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Several violations of Title IX were found In a compliance
review at Perry High School. PHS was chosen because
of complaints from parents of softball team members.
Panthers have 53
come out for football
By VETO F. ROLEY
Sports Editor
Last year, the Panthers were in
deep trouble, losing their four of
their first five games.
However, Coach John Stephens
and his staff turned the program
around, starting with a 17-13 win
over Ware County. Including the
win over the Gators, the Panthers
won four of the next seven games,
making it to the region final.
The Panther team that overcame
a disastrous start lost over 20
players to graduation last year.
Lady Hornets start season
By VETO F. ROLEY
Sports Editor
Donna Campbell was the head
coach of the Hornets for nine years.
Last year she resigned to pursue a
masters degree that would allow her
to coach on the college level.
Campbell led her final team to a
surprise semifinal showing in the
state playoffs in 1993.
Bill Sellers was hired in June to
take the place of Campbell. Sellers
was the head baseball coach for
Miller County High School last
year.
"Having (coach) Jenny Crooms
is a great asset," said Sellers.
"There will be some adjustment for
these girls coming from coach
Campbell all these years. There
may be a difference in philosophy."
Although Sellers is not familiar
with the players, only three starters
were lost to graduation last year.
The Hornets must replace third
baseman Marla Massey, shortstop
Laura Thompson and outfielder
Jenna Bishop.
Westfield Hornets
1994 varsity softball schedule
Date Opponent Place Time
Aug. 20 Westfield Invitational Perry AD
Westfield, Southland, Brookwood and Flint River
Aug. 30 Windsoi" Macon 6:30
Sept. 1 Stratford® Perry 4:15
Sept. 8 Southland® Americus 4:15
Sept. 13 First Presbyterian Day® Perry 4:15
Sept. 15 Windsor® Perry 4:15
Sept. 20 Stratford® Macon 4:15
Sept. 22 Deerfield Perry 4:15
Sept. 27 Southland® Perry 4:15
Sept. 28 First Presbyterian Day® Macon 4:15
Sept. 29 Monroe Forsyth 4:15
Oct. 1 Ist round state tournament Statesboro AD
Oct. 5 Final four-state tournament Tifton AD
1994 "B" team softball schedule
Aug. 31 First Presbyterian Day Macon 4:15
Sept. 6 Mt. dc Sales Perry 4:15
Sept. 7 Windsor Macon 4:15
Sept. 12 Stratford Macon 4:15
Sept. 14 Southland Perry 4:15
Sept. 19 Southland Americus 4:15
Sept. 21 Windsor Perry 4:15
AD=AII day tournaments All home games will be played
°=Rcgion opponents at Hornet field on campus.
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"Losing as many kids as we lost
last year is pretty tough," said
Stephens.
Still, 53 players came out
Monday, Aug. 1, as Stephens held
the first practice of the season. "It
was very good,” he said, "especially
for the first day."
While the Panthers will work on
conditioning the next few days,
Stephens said that he was happy
with the condition his team started
practice. "Conditioning is
extremely important to us as small
Please see PHS, page 7A
Sellers and Crooms welcomed
25 players to the first practice
Monday, Aug. 1. Sellers said that
he was expecting a few more play
ers to join the team after they came
back from family vacations.
The Hornets will open their sea
son on Aug. 20 with the Westfield
High School Invitational in Perry.
Southland, Brookwood and Flint
River will make the trip to Perry to
participate in the tournament.
After the tournament, Sellers
will be able to assess his team,
having 10 days to the first regular
season game, a region matchup
with Windsor in Macon.
"We've got 15 more days after
today to be ready to play on Aug.
20," said Sellers, who added that the
Hornets would practice 19 more
times before they open. "There is
not enough time to get everything
done that you want to get done.
"I'm looking forward to the chal
lenge," said Sellers of the coming
season.
By VETO F. ROLEY
Sports Editor
The report is back into alleged violations of
Title IX in the Perry High School athletic
program, and investigators with the United States
Department of Education Office of Civil Rights
(OCR) found violations in the program.
Problems in the Perry High School athletic
program surfaced with the parents of coaches in
the Panthers' softball team. When parents went
to Atlanta to discuss their problems with the
federal board of education office there, they were
told that Houston County was due for a routine
compliance review, and that they would do the
review at Perry High School.
The investigation of Perry High School
started in Feb., 1994. The final report was issued
by the board of Education on the afternoon of
Tuesday, Aug. 2. Title IX investigations are
gender equity investigations, with federal law
requiring equal opportunity in sports programs to
both male and female athletes.
Specifically, the report alleges that Perry High
School violated Title IX in three of five areas:
effective accommodation of student interests and
abilities, scheduling of games and practice time
and opportunity to receive coaching, assignment
and compensation of coaches.
In two areas, provision of equipment and
supplies and provision of locker rooms, practice
and competitive facilities, the federal board found
that Perry High School was not violating the
law.
However, the report did say that there were
problems with the softball team's equipment at
the start of the 1993 season. "Although the re
quired equipment for the softball team was
determined to be inadequate at the start of the
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Perry High School coach John Stephens watches his players perform stretching
drills on the first day of practice.
Hornets
welcome 42
players
By VETO F. ROLEY
Sports Editor
The Westfield Hornets created
huge expectations for 1994 when
they finished as state runnerups in
football. However, graduation left
gapping holes in the Hornet pro
gram, as 13 of the 24 players used
by Ronnie Jones were lost to grad
uation.
But winning has brought out the
numbers for the Hornets, as Jones
welcomed 42 players back to camp.
And those 42 players, said Jones,
would get to compete for a lot of
jobs with the 1994 Hornets. The
offense only returns a starting half
back, tightend and guard. On the de
fensive side, only a linebacker and
defensive end return for the Hornets.
"We didn't expect that many kids
to come out," said Jones, who said
that he was having to order equip
ment for the the team. "It (lack of
equipment) is a good problem to
have."
Some notes
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Journeyman pitcher Kenny
Rogers pitched the first perfect
game by a lefty in the American
League, hurling his no-no against
the California Angels.
Impress your friends with these
notes about perfect games. Mike
Witt of the Angels was the last
pitcher in the American League to
throw a perfect game. His victim,
the Texas Rangers of Rogers.
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softball season, the (Houston County School)
District has ordered and/or purchased the
appropriate equipment for the team to being the
1994-95 season," states the report. "We
determined, therefore, that equivalent equipment
and supplies are being provided to female athletes
at PHS as required by the regulation
implementing Title IX.”
The report found the Perry High School offers
seven sports for male athletes (baseball,
basketball, football, wrestling, track, cross
country and tennis), five sports for female
athletes (softball, basketball, track, cross country
and tennis) and two co-ed sports (golf and soccer).
The report found that 168 of the 448 male
students at Perry High School participated in
sports, while only 83 of the 421 female students
participated in sports at the school.
The study also found that many of the female
students "indicated that they were interested in
volleyball," and that the Panthers did not have a
volleyball program.
"OCR determined, therefore, that the interests
and abilities of female students are not being
fully and effectively accommodated at PHS,"
reads the report
"Although the equivalent competitive
opportunities are available to female students, we
found that interscholastic participation oppor
tunities are not provided to female students in
proportion to their respective enrollments, the
school could not demonstrate a history and/or
practice of expansion which is responsive to the
interests and abilities of female students, and the
school has not fully and effectively
accommodated the interests and abilities of
female students.
"In order to correct the violation, the District
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Members of the Westfield offensive line walk through blocking assignments, while
assistant coach Jim Massey observes.
Although the Hornets are start
ing over, they have to get ready in a
hurry, as they play their first game
before the end of the month, open
ing the season in Macon against
Mt. de Sales.
The start of school also poses
about past pitching perfection
Only pitcher nas thrown a per
fect game and won over 300 games.
Cy Young, who leads the victory
chart with 511 wins, threw his on
May 5, 1904, against the Philadel
phia A's.
Counting Young, only three
pitchers with 200 or more wins
have thrown perfect games. They
were Jim Bunning and Catfish
Hunter. Bunning and Hunter won
224 games each.
Six perfect games belong to
pitchers who won less than 100
games in their career. Charlie
Robertson, who played in 1919,
1922-28, won only 49 games over
his career, and is the perfect game
pitcher with the fewest major
league wins. j
-Wednesday,August3,l994, "Houston Times- Journal
some problems for Jones and his
staff, with schools starting on Aug.
18. When school starts, the team
will be limited to one practice time
a day.
Jones said that there was not
enough time to accomplish what he
wanted to accomplish, but that
Harvey Haddix is the only
pitcher to lose a perfect game.
Pitching against the Milwaukee
Braves for the Pittsburgh Pirates,
Haddix was perfect through 12 in-
Kennedy takes pitching champ
By PAUL FELTY
Special to the HTJ
The Perry Horseshoe Pitchers
Club concluded the spring/summer
league competition recently with a
tournament at the Georgia National
Fair and Agricenter.
Joanne Kennedy pitched her way
into first place in the tournament.
Jerome Kennedy finished second,
and Pat Kovak placed third in the
has agreed to conduct a survey of interests and
abilities at PHS by Sept. 15, 1994. Where in
terest is expressed by a sufficient number of
female students, a team for female students will
be added at PHS.”
The report also found problems in the
numbers of games scheduled for female athletes,
primarily in the softball and cross country
events.
In 1993, the report found that the baseball
team played 18 games, while the softball team
played only 10 games. The men's cross country
team ran in eight events, while the women's
team ran in five events.
"We determined, therefore, that the number of
competitive events for males and females were
not equivalent," said the report.
"In order to correct the above violation, the
District agreed to increase the number of
competitive events for the female softball and
cross country teams to ensure that these teams
have comparable competitive events."
In coaches, the report found no significant
difference in the head coaches and supplements of
the men's and women's programs. However, the
study did find problems with the availability of
assistant coaches.
"During interviews," reads the report, "we
found that the availability of coaching personnel
for practices and the availability of assistant
coaches not comparable for female athletes."
One of the problems the report found was the
tennis coach having no assistant coach. As a
result, he had his wife helping with the latter part
of the women's team's practice, while he attended
the men's team's practice. The women's team
practiced from 4-6 p.m., while the men’s team
Please see Title IX, page 7A
Young to
appear at
Lake Sinclair
yacht club
Nationally known sailing expert
Claiborne Young will be at the
Oconee Sailing and Yacht Club on
Lake Sinclair Aug. 6 at 7 p.m. He
will speak on "Cruising on the
Western Florida Coast.
Young is a native of North
Carolina, and is the author of five
cruising guides, including Cruising
Guide to Costal South Carolina and
Georgia. "If I don’t personally see
it," said Young, "I don't write about
it."
Young's talk at Lake Sinclair is
being sponsored in part by the Lake
Juliette Sailing Club of Warner
Robins.
"you take what you got.”
The Hornets will be making up
some time next week when they go
into a football camp on campus.
During the camp, Westfield will
practice three times a day to get
ready for the opening day.
nings. However, his team was un
able to get on the scoreboard.
In the 13th, things fell apart for
the Kitten. Felix Mantilla reached
Please see Roley, page 7A
day long event, said Perkins Jenk
ins, director of the league.
Jenkins said that preliminary
competition was divided into three
classes. Those advancing to the fi
nals were "A" Class winner Kovak
and Jenkins. "B” Class winner was
Joanne Kennedy and Jerome
Kennedy finished second. Mathew
Felty won "C” Class, and Davis
Cosey finished second.
