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[Four generations of Tuggles—7A Sports 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. H Sports -1 writer | 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 - - »•#—■ —. -* - _ . . 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 ||lp^ 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 B/tBBMp* jf' ■ "ii■■»!»»■ / S MV /( 9 ,‘WrBF' : • / 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.