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Forsyth County News—Wednesday, November 23,2006 ED
Denton
Ashway
COLUMNIST
Jackets’
momentum
building at
right time
When Georgia Tech is good,
it is very, very good. And when
it is bad, it is horrid. On the field
and off.
Whatever Tech comes up
with this week, it cannot possi¬
bly compare to last week’s
tumultuous events. For an
Institute that prides itself on
maintaining a clean, quiet
image, Tech spent a terrifying
week in the spotlight.
The week began innocently
enough, amid the malaise gener¬
ated by the abysmal 27-17 loss
at Virginia and the trepidation of
a trip to Miami.
Suddenly, athletic director
Dave Braine took it upon him¬
self to embellish the miasma. He
chose Tuesday to announce that
coach Chan Gailey’s contract
had been extended for five
years.
This prompted vehement out¬
rage.
After all, Gailey had com¬
piled a modest record of 27-20,
a winning percentage of .574. To
put that in perspective, Ray Goff
was run out of Athens after com
piling a winning percentage of
.575.
Of course, you must enter
into the equation that Goff was a
much more comical character
than Gailey could ever imagine
being.
Braine further stoked the
maelstrom by observing that
Tech would never win nine or
ten games every year, and that
the Tech job was the third most
difficult in the country —
behind Notre Dame and Army.
What idiocy. Notre Dame is
the cushiest job in the country,
what with its own television
contract and a nationwide
recruiting base of good Catholic
athletes from which to choose.
And Army?? Army?? Since
when are they big-time? And
what about Navy and Air Force?
While we’re at it, how about
Duke and Vanderbilt? Stanford
and Northwestern? Rice, for
gosh sakes?
Don’t insult us with such a
ridiculous comment.
But most of all, please
assume that the Institute’s alum¬
ni have enough intelligence to
see through such ludicrous com¬
ments.
Fortunately, that riot was
short-lived, thanks to the
Honorable M. Gino Brogdon Jr.
The Fulton County Superior
Court judge ruled that Reuben
Houston should be reinstated on
the Tech football team.
Houston is charged with
involvement in a drug distribu¬
tion ring, and hasn’t been con¬
victed of anything yet.
Therefore, the good judge ruled
that Tech’s suspension of
Houston was “arbitrary and
strikingly dissimilar to the
school’s treatment of other simi¬
larly situated athletes who have
been accused of breaking the
law.”
In other words, Judge
Brogdon felt that Tech had
allowed other athletes of ques¬
tionable eligibility to continue
playing.
Brogdon’s brilliance was
endorsed the very next day,
when Tech got hammered by the
NCAA for, of all things, allow¬
ing participation in athletic
events by athletes who were
ineligible to play.
As part of the mystifying rul¬
ing, Tech had to “vacate” the
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South Forsyth’s Kelley Klein (10) led the War Eagles with a game-high 19 points in her team’s 60-25
win over intra-county rival Forsyth Central.
South opens Shootout
with wins over rivals
Bulldogs, North
girls victorious
in first round
By Ben Beitzel
Sports Writer
Fighting through early foul trou¬
ble and cold shooting in the first
half, the South Forsyth Lady War
Eagles found their stroke in the sec¬
ond half, turning a close game into a
lopsided victory over county foe
Forsyth Central, 60-25, Saturday.
“We were happy to get a win in
the first game of the season,” said
South head coach Keith Gravitt.
“We had to rearrange some things
due to early foul trouble, so we had
to mix some things up with our line¬
up.
Both teams played a heck of a
first half.
At the half South only led by 12,
24-12, but Central head coach Kim
Satterfield said both halves
belonged to the War Eagles.
“They played great, aggressive,
pressure defense,” Satterfield said.
“Our guards had a hard time getting
open. The only person to get the ball
was Winnie [Markey].”
Markey, who led the team with
seven of its 25 points, scored all of
her points in the first half.
But, it was South’s defense that
[ ruled most of the game, forcing 23
• turnovers.
“Our guards were not prepared
[for the pressure defense] and they
had a hard time with it,” Satterfield
said.
With that pressure defense came
fouls for South. In the first half
alone, three girls notched three fouls
each.
“We have got to work defensive¬
ly to tone it down when it comes to
fouls,” Gravitt said. “We did do a
good job on the boards.”
Offensively, South pulled down
16 rebounds, and as a team was led
by Katie Smith with nine.
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Forsyth Central’s Morgan Loughrey (21) gets tangled up with
South’s Stephanie Storms during Saturday night’s game.
Leading the way for South, with
nearly one-third of the teams total
points, was senior guard Kelley
Klein, who scored 16 of her 19
points in the second half.
Following her was Katie Smith
with eight points and eight
rebounds and Stephanie Storms,
Katie Zittrauer and Lara Gasper,
who each added seven. Zittrauer
also pulled down seven rebounds.
For Central, behind Markey’s
seven, Anna Snyder and Heather
Dusch scored five each for a team
that shot just 14 percent from the
floor,
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OUTDOORS
Amelia
Island is a
prime fall
destination
By Bill Vanderford
For the Forsyth County News
In amongst lush vegetation,
meandering lagoons, beautiful
beaches and diverse lodging
opportunities, Amelia Island
Plantation offers a paradise for
both families and fisherman.
This island resort has been
woven into a perfect tapestry
with nature.
It is a gorgeous outdoor para¬
dise comprised of 1,350 acres
overlooking the blue water of
the Atlantic on the east and the
green marshland and Intercostal
Waterway on the west.
Located only 29 miles north
of Jacksonville’s International
Airport, a few miles east of I
95, and just south of the Georgia
state line, Amelia Island is easy
to find. One can call Amelia
Island Plantation toll-free for
more information at (800) 874-
6878 or visit their Web site at:
www.aipfl.com.
The best part of any visit to
Amelia Island Plantation, how¬
ever, is the fabulous fishing
opportunities, both fresh and
saltwater. Large schools of red
fish are found near the mouth of
the St. Marys and Nassau rivers
during high tides and will take a
variety of lures, including top
water.
Sea trout fishing is also
excellent in the bays and tidal
estuaries and trout over 6
pounds are commonly caught
with topwater plugs during the
flood tides.
Family groups often opt for
the easier, but very productive,
inshore bottom fishing for
flounder using bullhead min¬
nows from an anchored boat or
fishing right in the surf along
the Amelia Island beaches for
flounder, whiting, sea trout, red
fish and pompano.
Guests of the resort can also
catch plenty of large sunfish or
trophy-sized largemouth bass in
the freshwater lakes inside
Amelia Island Plantation.
The only way to assure any
visitor the angling results that
they desire, however, is to allow
Amelia Island Plantation’s
director of fishing, Terry
Lacoss, to help with their fish¬
ing itinerary. Capt. Lacoss has
been the Director of Fishing
since 1978 and the President of
the Amelia Island Charter Boat
Association since 1982.
He has been a successful
competitor on the Bass Master
Trail, the Kingfish Trail, and he
and his son are consistent top
competitors on the redfish tour¬
naments.
As an outdoors writer,
Lacoss has served as a Field
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Terry Lacoss shows off a red
fish he caught on a recent
, trip.
[shooting],” Satterfield said,
Up next, the South girls face a
h4cEachern team that beat
Woodstock 57-45 in the first round,
Central faces Woodstock. North
Forsyth, which beat Westminster
48-45 in the opening round, faces
Gainesville, and Westminster will
play St. Francis, which lost 50-32
to Gainesville.
BOVS bracket
It did not take long for South
Forsyth to take control in its home
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