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Woods 'n Water— 2B
Perry sports
Brian i
K. Lawson
Spores editor
Spending a
basketball
Saturday
I had a pretty full day of watching
sports on Saturday.
I spent part of my morning and
part of the afternoon watching the
four Perry Middle School basketball
teams playing in for the Houston
County Championships.
The seventh grade girls won the
championship 28-22.
The final two minutes of that
game were as exciting as anything
I've seen this year.
With 1:40 to play and Perry lead
ing by one at 21-20, Luchrista
King made a steal under her basket
and hit a lay-up.
Warner Robins scored to cut the
lead to one with 1:14 to play.
Kamari Toomcr was fouled with
:37 seconds to go and she knocked
down both ends of a 1 and 1 to up
the lead to 25-22.
Toomer then made a steal and
converted another free throw.
The Lady Panthers got another
basket as time expired to capture
the championship.
I don't know about you, but
when I was in seventh grade if
somebody would have asked me to
shoot free throws with the county
championship hanging in the bal
ance I probably would have blacked
out.
Toomer and her teammates played
wonderful, intelligent basketball in
the final minutes and it was a lot of
fun to see them celebrate their vic
tory.
Coach Ron Wilson's is working
on a dynasty with his second
straight eighth grade girls county
championship.
The Lady Panthers jumped out to
an early lead, held on through a
bumpy second quarter and stifled the
Northside offense in the second half
for the win.
The seventh grade boys game was
to less exciting.
With my two year old in tow I
was forced to leave the games and
come back several times.
When 1 got back to the seventh
grade boys game they were trailing
29-27 at the end of three quarters.
Tabor, which had come from the
fourth place slot and thus was play
ing it's third game of the week,
built a 35-29 lead with 2:25 to
play.
The Panthers scored with 1:10
left to cut the lead to 35-31.
Both sides of the gym were on
their feel screaming, watching these
seventh graders handle the pressure
with amazing poise.
Perry got it's biggest shot of the
season from Reggie Clark when he
connected on a 3 pointer with 40
seconds to play.
Clark's shot cut the Tabor lead to
one, 35-34.
The next 40 seconds had entire
crowd (including my son and I), on
their feet yelling.
Tabor held the ball for most of
the final 40 ticks and time ran out
on a tremendous season for the sev
enth grade boys. After losing two
of their first three of the season, the
seventh graders rolled through the
rest of their schedule undefeated, un
til the Tabor game.
It was a great show but I felt bad
for Bob Cook and his kids.
The eighth grade boys started fast
but they had trouble scoring as the
game progressed.
The eighth grade boys looked to
me like they will be providing Carl
Thomas and Darryl Albritton with
plenty of new talent as they move
on to the next level.
PHS-Peach
I attended my first Perry-Peach
County basketball game Saturday
night.
Everything from the crowd to the
intensity on the floor helped it live
up the billing it had gotten.
If you remember a while back I
wrote a column about the hard life
of the referee.
The one thing you don't want to
have in a big game is the referee's
playing too important a role in the
outcome. I'm not going to make
excuses Tor Perry, they missed
some opportunities and they didn’t
block out very well, but the
Panthers got mugged by the refs.
WHS falls 61-54
By BRIAN LAWSON
Sports Editor
A cold spell early in the fourth
quarter cost Westfield as they fell
61-54 at Monroe Friday night.
The game was tight most of the
way even after some hot shooting
from Monroe to end the third
quarter. Westfield only trailed by
four, 41-37 entering the final
period.
Joe Dukes opened the fourth quar
ter with his second three pointer of
the night and then alter a lay-up by
Austin Abney, Dukes hit another
three to give the Mustangs a 47-39
lead with six minutes to play in the
game.
The Hornets didn’t score again
until the 3:57 mark when Lon
Talton scored on a drive to the bas
ket.
In that two minute stretch
Monroe increased their lead to 13
points, 52-39
Westfield then rallied, Talton hit
a jump shot, Hester scored on a
lay-up and Chad Evans connected
on a three pointer to cut the
Mustangs lead to 56-48 with 2:22
to play.
The Hornets got a defensive stop
and then Hester scored on a lay-up
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Time runs out on WHS
By BRIAN LAWSON
Sports Editor
The Westfield Lady Hornets
played down to the wire for the sec
ond straight game before falling to
Monroe 42-41 on a free throw by
Denise Cox, with no time remain
ing on the clock.
Wrestlers
split dual
By BRIAN LAWSON
Sports Editor
and
KARIN HASSENGER
Special to The HHJ
The Perry High wrestling team
went 1-1 in a double dual meet
with Hawkinsville and Northside
High Friday night in Perry.
The Panthers routed Hawkinsville
69-6 and lost a heated match with
Northside 42-30.
The Northside match, which
most of the large crowd came to
see, was marked with injuries, con
troversy and some solid perfor
mances by both sides.
Perry started the Northside match,
behind 12-0, after the first two
Panther' wrestlers were pinned.
Jason Cantrell, who won in over
time against Hawkinsville, needed
only one minute to pin his oppo
nent and give Perry its first points
of the match.
After 125 pounder Jason Shirey
was beaten 8-4 and 130 pounder
Eric Felder was pinned in the first
period the Panthers were looking at
a 21-6 deficit.
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after Abney stole the ball to bring
the Hornets to within 56-50 with
1:35 to play.
Monroe began to hold the ball
and Westfield was forced to commit
five fouls in order to put the
Mustangs on the foul line.
Michael Watson hit three of four
free throw* to give the Mustangs a
59-50 lead, with under a minute
left.
Hester and Abney hit jump
shots in the final minute to cut the
lead to five, but Monroe hit two
more free throws down the stretch
for the final margin.
The Hornets got strong first quar
ter performances from Hester and
Talton. The two combined for 14
of the team's 16 points in the pe
riod.
Hester was forced to leave the
game at 1:56 of the quarter after
picking up his second foul.
Westfield led 16-14 after the
first eight minutes.
The Hornets offense slowed down
in the second quarter, producing just
ten points.
Monroe took a 28-26 halftime
lead behind Scott Lcvcrelt and
Kenny Roberts who combined for
12 points in the quarter.
The tight finish was indicative of
the entire game.
At halftime Monroe led 21-20,
after three quarters the score was
tied 31 all, and the winning free
throw came after four lead changes
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Coach Danny Shelton, back left, and his team signal that they're number one. The Perry Middle School
seventh grade girls won the county championship last Saturday with a 28-22 win over Warner Robins.
Hester picked up his third foul at
3:25 of the second quarter and had
to sit out the rest of the half after
having totalled 10 points and domi
nating play inside.
The Hornets regained the lead in
the opening minutes of the third
quarter behind a drive front Jeff
Dortch, who replaced Hester, and
back-to-back baskets from Chad
Evans.
Westfield led 32-28 at the 5:48
mark of the third period, before the
Mustangs outscored them 13-5
over the final 5:40 of the quarter.
Evans led the Hornets with eight
points in the period.
Hester led Hornets with 16
points, Talton finished with 14,
Evans had 13, Abney scored seven
points and Dortch and Geoff Hill
each scored two points.
Hester and Evans were both
effective inside for the Hornets, but
their usual reliable outside game
failed them. The Hornets converted
only one three pointer all night.
Westfield faces three straight
region games on the road starling
next Friday.
The Hornets, now 1-2 in region
play, travel to Macon Friday to
face Windsor.
Youth hits hole-in-one
By BRIAN LAWSON
Sports Editor
William Sundquist thought his
drive on the second hole at Houston
Lake Country was long Monday
afternoon, but he was wrong, the
shot was perfect.
Sundquist scored the first hole in
one of his three year golf career,
Monday at approximately 12:30
p.m.
"Scot Carnley said 'Holc-in-Onc'
but I thought he was kidding. I
brought my putter with up to the
green so I wouldn't look stupid.
When I found the ball in die hole 1
couldn’t believe it. You think
about getting them all the lime but
1 was sort of mystified when it
happened," Sundquist said.
The Perry High School junior is
employed at HLCC as a service at
tendant and he estimates he plays
four or live rounds of golf a week.
"I used to think golf was boring
but after we moved here from
California I started liking it. 1
started playing after we got here and
I got this job so 1 could play
more," he said.
Sundquist moved to Perry with
his family after his father John
transferred from Northrop's
California office to the plant in
Perry.
The second hole is set on a rise
and requires the golfer to tee off and
hit a shot over the water to reach
the pin 164 yards away.
"What was neat about it was that
it went straight into the hole. It
didn't bounce or hit the Hag it just
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William Sundquist on the hole he aced at HLCC.
went right in," Sundquist said,
pointing to a small dent his ball
made on the lip of the cup.
Sundquist was playing with four
other players including Carnley,
Jason Arthur, Jason Lake and Tom
Biel.
Carnley said before he lut his
drive on the second hole, the newly
located pin position was tough.
Carnley then hit a drive that rolled
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to within two feet of the hole.
Biel called Sundquist's drive the
Best shot he's ever seen.
Arthur described it this way, "It
looked good from the start and I
figured it would be close. Then it
made this 'ting' like sound as it
went in."
Sundquist shot an 80 for the day,
only three strokes off his best day
ever.