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Forsyth County News - Friday, September 8,2000
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volleyball teams
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Friday Night
Football
North Forsyth
at
Sequoyah
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday >
Where: Sequoyah High (follow Hwy. 20 west to
to Macedonia Church, turn left and road will carry
you through to Sequoyah)
Coaches: Bruce Miller (North), Sid Maxwell
(Sequoyah)
Records: North 0-1, Sequoyah 1-0
Last season: Did not play
Key players: North: QB Carl Meadows, RB
Treve Gibson, DL Dusty Benefield, K Charles
Adams: Sequoyah: QB Patrick Hall, FB Justin
Wheeler, TE Thad Wheeler, FS David Mitchell,
NG Paul Cantrell.
Injuries: North: SS Joseph Edgil; Sequoyah:
none.
Outlook: “We want to play well for our confi
dence,” Miller said. “We’re starting with three
games that don’t help or hurt our playoff picture,
but we’re still looking for consistent improve
ment."
The Raiders’ defense figures to continue its solid
play, but a sputtering offense hindered by
turnovers and penalties must improve.
South Forsyth
at
Lumpkin
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Lumpkin County High (follow Ga. 400
north until it ends, turn north at Hwy. 60, drive
through the town's central square, at the first stop
light, turn left, school is about five blocks down)
Coaches: Norris Vaughan (South), George
Hoblitzell (Lumpkin)
Records: South 0-1, Lumpkin 1-0
Last season: South 14, Lumpkin 7
Key players: South: QB Chris Kemp, FB/LB
Taylor Ownbey; Lumpkin: QB David Burton,
DE/FB Dwayne Richardson. RB Dangerous
Jackson.
Injuries: South: none; Lumpkin; none.
Outlook: Vaughan: “One word. Dangerous.
Jackson will be the fastest running back we'll see
this season. He scored three touchdowns against
12th-ranked Gilmer in their win last week.”
Hoblitzell:“lt’s our last game before we enter our
region schedule, and we’d like to go into that with
some momentum. But they’re a lot stronger than
we are, so we need to keep them off the ball.”
Forsyth Central
at r-
Commerce ’ A.
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Where: Commerce High
(follow 1-85 North to Exit 147, Hwy. 98. Turn right,
and then another right at the first red light. When
the street splits, bear right to the school.)
Coaches: Bob Herndon (Central), Steve Savage
(Commerce)
Records: Central 0-1, Commerce 1-0
Last season: Did not play
Key players: Central: QB Neal Daniels, FB Brad
Porter, TE Slate Amos; Commerce: RB Monte
Williams, TE/DT Casey Gary, FB/DT Twion
Schuller, QB/FS/WR Michael Collins.
Injuries: Central: RB Rusty Greene; Commerce:
none.
Outlook: “Commerce has four bonafied game
breakers,” Herndon said. “The defense will have
to play inside out to get their running back to go
sideways as much as possible. We want to use
the sideline as an extra player.”
‘We re still trying to find what we can do," Savage
said, noting his team’s difficulty moving the ball
on offense last week. “And we know Bob
Herndon. He’s one of the better football coaches
in the state, and he’ll have his team ready.”
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The South
Forsyth volley
ball team
served up a
solid effort
despite falling
on the road at
Roswell High
earlier this
week. The
Lady War
Eagles played
host to North
and Central
later in the
week.
Photo/John
Tooley
North shuts down the opposition
Lady Raiders off
on the right foot
By Eric Burden
Sports Writer
Staring into the abyss of its
first defeat of the season, the
North Forsyth softball team
pulled itself back Wednesday
from the brink of such a disas
ter and hammered home seven
runs in the sixth to stifle West
Hall’s threat 12-9.
The Lady Raiders (14-0)
also erupted late for six runs in
Lady Bulldogs take a twinbill Tuesday
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Photo/Tom Brooks
Central's Lauren Samples returns the ball to the infield after hauling in a fly ball.
the first game of the double
header as Jessica Bagley grand
slammed the door on the 8-
AAAA Lady Spartans to pace
North to a 7-1 win.
Homers by Honea spelled
the difference in the second
game.
Down 6-5 going into the
sixth, the Lady Raiders put
together four runs before
Lauren Honea copycatted a
three-run shot she hit in the
third with a two-out, three-run
smash over the left center
fence.
That proved to be the game-
South volleyball falls on the road
But Lady War
Eagles show
mettle in loss
By John Tooley
Sports Writer
It was getting past 4:45,
and the Roswell Hornets were
beginning to wonder. After
all, wasn’t South Forsyth sup
posed to be here for a volley
ball match? Would the team
show up? Just as the match
appeared to be in jeopardy,
the Lady War Eagles walked
into the gym. And once the
match began, coach Salle
Komar’s team really showed
up.
“I am very pleased with
the way we played today,”
Komar said after the match.
winner as the Lady Spartans
stitched together three more
runs in the last two innings.
Honea also drove a double
to left center in the fifth to
drive in a run and finished the
game three-for-four with seven
RBIs.
“Lauren was in her happy
zone today,” said assistant
coach Keith Shoemake.
Rightfielder Jacque Stewart
didn’t let Ms. Honea do all the
work, however. Stewart fenced
in two doubles to drive in two
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“Every time we play these
girls astound me.”
Despite losing to the
Hornets in Tuesday’s volley
ball doubleheader (15-10, 15-
12; 15-7, 15-11), the South
Forsyth coach explained why
she was so pleased with her
team.
“They’re an AAAAA
team, and we just moved up
to AAA,” Komar stated. “Plus
I’ve only got two true volley
ball players on the team. I’ve
got a lot of athletes that are
becoming volleyball players.”
The Lady War Eagles
started out their first game in
a hole, but behind the serving
of junior Rebecca Rowlands
the team rallied to tie the
game at 9-9. Eventually, the
comeback fell short, and
South Forsyth dropped the
game 15-10.
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Central breaks out the bats
in doubleheader sweep
By Eric Burden
Sports Writer
Double the pleasure, double the fun.
Words to live by for the Forsyth Central softball
team after sweeping Gainesville Tuesday 6-0, 14-4
in a double-header at City Park.
The Lady Bulldogs (14-3) bounced back after
splitting a double-header with the Lady Rebels last
week at Fannin.
Outfielder Lauren Samples made the most of the
two-for-one outing, as she raised her batting average
38 points by going six-for-eight. At .538, the senior
now holds the third best BA on the team, behind
Suzanne Daniel’s .571 and Erica Cunningham’s
.596.
With five starters hitting .500 or better only
one below .400 and a team BA of .458, the Lady
Bulldogs know what to do with their bats after
pulling them out of the rack.
But a hit doesn't always mean a run.
Though their bats cracked off 29 hits in the two
games against the Lady Red Elephants, the Lady
Bulldogs still showed an up-and-down tendency in
their run production which coach Jerry Cauley
traced back to the lack of hitting with runners in
scoring position.
“We didn’t score a lot of runs in the first game,
even though we got 12 hits,” Central coach Jerry
Cauley said. “We led from the beginning, but we
had the bases loaded a couple of times with two out,
but couldn’t get the big hit.”
The Lady Bulldogs started off the afternoon
strong as its first three batters whipped off three
quick hits, but then left them stranded as the next
three made outs.
“I’d like to see us take advantage of those
chances where we can blow the game wide open
instead of letting other teams hang around,” Cauley
said.
The Lady Bulldogs seemed to correct their
clutch-hitting problem in the second game.
Again Central put the first three hitters on base,
but this time Erica Cunningham snuck a grounder
through a hole on the right side to score a couple of
runs which heated up the Lady Bulldog offense the
rest of the way as it rang up 17 hits. Her two RBIs
pushed Cunningham into second place on the team
in that department with 19, behind Daniel’s 22.
“In slow-pitch, you’re supposed to hit and if you
can catch it, you win,” Cauley said. “We just need to
do a better job of taking care of the first half of the
bargain.”
As far as catching it, the Lady Bulldogs notched
their first error-free game of the season in the first
game, surrounding pitcher Kelly Salter’s shutout
with several leather-bound gems.
A shoestring catch by left-fielder Melissa Self
showcased the outfield’s defensive effort while third
baseman Shannon Heath’s back-handed stab of a
line drive down the line highlighted the infield’s
golden glovework for the day.
This proved to be the over
riding theme for the day. In
every game, South Forsyth
would make a run, but even
tually the Hornets emerged
victorious. The Lady War
Eagles came especially close
in the second game of their
first match, building a 12-10
lead before Roswell came
back.
All of which leaves Komar
very pleased.
“I’m not judging this sea
son on the win/loss column,”
the first-year coach said. “I’m
judging it on improvement.
And these girls are definitely
getting better. You can see it
they’re starting to know
where to be, and they’re
learning to play as a team. If
we were a little more experi
enced, we could have taken
them today.”
The North
Forsyth softball
team, shown
here in action
last week, con
tinues to catch
its opponents
off guard.
Photo/Tom Brooks
Lady Rams
open season
The Chalcedon Christian
School volleyball team cranked
up its season with a two-match
tournament and saw some posi
tive returns, despite losses in
both matches.
“I think we did a wonderful
job,” said Chalcedon coach
Sarah Doherty. “We haven’t
played in a competitive league
yet, and with these games •
we've showed that we can.
We’re looking forward to a
great season.”
The Lady Rams opened
with North Cobb, and fell
behind early in the best-of
three match with a 15-3 loss in
the first game. But Chalcedon
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