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Young Life Pickens County takes kids to camp
Last week, Young Life
Pickens County embarked on
two separate week-long
camp trips. WyldLife Direc
tor Jenn Bryant and a few
WyldLife leaders made the
trek with their junior high
school friends to Southwind
in Ocklawaha, Florida.
Simultaneously, Area Di
rector Kate Meek and guest
volunteer leader Chris
Foglesong journeyed with
some of their high school
friends to Carolina Point in
Brevard, North Carolina. -
Kids and leaders agree, it was
an incredible way to kick off
the summer.
Throughout their weeks at
camp, kids from Pickens
County relished the opportu
nity to experience high ad
venture activities.
At Carolina Point, high
schoolers hiked the beautiful
mountainous terrain, raced
around on the GoKart track,
rolled down the OGO Park,
and glided across one whole
Young Life camps offer local kids the chance for adven
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say Young Life campers. Young Life welcomes all high school and junior high school stu
dents to join the fun.
mile of zipline. At South-
wind, junior high kids sped
down the waterslide, hit the
trails on bikes, and soared
through the air on a giant
swing.
These activities allowed
kids to be kids and encour
aged interaction and shared
adventure between them and
their leaders.
In the midst of every fun-
filled day, hundreds of
campers and their leaders
came together for “Club” - a
gathering in which they sang,
laughed, played games, and
heard a relevant message
about knowing and following
the God who created them.
See Younglife on Page 3B
Kids camps at PHS Ball Ground decathlete pushes
Two kids camps available here this summer SCOfCS b 01111(^3,1*1 CS
Little Nettes Basketball
Camp is back and will be
held on June 27 & 28th from
9-12 p.m. at PHS. The camp
is open to young ladies with
all skill levels from 1st
through 6th grade.
The cost is $50 per
camper with siblings half
price at $25 each. Campers
will receive instruction from
high school Nettes basketball
players and members of the
high school staff. Camp fees
include a camp tshirt. More
information and registration
instructions can be found on
the Nettes website: nettesbas-
ketball.com
PHS Cheer Mini Camp
will be held on July 18-21
from 9-12pm at PHS. The
camp is open to ages 4th-6th
grade. There will be a pro
gram wide showcase on
Thursday, July 21 at 11 a.m.
Campers will learn cheer ba
sics, boogie with your bud
dies, and have the best time
ever. Pre-registration is $65
and information can be found
on the Pickens Cheerleading
Facebook page beginning on
6/20. Camp fees include a t-
shirt and groovy swag.
By Alex Goble
Staff Writer
agoble@pickensprogress.com
There is no women’s de
cathlon at the Olympics.
Who knew?
One of the best female de-
cathletes in the world is from
Ball Ground. Who knew?
Her name is Jordan Gray
and she scored 8,246 points
in the Women’s Decathlon
Association Championship in
San Mateo, California last
year. It’s the second-highest
all-time score worldwide and
the Ball Ground resident is
only the third woman to
score over 8,000 points.
Decathlons are scored on
a point system with scores
handed out based on how
well an athlete does in each
of the ten events (four runs,
three jumps, three throws)
with a combined score
recorded at the end.
The title “world’s greatest
athlete” or “most well-
rounded athlete” are tradi
tionally tagged onto the
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Ball Ground’s Jordan Gray at the 2020 Olympic trials,
held at Hayward Field, Eugene, Ore. in 2021.
winner of the decathlon be
cause of the variety of the
events. Gray has certainly de
served that title for her
prowess as a decathlete leav
ing last year’s second place
decathlete at San Mateo be
hind by 2,548 points.
She probably deserves a
second title for her efforts to
allow women to participate
in the decathlon at the
Olympics as well.
Right now, at the
Olympics, women have the
heptathlon (seven events),
while men have the de
cathlon. “It’s always shock
ing to people when they
realize that it’s different, and
I think part of the reason that
people don’t know is because
a lot of people just try to say
well, it’s just like having dif
ferent sizes of basketballs,”
Gray said.
See Decathlete on Page 3B
Racing across America
Race Recap -
Toyota/Save Mart 350
By Alex Korowotny
Racing Sports
Correspondent
This week, back in the
wine country of California at
the Sonoma raceway.
Sonoma is a road course
NASCAR has been racing on
for many years and it has
been a decent track. It’s had
great moments like the finish
to the 2016 race with Hamlin
and Stewart battling it out
and Stewart getting his final
career win in NASCAR.
Plus it’s had some just
simply good races like last
year. The last road course
race, COTA (Texas), was a
great race with great racing
and an all-time classic finish,
so did this road course race
provide some more great rac
ing? You’ll see at the end.
The race started at 4:18
with Larson on pole. The 1st
caution flew on lap 10 for
Wallace losing an engine and
stopping on the track in turn
4. During the caution, several
people like Kyle Busch and
Byron pitted, so they can get
some stage points in stage 1.
The race resumed on lap
14 and Larson held onto to
win stage 1 because he de
cided to not pit and get stage
points. Larson and the rest of
the people that didn’t pit
under the 1st caution pitted
and this gave the lead to El
liott for the start of stage 2.
See Racing on Page 3B
Sports
Fanatic
By
Tommy
Gartrell
Columnist
Memorable
Streak
On Monday, the
Braves defeated Wash
ington 9-5 which ex
tended their current
winning streak to twelve
games. With a 35-27
record, Atlanta cut New
York’s lead in the NL
East to only five games
from a substantial ten
game advantage at the
first of June.
This current run isn’t
the longest streak in At
lanta history though. The
2013 Braves won four
teen consecutive games
twice, the 2000 Braves
won fifteen games in a
row, but the 1982 Braves
stacked thirteen wins in
the first thirteen games
of the season. That ‘82
team’s accomplishment
remains foremost in my
memory.
Forty years ago, a
scrappy Atlanta squad
set a Major League
record with those thir
teen wins to open a base
ball season under new
manager Joe Torre. Un
less you happen to be my
age or older, you likely
do not recognize the
names on that roster ex
cept hall of fame pitcher
Phil Neikro who won 17
games during that year
and Dale Murphy who’s
performance earned him
the 1982 NL MVP.
Some success for the
first time in a decade
drew sell-out crowds of
screaming fans into At-
lanta-Fulton County Sta
dium which had not
happened since Henry
Aaron’s pursuit of Babe
Ruth’s homerun crown
in 1974. Add the power
of cable television (then
in its infancy) and
WTBS’s baseball cover
age. The Braves began
being called “America’s
Team”.
Their fast start pro
pelled them into first
place and quite unex
pectedly, Atlanta main
tained that lead. By the
All-Star break, those
Braves clung to a two
game lead at 51-33 in the
National League West.
Yes.
At that time MLB
consisted of only eastern
and western divisions.
Atlanta was a member of
the western division: a
geographical anomaly
remaining since the fran
chise moved from Mil
waukee in 1966.
As predicted, the
Braves floundered dur
ing the late summer by
losing 19 of 21 games
and tumbling from the
division lead. However,
they rebounded and in
the final week of the reg
ular season, Atlanta led
both Los Angles and San
Francisco by a game.
The perennial underdog
took two of three games
in San Diego, but fell 5-
1 in the regular season fi
nale which would have
clinched the division.
Miraculously, Giants
second baseman and hall
of famer Joe Morgan hit
a homer late in their ball-
game which lifted San
Fran over the Dodgers
and gave Atlanta the best
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