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August 27, 2020
Cross Country competes
in Bob Blastow Invitational
Bekah Wise ran the invita
tional with a time of22:05.
This past weekend, the
PHS cross country team
competed in the Bob Blastow
Invitational in Whitesburg,
Georgia. Both teams had out
standing showings, with
many runners setting per
sonal records for the three
mile course.
Senior Seth White led the
boys, placing second overall
in the race, with a time of
16:04. He was followed
closely by his teammates
senior Andrew Williams and
sophomore Noah Jones, who
placed 6th and 14th, respec
tively.
The girls’ team was led by
freshman Bekah Wise with a
time of 22:05, and was
closely followed behind by
her teammates senior Adri-
Senior Adriana Vann
(above) competes in the girls’
race and Senior Andrew
Williams (below) took sixth
ana Vann, freshman Mia An-
tinozzi, senior Penelope
Hobgood and sophomore
Kilie Gravley.
The Dragons cross coun
try teams will be back in ac
tion this Friday at the Ridge
Ferry Invitational in Rome,
Ga.
Special training to
Save the Hemlocks
On Saturday, September
12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Save Georgia’s Hemlocks
will offer an on-line work
shop on how to save endan
gered hemlock trees, a
beautiful and important fea
ture in our north Georgia
communities.
Class will begin with an
overview of the invasive in
sect called hemlock woolly
adelgid that’s killing our
hemlocks and what can be
done to save the trees.
Then it will provide com
plete, practical instruction
covering the trees, the bugs,
assessing infestations, cul
tural practices, chemical
treatments, biological con
trols, cost and safety, plus
volunteer training for assist
ing other property owners
and working on our public
lands.
REGISTRATION IS RE
QUIRED. To register and
receive your sign-in instruc
tions, please contact Donna
at 706-429-8010 or
Donna@SaveGeorgiasHem-
locks.org no later than noon
on Friday, September 11.
This week in
Sports History
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by Ethan Swiech
August 23-
August 29
August 23rd:
On this day in 1953, Phil
Paine made baseball history
by becoming the first ex
major leaguer to play for a
Japanese team. Paine, who
was a pitcher for the Boston
Braves during the 1951 cam
paign, left the game to join
the United States Army.
When his service ended, he
returned to the mound, but
did so for the JPPL's
Nishitetsu Lions. Paine made
eight starts and recorded five
complete games with a
shutout before finishing 4-3
with a 1.77 earned run aver
age and 38 strikeouts. After
returning to the majors in
1954, he spent the final five
years of his career with the
Braves, who relocated to Mil
waukee, and St. Louis Cardi-
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August 24th:
On this day in 1919, major
league pitcher, Ray Caldwell,
made his first start with the
Cleveland Indians. Perhaps
he received a bitter and un
usual Cleveland welcome
when he got struck by light
ning during the game. Cald
well was knocked out, but
regained consciousness after
a few minutes. He continued
to pitch, allowed four hits and
had a complete performance
during the Indians' 2-1 win
over the Philadelphia Athlet
ics. In 12 seasons, Caldwell
went 133-120 with a 3.22
earned run average and 1,006
strikeouts. He also threw a no
hitter, which came less than a
month after the lightning in
cident, and helped the Indians
win the World Series in 1920.
August 25th:
On this day in 1991, St.
Louis Cardinals' closer, Lee
Smith, became the fifth indi
vidual in major league history
to register 300 saves. Smith
threw a scoreless ninth before
helping St. Louis defeat the
Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-2. In
18 seasons with eight differ
ent clubs, Smith pitched
1,022 games while going 71-
92 with a 3.03 earned run av
erage and 1,251 strikeouts.
He retired in 1997 with 478
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Black throws shutout as
Nettes defeat Lumpkin
Last Monday, the Nettes
traveled to Lumpkin High
School to take on the Indi
ans.
Emma Black started in
the circle and shut down a
good Lumpkin County
team, throwing a complete
game shutout and leading
Pickens to a 8-0 victory.
The Nettes were also
boosted by Black on of
fense who went 3-for-4 at
the plate. Pickens piled on
the runs by scoring four
runs in the fourth inning.
Morgan Krastes, Makayla
Kirchoff, and Emma Black
powered the big inning with
RBIs.
Black allowed three hits
and zero runs over six in
nings, striking out two Indi
ans and walking one. The
Emma Black threw a complete game shutout against
Lumpkin.
Nettes tallied 11 hits on the
day. Emma Black, Hannah
Grizzle, and Makayla Kir
choff all collected multiple
hits in the victory for Pick
ens.
The Nettes are off this
week before jumping into re
gion play.
photo/ Melissa Bramlett
Pictured above are the Nettes Junior High School team in competition last week. The
Pickens High School varsity girls will play this Thursday, August 27 at home.
Nettes volleyball reach
semi-finals at Adairsville
On August 15, the volleyball team com
peted in the Welcome to the Jungle tourna
ment at Adairsville. The team made it to the
semi-finals in early season action, but fell
just short to Sonoraville in three sets.
Bri Simpson led the team with 20 kills.
Sadie Phillips was close behind with 16 kills.
Emily Laster had 48 assists during the event.
Sadie and Emily both had eight aces each to
lead the team.
The varsity plays again Thursday, August
27 at home against Gilmer and Cass.
Optimist golf tournament
Sept. 16 at Bent Tree
Support a great local non-profit and enjoy a day of golf
at the yearly Optimist tournament Above, the start at last
year’s tournament.
The annual golf tourna
ment sponsored by the Opti
mist Club of Jasper will be
held on Wednesday, Septem
ber 16 at beautiful Bent Tree
golf course. This event pro
vides funding for the annual
STAR banquet that recog
nizes 10 Pickens High School
seniors plus scholarships. It
also helps fund the Von J.
Hinton Citizenship Award
and the Legion of Character
recognition at Pickens Junior
High School and more.
Registration starts at 11
followed by lunch and a shot
gun start at 1 p.m. The tour
nament is a four-person
scramble format and teams
are flighted by handicap.
Prizes are given in both the
Gross and Net divisions plus
there will be other prizes for
longest drive and closest to
pin. In addition there will be
an opportunity to buy raffle
tickets for great door prizes.
Interested in participat
ing? Not able to play? You
can sponsor a tee sign for
only $75. Contact us at jsap-
pleton@windstream.net to
get team sign-up form or a
tee sign sponsorship form.
We can email them to you. Or
call 706-692-9755 for more
information. Help the
Optimist club meet their mis
sion to “bring out the best in
kids” by being part of this
great, fun golf tournament.
Effort to map
pollinators
goes
statewide
Georgians can
register pollinator
gardens at
gapp.org
Ga. DNR press release
An Atlanta-based effort
to provide and restore
needed habitat for butter
flies, bees and other pollina
tors is expanding statewide.
Previously known as the
Greater Atlanta Pollinator
Partnership, the program has
broadened to become the
Georgia Pollinator Partner
ship (GAPP).
GAPP’s mission is to
create and restore pollinator
habitats across Georgia for
butterflies, bees, moths,
hummingbirds and other an
imals by informing people
about declines in many pol
linator species and promot
ing pesticide-free, native
plantings as a solution.
The program began as a
collaboration between the
USDA Forest Service, At
lanta Botanical Garden,
Georgia Highlands College
and National Wildlife Fed
eration.
Started in 2009 as the
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Sports
Fanatic
By
Tommy
Gartrell
Columnist
Great
Collision
When Philadelphia
catcher Andrew Knapp
tagged Atlanta’s shortstop
Dansby Swanson at the
plate for the 27th out in the
Phillies’ 5-4 win, it once
again sparked controversy
over the 2014 rule change
regarding blocking home
plate. Or in my case, the
“wreck” or more aptly, the
“rub” at the plate brought
to mind many of the mag
nificent home plate colli
sions that I’ve watched
over a lifetime.
The most famous of
those wrecks occurred two
months prior to my birth
though during the 1970
MLB All-Star Game.
Surely, every baseball fan
has seen the play which
ended that game in the
12th inning.
No?
Think again!
Do you remember film
footage of a young Pete
Rose (29 years old at the
time) slamming into a rel
atively unknown Ameri
can League catcher named
Ray Fosse?
It is one of the most fa
mous plays of the era if not
all of baseball history and
one of the most controver
sial as well.
Let us travel back over
a half century to River
front Stadium in Cincin
nati on July 14, 1970
before a crowd of 51,838
fans and over a quarter of
the country’s television
viewers watching the first
prime time all-star game.
The rosters totaled 21
(eight American Leaguers
and 13 National Leaguers)
future members of the Na
tional Baseball Hall of
Fame, while the starting
lineup for each team con
tained five eventual Hall
of Fame inductees apiece.
Suffice to say, it was a
game of legends, but as
with all legends, the truth
in them varies.
The game was score
less through five innings
with Cincinnati’s Tom
Seaver and Baltimore’s
Jim Palmer pitching gems.
The AL team scored in the
sixth. By the end of the
eighth frame, that lead
grew to 4-1. Miraculously,
the NL platted three runs
in the bottom of the ninth.
Dick Dietz homered off
Jim “Catfish” Hunter.
Willie McCovey and
Roberto Clemente drove
home the other two runs
with a single and sacrifice
fly. Rose, who replaced
Hank Aaron in the sixth,
struck out to end the in
ning, but tied at 4-4, the
game continued into the
10th frame. Ultimately, the
Nationals rallied in the last
of the 12th inning.
With two outs, Pete
Rose and Billy Grabarke-
witz hit back-to-back sin
gles to put runners on first
and second base. Jim
Hickman singled to Amos
Otis in center field. Otis
fired the ball to catcher
Ray Fosse as Rose ran past
third base, heading to
home. Otis' throw was on
target on the third base
side of home plate, and ar
rived as Rose reached
Fosse. Rose bowled over
Fosse, forcing him to drop
the ball and end the game:
AL 4 - NL 5.
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