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Panther appreciation
day to be held Saturday
The Perry Panther Booster Club will hold Panther Appreciation day
on Saturday, Sept. 24. The event will start at 10 a.m. and last until 2
p.m.
Already some events are going on, with the cheerleaders selling rib
slabs. Cheerleader coach Elaine Stephens said the ribs can be bought
from any cheerleader, cheerleader parent or from the school. Cost for the
ribs is sll per slab.
Included in Saturday's festivities will be a fastball toss sponsored by
the football team, a three point contest in gym sponsored by the bas
ketball team, a dunking booth, a closest to the pin contest and a go
fishing contest.
Cheerleaders will also have face painting for the kids.
Tommy Tunes will be on hand with a car stereo competition, while
Rebel Rod Custom Automobiles will be on hand for an auto show.
For the thrifty, the booster club will be having an athletic yard sale
on die gym porch.
Also, popcorn and cokes, corn dogs, hot dogs and boiled peanuts
will be available. There will also be a bake sale.
Perry High School Booster Club president Paul Hicks said diat all
proceeds will from the day will go to support the teams at Perry High
School.
Clark looks at
the weekend's
games
My old high school coach, the
late Bill Martin, used to say there's
no such thing as an upset. I sure
would like to talk to him about a
couple of games played this past
weekend in the GHSA!
He always thought the best team
won on a given night. The best
teams on a given night. Forest Park
and Baldwin County, cost me a
couple of misses in last week's
picks. Forest Park, fresh off a win
over then-number seven Parkview a
week earlier, took it to the number
one team in the state, Upson-Lee,
with an impressive 24-7 win as they
took advantage of seven turnovers.
Upson Lee fumbled the ball nine
times, losing five of them, and
threw two interceptions as they suf
fered their first loss of the year, a
loss that will cost them the top
ranking in the AP weekly poll as
well as their number six national
ranking by USA Today.
Then Baldwin County won over
Warner Robins for lire first time
since a 15-13 win back in 1988,
winning at Warner Robins 7-6
Friday night on a late touchdown. A
miscalculation in a schedule cost
me another miss and our third week
produced a 7-3 mark, moving the
season total to 24-6. Coffee County
will host Thomas County Central
this week, not hist.
That having been written, let's
jump on in there and try this pick
ing business again. Baldwin County
traditionally has belter luck against
Northside than against Warner
Robins. Fresh on the heels of that 7-
6 win over die Demons, the Braves
get set to host Northside Friday
night. The Eagles are now 2-0 un
der Conrad Nix while Bill Young's
Braves me 2-1. This is usually a
high scoring game, and could be
another one this year, though the
Braves have given up just 13 points
in two games after a season-open
ing blowout loss to Washington
County. I like the Eagles under Nix,
so Phil's pick is Northside. Warner
Robins will be on llie road for the
third time in four games as diey
travel to Bulter Augusta. The
Demons have not lost on the road,
and won't begin this week. Look tor
a resounding Demons victory. Phil's
pick, Warner Robins.
Another Quad-A game worth
keeping an eye on is the East
Coweta-Forest Park game. East
Coweta, like Upson Lee playing
just their third year in die GHSA's
top classification, made the playoffs
last year. They run an impressive
wing-T under Danny Cronic, and
could give Forest Park a lot of
trouble. Don’t expect Coweta to
Perry demolishes Pike County, scores 28 points in first quarter
By VETO F. ROLEY
Sports Editor
Ugly does not describe Pike County-Perry
High School game, a game which the
Panthers won easily 43-0 in a persistent rain
storm.
When Dexter Kendrick went over from six
yards out with 1:27 left to go in the first
quarter, the Pandicrs had mauled the Pirates
for the 28-0 lead.
Aldiough Perry would oirfy punch the ball
into the endzone two more times, the entire
game, except for a late drive by die Pirates,
was played on die Pike County side of the 50.
Perry, playing their second, third, etc. teams
for the rest of die game, would have numerous
opportunities to punch the ball into the
endzone. only to be stopped by a fumble on
die wet grass.
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turn the ball over to Forest Park like
Upson Lee last week. Coweta will
keep the ball a lot of the time, and
will deflate Forest Park's baloon
somewhat. Phil’s pick, East Coweta.
Two of the state's best in AAA
get together Friday night in
Sylvester when Peach County trav
els to Worth County. Peach is
ranked fourdi while Worth County
is seventh. Peach wiped out Class A
Dooly County Friday night while
Worth County enjoyed an open
date. They won't enjoy the game
Friday night, though. Phil's pick.
Peach County.
Macon County continues to im
press again this year, chalking up
their diird straight win over a class
AA opponent in a 7-0 blanking of a
good East Hall team Friday night.
They even move up a notch this
week as drey travel to class AAA
Lee County. The Trojans are a sur
prising 2-1 under new coach Joe
Burson. They's see their record
even out Friday night, though.
Phil's pick, Macon County.
Westfield at Westwood Saturday
night should be a pleasant trip for
Ronnie Jones' Hornets, who are 3-0
after a 35-20 win over John
Milledge Friday night. The trip
should produce career win number
149 for Ronnie Jones as the Hornets
appear too strong for the struggling
Wildcats. Jones is on target to get
his 150th career win next week in
Chula, but won’t take the Wildcats
lightly. Still, there's too much of
fense, plus a very sUong and stingy
defense. Phil's pick, Westfield.
Houston County's first region
2AAA game comes against one of
the best teams in die classification
in Mary Persons. It should be a
good game, but Phil's pick is Mary
Persons. Perry is open this week.
The Panthers are ded with Person,
V/est Laurens and Jackson. Laurens
and Jackson should have easy vic
tories this week, but either Persons
or Houston County will have their
first region loss, so the Panthers
cannot drop from the top four this
week. They’ll keep their eyes on the
Bleckley-Dodge County game,
where Phil's pick is Bleckley.
Mount de Sales is at FPD. The
Vikings are struggling, while the
Cavaliers come off a big win over
Windsor Though the game is at
FPD, Phil's pick is de Sides.
Dublin took a serious whipping
from Washington County Friday
night and try to rebound against-
Turetlen County. No problem.
Phil's pick, Dublin.
That'll do it for another week of
this madness. Let's hope the old
upset bug doesn't show up.
Perry Pike
FD 14 4
R-Yds 53-329 36-45
PC/PA/PI 4-8-0 2-4-0
Pass Yds 7 6 19
Total Yds 405 64
Turnovers N/A 4
Penalties 10-75 7-45
"It's good to win," said Perry coach John
Stephens, "but I don't know if we learned
anything from it.
"It (the game) was a gcxx) morale builder.
But, the question is what can you really
learn."
Stephens said that several things
contributed to the Panther's troubles in
hanging on to the ball alter the g;une got out
Hornets roll over John Milledge
By PHIL CLARK
Special to the HTJ
The John Milledge Trojans came
into the Hornets' Nest Friday night
with die third best rushing statistics
in the GISA, gaining nearly 250
yards a game on the ground through
their first three games. However,
the Hornets would stop die infantry,
winning 35-20.
They put that attack on display
early, using fullback J.T. Wall on a
time-consuming drive that used up
over six minutes of time before
Wall bolted over from die one yard
line for the first score of the game.
A successful two-point conver
sion put the Trojans up 8-0 before
many of die Westfield fans had set-
Ued into dicir seats. They did it widi
the fullback trap play that the
Hornets had trouble with in the
Tattnall game. But after die first
drive, Westfield dominated the
game until they went to backup per
sonnel in die fourdi quarter.
Westfield had gotten good news
earlier in the week when they
learned dial injured running back
Michael Davis would be available.
Coach Ronnie Jones and his staff
turned the swift senior loose early,
as Davis ripped off a 46-yard
Panthers win four of six during week
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Kastina Nolen lets loose a pitch against Sumter County
in the Macon County Invitational Tournament.
Hornets play tough, but lose four games
By VETO F. ROLEY
Sports Editor
The Westfield Hornets lost four
tough games to region opponents
last week. The losses drop the
Hornets to 4-9 on die year, and 1-9
overall.
In the first game Sept. 20
against FPD, it took the Vikings
two innings of extra play to beat
the Hornets. Tied at 10 in the top
of the ninth, Wood managed to
reach on a WesUleld error. The next
better singled Wood in for FPD's
11th run of the afternoon.
Bristol Sullivan walked with one
out in die bottom of the ninth to
give the Hornets a chance.
However, the next batter lined to
second, with Sullivan getting
caught off base as FPD made the
11-10 lead hold up.
Even diough die Vikings would
win the game, the early part be
longed to the 1 lornets.
Widi one out, Windy Biggers
and Mary Katherine Walker would
walk. Julee Fryer would follow,
slamming a triple to right, scoring
Biggers and Walker.
Jennifer Smith would follow
Wednesday
Sept 21,1994
6A
Hornets J.M.
First Downs 20 14
Rushing yards 301 196
Passing 3-7-0 11-23-2
Passing yards 52 80
Total Yards 353 276
Funibles-lost 4-4 2-2
Punts-Avg 3-38 5-33
touchdown run late in die first pe
riod, and after Matt Shepley tallied
a two point conversion, die game
was tied at 8-all.
Wesdleld's defense began to take
control of the game in die second
quarter and after holding the
Trojans deep in their own territory,
Westfield got a break on a short
John Milledge punt, and took pos
session of the ball at the Milledge
37-yard line. Six plays later, Tim
Allen bulled over from the four
yard line, and Westfield was ahead
to stay. Shepley had a 16-yard run
in the drive, and Alex Gamble
kicked the first of three extra
points, giving the Hornets a 15-8
lead, and from diere on, it was all
Westfield.
The Hornets completed just three
passes all night, but one them
Fryer with a rip to left for a single.
Stephanie Barr would reach on an
error. Following a fielder's choice,
Barr would score- on Jennifer
Stewart's single to left, making the
score 4-0 in favor of die I lornets.
After FPD would raid for diree
in die second and one in the third,
the Hornets countered with a five
run diird.
Barr started the Westfield third
with a double to left. One out later
Stewart walked. A walk to Sullivan
widi two outs loaded the bases,
widi die top of the order coming
up.
Claire Hart walked to bring Barr
across die plate. Biggers ripped a
single to center, putting Stewart
and Sullivan across the plate.
For the second time in die in
ning, the Vikings helped the
Hornets, booting Walker's
grounder, allowing Hart to cross the
plate. Biggers came across die plate
on Fryer's second extra-base knock
of the game, a double to center.
I lowever, the Hornets would not
be able to do anydiing else with the
Vikings, scoring only one run, in
die fifth, the remainder of die game.
of h;uid, including the wetness. He noted diat
die young kids were excited to get into a var
sity game, and it was hard to keep focus when
you are beating a team as badly as the
Pandicrs were beating Pike. "What are you
going to tell die kids at half-dme?"
"The best thing about it was that we got a
lot of people a chance to play," said Stephens.
The Pirate kickoff would go out-of-bounds
at the Panther 38. It would take Perry one
play to get the ball to the Pike County side of
die 50, where play woidd continue until late
in the fourth period of play.
On the first play from scrimmage,
Kiwaukee Thomas hit Corey Harvey for a 24
yard pass play to move die ball Pirate 38.
Keeping the ball in the air, the Panthers were
able to complete one pass for six yards before
two incomplete passes gave the ball to Pike
Andels fall just short—BA
Houston Times-Journal
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Westfield quarterback Matt Shepley is brought down by
a John Milledge player.
came on their last possession of the
first half. After John Morton scored
on a seven yard run to make it 22-8,
Shepley hit tight end Brian Nash on
a 26-yarder to cap a 66-yard drive
By VETO F. ROLEY
Sports Editor
The Perry Panthers have almost
competed their game-a-day month,
playing six times last week, win
ning four and losing two, bringing
their record to 14-8 on the season.
Key games in die week included
a 12-5 win against Bleckley County
on Thursday and a 14-8 whipping
of West Laurens on Monday. The
two region wins set up key
Wednesday and Thursday matchups
against region foes Houston
County and Dodge County.
The Indians are die only team in
the region to have beaten the
Panthers in a non-tournament
game, and are in first place. If die
Panthers get by the Bears on
Wednesday, Sept. 21, then the
game against Dodge will be for the
sub-region championship.
The Panthers were holding onto
a slim one run lead against the
Royals on Thursday before a six
run explosion in die top of the sev
enth gave Perry the win. Perry was
able to send 10 batters to the plate
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Stephanie Barr connects with a pitch during the first
game against Windsor Thursday afternoon.
With one out, Biggers singled to
left. One out later, Fryer reached on
Please see Hornets, page 7A
for their first possession of die game.
The Perry defense would quickly get die
ball back to die offense. The first two plays
for Pike County saw die Pirates lose 14 yards.
A short punt gave Perry die ball back at die
Pirate 25.
In the opening possession, the Panthers
went to die air. This possession, Stephens
decided to stick with his infantry attack.
Running the veer, Thomas kept the ball all
four times, scoring from die diree yard line.
Jason Brett added the PAT, giving the
Panthers die 7-0 lead widi 8:06 remaining in
die first qutirtcr.
Ezell was the leading ground gainer for the
Panthers, touching the ball nine times for 73
yards. Washington had 50 yards, Tabor 49
yards, Brewer 40 yards and Atavis Taylor 38
yards.
and give Westfield a commanding
29-8 lead at the half.
Coach Jones and the Hornet staff
were able to look at a lot of young-
Please see Westfield, page 7A
and score with die aid of two walks
and a Bleckley County error.
Down 4-2 early, the Panthers
came back in the bottom of the
diird.
With one out, Kristen Shipes
reached on an error. An out later,
Amber Fendley followed with a
single. Mamie Mills had a RBI
single to bring the Panthers to
within one. Kade McClintic rapped
to third to apparently end the in
ning. However, the Royal third
baseman misplayed die ball, allow
ing Fendley to cross die plate.
The game would remain knotted
until die fifdi inning. Shipes would
lead the inning off widi a single.
One out later, Fendley would reach
on an infield error.
Perry found itself in a hole after
the second out. However,
McClintic and Stephanie Andel
came Uirough widi RBI singles.
Perry 14, West Laurens 8
The Panthers would explode for
seven runs in die second to take an
11-1 lead over die Raiders, and then
Please see Panthers, page 7A
Punt, pass and kick
to be held Saturday
The Perry Parks and
Recreation Deparunent will hold
a punt, pass and kick
competition Saturday, Sept. 24,
at Rozar Park, starting at 9 a.in.
Competition will be for boys.
and girls ages 8-15. There will
be eight age groups, with each
group being the same age. Age
will be determined by as of Dec.
31, 1994.
There is no charge to
compete. Winners in each age
group will advance to sectional
competition.
Equipment for die punt, pass
and kick will be provided by die
rec department. No football
shoes/eleals/lurf shoes are
allowed. Only gym shoes (tennis
shoes) will be allowed. Also, no
bare feel.