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1 Ol 1 fishing buddy celebrates—7A Sports What's in the future for grandchildren As people grow older they begin to think more and more of old times and to bore the younger generation with their memories. I think that this is a natural progression, as younger people are in the process of building memories and do not yet have a stock of stories to bore peo ple. Another trait of older people is their tendency to talk and brag about their grandchildren as evi denced by many of my articles. I often look at my Grandchildren and wonder what kind of world they will live in, and whether they will have the wonderful store of memo ries that my generation and older generations have. I'm thankful that I grew up in a slower paced time when values were so much different than they are now. There are so many attacks against our way of life and tradi tions and the American way of life seems to crumble with each passing day. I often wonder what the original Thomas Tuggle who I wrote about last week would think if he saw what was happening to our great land. I'm sure that he would be amazed to find that the ownership of a firearm was in jeopardy, and that people who own guns are looked at with suspicion by fnany people. Members of my family have traditionally been hunters, and I'm sure dial they would be astounded at the violent attacks against hunters by protectionist animal rights activists. Our own US Fish and Wildlife Service which has administered hunting on Federal lands is being changed. The current administration is getting rid of the pro-hunting members of the Wildlife Service and replacing them with non-hunt ing and anti-hunting individuals. Very few of the old timers who ad vocated the use of wildlife for hunt ing and food are left, and as the re maining few are phased out we will see an end to hunting on US public lands. What would this ancestor say if he knew dial our right to Freedom of Religion has been changed by our government to Freedom From Religion? A good example of this is the at tack by Macon politicians against the pastor of die Mable White Baptist Church because he had the courage to attack die current politi cal climate and die lack of morals in our government from his pulpit. If you do not believe dial these politicians need to be attacked, just look at the Clinton appointees, such as die Surgeon General who advo cates die legalization of drugs and teaching kindergarten children that die gay alternate lifestyle is good. 1 Ie has appointed a group of clowns to public office. Please see Tuggle, page 7A ; m : ^ v >.^'Pgj That's cheating! You're supposed to use a softball or baseball to give the person sitting in the booth a quick swim, not your hands. Perry cheerleader Diana Hughes gives fellow cheerleader Erin Prater a swim at the Panther Appreciation Day held Saturday. In addition to the dunking booth, pitchers find the speed of their pitches, cheerleaders were selling rib slabs, bargain hunters could shop the outdoor athletic yard sale among many other activities. Hornets dominate Wildcats 27-0 By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor The Wildcats had won four state championships in their history and four of the six games they had played with Westfield. But, history mattered little to the Hornets, as they wrote a completely new chapter the game between Westfield and Westwood, with Westfield whipping Westwood 27- 0. The Hornet infantry was work ing well Saturday night, turning the Westwood defense into Mildcats, piling up 391 yards on just 42 car ries. Only a Hornet propensity for major penalties allowed the Wildcat defense to escape with 27 points scored against it. The win was Ronnie Jones 149th career win, giving him the opportunity to for 150 wins against Tiftarea next Friday night. The Hornets go to 4-0 on the season. The game against Tiftarea will be played there, starting at 8 p.m. Tiftarea is located on Highway 41 just north of Tifton between Chula and Abac. The Tiftarea game will also be the last non-region game before Westfield opens the region schedule against Windsor Oct. 7. r v yrfv| ift K I Rr/ 'y, » I. f F V V IWfjAK ***** * "-‘v v. Members of the Perry infield gather on the mound Shown are (1-r) shortstop Marnie Mills, pitcher Shanetia Gilbert, firstbaseman Amber Fendley and Fighting Westfield drops doubleheader to Deerfield By PHIL CLARK Special to the HTJ If only Meredith Fordham had missed the team bus! The improving Westfield Lady Hornets softball team, showing steady improvement in recent games, took unbeaten Deerfield to the limit out at the Hornets' Nest last Thursday before dropping two close, one run decisions to the Lady Knights in a non-region double header. It took a home run off the bat of Wednesday Sept 28,1994 Hornets Westwood FD 13 g Possession 24:43 23:17 R-Yds 42-391 29-72 PC/PA/PI 3-5-0 6-9-0 Pass Yds 4 5 55 Total Yds 436 127 Turnovers 0 1 Penalties 9-106 4-30 In the game, Westfield commit ted five major distance penalties (over 10 yards), bringing back many key plays. In the opening drive, the Hornets set the tone of the game, ripping off two eight yard runs by Brian Staines. However, the Hornet drive soon stalled, forcing Westfield to punt. But, the Hornet defense quickly got the ball back for die offense. Taking die ball after die punt at their own 36, the Hornets drove steadily down the field to the Wildcat 14 on seven plays. An 18 yard run by Matt Shepley and a 16 yard rip by John Morton keyed the drive. It appeared the Westfield would get nothing out of the drive, as they began to go backwards on a holding Fordham to win the first game in extra innings, 13-12, after Westfield rallied to tie the game with five runs in the bottom of the seventh. With one out, Ashlee McCord, Mary Katherine Walker and Julee Fryer had back-to-back singles for one run. Then Deerfield threw die ball away on a grounder by Jennifer Smith, scoring Walker and putting runners at second and third, still with just one out. After the second out in the in ning, and the Lady Hornets still Taylor leads Perry cross country team to wins By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor The Panther cross country team under coach Carl Thomas continued their home dominance this past week, winning two meets at home. The Panthers have not lost a home meet at home in three years. And, Shon Taylor is the reason that the Panthers have been so strong this year. In the four meets that the Panthers have competed in, Taylor has finished first in three. Taylor opened the season win ning a dual meet at Northside in Warner Robins. At the Bleckley County meet two Saturdays ago, Taylor was ninth in a field of 96 runners, finishing just one minute behind the first place winner, Andrew Moore, who runs for Bleckley County. After losing a dual meet to Northside to open the year, and fin ishing fifth among 10 teams at the Bleckley meet, the Panthers domi nated Dodge County Thursday, tak 6A 20WI |v fj < "'~ — Tt' IHH JIBF ■ eS s | _ m7^ Hornet assistant coach Bert Brown fires up his team before the Westfield-Westwood game Saturday night. penalty and an illegal procedure penalty, putting diem on die 21. However, Michael Davis, who had missed two weeks with a sepa during the loss to Dodge County. Robin Griffin, second baseman catcher Katherine Blount. trailing by three, Wendy Biggers got a single to score Fryer and Smith, cutting the lead to one run. Laura Posey then doubled home Biggers to tie the score and put the potential winning run at second base. But then Halloween raised its head a month early! After Bristol Sullivan was inten tionally walked, Jennifer Stewart singled through die right side of die infield. But as Posey rounded diird, she and diird base coach Billy ing six of the top seven slots. In the Bleckley County meet, only two Panther runners cracked the top 20, Taylor and Kiwaukee Thomas. Thomas finished 17th. Only second place finisher Buddy McDaniel prevented a clean sweep by die Panthers, finishing the 2.95 mile course in just over 18 min utes, 42 seconds behind Taylor, who finished in 17:23. Two freshmen finished behind McDaniel to take third and fourth for the Panthers. Stephen Casas crossed he finish line in 18:27, while Brett Dorman finished in 19:03. Dorman just took fourth, finish ing just ahead of DeJuan Lewis and Rod Barnes, who had times of 19:04. Dallas Malone finished sixth for Thomas, crossing the line in 19:21. The women also had a good out ing Thursday for the Panthers, heat- Please see Panthers, page 7A Weekend football preview—7A rated shoulder, burst through die Wildcat defense for his first long run of the night, a 21 yard gallop for six. The extra point was Panthers lose, but make playoffs By VETO F. ROLEY Sports Editor With a chance to win the region on the line, die Pandier bats went dead against Houston County and Dodge County. In key region match-ups, the Panthers fell to the Bears 8-2 and the Indians 10-1. Despite the losses, the Panthers still made the region playoffs, fin ishing as the number two team in the region behind Dodge County with a 5-3 record. The Indians fin ished in first widi a 7-1 mark. The Pandiers will face Jackson in the first round of the region playoffs starting Wednesday. The first game will be played at Rozar Park on Wednesday, starting at 4 p.m. On Thursday, die series will move to Jackson, widi die teams playing a double header if needed. In die Houston County game, the Bears struck quickly with Mullikin striking a two run homer across the left-center fence. The Bears added two runs in die second, Seliars collided, knocking Posey off stride. By the time she was able to right herself, the ball had been re layed to die catcher, who tagged out the potential winning runner, send ing die game into extra innings. Fordham hit a towering drive over die left field fence in the top of die eighth, and die run stood up as Westfield was unable to score in their half of die inning, though they did get a couple of runners on base. Coach Sellers was to remark after die game, "everydiing that can m m Shon Taylor crosses the finish line at the Perrv-Dodae o° season" 66 * aft6rnoon Ml Houston Times-Journal blocked, making die score 6-0. On their next drive, the Hornets again had a chance to do some ma- Please see Hornets, page 7A one in the third and three in the fourth. Mullikin did most of die damage for Houston County, collecting three hits, including die dinger and a triple, and scoring two runs. The Panthers managed only six hits in the game, scoring both of their runs in die fifth, when they got four of those hits. Katherine Blount and Emily Madiis connected on RBI singles with two outs to drive in Stephanie Andel and Kastina Nolen. The Pandiers also collected only six hits against Dodge County. Perry scored one run in the bot tom of die first to take the early lead. With one out, Duren singled to center. Amber Fendley followed with a double to left to put runners at second and diird. Mamie Mills got die run home with a sac fly to left. Dodge would respond quickly with three in the second and four in the third to take control of the game. possibly happen to us this season has happened", referring to the in cident at third that probably cost his team a victory over the unbeaten Lady Knights. Deerfield scored their 13 runs on 20 base hits in the opener, while Westfield had 12 runs on 18 hits. Deerfield direatened in the top of the second inning of game two, with runners on first and second and one out, but Jennifer Stewart made perhaps the defensive play of Please see Westfield, page 7A