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WF conditioning
camp
West coach Rick
Zacholski and members of
the WFHS football staff
will be holding a condition¬
ing camp for grades 9-12
beginning Monday, June 2.
The camp will be conduct¬
ed from 10 a»m. - 12:30
p.m. on Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday
through July 10. Camp will
be held at WFHS. Fee is
$170. For more information
or to sign up, contact James
Parks at (770) 781-2215 or
jparks@forsythco.com.
Boys and girls
lacrosse camp
West Forsyth coach
Chip Mcllvain will be hold¬
ing a boys and girls
lacrosse camp for ages 14-
18 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Monday, June 2 - Thursday,
June 6. Boys must bring
their own equipment. Fee is
$175. For more information
or to sign up, contact James
Parks at (770) 781-2215 or
jparks@forsythco.com.
South Forsyth
football camp 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 wear
ly@forsyth.kl2.ga.us.
South Forsyth
football camp 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, offen¬
sive 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
Middle School. Cost is $75.
Contact coach Early at
(770) 356-4569 or wear
ly@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 devel¬
oped by Nike that focuses
on the five building blocks
to superior athleticism:
speed, power, agility, reac¬
tion and 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
North Forsyth varsity
boys basketball coach
Bobby Pless will be hold¬
ing a boys only basketball
camp for grades 3-9 begin¬
ning 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
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS — Sunday, June 1,2008
held at the North Forsyth
gymnasium.
SFHS/David
Sokol basketball
camp
South Forsyth varsity
boys basketball coach
David Sokol will be hosting
boys only basketball camps
for ages 8-15 beginning
Monday, June 23 through
Friday, June 27.
A second camp will be
held Monday, July 7
through Friday, July 11.
The camps begin at 9 a.m.
and end at 12:00 p.m. Cost
is $ 125 per child. If two
children in the same family
sign up, the cost is $100 per
child. Camps will be held
in the South Forsyth High
School gymnasium.
Shooting only will also
be offered on July 14 and
15 for ages 8-15. Cost is
$60. Start/end times and
location are the same.
SFHS/Keith
Gravitt 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, June 12.
Camp begins at 9 a.m. and
ends at 12 p.m. Camp will
be held in the South
Forsyth High gym.
2008 Sawnee
Mountain
Panthers
cheerleading
registration
The Sawnee Mountain
Panthers will be holding their
final recreational cheerlead¬
ing registration on Saturday,
May 31. Registration will be
held at the Sawnee Mountain
Park community building
from 9 a.m. 1 p.m.
Registration fee for cheer¬
leading is $275. Visit our
website at
www.sawneemountainpan
thers.org for additional infor¬
mation or call Tammy
Ridings (VP of cheerleading)
at (770) 560-1293.
Soccer camp
A soccer camp for ages 9-
14 will be held June 2-6. Cost
is $65. Call the Cumming
Recreation and Parks
Department for more infor¬
mation at (770)781-2030.
Bulldogs’
basketball camp
— boys only
A Bulldogs’ boys bas¬
ketball camp for ages 7-14
will be held June 9-13. Cost
is $65. Call the Cumming
Recreation and Parks
Department for more infor¬
mation at (770)781-2030.
Bulldogs’
basketball camp
— girls only
A Bulldogs girls basket¬
ball camp for ages 7-14 will
be held June 16-20. Cost is
$65. Call the Cumming
Recreation and Parks
Department for more infor¬
mation at (770) 781-2030.
Fundamentals
camp
A shooting skills, drills
and fundamentals basketball
camp for ages 7-14 will be
held June 24-26. Cost is $65.
Call the Cumming Recreation
and Parks Department for
more information at (770)
781-2030.
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Eric Aldrich’s fishing report
Water Conditions: Lake
Temperatures are in the mid
70s. The lake is down and
remains around 13.2 feet
below full pool at 1057.8 feet.
Lake Lanier is clear on the
main lake and stained in the
creeks. The Chattahoochee
River is clear. Check genera¬
tion schedules at (770) 945-
1466.
Bass: Bass fishing
remains strong this week for
anglers that are willing to
adapt. There is no need to
get up too early because the
topwater action is best when
the sun is directly overhead.
Continue to throw SPRO
Dawgs and other top water
plugs all day long.
The spotted bass are
schooling up on their early
summer areas, so when you
find the active fish, there
should be plenty around. We
have been fishing a cross
between running and gunning
on the main lake and slowing
down and fishing the most
productive areas thoroughly. 1
talked about running and gun¬
ning last week and described
this technique as fishing many
areas in a day.
When you check a lot of
areas you should eventually
find some large schools of
feeding bass. A few fish may
bite quickly on topwater plugs
LAMBERT from 1C
One obvious choice was
Lions, but Davison said that
idea was quickly scrapped
with so many similar mascots
around the state.
Everybody thought
‘There’s so many doggone cats
around, so let’s go in a differ¬
ent direction.’... We’re the only
school in the county that has a
name other than a directional,
so we want something a little
different,” he said.
Ultimately, Longhorns won
out, in big part due to its
uniqueness. Only one other
high school in the state, Cobb
County’s Kell, uses the mas
cot.
Drew Ferrer teaches sports
marketing at South and played
an active role in helping
Lambert’s student advisory
committee pick a mascot and
color scheme.
Along with the Longhorn,
the committee settled on a
color scheme featuring a base
maroon accented with black
and white on May 8, according
to a blog entry from Davison
on the Lambert Web site.
“I think once people start
associating Lambert with the
Longhorn, it’s going to — no
pun intended — brand itself,”
said Ferrer, who is an assistant
athletic director and baseball
coach at South.
Ferrer said students on the
committee were already talk¬
ing about possible traditions,
like throwing cowbells on the
field during football games and
using an extended index finger
and pinky hand signal to salute
the Longhorns.
Ferrer said there was also
some collaboration with the
University of Texas in Austin,
to make sure Lambert would¬
n’t be accused of infringing
too closely on that school’s
famous Longhorn logo.
Ferrer said that design
modifications, like shortening
the steer’s horns and ears and
altering its snout, made the
product different enough to
avoid problems. The maroon
based color scheme also set the
design apart, he said.
“For a Texas fan, it’s hard
to even look at a maroon color
without thinking about the
Aggies [of rival Texas A&M],”
said Ferrer.
Davison said the school
will be rolling out a line of
“spiritwear” soon and plans to
set up an online shop to sell
Longhorn merchandise over
the internet.
Davison said that maroon
as the school’s base color was
a “given,” based on its use in
the school’s construction. The
complementary colors of black
and white took a little more
thought, he said, and weren’t
the only candidates. Shades of
gold and gray were both con¬
sidered separately to mix with
the maroon.
“To be honest with you, the
gray was kind of bland and the
or swim baits, but afterwards
there are usually still plenty
of bass in the area. This is the
time to switch over to finesse
fishing techniques, which can
boat you a few extra fish.
Drop shotting is a great
technique and will work very
well in these situations. I rig a
one eighth ounce Tru
Tungsten weight about 12-18
inches below a Gamakatsu
Drop Shot hook on six pound
Berkley Fluorocarbon and
attach a small Zoom Finesse
Worm or Lizard to the hook,
Make sure to not over-work
this rig.
Night fishing with large
black single Colorado blade
spinner baits or crank baits on
rocky main lake points is pro
ducing some larger spotted
bass after dark. Live medium
shiners or freshly caught spot
tail minnows are working
extremely well on main lake
brush piles.
Stripers: This report is
brought to you by Shane
Watson Guide Service and
Hammond's Fishing Center.
The down-line striper bite has
been very good the last week
both south and up north.
Our boats have been out
every day and down line
bluebacks fished 20 feet
deep over a 25-35 feet slick
bottom has produced the best
gold [with the maroon] ... a
couple of kids said it looked
too much like ketchup and
mustard,” Davison said.
Lambert is located at 805
Nichols Road in Suwanee and
will break up South’s atten¬
dance zone, which is among
the largest schools in the state
with nearly 2,700 students
enrolled this spring.
The new school will follow
the model of West Forsyth in a
few ways, which just finished
its first year with only fresh¬
men, sophomores and juniors
in attendance.
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OUTDOORS WRITER
results. Expect a wide range
of sizes from 5-20 pounds
being most common. We
have also caught and
released many very big spot
ted bass that have been
mixed in with the schools of
stripers. 1 have seen a good
many busting stripers and
spots the past few days, but
we were getting great action
on the down-line so we
stayed with it.
Overall, the down-line bite
is very good, but you can still
catch a few on a free line
early most days and when it’s
cloudy. The numbers of fish
have been very good, please
remember that catch and
release does work. If you do
keep fish, please observe Ga.
DNR creel limits.
Crappie: Crappie are still
relating to the deeper docks
toward the backs of the creeks
and are also setting up on
bridge pilings at night. Fish
from 5-20 feet deep with live
minnows, jigs and Crappie
Spoons around the docks dur
ing the day. After dark, set up
Lambert similarly will have
no seniors in its first year, and
like West’s program, the
Longhorn football team will
play a junior varsity schedule
its first season. Other sports
will compete in varsity right
away.
The decision for football is
based on simple numbers. The
volume of athletes needed to
suitably fill out a varsity roster
essentially demands a school
with all grade levels represent¬
ed, Davison said.
“We’re going to do very
similar to what West did the
your lights around the bridges
and fish a crappie minnow on
a down-line at around 10-feet
deep. Watch your
Humminbird Electronics and
adjust your depths as the fish
move up or down in the water
column.
Trout on the
Chattahoochee: Worms are a
favorite natural bait for trout
and they will out-produce
most lures when fished cor¬
rectly. After a hard rain the
trout really key in on earth¬
worms that are washed into
the river.
Rig worms (where permit¬
ted) on a large split shot and a
small hook and fish below
any rapids in the deeper
pools. Almost any other tech¬
nique will produce trout this
week.
Eric Aldrich is a pari time
outdoor writer, bass fisher¬
man and is sponsored by
Humminbird, SPRO,
Gamakatsu, Tru Tungsten and
Hammonds Fishing and Boat
Storage. Reports are based on
personal experience and per¬
mission from a close network
of friends. I would love to
hear from our readers so
please email me at
esaldrich@yahoo.com or visit
my website at esaldrich.tri¬
pod. com. Remember to take a
kid fishing!
first year. ... I don’t want to
recreate the wheel,” said
Davison, who said he has fre¬
quently consulted with West
principal Richard Gill to get a
sense of the challenges that
school has faced this past year.
The two schools will be
alike in one other way, at least
inititally. Lambert will join
West in Region 7-AAA in its
first year, according to the
most recent realignment
scheme from the Georgia
High School Association.
E-mail BJ Corbitt at bjcor
bitt@forsythnews.com.