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JULY 26, 2017
The Banks County News
Phone: 706-621-7204
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Section B
Cheer Camp
Fun at BC cheer camp
LEARNING TO CHEER
Young Harris College cheerleaders Sidney Maloy (left) and Mitchell Shull (right) help cheerleading
camper Alston Lewallen with part of a stunt during last week’s Banks County Cheer Camp at the Banks
County Parks and Recreation Department. Maloy and Shull were also joined by members of the Banks
County High School cheerleading squad. More pictures on 2B. Photo by Charles Phelps
Column
Spieth shows
grit in England
Let the comparisons begin.
Let the compari
sons between Tiger
Woods and Jordan
Spieth officially
begin now.
As a golf fan,
Tiger Woods was
my favorite athlete
growing up and
through my adult
years (albeit with a
scandal that totally
derailed his career,
with injuries; however he
did that to himself. This is
about what he did on the golf
course).
Tiger was charismatic on
the course. Tiger hit it fur
ther than anyone else. Tiger
pulled off shots that no one
else could pull off.
My all-time favorite “Tiger”
shot came at the 2002 PGA
Championship when Tiger
hit a 3-iron out of a fairway
bunker onto the green and
strolled in the birdie putt to
close out his second round.
You may be thinking, “Fair
way bunker shot doesn’t
sound hard,” but he did it
with his feet planted outside
of the bunker. No part of his
body was inside the bunker.
Only he could pull that shot
off.
That was nearly 15 years
ago next month. After this
past weekend’s 146th edi
tion of the Open Champi
onship, Jordan Spieth has
tmly entered the Tiger com
parison. As a Tiger fan, that
doesn’t bother me.
OK, sure, Spieth squan
dered a 3-shot lead in a very
short amount of time on
Sunday, which was
something Tiger
rarely did, but it was
the resiliency that
Spieth showed after
losing the lead on
the 13th hole that
makes me think of
Tiger Woods, and
also some of the
shots he hit through
out the week and
making clutch bird
ie, par and bogey putts when
he needed to make them.
Case in point: let’s focus on
the 13th hole (as mentioned
previously). Spieth hits a ter
rible drive. It is so far off line
that they have to search for
the golf ball.
After finding the ball,
Spieth goes through every
option he has within the mles
of the game. He finally makes
a choice that was within the
mles.
He then had to get up and
down for a bogey after com
ing up short on his third shot.
A bogey meant he would
only be one shot behind
going to the 14th hole. He
hit a beautiful, gorgeous, use
an adjective to describe the
chip shot. It was awesome. To
top it off, he made the bogey
putt. It was Tigeresque to say
the least.
On the 14th hole, Spieth
nearly made a hole-in-one,
then eagled the 15th, fol
lowed by two birdies on 16
and 17. So, he went from one
stroke down to two strokes
See “Phelps” on 2B
Column
People should lighten up about Gwinnett Braves name change
A pitching change late in a
close, low-scoring game. Call
ing for a bunt with two outs.
Trading away a star player. All
issues in baseball worthy of fan
criticism and questioning.
Those are decisions clubs
make that the biggest fans
should be worried about and
discussing the most. Howev
er, those are not the issues
that have fans of the Gwinnett
Braves riled up this summer.
Fans aren’t discussing the fact
kyle
fiinderburk
that
Gwinnett is nine games behind
in the International League
South, or 10 games back in the
Wild Card race. They’re not
talking about the team win
ning all five of their games last
week.
No, the biggest story for the
team this summer is what will
they be named next season.
Earlier this season, the
Gwinnett Braves announced
that they were planning on changing
the team’s nickname in the offseason.
Fundraiser
Fundraiser set for
Kahmal Wiley
Banks County High School will host
the “We Are Family Kahmal Wiley
Fundraiser” on Saturday, Aug. 5, start
ing at 10 a. m.
Activities includes a 5k (time and
course information is to come), bar-
beque plates for $8 (includes barbe-
que, beans, chips, dessert; tickets will
be on pre-sale or walk-ups are wel
come), car show from 10 a.m. to noon,
bounce houses, dunking booth and
more, 100 Stretch-A-Ticket raffle items
($ 10/stretch; prizes includes Katy Perry
and/or Janet Jackson concert tickets,
local pottery, YETI cooler, gift cards
baskets, lottery basket, University of
Georgia helmet signed by head coach
Kirby Smart, Banks County personal
ized monogram basket and more.
There will also be a “Camping For
Kahmal” kids’ basketball camp. The
camp is for kindergarten through eighth
grade. Cost is $20 and will be two ses
sions, 10-11:30 a.m. and 1-2:30 p.m.
Each camper will receive a T-shirt. Reg
istration forms available at the Banks
County Parks and Recreation Depart
ment and will be accepted through
Aug. 4.
All proceeds will go to help with
Wiley’s ongoing medical expenses. For
more information, visit: www.facebook.
com and search “We Are Family Kah
mal Wiley Fundraiser.”
Gwinnett, which is the AAA affiliate
of the Atlanta Braves, allowed fans to
submit their own suggestions for new
nicknames. When that window closed,
the front office chose six of the names
for fans to vote on. And boy did that
ruffle some feathers.
The six names chosen set off a blitz
krieg of backlash. The names chosen
were the Buttons, Big Mouths, Gob
blers, Sweet Tea’s, Hush Puppies and
Lambchops. Surely, they could have
chosen better names, but they’re not
all terrible.
We'll get the worse names out of
the way first. Lambchops goes with
the Minor League Baseball hankering
for naming teams after food, plus it
See “Funderburk” on 2B
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