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PINECREST SPRING FOOTBALL
Pinecrest strives for
encore performance
Paladins reload after successful season
By BJ Corbitt
Sports Writer
Pinecrest Academy finally
made its mark on the Georgia
Independent School Association
(G1SA) football world last year,
recording a 9-3 season and win¬
ning a region championship in the
school’s fourth year of varsity
play.
Now the Paladins are looking
for an encore, having just wrapped
up two weeks of spring practice
sessions a week ago, highlighted
by a scrimmage game with
Dawson Street Christian Academy
from Lagrange.
We used the scrimmage as a
point to do some fundamental
things that we needed to do and
find some position players,” head
coach Charles Wiggins said.
“What we try to focus on [in
spring] is find who is a sleeper in
the crowd and try to fill in posi¬
tions from where our seniors left
off last year. **
The Paladins dropped 11 sen¬
iors from last year’s state playoff
team, but Wiggins says that the
team will not enter the season
totally green, with more than 20
juniors on the roster along with a
pair of seniors.
“I’ve got a good little team.
We’re not going to set the world
on fire, but we’ll be OK,” the
coach said.
Wiggins said there’s plenty of
competition for starting spots in
the offensive backfield and at
receiver, but the defense only
loses three starters in the offsea
son.
“They’re way ahead of our
offense,” Wiggins said of his
defensive corps.
On the other side of the ball,
Wiggins expects junior Zach
Wilson to step into the starting
quarterback role to replace
Michael Metz and help the Paladin
attack come along.
If he comes along slowly but
surely, by the time region play
comes along, we ought to be in the
hunt,” the coach said.
Wiggins also inherits what he
believes is a promising crop of
freshmen from Pinecrest’s middle
school program, which was estab¬
lished at the same time as the high
school team.
They’ve been playing [together]
since the fifth grade and they’ve
never had a losing season, so that's
why I’m optimistic,” Wiggins said.
Pinecrest starts the schedule with
South Forsyth
point guard Ryan
Lively shoots the
ball against
Forsyth Central
during the War
Eagles’ senior
night last season.
Lively has accept¬
ed a basketball
scholarship to
Georgia College
& State
University.
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Pinecrest wide receiver Javy Callejas hauls in a catch ahead of a Dawson Street defensive back
during the Paladins’ spring scrimmage game.
six non-region games, starting with
two on the road at Westminster
Christian in Watkinsville Aug. 29
and Windsor in Macon the follow¬
ing week.
The Paladins also travel to
Monticello to face Piedmont in non¬
region play, while hosting Mt.
DeSales, Dawson Street and Trinity
Christian.
The region slate looks different
this year, as the Paladins bumped up
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Aug. 29 At Westminster
Sep. 05 At Windsor
Sep. 12 Mount DeSales
Sep. 19 At Piedmont
Sep. 26 Dawson Street
Oct. 03 Trinity Christian
Oct. 10 Mt. Vernon Pres.
Oct. 17 At Cent. Fellow.
Oct. 24 George Walton
Oct. 31 At Holy Spirit
Lively signs with GCSU
From staff reports
MILLEDGEVILLE — Ryan Lively
has accepted a basketball scholarship to
Georgia College & State University.
The Bobcats play in the Peach Belt
Conference in NCAA Division II and
have four NCAA Tournament appear¬
ances since 1996.
Lively heads to Milledgeville from
South Forsyth, where he was a four-year
starter for head coach and former
Georgia College men’s basketball assis¬
tant David Sokol.
“They are getting a great student-ath¬
lete and we look forward to following
him over the next four years,” Sokol said.
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South Forsyth
football camp No. 1
South Forsyth varsity football
coach Wendell Early will be
offering a quarterbacks, receivers
and defensive backs camp for
ages 9-17. The camp will be held
Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June
7, and will feature Buster
Faulkner from NCAA Division II
National Champion Valdosta St.
Camp will be conducted from 6-9
p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. - 5
p.m. on Saturday at South
Forsyth High. Cost is $75.
Contact coach Early at (770)
356-4569 or
wearly@forsyth.kl2.ga.us.
South Forsyth
football camp No. 2
South Forsyth varsity football
coach Wendell Early will be
offering an offensive line and
defensive line camp for ages 9-
17. The camp will be held Friday,
June 27 and Saturday, June 28,
and will feature Sean Elliott,
offensive line coach for Division
1-AA Appalachian St. Camp will
be conducted from 6-9 p.m. on
Friday and 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on
Saturday at Piney Grove Contact Middle
School. Cost is $75.
coach Early at (770) 356-4569 or
wearly@forsyth.kl2.ga.us.
SF strength camp
South Forsyth strength and
conditioning coach Bill Forman
is offering a SPARQ training
camp. SPARQ is a program
developed by Nike that focuses
on the five building blocks to
superior athleticism: speed,
power, agility, reaction ^nd
quickness. The camp will 'be
hosted at South Forsyth High
June 3-6. Ages 8-11 participate
from 12-3 p.m. and ages 12-18
from 3-6 p.m.
Sign up through the Forsyth
County Park and Rec or call
Coach Forman at (770) 781-
2264, ext. 100520.
NFHS/Bobby Pless
basketball camp
boys only
Nofth Forsyth va{sit^i_b^ys
basketball coach Bobby Ptess
will be holding a boys gra4®5'^:-9 ably bas¬
ketball camp for
beginning Monday, June 9
through Thursday, June 12. Camp
begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 1
p.m. Cost is $90 per child. Camp
will be held at the North Forsyth
gymnasium.
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SFHS/Keith Gravitt
basketball camp
South Forsyth varsity girls
basketball coach Keith; Gravitt is
offering a girls only camp for
ages 6-13, starting Monday, June
9 through Thursday,.lune 12.
Camp begins at 9 a.m. and ends
at 12 p.m. Camp will be held in
the South Forsyth High gym.
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cheerleading X
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The Sawnee Mountain Panthers
will be holding their final recre- •
ational cheerleading registration on
Saturday, May 31. Registration will
be held at the Sawnee Mountain
Park community building from 9
a.m. - l p.m. Registration fee for
cheerleading is $275. Vistfour .web¬
site at www.sawneemountainpan
thers.org for additional information
or call Tammy Ridings* (VP of
cheerleading) at (770) 56^»J293.
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Editor’s note: The
Forsyth featuring County News of each is
local varsity recaps football
gram’s spring practice pro¬
ses¬
sion and a look ahead to
the 2008 season.
May 21 West Forsyth
May 23 North Forsyth Forsyth Central
May May 28 25 South Forsyth
Todc ay Pinecrest
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Lively, a six-foot-tall left-handed
point guard, averaged 11.0 points and 5.0
assists per game. He shot 36 percent from
the three-point line this season.
South finished 20-9 this year and
made an appearance in the Class
AAAAA sweet 16.
Ryan will give us depth at the point
guard position,” Bobcats coach Terry
Sellers said. “He is tough, quick, and can
shoot the ball. Ryan played in one of the
toughest regions in the state of Georgia
(7-AAAAA) and we are excited he chose
to further his career here at GCSU.
The Bobcats are fresh off a 20-9 sea¬
son of their own and look to build on that
success after losing just three seniors.
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