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North Forsyth
football camp
The North Forsyth High
School football coachii\g staff
will be holding a camp for ages 8-
14 from 6-8 p.m., Monday, July 7
- Thursday, July 10 at the North
Forsyth football field. A t-shirt is
included. Cost is $100. For more
information, or to sign up, contact
James Parks at (770) 781-2215 or
jparks@forsythco.com.
South Forsyth
football camp
The South Forsyth High
School football coaching staff
will be holding a camp for ages 8-
13 from 8 a.m. 12 p.m.,
Monday, June 16 - Thursday, July
19 at the South Forsyth football
field. Cost is $125. Contact coach
Wendell Early at (770) 356-4569
or wearly@forsyth.kl2.ga.us.
SFHS/David Sokol
basketball camp —
boys only
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.
For more information, or to
sign up, contact James Parks at
(770) 781-2215 or
jparks@forsythco.com.
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 Middle
School. Cost is $75. Contact
coach Early at (770) 356-4569 or
wearly@forsyth.kl2.ga.us.
Bulldogs’ girls
basketball
A Bulldogs girls basketball
camp for ages 7-14 will be held
June 16-20. Cost is $65. Call the
Cumming Recreation and Parks
Department for more information
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.
Ozone Baseball
summer camp
An Ozone Baseball summer
camp for ages 7-14 will be held
from Monday, July 7
Wednesday, July 9 at Central
Park. The camp will be conducted
from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. each day.
For more information visit
www.ozonebaseball.com or con¬
tact James Pjtrks ,at (770) 781-
2215 orjparks@forsythco.com.
Forsyth County News—Wednesday, June 11,2008
SOCCER
Keeping on top
West freshman earns Region 7-AAA honors
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West Forsyth freshman goalkeeper Zach Liles, a member of the 7-AAA All-Region first team,
poses for a photo on the Wolverines’ practice field.
By Jared Putnam
Sports Editor
It took only one season for
Zach Liles to make a name for
himself in Region 7-AAA.
West Forsyth’s freshman goal¬
keeper was one of 14 players to
be named to the boys All-Region
first team, after serving as an
anchor for the Wolverines in their
inaugural campaign.
Liles said he realized prior to
the season that with a lack of
upper classmen on the team, a
heavy burden was going to fall on
his defensive abilities.
“It’s a first-year school, and
we had no seniors,” Liles said. “I
knew that I had to be really tough
in net. We didn’t really have a
strong offense, so I knew I was
going to get pounded with shots
every game, and I just played my
Eric Aldrich’s Lake Lanier
Water Conditions: Lake
Temperatures are around 80
degrees. The lake is down
around 13.4 feet below full
pool at 1,057.6. Lake
Lanier is clear on the main
lake and stained in the
creeks.
The lake will get stained
during the weekends from
all of the boat traffic. The
Chattahoochee River is
clear. Check generation
schedules at (770) 945-1466
before heading out to the
river.
Bass: The bass fishing
remains good. The topwater
best. Coming in as a freshman
and starting keeper ... I knew it
was going to be a tough season,
but I think we handled it pretty
good, and hopefully next season
we’ll do better.”
West coach Erik Moore said
his young keeper stands out from
any other he has witnessed in his
time on the sidelines.
“Zach is the best young goal¬
keeper I’ve seen in my nine years
of training and coaching,” Moore
said. “He has a great work ethic
and is very passionate about the
game. It will be fun to see him
grow and get even better in the
next few years.”
Liles doesn’t believe he has
one particular skill that stands out
from the rest of his game, but he
See KEEPING, Page 2B
Eric
Aldrich
OUTDOORS WRITER
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action is still the ticket this
week. I have had several
anglers ask where and how
to find good topwater action,
so if you are struggling to
find them on top, you are
not alone.
Here is what I suggest:
Stay away from the banks
and go out to the main lake.
Check your lake maps for
7-AAA boys
All-Region first team:
Daniel Abarca, Johnson
Arlin Zamji, Lumpkin
Valentin Villa, East Hall
Zach Liles, West Forsyth •
Isreal del Toro, West Hall
Caleb Tbrner, Gainesville
Juan Arbelaez, West Hall
Monish Lahire, Gainesville
Max Angel, Lumpkin
Rudy Vazquez, West Hall
Payne Wright, North Hall
David Medina, Chestatee
David Patino, F. Branch
Kyle Ellis, F. Branch
any humps that top out
around 15-feet-deep or less.
Once you locate a few of
these main lake humps,
visit them throughout the
day.
Most of these humps
have brush located around
them and if you can find the
brush piles you should find
the fish.
A lot of people think you
will see huge schools of fish
jumping on top, but usually
you will only see a few bass
or baitfish surfacing from
time-to-time.
These small clues will
give away the large schools
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“Spanning the globe to bring
you the constant variety of
sport...the thrill of victory ... and
the agony of defeat ... the human
drama of athletic competition, ...
this is ABC’s Wide World of
Those words
introduced us, to
Jim McKay. From
1961-1998, his
comfortable voice
recited what
became the most
familiar opening
in all of sports tel
evision.
That voice fell silent on
Saturday when McKay died of
natural causes at his Monjston,
Md. farm. He was 86.
To those who grew up With
television in the 60’s and" 70*s,
McKay became visible it
as as any
sportscaster, and certainly the
most beloved. He wasn’t abrasive
like Howard Cosell. He wasn’t
aloof like Curt Gowdy. He came
across as someone you were
happy to welcome into your liv¬
ing room every Saturday after¬
noon.
It didn’t matter what sport
Wide World featured on any par¬
ticular telecast. McKay was able
to paint the picture, make sure
you got to know the athletes
involved, and convey the event’s
perspective.
And that proved no easy
task. Some of the constant vari¬
ety of sport McKay covered
included barrel jumping, the
Calgary Stampede, Demolition
Derby (from Islip, New York),
and cliff diving (with the leg-
endary Barney Cipriani-from
Acupulco.)
You name it, McKay covered
it: the Grand Prix de Monaco
(racing through the streets of
Monte Carlo), curling, jai-alai,
drag racing. Even a climb up the
Eiffel Tower.
Wide World even covered less
off-beat sports like skating, track
and field and skiing. The first
soccer match I recall seeing was
the 1966 World Cup final,
England defeating West Germany
on Wide World.
Keep in mind thit this was
during the Dark Ages, those pre¬
cable, pre-ESPN days when you
didn’t have film clips* from
around the globe featured nightly
on SportsCenter. Aside from a
baseball, football or basketball
Game of the Week, Wide World
was sports.
And Wide World was Jim
McKay. In his autobiography,
“The Real McKay,” he recalls
ABC Sports executive producer
Roone Arledge promising him
20 weeks as host of a “summer
replacement series showing a
number of sports not normally
seen on TV.” McKay ran his’20
week gig into a 25 year careef.
See ASHWAY, Page 2B
of active fish that are feed¬
ing in these areas throughout
the day. Continue to work
SPRO Dawgs, topwater
plugs or swim baits over the
brush piles on main lake
humps and points. *
The best action is during
the middle of the day and
weekdays seem better than
weekends because of boat
traffic. When the topwater
activity slows, fish soft
plastics like a dropshot rig,
Texas rigged worm, Finesse
worm on a jig head or even
jig and pig combination
around the brush piles and
docks.
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Denton
Ashway
Live spot tail minnows or
medium shiners from
Hammond’s Bait and Tacjde
on down lines around thjose
same brush piles will ensure
success. Be sure to always
use sharp Gamak'atsu
Hooks.
Stripers: Shane Watson’s
Guide Service says that
nothing has changed since
last week’s report. They have
had boats out every day and
down lined bluebacks fished
20-30 feet deep over a 25-45
foot bottom has produced
See FISHING, Page 2B
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