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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010
EJCHSSOCCER
TENNIS
East Jackson hosts Warriors Wednesday
THE PAST week was one
of ups and downs for East
Jackson's soccer teams.
Last Tuesday, the Eagles
faced Oglethorpe County at
home, coming away with a
1-0 victory. The goal was a
penalty scored by Tony Xiong
in the second half.
“We kept a steady defense
for the last 12 minutes to hold
the lead,” said coach Chris
Cooley.
The girls also came away
with a victory, winning 2-0.
Both goals on the night came
from Cassie Mull in the first
half.
East Jackson's next match,
at Jefferson on Friday, was
postponed due to the weather.
The match is in the process of
being rescheduled.
On Monday, East Jackson
faced off against Hebron
team.
For the boys, both teams
worked to get into scoring
position with the wind and
the sun in Hebron's favor
during the first half, but nei
ther could make anything
happen. Eight minutes before
the half, Hebron finally made
their way to East Jackson’s
goal to score and take a 1-0
lead. Two minutes later, they
scored again to take a 2-0
advantage into the half.
East Jackson played the
second half with the sun
and the wind in their favor.
With pressure on both ends,
Ernesto Alarcon scored a
goal for the Eagles to bring
the score to 2-1. But East
Jackson couldn't find a way
to make the second goal that
they needed, and in the end
it was Hebron coming away
with the 2-1 victory.
For the girls, after taking a
1-0 lead in the first half, the
Lady Eagles had pulled out to
a 2-1 advantage by halfway
through the second half.
But Hebron surged late,
scoring three goals in the
final 20 minutes to win 4-2.
Up next for the Eagles is
another area match, this time
at home against Walnut Grove
today (Wednesday). Match
time for the girls is scheduled
for 5:30 p.m., with the boys
to follow at 7:30 p.m.
JMS GOLF
JMS splits with Commerce, Madison Co.
IT WAS a split decision Monday for the
Jefferson Middle School golf teams, as the
boys came away with wins over Commerce
and Madison County. Jefferson shot a 162 to
Commerce's 186 and Madison County’s 205.
The girls, meanwhile, finished behind
Madison County and Commerce in what proved
to be a close contest. Jefferson shot a 57 to
Madison County’s 55 and Commerce's 56.
For the boys, Charlie Jarrett led the team by
shooting a 36. Jacob Price shot a 39. Daniel
Kimmel shot a 43. Ben Kelly shot a 44.
Tucker Richards shot a 46. Gage Wampler
shot a 49.
For the girls, Madison Cornes shot a 28.
Victoria Mulvey and Haley Morgan each shot
a 29. Whisper Whitlock shot a 30. Olivia
Przybysz shot a 32.
DOMINATING WIN
Alabama’s Augie Grill set a new track record in qualifying, then turned around to win
Saturday’s Super Late Model event at GMP. Photo courtesy GMP Media
Gresham continued from IB
and Cale Gale rounded out the Top-10 finishers.
Other area drivers included Joey Senter of
Jefferson finishing 13th, Jefferson native Ryan
Crane finishing 14th and Braselton's Jimmy
Garmon finishing 23rd.
In the Outlaw Late Model main event, Jason
Bates held off Mike Davidson in the closest
event of the evening. Tina Stephens was third
with Terry Martin and David Murphy rounding
out the top five.
Joel Townsend won the action packed 50-lap
Track event. The event - spiced by several
wrecks - appeared to be Paul Antley's to win,
but Antley got into the front-stretch wall on a
late restart allowing Townsend to take home the
win. Branden Franklin was second while Antley
was third. Brittany Finley finished fourth and
Jeremy Parris was fifth.
Gresham Motorsports Park will next host an
Electric Car Competition Saturday, March 20.
The event will feature several area high schools
and different types of electric vehicles in mul
tiple competitions. The event is free of charge
to the public.
The next racing action on the GMP half-mile
oval will be on Saturday, March 27 when the
USARacing Pro Cup cars make their first of two
appearances this season. For more information,
visit www.greshammotorsportspark.com, or call
706-367-9461.
Dragons continued from IB
ball a number of times,” DuBose said of the
third quarter. “We had seven or eight turnovers
in that quarter, which all led to easy baskets
for them.”
“As we started to get behind a little, we
started to rush our shots,” DuBose added.
“Our shot selection was not good at all in the
third quarter, and that consequently left a lot of
missed shots.”
Despite the odds, Jefferson came out swing
ing in the fourth quarter, looking for the late
surge that had carried them to victory before.
Despite a strong effort, they came up short as
Thomasville won 69-43, ending the Dragons
season.
“When you get down 23 points to a team that
good with only a quarter left, your chances of
coming back aren't that great,” DuBose said.
J.J. Damons led the team in scoring with 22
points. Darius Minor had five.
“I thought we played extremely hard the
whole game,” DuBose said. “I thought our
kids gave a great effort, but we did not play
as well as we had been playing in terms of
execution.”
DuBose said a big part of that had to do with
Thomasville.
“They're good,” he said. “They’re real good.
They kind of took us out of our game, of what
we wanted to do. You could say ‘well, we just
had a bad game,' but that’s not really telling the
whole story. They had a lot to do defensively
with our lack of production on offense.”
“I’ve got to give Thomasville credit,” DuBose
added. “They’re the ones that took us out of
our game and forced us into making some
mistakes that we hadn’t made in a long time.
They're a very, very good basketball team.
“We just got outplayed by a better basketball
team.”
The game marked the last as Dragons for
Minor and Damons. Minor averaged 17 points
a game, led in assists and was the second lead
ing rebounder.
Damons averaged 16 points and 14 rebounds
per game.
DuBose said while both players did a great
job of being team leaders, there were many
others that stepped up and played well to get
the team where it ended up.
“I thought they did a great job,” he said.
“When you get in the playoffs, you work as
hard as you can. If you get beat by a team, and
you look back and say ‘we had a better team
than those guys and we didn’t give the kind of
effort that it takes. We beat ourselves.’ That's
when you feel bad.
“This team did not do that. When you get
beat in the playoffs by a team that you go out
and play against as hard as you can and the
other team is just better than you are, then
you’ve gone as far as you can go. That's what
I think this team did.”
The Dragons ended the year 25-7 overall.
They became the seventh Dragon basketball
team in win the region title in the past 10 years,
and became only the third team to go to the
final four.
TITLE WINNER
Zachary Bost, of Jefferson, recently won the boys 18’s and under division of the
USTA Georgia Level 3, Hudlow Junior Super Championships held in Norcross. Bost,
who is 16 years old, upset the number one and two seeds in the tournament en route
to winning the title.
BASEBALL
HITMEN WIN
In their first tournament of 2010, the 11-year-old boys Hitmen Baseball team took
first place in the Polar Bear Classic silver Division Tournament recently. Team
members are, pictured left to right, front row, Cody Nix, Walker Brooks, Jesse Davis,
Ethan Page, second row, Brooks Beddow, Ty Smith, Caleb Ladd, Kyle Maxwell, Chaz
Evans, third row, coaches Phillip Page, Tim Smith, Greg Ladd and Todd Maxwell.
JCCHS BASEBALL
JCCHS alumni game slated for March 20
THE SECOND annual Jackson County
Panther Baseball alumni game and home ran
derby will be held on Saturday, March 20 for
former JCCHS players and coaches.
The cost is $20 to play in the game, and
includes a t-shirt.
The game starts at 2 p.m.
Home ran derby participants will get 10
swings for $10. The derby starts at 2 p.m.
For more information, contact JCCHS base
ball coach Tommy Fountain at 770-530-8975
or tfountain@jackson.kl2.ga.us.
Eagles continued from IB
Sam Williamson recorded the loss, giving up
six hits and 13 runs while striking out two in
four innings.
Evan Williamson went 1-3 with an RBI. John
Robinson went 1-2 with an RBI.
BANKS COUNTY
After Saturday’s game at Heritage was rained
out, the Eagles next played host to the Leopards
of Banks County in a game rescheduled from
March 12.
Things started off rough from the start, with
Banks scoring their first ran in the first inning
off of an RBI double that gave them a 1-0
advantage.
Despite a strong effort from the mound, the
Eagles found themselves behind from the plate,
as the Leopards jumped on five errors commit
ted by East Jackson to take the lead and hold on
to it to win 8-6.
Nick Keyros, Sam Williamson, John Robinson
and Ethan Lyons all pitched during the game.
John Robinson had two hits on the night.
NORTH OCONEE
On Tuesday, the Eagles faced off against the
number sixth ranked North Oconee Titans.
East Jackson ran into a wall on both ends,
as the Titans threw a no-hitter, shutting out the
Eagles 15-0 in four innings.
JCCHS continued from IB
in the region. We continued to swing the bats
well and had good approaches. Austin Robinson
did not have his best stuff, but he battled and got
the job done.”
Fountain said he was proud of the way his
players responded after a rough start in the first
inning and a half.
“We needed to get something going and took
advantage of some walks with some big hits to
create a huge second inning ... all with two outs.
Now, we need to go out and get win number nine
so we can cross another goal off the board.”