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Hook kids on fishing—8A Sports Phil Clark Clark looks at the weekend's games After last week’s GISA openers and the triple header at the Georgia Dome highlighted high school football, there’s a full schedule of games this week with just about every area school in action. Let’s take a look at some of those games. Southwest Macon at Upson Lee. Southwest has a new coach in Bill Boyd, who formerly was head coach at Baldwin but most recently an assistant at Southeast Macon. Boyd will try to turn around the football fortunes at Southwest, a team that was 0-10 last year. His task won’t begin easy, though. He takes his team to Thomaston to play pre season number one, Upson-Lee, a 25-0 winner over defending state champion Dunwoody Saturday night in the Georgia Dome. Upson- Lee will be too big, too quick and too tough. Phil’s pick, Upson-Lee. Washington County at Baldwin. Pre-season Double-A number one Washington County boasts one of the top college prospects in the State in tackle Jeremy Brett, a big 300-pounder with a 3.75 GPA and a 1,010 SAT score. Baldwin County made the playoffs last year in 2- AAAA, so this should be a good game, despite the mismatch in classification. Rick Tomberlin at Washington County is one of the best young coaches in the state. He should find a way for his Hawks to win. Phil’s pick, Washington County. Northside at Griffin. Talk about two old war-horses at the head coaching positions. Conrad Nix is back for his second stint at Northside and Lloyd Bohannon has been a Griffin seemingly forever and has always had outstanding teams. He should. His is the only high school in the county. Northside has some outstanding athletes, and Griffin has not been up to their usual standards in the past couple of years. Though Griffin is at home, Phil’s pick is Northside. Peach County at Houston County. A solid Peach County program against upstart Houston County in another classification mis-match. Three-A Peach County will be directed by a new coach, Rodney Walker, while Houston County is piloted by one of the outstanding young coaches in the state in Doug Johnson. Both teams lost a lot of fine players, both teams have some good ones coming back. Peach County probably has too many good athletes for Houston to handle, but look out for an ambush. Phil’s pick, Peach County. Coffee County at Fitzgerald. I use this game because both schools will have new coaches, for different reasons. Long-time Coffee coach Bonwell Royal retired and Charlie Winslette left state Double-A champion Greene-Taliaferro to take the job. Winslette also won a state championship at West Rome, so the choice by Coffee County was a sound one. Bob Herndon was not rehired at Fitzgerald after a walkout by black players last year. Mark Daniels replaces him. By the way, Herndon got the head coaching job at Forsyth Central. This game shouldn’t be close as Coffee’s always-tough defense will be too much for the Purple Hurricanes. Phil’s pick, Coffee. Tattnall Square at Westfield. Both teams won openers last week, by almost the same score as Tattnall beat FPD 20-3, Westfield won over Mount de Sales 20-7. When these two teams get together, it’s a good football game. Westfield won at Tattnall last year in a monsoon. The weather will be fine this week, so will the game. Phil’s pick, Westfield. Here’s Phil’s list of other picks. Perry uses its size to beat Jordan. Macon County’s wishbone offense gets another win for C.B. Cornett, who’s 39-1 in regular season games in his four years at Macon County. His Bulldogs should handle Tri County. FPD rebounds from Tattnall loss to beat Monroe. Stratford will handle Deerfield and Please see Clark, page 9A Westfield lances Mt. de Sales 20-7 f Matt Shop ley Is off and running on a 99 yard punt return for a touchdown. The only thing In front of him Is the goal line. S&E takes Rozar tourney By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor S&E took the the Parks and Recreation softball tournament Aug. 21, but only after holding off a late Lanier Clothing rally. Behind two hits by Tim Vickers, S&E jumped off to a quick 8-2 lead through three innings. Lanier would add one in the fourth and one in the fifth. Deal Odom had the big hit in the fourth with a solo shot over the left field fence as Lanier battled back to 8-4. Seeing their lead dwindling away, S&E surged back in the sixth with five runs to make the score 13-4. The big hit of the inning came with two-outs, with Brett Hardy clearing the bases with a triple. But, Lanier, who won the regu lar season title, would not give up Stan Gann finishes 20th in By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor Perry High School golf ace Stan Gann continued his summer tour of Southern golf courses, finishing 20th late last week at the P.G.A. Junior Championships at West Palm Beach, Fla., 27 strokes off the pace set by California golfer Joel Kribal. After the second day of the tour nament, Gann was m striking dis tance of first with an eighth place showing on the leader board. However, inconsistent play hurt him over the last two days of the Perry opens with young Jordan team this Friday By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor The Jordan team that defeated Perry High 13-0 has moved away. Jordan coach Randy Bishop said that eight players, who went both ways, were no longer with the team due to either graduation or moving from the area. Only two starters from last year return for the 1994 campaign, said Bishop. Mike Alakamovitch will go at defensive end and offensive guard, while Phillip Parham will line up at offensive tackle and out side linebacker. Even though he lost a lot of players from last year’s team, Bishop said that his team's strength lay in its skill position, particularly at runningback, which will run be hind a good size line. Doobie Walker and Nick Jackson will do most of the ball handling for Jordan. Bishop said that they were small, with good speed. While Bishop will feature the run, the pass will not be forgotten. Jordan should test the Panther sec ondary, as Bishop said he would put the ball in the air approximately 40 percent of the time. Pulling the trigger for the Jordan 1 will be junior Ivan Martinez. Martinez received a good amount of snaps last year as the second suing quarterback and while leading the easily. Six consecutive Lanier bat ters went to the plate in the Lanier seventh, scoring four runs. However, S&E settled down, getting the final three outs in order. Lanier 14, S&E 12 The championship game was not the first time that night the two teams had met. In order to win the tournament, Lanier, coming up from the "losers" bracket would have to sweep a double header from S&E. And, they won the first matchup. At first it looked like* Lanier would be able to cakewalk to the win. Owen, Mack Passmore and Tyrone Passmore connected for homers in the first inning as Lanier staked out the 5-1 early advantage. Two runs in the second and three runs in the fourth saw the regular season champions extend their lead tournament, with Gann finishing the 72 hole event with a score of 301, 13 over par. ”1 wasn't real happy with the last two days," said Gann. Gann shot a 72 the first day, a 73 the second day, and a pair of 78s on the final two days of the tour nament. Gann said the course at the P.G.A. National was one of the toughest courses he bad played. "There was a lake on every hole," said Gann, who added that the greens were tight. "There were a lot junior varsity squad. Defensively, Bishop said that Jordan played with multiple fronts. "We are not talented enough to line up in one formation," he said. Look for noseguard Corey Henderson to anchor the defensive line. Panther Coach John Stephens said it was hard to read what Jordan was going to do this early in the season. He said that while Jordan liked to give the ball to its backs, they also liked to stretch a defense. "We can't do crazy things," said Stephens. "We've got to maintain the ball, and we can't give up the big play." Stephens said his team was ready to start hitting other teams. "It's like dating your cousin," Stephens said of fall practice. "They want somebody they haven't seen before. They are tired of each other. It gets tired. "They are ready to hit somebody else." Perry is coming off a good sec ond half of the season, despite los ing to Dodge County in the first round of the playoffs last year. After starting the season 1-4, the Panthers reached down and won their next five games. ”1 definitely think that is going to be a factor;" said Stephens. Please see Panthera, page 9A Wednesday Aug. 31,1994 7a to 10-3. But, faced with the prospect of playing till midnight, S&E stormed back into contention. A seventh run sixth inning, highlighted by Vickers three run homer, put S&E back in the game, and threatened Lanier with the early exit. Lanier responded in the bottom of the sixth, scoring three more runs. Adkinson's two run single pushed the Lanier lead to 14-9. But S&E wasn't finished. The car dealers weren't finished, scoring three runs with two out in the in ning. However, the late inning push fell short, with Lanier forcing the midnight championship game. Lanier 9, Sonshine 6 Third place game featured Lanier, which had been bounced from the winners bracket by S&E the previ- Please see Softball, page 8A of greens surrounded by water." Over 50 junior golfers from around the United States made the trip to Florida to participate in the tournament. "I learned that there were a lot better golfers around the United States than I knew of," said Gann. Panthers take first region win By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor One day after losing to Peach County, the Perry Panthers returned to their winning ways defeating re gion opponent Houston County 10- 7. In winning, the Panthers sur vived 12 walks, two errors and four hits. In the first two games of the season, a win against Jordan and a 7-5 loss to Peach County, the Panthers fell behind early, allowing their opponents several extra outs. However, the first inning against the Bears saw a different story, as Robin Griffen and her defense didn't allow a run until two were out in the third inning. While the Panthers were keeping -pmpvhii ________ -■■■ HHI v IjHuß ly X , 11 -/3 lj- m Bfc SE £ Amber Fendley scoots down the line as Perry assistant softball coach Carl Thomas shows fast movement to avoid the errant throw from third. Dove huntin' in old days—BA Houston Times-Journal By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor There were a lot of questions that needed to be answered by Coach Ronnie Jones and his coach ing staff when the Hornets took to the field to open the 1994 season against Mt. de Sales. Many of the questions Jones had about his team were answered with a resounding 20-7 win over the Cavaliers. Last year, Jones took his team of 24 players to the state champi onship game. Last year, he also saw 13 of those players walk away with their diplomas on graduation night. A flood of players answered Jones' call for football, giving him a deep roster of over 40 players. However, most of those players en tered the 1994 season untested. "I thought the defense did a super job,” said Jones, where he had only one returning starter, Jere Campbell. Tim Allen led the defense with six stops on the night, which turned in a team effort. Jones said that six or seven players had four to-five tackles. "The whole defense :3a m Allen Robenson, of Sonshine, makes a play on the ball against Comfort Inn during Thursday's games before the rains fell. national links play Gann said the competition was the toughest he has faced this year, "by far." "I didn't really know any body there. I thought I had a good chance to place in the top 15-to -20.” The summer of golf has been "kind of hot and cold," said Gann. the Bears off home plate, they were doing some serious early inning damage, scoring four runs in the first inning. Kristen Shipes, Shanetina Gilbert and Amber Fendley all sin gled to load the bases, starting the inning. Mamie Mills then ripped a double to left, scoring Shipes and Gilbert. Fendley scored on Stephanie Andel's grounder to sec ond. Marina Culley got the final hit of the inning, driving Mills home with a single to left. "We came out and hit the ball much better than we did our first two games," said Panther coach Kelly Britsky. "We got our first three or four batters on. "We played fairly clean defense,” Britsky continued. "We didn't make Hornets Mt. de Sales FD 9 7 R-Yds 33-192 32-118 PC/PA/PI 2-6-1 7-13-0 Pass Yds 4 0 91 Total Yds 232 209 Turnovers 3 0 Punts 4-20.3 8-31.8 Penalties 6-57 5-25 Possession 19:36 28:24 is going to the football," said Jones. "One offense, we did a lot of good things," said Jones. "But, we made some mistakes that hurt us." The Hornet offense would com mit three turnovers, and Jones said there were several missed blocks on the night. He added that he expected mistakes on the offense coming in because of the experience factor. "We were much better on offense than I expected it to be," he said. "Matt Shepley (Homet quarter back) did a tremendous job,” said Jones. "All the passes that he threw were right on target." Shepley threw five passes, completed two for 40 yards and had one pass picked Please see Hornets, page 9A "I play real good, and then I have a mediocre round." In addition to his top 20 finish, Gann has taken home the top tro phy from at least four other tour naments, winning the Georgia Junior P.G.A., the Griffen Classic, the Ron Stafford Jr. Invitational and the P.G.A. Sectional in Columbus. many mistakes. "Our first goal was not to let anybody score in the first inning. In the first inning, we have been killed the last two games. "The confidence is building. The main goal is to get confidence up. You are not going to win unless you believe you can win. "We are beginning to realize that we can win every game that we play." Up 4-2, the Panthers got several insurance runs in the fifth and sixth innings. In the fifth, April Fendley started the inning with a double to left-cen ter. After a pop-fly single by Shipes, Gilbert doubled to center to plate Fendley. Amber Fendley then tapped to Please see Win, page 9A