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I FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Thumdty, April 15,2004
Local Sports
ASA set to host
two summer
soccer camps
The Atlanta Soccer Academy.
Forsyth County's new soccer
club, is hosting Summer Camps
this season in Cumming, loca
tions to be announced. The first
session runs June 21-25. There
will be sessions for players in
age divisions U 6 to U 8 (from 9
am.to 11 a.m.). U 9 to Ull (9
a m. to noon) and Ul2 & up (4-7
pm.).
All camp participants receive
an ASA t-shirt. The camp costs
S9O for U6-U8 participants and
is $125 for players aged U 9 &
up. There is also a pre and post
camp shuttle service available
for U6-U8 players for a fee of
$5.
The ASA’s second camp runs
July 19-23. This camp is
involved with the Atlanta
Silverbacks professional club
and will take place at Forsyth’s
Pinecrest Academy. The
Silverbacks camp has two ses
sions: 9 a.m. to noon (cost.
SI00) and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (cost.
$185).
For more information, call
(770) 557-0430 or visit www.atl
soccer.com.
Boys and girls
lacrosse camp
coming soon
SuperSouth Lacrosse Camp
111 is currently accepting regis
tration for girls, boys and youth
lacrosse camps set for North
Georgia College and State
University.
These overnight instructional
and developmental camps feature
the best college and high school
coaches from around the county.
For additional information about
the camp and registration, please
visit www.bagatawaylacrosse.com
or contact Jason Alberici at
jasona@bagatawaylacrosse.com
0r(404)216-5870.
Cumming Waves
host registration
The 2003 NGSL Champion
Cumming Waves swim team will
host open enrollment for the
2004 season on Saturday. April
24. from 9 a.m. to noon.
Enrollment and swimsuit fittings
will be at the Cumming Parks
and Recreation office on Pilgrim
Mill Road.
Arrive early, as the team is
limited to 150 swimmers.
Fees $l2O for the first child
and sllO for additional children.
Team suits will be available for
approximately $55 for girls and
S4O for boys.
Practice sessions start May
17. with the first meet on June 4.
A copy of the swimmer’s birth
certificate is required at registra
tion. Call Jeff McLean for more
information at (770) 886-5251.
Hot Stove League
to be honored by
Rome Braves
The Forsyth County Hot
Stove Night at the Rome Braves
will be Saturday, April 24.
Tickets are $lB each and include
a pregame meal of hot dogs,
hamburgers, chicken and BBQ.
For more information, call
Johnny Tallant for tickets (before
April 19) at (770) 887-5537.
Adult baseball
league forming
A new adult baseball league
associated with Stan Musial
Baseball is seeking teams in
Forsyth and surrounding counties
to begin play in late spring and
summer of 2004.
For more information on the
o new league, call Dennis
Holbrook at (770) 887-4036.
Sports EXTRA
BASEBALL ROUNDUP
Forsyth teams reopen region
County rivals
set to meet
on diamond
By Travis M. Chaffin
Sports Editor
Forsyth County’s three varsity
baseball programs returned to region
action on Monday, with each team
notching a win.
Nine K’s for White
in War Eagle win
South Forsyth pitcher Joe White
struck out nine Tucker batters
Monday night, allowing just two hits
and no walks for one earned run (two
unearned) over seven innings as the
War Eagles defeated the Tigers 5-3 at
home.
Jamie Benjamin (l-for-2) put
South on the board first, scoring from
second on an RBI single by Josh Tate
for a l-0 lead in the third. Next up.
Evan Nissley launched a two-run
homer for a 3-0 War Eagle advantage
entering the fourth.
But Tucker took advantage of sev
eral South Forsyth fielding miscues
and tied the score 3-3 in the top of the
fifth.
War Eagle senior Zach Boling
came through, however, with a two
out triple and later scored while Matt
Reyes (courtesy running for White)
got caught in a rundown between first
and second.
Jonathan Wages led off the bottom
of the sixth, then scored when David
Collings hit into a 6-4-3 double play,
giving South Forsyth the 5-3 victory.
Diamond Dawgs
earn first region win
The Forsyth Central Bulldogs hit
the road Monday night and came
home with their first 6-AAAA win of
the year —a 4-1 victory over
Chamblee.
Starting pitcher Pat Belt earned
the win. allowing one run on one hit
and three walks while striking out
five in five innings pitched. Tyler
Marzofka pitched I l/3 innings
before Brent Majors shut the door for
the final two outs to pick up the save.
Offensively. Marzofka was 2-for-3
with a double and a run; Majors was
2-for-3 with a run and an RBI; catch
er Ryan Stiede was l-for-3 with a
stolen base; Chris Dorsey was l-for-3
with a stolen base; and Belt took one
for the team three times get
ting hit by three different pitches
Monday night.
Central took a I -0 lead in the first
on an RBI single by Majors to score
Belt from third base.
The Dawgs tacked on three more
runs in the fourth when Stiede hit a
two-RBl double to score Marzofka
and Majors, then Chip Waits (running
for the Central catcher) scored from
second on an RBI single by Dorsey
for a 4-0 Bulldog advantage.
Chamblee scored a run in the
fifth, but it was not enough as Forsyth
Central won, 4-1.
Rookie Kahne looks like NASCAR’s future
By Ed Hinton
The Orlando Sentinel/(KRT)
ORLANDO. Fla. NASCAR
pundits have been looking for the
next Jeff Gordon for nearly a decade.
There hasn’t been one.
But now comes Kasey Kahne.
Numerous candidates have arisen
since the late 19905. but none have
approached, let alone sustained, the
dominance of the Wonder Boy. Not
that they have been flops Tony
Stewart, Matt Kenseth, Ryan
Newman. Dale Earnhardt Jr.. Jimmie
Johnson, Kurt Busch and Jamie
McMurray have done well.
It's just that no one has soared
above, and stayed above, all the rest,
like Gordon did in the ’9os. This year
the planets are aligning again.
“I’m a decent driver,” Kahne, who
will turn 24 on Saturday, says with
Gordonesque humility.
But his rookie success three
second-place finishes, one third and a
13th that was in some ways more
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Raiders register 17 hits
in 7-6 win over Marist
The North Forsyth Raiders
improved to 13-4 on the season and
3-1 in region play Monday night,
edging defending state champion
Marist 7-6 on the road.
Dustin Martin (5-0) stayed
unbeaten, allowing two earned runs
(two unearned) on five hits while
striking out six and walking none in
innings pitched. Mark Doll picked up
his second save of the year in relief.
Offensively, the Raiders were led
by Justin Hamilton, who batted 5-for
5, scored three runs and had an RBI.
Christopher Light was 2-for-4 with 2
RBI. and Dusty Martin was 2-for-3
with an RBI.
Looking ahead...
South Forsyth and North Forsyth
were scheduled to face each other in
Coal Mountain on Wednesday
(results not available at deadline),
while Forsyth Central was scheduled
for a road date at Tucker. On Friday,
the Bulldogs host the Raiders for a
cross-county showdown at 5:55 p.m.
Meanwhile, South Forsyth will host
Dunwoody at the same time Friday
evening.
impressive than those top fives is
due, he thinks, to “all the people sur
rounding me, and Ray Evemham has
taught me a lot."
Evemham is Jupiter in the align
ment. Kahne’s team owner has a
prodigy to mentor again, just as when
Evemham was the crew chief who
guided Gordon to stardom at
Hendrick Motorsports in the 19905.
Kahne hasn’t won a Cup race yet.
But Gordon didn’t win in his rookie
season, '93, either. Even winless in
Cup, Kahne roundly is considered the
man to beat by the other teams. He
dominated at Texas Motor Speedway
last Sunday before a late rash of cau
tions dropped him back in the field
and cost him sufficient green-flag laps
to run down winner Elliott Sadler.
Kahne comes from the richest
training ground for NASCAR in
recent years, open-wheel sprint,
midget and USAC Silver Crown cars.
Kahne is out of the stable of team
owner Steve Lewis, who also nur
tured Gordon, Stewart and Newman
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on the rough-and-tumble dirt and
asphalt tracks of the Midwest.
And that brings us to the essence
of Kahne’s promise, and makes all
the other circumstances more than
merely circumstantial: Car control.
I would define “car control” as the
ability to make the car behave as an
extension of the driver's body
transforming the car into an athlete.
The late Dale Earnhardt had it. Al
Unser Jr. had it. and might have been
an enormous success in NASCAR if
he had not followed his family into
Indy cars. Gordon showed it immedi
ately upon his arrival in NASCAR.
They all developed this almost
metaphysiCal talent on dirt.
Accustomed to a car sliding side
ways, loose, on dirt, they never pan
icked when a car went sideways on
dirt. They always felt in control, and
so they always were. Now comes
Kahne, in control even when he
appears to be out of control.
That’s why his I3th-place finish at
Darlington, S.C., on March 21 just
Above, South
Forsyth head
coach Mike
Strickland con
gratulates Evan
Nissley on a
two-run homer
that gave the
War Eagles a
3- advantage
over Tucker in
the third inning
on Monday.
South Forsyth
won the game,
4- At left,
Mark Doll, seen
earlier this sea
son, had two
singles in the
Raiders’ 7-6
road win over
Marist.
Photos/David
McGregor
might have been a clearer look at
Kahne than any of his top-fives.
Twice that day he spun through no
fault of his own and neither time did
he allow his Dodge even to scrape the
wall. This, at warped old Darlington,
with new SAFER barriers taking 30
more inches off the racing surface.
That’s car control.
To project as a dominant force in
NASCAR, the very best driver must
have the very best equipment. Kahne
has, just as Gordon had, cars pre
pared under the relentlessly meticu
lous eyes of Evemham.
Although reluctant to compare the
two jockey-size drivers, Evemham
notes that Kahne weighs 138 pounds,
where Gordon arrived weighing 142.
Now why would Evemham notice
something like that? First, it’s an
indication of physical conditioning
Kahne. like Gordon in his youth,
trains hard throughout the week. But
mainly, to the stickler for detail, that's
four pounds of weight difference, in a
3,400-pound car.
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