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- Saturday, April 16,1994 "Houston Times-Journa) Page 8A 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 m 1 Xti&M % *ll ‘ Region champions Perry Panthers set Hoopfest '94 on April 30 to raise money for the basketball oroaram. 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 * ft M „«***• 'rv m& * HMti<i^PPßsß ■J&SF H 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. Effective Mav 1.1994 the following subscription rates will take place: $ 25 per year, plus sales tax for in-county SOOSO Oam per year, plus sales tax for rates in state $ 45 per year, plus sales tax for rates out of state KAO *J\J for each newspaper in racks Call Melanie during the month of April to renew your subscription at the current rates before the price increases listed above go into effect. Payment must be received before May 1, 1994. 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 IW vflto |T jpy o I HggjffiO I u rnljVk jl j^Jul 6 Miles to Exit 44 Turn Left - One Mile on Left Open Thursday - Friday - Saturday 4 pm til 9:30 pm Bring This Coupon & | SIOO i I Receive X Off I On All-U-Can-Eat 1 | Catfish or Popcorn Shrimp Just One Bite & You’re Hooked! 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.