21 st on floor.
Aubrey DePriest scored the
team’s highest score to date with
a 9.1 on bars to place 11th. She
received 15th floor and 21 all
around.
Jessica Clark received a person
al best score of 8.1 on vault to
take 24th place and finished 39th
all-around.
Whitney Grimes came home
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Starting another new program
North Forsyth’s Ashleigh Bennett is ready to be a pioneer in girls soccer again, this time at the
college level. She recently signed with North Georgia College and State University and is seat
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Forsyth girls continue to make big impact at state*.
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
For the most part, track and field contin
ued to get bigger and better for Forsyth
County girls in 1998.
Subsequently, membership in the third
annual Forsyth County News All-County
Girls Track and Field Team has grown, too
- even though requirements to make it
remained the same.
The standards for placement begin with
County hoop
camps just a
week away
All three county high schools are hold
ing basketball camps for youth, starting
the week of June 15.
Registration should be completed for
these camps this week if possible.
Sunday's Fishing Tips
with Ken Sturdivant
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winning an individual county title or mak
ing the state meet; if you do the latter,
you’re in even if you are a relay member
that would not make it individually.
Otherwise, scoring in the top three in an
individual event in the county meet AND
the top six in your region will do it.
More athletes than ever qualified for
state meets this year, thanks mostly to
North Forsyth. The Region 8-A champion
Lady Raiders put in nine, including ath
letes on two relay teams, as they finished
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
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Giris track was very strong again this year in Forsyth. At left, Forsyth Central's Erin Shultz was again ,
the county’s best short sprinter, winning the 100 and 200 and going to state again in three events (in<-
photo). The county’s highest placer at state was Megan Thacker of North, who was second in theC<
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Bennett signs
for new NGCSU
soccer team
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
For the second straight year, a
top North Forsyth girls soccer
player will be joining the competi
tive collegiate ranks next fall.
Graduating senior Ashleigh
Bennett recently signed a scholar
ship to continue her soccer career
- and form part of the foundation
of a brand-new team - at North
Georgia College and State
University.
Bennett has not only been prolif
ic as the top Lady Raider offen
sive player the last two years, but
also as a great all-around athlete at
North. She has won an incredible
13 letters, including five as a
sophomore.
That year, she ran cross-country
and played softball in the fall, bas
ketball in the winter, then track
and soccer in the spring. Overall,
,she has four soccer and four bas-
10th in the state. Forsyth Central added
four, including a relay, as well.
Thacker the best
Eleven from North make the team alto
getherjoining six from Central. Eight oth
ers are noted as honorable mention,
including three from South Forsyth.
Several of the Lady Raiders scored at the
state meet, and none higher than Megan
Thacker. The sophomore was second in
Sawnee YFA holding tournament
The Sawnee Mountain Panthers Youth
Football Association will sponsor a One
Pitch Softball Tournament on Saturday,
June 20 at Sawnee Mountain Park, begin
ning at 8 a.m.
The double-elimination event will be
divided into men’s and women’s divi
sions, with trophies for first, second and
third places.
The entry fee is SIOO and the waiver
musht be turned in 30 minutes before
More All-County
teams
THIS WEEK [3
ketball letters.
This year, she narrowed her
focus to those two sports - basket
ball and soccer - the first in which
she helped her team to a 20-8 sea
son, just missing state. In soccer,
she was the team MVP and led
North to their second straight state
tourney appearance, after a second
straight Area 8-AA/A runner-up
spot.
It’s been a long four years for
Bennett, who first played on the
boys soccer team for two years
under Coach Ray Lee, even after a
girls “JV” team had started. But
when girls varsity soccer began
under Coach Ken Fahey last
spring, Bennett quickly became
one of the team’s stars, scoring
over 20 goals in ‘97.
“It was a change,” she admitted.
“Playing with the boys helped me
with toughness and being aggres-
the Class A 800 meters with a time of two//
minutes, 24.39 seconds, after taking\<
region. She was also fourth at region in the//
400, and won both events at county.
And let’s not forget that Thacker was the’/,
anchor of North’s 4 x 400 meter relay,//
which won county and region and took’/,
fifth at state with a 4:15.45 - the fastest
Fbrsyth in many years.
Those Lady Raider relay teams were*/
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game time. All the proceeds will go to the.\
Sawnee Mountain Panthers Youth*/
Football Association.
The teams will furnish balls of Core 50*/
or lower, and no titanium bats are***’
allowed.
Any home run after five in a game will*/,
result in an out.
For more information, please call PhiF/*
Bourque at 770-781-3741 or
Townsend at 770-521-4355.
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