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Forsyth County News-Sunday, January 31,1999
Sports
Registration
extended for
roller hockey
The Slapshots Sportsplex will
be extending registration for their
first roller hockey “Super Season.
Registration had been scheduled
at the Forsyth County Library,
Room “C”, on Thursday, Feb. 4,
from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. each day, and
Saturday, Feb. 6 from 1 p.m.-5
p.m. An additional date is sched
uled at the Sawnee Center (770-
889-4977) on Saturday, Feb. 13
from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.
The “Super Season will includ
ed 12 league games, 12 practices,
a mid-season tournament and
league play-offs. Slapshots will
also be providing a free puck
handling and goalie clinic. Five
levels of play will be offered dur
ing the season, which will run
through the first week in June.
• Youth league: There are three
age groups: Squirt (ages 9-10),
Peewee (ages 11-12) and Bantam
(ages 13-14). Cost of “Super-
Season” is SIBO.
• Mini Hockey (ages 6-8): A
combination league and develop
ment program open to players
who have playing experience.
Cost of “Super- Season” is $l5O.
• Basic Development (All
Ages): This introduction to roller
hockey is meant for new players
of all ages and includes skating,
passing, shooting and stick-han
dling. The one-hour/per week
sessions will also include scrim
mages to prepare the players for
youth league. Cost $95.
Youth baseball/softball
County-wide spring youth soft
ball and baseball registration for
1999 will be held by the Forsyth
County Parks and Recreation
Department at the following
times and locations:
• Saturday, Feb. 6,9 a.m.-noon.
• Saturday, Feb. 13, 9 a.m.-
noon.
• Sunday, Feb. 14,2 p.m.-5 p.m.
Sites:
Coal Mtn. Fire Station,
Cumming City Park Office,
Chestatee Community Building,
Midway Community Building,
Sawnee Elementary School,
South Forsyth Middle School.
For more information, call 770-
781-2215.
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Raider grapplers push by War Eagles on the mat
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
Those who schedule saved the best for
last in the minds of many of Forsyth’s
wrestling followers: A regular-season-end
ing showdown between North Forsyth and
South Forsyth -two teams that have
established themselves as perennial pow
ers in recent years and both are ranked
Class AA Honorable Mention.
But as they have in each of the meetings
in this rivalry, North prevailed, 49-27. The
Raiders got going with victories from their
most-established grapplers early, then
A South sweep!
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A contact sport?
The going was rough in Friday night’s South-Central games. Above, a battle
for the ball goes to the floor. At right, South’s Derek Drew and Central’s
Bobby Donofrio fight under the basket for a rebound.
Vaughan, Thompson
lead Lady War
Eagles, but progress
for Central in defeat
By Alton Bridges
Sports Correspondent
The South Forsyth Lady War Eagles
basketball team improved their record
in Region 7-AA to 7-6 with a 70-40 vic
tory over the Forsyth Central Lady
Middle-school hoopsters move into tourney finals
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
Action Thursday in the North
Georgia Middle School 7th-
Grade Basketball Tournament at
South Forsyth MS saw the
Otwell Lady Bullpups and the
Lumpkin Indian boys emerge
victorious.
The Lady Pups topped
Lumpkin’s girls, 28-24, while
the Indian boys defeated
Vickery Creek’s, 52-37.
The two winners advanced to
Friday’s semifinal round, along
with the’two Wednesday win
ners. The finals were Saturday.
(Friday and Saturday’s results
will be reported in Wednesday’s
Forsyth County News. For tour
ney pairings, see page 2C).
Girls
With Amy Mohr having
another huge game, the No. 5
Lady Bullpups advanced in the
first round over the No. 4 seed
ed Lady Indians.
Mohr scored 11 of her 17
points |n the fourth quarter as
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clinched with a key run of wins from 140-
160 pounds.
When Kevin Keener (152 pounds) and
Patrick Gunter (160) picked up pins, North
had a 43-12 lead and the match in the bag.
“It was a good way to end the year,” said
Raider head coach Richard Lowe. “The
light weights got us started and the middle
weights came up with some tight victories
... We knew South would be ready to
wrestle.”
Despite the loss, War Eagle mentor John
Allen didn’t seem too displeased. Those
generally considered his top wrestlers won
decisively and everyone was pretty solid.
Bulldogs Friday night at South Forsyth.
For the winning Lady War Eagles,
Katie Vaughan had a career-high 30 and
Jennifer Thompson added 18 to lead
everyone in scoring. And coach Debbie
Blake of the Lady War Eagles was
happy with her team all the way around.
“I thought we did a good job,” she said.
“We know that Central is young, but
they played their hearts out.”
The game gave us an opportunity to
try a lot of combinations to see how
everyone plays together,” she added.
“They did well. Defensively, we did
well in the third quarter and we scored a
See GIRLS, Page 3C
Otwell outpointed their foes,
12-9 for the victory.
The game was tied at four
after one quarter, but Otwell
then sprinted out to a 12-6 half
time lead.
But it was Lumpkin’s turn to
shine in the third period, as they
came back to the tune of 9-4 to
close their deficit to one at 16-
15. However, Otwell had what it
took in the fourth.
Collette Cochran had four
points for Otwell, all of them in
the big second period. Katie
Long added three overall, and
Katherine Perkins and Whitney
Gravitt had two each for coach
Nancy Carter’s winners.
Leading Lumpkin was Hillyer
Flynt with six.
Boys
In a wild offensive affair, the
Indians were able to outscore
the game Viper boys.
“It’s been a good season, with
some peaks and valleys,” said
Vickery coach Ronnie Davis.
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“They all wrestled well ... I’m proud of all
of them,” he said.
Allen also had high praise for a young
Raider team that, like his own, has had to
try and overcome the loss of some top
wrestlers. “That’s a well-coached
wrestling team,” he said, noting North’s
youth. “We’ve wrestled a tough schedule,
with Class AAAA and AAA teams, and
they’re still one of the best we’ve seen.”
Most of the teams’ top titans are in the
lighter classes, at least in terms of experi
ence and accomplishments, but most
weren’t matched up. North started with a
pin from tough Jason Carroll over Justin
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Overtime thriller!!
SFHS boys repel
Bulldog comebacks
in 64-62 triumph
By Stephen Underwood
Sports Editor
If you saw the Dec. 15 boys hoops bat
tle between South Forsyth and Forsyth
Central, you had to wonder, “Can they
top this?”
FCN's Super
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Hearon at 103 pounds, then got a 16-8
decision at 112 by Jesse Raner over Adam
Nesbitt.
Experienced state-placer Johnny
Harrison got a good fight from Travis
Wright at 119, but started to take control
with a near-fall to end the second period.
Leading 9-3 in the third, he finally got the
pin. ,
South struck back and got on the board
with big guns Arthur Murray and Greg
Cherry. At 125, Murray pinned Raider
Justin Roland (filling in for an ill Nathan
See MAT, Page 2C
And, at least for the impartial fan, the
answer Friday night in the teams’
rematch was a resounding “yes!”
Os course, it was just about half of the
fans that left South’s gym ecstatic - aqd
it was the home team’s. Fending off
several major comebacks 4>y the
Bulldogs that took the game into over
time, the War Eagles responded vhth
dramatic baskets by Josh Tyson and
Johnny Jimenez - plus a Derek Drew
free throw -for a wild 64-62 triumph.
The win was huge for South, which
had lost four of its last five, as they
climbed back up to 7-6 in Region 7-AA.
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