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- Saturday, April 16,1994 "Houston Times-Journa)
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Golf, from7A
in front of host George Walton.
Although the Hornets' top
player, Todd Rigdon, would finish
in third, three strokes behind two
golfers from Gatewood, the Hornet
team would play close.
Rigdon had the low score for the
Hornets with a 76. However, Ed
Strickland, who rounded out the
five golfers, was only seven strokes
Tennis, from 7A
don 8-1.
"They played very good," said
tennis coach Jenney Crooms.
"Right now we are where we need
to be for us to be playing region
next week. We are ready for region.
"If anything we need to be in a
little better shape, but we are get
ting there."
The men's team also beat the
Bulldogs 6-3.
Again, the singles play provided
four victories and doubles play pro
PHS sets Hoopfest '94 for April 30
The Perry Panther basketball
team will be raising money Satur
day, April 30, with Hoopfest '94.
The day will feature an all-day
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Win, from6A
has had in recent games is that the
team makes fundamental mistakes,
costing the Panthers goals and scor
ing opportunities. "We contribute
to our own defeats," said Thomas.
"Against Columbus High School,
we didn't defeat ourselves."
Thomas added that the legacy of
losing was also hanging over his
team. "If you lose consistently,"
said Thomas, "it is something you
can become comfortable with. We
have to overcome that. You have to
develop an attitude that you don't
like to lose.”
After a scoreless first half,
freshman Richie Gill scored the
only goal of the game, taking a
pass from Brian Mourning, beating
two Columbus defenders for the
Perry, from 6A
and great pitchers win when they
have less than their best stuff.
While Waldrip may have had,
through six innings, his best stuff
when he threw against the
Hurricanes in March, on Saturday,
the senior right-hander struggled
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Jason Brett came through In the sixth and seventh
Inning against Fitzgerald to keep Perry’s playoff hopes
alive.
behind, shooting an 83. Scott Hill,
with a 78, Keith Davis, with a 79,
and Robert Harrison with an 80,
rounded out the Hornet squad.
Hornet golf coach Marvin Ar
rington said Gatewood, which had
two golfers shoot 735, proved "why
you need five good, solid golfers."
"The match was played at the re
gion tournament site," said Arring-
vided two wins. In singles action
Travis Watson defeated John Con
nors 8-6, Jeff Dortch defeated Chris
Doddard 8-6, Lawton Pierceson de
feated John Thomas 8-4 and Manish
Vasshi defeated Eric Reaves 9-7.
The team of Dortch and Pierce
son defeated Neal Patal and Steven
Powell 8-6, while Miles Lancaster
and Vasshi combined to beat Beuau
Hart and Josh Martin 8-5. Travis
Watson and John Shipley came
close to making it a weep for the
three-on-three hoops tournament, a
slam dunk contest and a three point
contest The day will conclude with
a women's and men's alumni game.
shot. Thomas said Gill took the
shot 10-to-15 yards in front of the
net. Although the Columbus goalie
would get his hands on the shot,
the low shot found the opening of
the net.
Clark, from 6A
bright sunshine that further hard
ened the greens.
And the pin placement, WOW!
Even Thursday's first round. And
by the way, Jeff Maggert, a fifth
year PGA pro from The Wood
lands, Texas, woke the crowd up
around 10:45 Sunday morning as he
holed a 222-yard three iron for a
through the first three innings,
stranding seven batters, before
settling down until the sixth.
While allowing only three
infield hits, the hard-throwing
Waldrip had trouble finding the
plate, walking four Fitzgerald
ton. "313 is a decent score."
Arrington said that it was impor
tant for his squad to play in at the
course, since the region tournament
will take place there. "We needed to
play just to get familiar with the
lay-out of the course and see how
fast the greens are."
The win pushes the Hornet mark
to 8-0 on the year.
Hornet netters in doubles play, but
lost to the team of Stevens and
Roger Griner 5-8.
"My boys played extremely
well," said Crooms. "We didn't get
but one match the last time we
played them.
"They really did it when it
counted because this was a region
match."
The women's team improves to
5-1 on the season, while the men's
team improves to 3-3 on the year.
Coach Carl Thomas, men’s bas
ketball coach at Perry, is looking
for male and female alumni players
interested in playing in the alumni
Sophomore Derrick Webb made
the single goal hold up for the
game, not allowing any Columbus
goals to sneak by. "He had an out
standing game, with many big
saves," said Thomas.
double eagle two on the par five
13th.
It was just the third double eagle
in Masters' history. Gene Sarazan
did it with a four wood at 15 in
1935 and Bruce Devlin used a four
wood to hole out on the par five
number eight in 1967.
batters through three.
However, each time he got in a
jam, Waldrip would battle back and
get the needed outs. In the first,
third, and fourth, the Perry ace left
two runners on. In the second,
Waldrip returned to the dugout after
stranding three Fitzgerald runners
on the basepads.
Perry would score insurance runs
in the fourth and fifth innings.
Jason Brett led the fourth off
with a walk. Allen was hit by a
pitch, moving Brett to second
where he scored on Nathan Long's
single.
The Panthers would add a couple
of runs in the fifth. Yawn beat out
an infield hits. Two passed balls
and a walk to Waldrip put runners
on the comers with one out. Brett
singled to score Yawn. Waldrip
would later score on a passed ball.
In the sixth inning, Fitzgerald
got to Waldrip, scoring three runs
on Wilson's bases loaded single.
Morris singled to plate Wilson,
bringing the Hurricanes to within
two, 6-4.
However, Jones made his move
to the Panther bullpen, bringing
Brett from his shortstop position.
Although the junior pitcher would
allow Morris to score, he would get
the Panthers out of the sixth with a
one-run lead.
In the seventh, Brett would pilch
in trouble, seeing the tying and
winnign run move into scoring
positon with one out. However, he
would record the save, getting the
final out of the game on a strike
out.
de Sales, from 6A
Talton then got Carey on a
grounder to second to end the in
ning.
It was time for some more Hor
net heroics. Brown had said "we got
contributions from everybody."
It was Jeff Dehem's turn. Pinch
hitting for Walls to lead off the
home half of the seventh, Dehem
drew a walk to put the tying run on
base.
Brown went to the bench again,
inserting the fleet Michael Davis to
run for Dehem. With one out, Davis
made his contribution, stealing sec
ond base to get into scoring posi
tion.
Then as Brown would later de
scribe, "Hawk hit the seeing-eye
soft liner over third", which scored
Davis with the tying run.
One out later, Lance Watson
drew a walk, sending Hawk to sec
eleven hits, Mount de Sales just
ond before an infield error on Shep-
games. He said anyone interested in
playing should contact him at Perry
High School at 988-6298 or Darryl
Albritton at Tucker Elementary at
988-6278.
The slam dunk contest and the
three point contest will take place
between the halves of the alumni
games. The entry fee for the slam
dunk contest is $3 a person, while
the fee for the three-point event is
75 cents per person.
The three-on-three tournament
will feature middle school, high
school and open divisions. The cost
to enter the tournament is sls per
team.
The middle school division will
start at noon. Thomas said the
teams needed to arrive at the Perry
gym before noon to register. The
high school tournament starts at 2
p.m., while the open tournament
starts at 4 p.m. High school and
open teams also need to report to
the gym before the start of their
events to pre-register.
Admission is $1 for the three
on-three tournament and other day
time activities and $2 for the
alumni game that night.
Thomas said that anyone who
had any questions should call him
or Albritton, or should call Ron
Wilson at Perry Middle School at
988-6285.
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ley's grounder loaded the bases for
Billy Kitchens.
Kitchens hit the ball off the top
of the right-center field fence, scor
ing Hawk with the game winner. It
was Kitchens' third hit of the game,
hitting in the number two spot in
the lineup.
In the 8-7 victory, Westfield got
seven. Talton won his first game of
Bulldogs, from 6A
Hawk as he advanced on a wild
pitch. The error on Shepley's ball
loaded the bases ahead on a walk to
Billy Kitchens, forcing in another
run.
And, before the inning was over,
Westfield had gotten two more sin
gles, another walk and three more
runs to take a 5-0 lead after three
innings.
It stayed that way until the fifth
a$ Talton continued to mow down
the Bulldogs.
In the fifth, Troy Nuss opened
with a hustling double to left field.
Talton's grounder was thrown away
at first before Jake Walls' third hit
of the day brought in Nuss with
Talton moving to third where Thad
Hawk’s sacrifice fly to right would
get him in.
Walls moved to second, and
scored on Shelton's single. A walk
to Watson and an error on Shepley's
grounder to second to set the stage
for Kitchens’ double to the fence in
left-center, scoring Shelton and
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the year, while DeMichiel took the
loss.
Brown was pleased with the
comeback. "We {Moved to ourselves
that we can win a game late, that it
isn’t necessarily over when we trail
in the last inning. That was a big
win for us. I’m just proud of every
body. We played twelve guys, and
everybody had a part in the win."
Watson to win the game 10-0.
Shepley actually came all the
way around, but his run wasn't
needed, thus didn't count. It was the
second game in a row in which
Kitchens drove in the winning run
in the Hornets last time at bat.
It was just the third game in
which the senior left fielder had hit
in the number two spot in the order.
"We moved him to the two slot last
weekend, and he’s really come
through," said Brown.
Brown lamented the one that got
away, too. "If we could have held
on and won the Athens Christian
game, we'd be in great shape, we'd
be tied with Tattnall at 5-1. Fut
those things happen.
'"We'll just have to keep going
the way we’re going now, and hope
for the best"
The Hornets play Monroe at
home Monday afternoon before a
Tuesday night meeting with Tat
tnall on the Trojans home field.