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SUCTION B
ForsythSports
Wednesday, February 16,2011
SWIMMING
wins state title in 500 free
Lambert girls 6th in team standings
By BJ Corbitt
sports@forsythnews.com
Shelby Hoyt had been climb¬
ing the ladder for a couple
years.
The Forsyth Central swim¬
ming standout had finished
third in the state as a sopho¬
more, and runner-up as a jun
lor.
DENTON ASHWAY
Columnist
Iconic
game
turns
fifty
The world’s greatest
board game celebrated
its 50th anniversary on
Saturday.
I’m speaking, of
course, about Strat-O
Matic baseball.
Every February, Strat
O-Matic hosts an
Opening Day party to
celebrate the issuance of
a new season of player
cards. Saturday’s cele¬
bration moved to
Community Church in
New York City and drew
a crowd of over 600
Strat-O-Matic fanatics.
The attendance
stunned company
founder Hal Richman.
“It really says that
you’ve done something
in life that was really
worthwhile,” Richman
told Spencer Fordin of
MLB.com. “You've
brought a lot of happi¬
ness to a lot of people.
To have some of these
people come from all
over the country is a
wonderful thing.
“I feel very honored.
I’m humbled by it. It’s
just something I never
thought would happen.
Who would think, when
you begin something,
that you’d be at it 50
years? The success is
because of their loyalty
and their interest as
much as myself creating
it.
For the uninitiated,
Strat-O-Matic is played
with dice, player cards,
and charts. Since the
odds of various dice
rolls can be mathemati¬
cally calculated, it’s pos¬
sible to produce a card
where the odds are that a
.300 hitter will actually
hit .300.
Half the time a die
will refer you to a pitch¬
er’s card, and the other
half to a hitter’s card.
But each card is really
two cards in one,
because each pitcher and
hitter is rated for his suc
cess or failure —
against right-handers
and left-handers. Strat
O-Matic even factors in
the point at which a
pitcher begins to tire.
Strat-O-Matic doesn’t
stop there. Each player
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Sports Editor Jared Putnam can be reached at sports@forsythnews.com or (770) 887-3126 ext. 513.
On Sunday, she finally made
it to the top rung.
The senior paddled her way
to a first place finish in the
500-yard freestyle during the
girls Class A-AAAA meet at
Georgia Tech, making 10 laps
of the pool in 4:52.10, finish¬
ing more than five seconds
ahead of the field.
Hoyt’s family and friends
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Forsyth Central's Brock Ragsdale (3) puts up a shot over South Forsyth's
Douglas Cotter on Saturday at the Region 7-AAAA tournament at Creekview.
WRESTLING SECTIONALS
20 advance to
state finals
By BJ Corbitt
bjcorbitt@forsythnews.com
Local wrestlers saw widespread success at the
state’s sectional round over the weekend, with 20
of 27 Forsyth County athletes advancing to the
state finals, which will be held Thursday through
Saturday.
In Class AAAAA, North Forsyth and West
Forsyth each carry seven wrestlers to The Arena
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had all shown up
to watch her
compete and
weren’t disap¬
pointed, as she
finished each lap
in under 30 seconds to take
home a state championship.
Hoyt knew exactly where her
cheering section was after the
event.
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West Forsyth's Tyler Everton was one of 20 local wrestlers to advance to
the upcoming state finals tournament at the Gwinnett Arena.
Hoyt
“That was the first place I
looked after 1 touched the wall.
1 knew my mom would be very
emotional," the 18-year-old
said.
Hoyt, who has signed a
swimming scholarship with
North Carolina State, also fin¬
ished second in the 200-yard
freestyle (1:51.47), a result that
surprised her more than her
win in the 500.
“I thought 1 did [have a
chance to win the 500). 1
South, Lambert
boys eliminated
By Jared Putnam
sports@forsythnews.com
CANTON — Three Forsyth
County basketball teams picked
up wins in Region 7-AAAA
play-in games on Saturday at
Creekview High School, earn¬
ing spots in the tournament
quarterfinals.
The girls from South Forsyth
and Lambert both advanced to
join their counterparts from
Forsyth Central, who had a
first-round bye as the region's
No. 2 seed.
On the boys side. Central
was the only local team still
standing following a last-sec¬
ond win against rival South.
Lambert’s boys were eliminat¬
ed earlier in the day.
Forsyth Central (boys) 53,
South Forsyth 50
In a rivalry series that’s been
mostly about bragging rights in
recent years, Forsyth Central’s
boys struck a more meaningful
blow against South Forsyth.
After rallying from a 12
point deficit, the Bulldogs used
a buzzer-beater 3-pointer by
Nolan Herslebs to deal the War
Eagles a 53-50 season-ending
loss. Central moves on to the
quarterfinals to face No. 7
ranked Chattahoochee.
“We talked about not surren¬
dering right to‘the end and we
did that,” Central coach Steve
Barnes said.
“We hung around and in the
fourth quarter found a way. We
got just enough stops and just
enough baskets down the
stretch.”
The momentum was squarely
in the War Eagles’ comer near
the end of the second quarter,
when Central (12-14 overall)
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thought that l was in the best
position that 1 could possibly
be, out of all of my years in
high school. ... I’m very excit¬
ed,” she said.
Those two results snared
Central 37 points and a 16th
place finish in the state not
too shabby, considering Hoyt
was the only member of the
Bulldog program to qualify for
the meet.
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