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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 4B THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS • THE COMMERCE NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 Youth football Banks County 7-and-under football team The Banks County 7-and-under football team’s season ended last Saturday in the semifinals of the North Georgia Youth Football Association’s (NGYFA) 7-and-under playoffs. The youth Leopards entered the tournament as the no. 10 seed and knocked off sev enth-seeded Jackson County, 13-12, and second-seeded Chestatee, 15-14. This was the farthest a Banks County team had progressed in the playoffs. EJCHS cheerleaders make sectionals BY CHARLES PHELPS The East Jackson com petition cheerleading team is moving onto sectionals after finishing fourth at region last Saturday. Head coach Sadie Sta ples says all the competi tion will be “stiff,” but they would like to beat other local teams they’ve com peted against all season. “There's just something about a hometown rival ry,” she said. “We are look ing to beat Monroe Area and Hart County first. If we take down teams from other areas, we will be happy but not as satisfied as if we could beat those teams. But our goal is to make sure the girls, first, are healthy. We've have some sickness going around the schools. Then, we want to add difficulty to some of our stunts. Final ly we would like to clean up our tumbling. We had some hands touch down this past Saturday and we are looking to clean that up.” East Jackson performs Friday in Columbus. Takeaways from the World Series Well, that was cer tainly something. The World Series between the two lon gest-suffering orga nizations in baseball did not disappoint, as the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indi ans treated us to a seven-game tug-of-war that ended with the most thrill ing games in the history of the sport. For the first time since 1908 —when only a handful of peo ple on Earth today were alive — the Cubs stand at the sum mit of baseball. There is no more “Wait ‘til next year.” Here are my takeaways from the Fall Classic. Cubs finally beat the curse Last Wednesday, prior to Game 7 being played, one of my co-workers and I shared our predictions for the game. I told him I thought Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman, who was acquired from the Yan kees midseason to help take them to the promise land, would blow a lead in the eighth and possibly lead to his team’s downfall. It was no reflec tion on Chapman, who had been nearly unhitta- ble throughout the postseason. He combines an eye-popping 102-mph fastball, which he has learned to locate with pinpoint precision, with a devastating slider. But it had more to do with the Cubs’ curse. And when Chapman, whose arm had been stretched to several multi-inning outings in previous games, got the call, you could sense it coming. When Cleveland’s Rajai Davis deposited a ball in the left-field seats to tie the game, the memories of the Billy Goat, the black cat and Steve Bartman came flooding in. But this Cubs team was simply different from those that had gone before. They had already clawed their way back after being down 3-1 in the series to force a deciding game. And Game 7 was no dif ferent as they collected them selves and outlasted the Indi ans 8-7 in 10 innings. The monkey is off their backs now. I doubt they’ll have to wait another 108 years before their next moment of glory. The biggest sports moment of our lives? As I sat there watching something that not even my father had ever witnessed or that either of my grandfathers ever got a chance to see, I wondered if this was the big gest sports moment of our lives. When you look at the impli cations of it and what it meant to an entire city, I would have to say yes. The only compa rable thing would have been the Boston Red Sox exorcising their 86-year curse in 2004. But even the Red Sox had been to the World Series several times in modern history and failed. The Cubs have been so bad for so long and had not even made it to the World Series since 1945, the year World War II ended. 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