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NOW GET IT RIGHT THIS TIME - Perry Coach Carl
Thomas shouts instructions to O'Shuana Whitehurst dur
ing the Perry-Americus game last weekend.
Harvey leads Panthers
past Americus, 84-62
By PHIL CLARK
Times-Joumal Sports
Junior center Daniel Harvey
scored 12 of Perry’s first 17 points
in the first quarter Jan 25 to hand
Perry an early lead it never let go
of in avenging an earlier defeat at
the hands of the Americus
Panthers.
After scoring 19 in the first
quarter, the Panthers scored 20 or.
more in each of the last three in
coasting to the 84-62 victory over
the team that had beaten them by
one point eight days earlier.
Harvey, who finished the game
with 28 points, scored repeatedly
on his soft, 10-foot jumper. By
halftime. Perry had forged ahead
by 19, and led 41-22, using a bal
anced attack that saw six different
Panthers score points.
Americus came out after half
time and exploded for 24 third
quarter points to cut into Perry’s
lead, though just slightly, as
Alonzo Jackson scored 10 of his
Lady Panthers grab non
region win over Americus
By PHIL CLARK
rimes-Journal Sports
For the second time in eight
days, Max Vickers’ Perry Lady
Panthers beat the Americus
Panthers in a non-region basket
ball game Jan 25 in Americus.
Perry overcame a sluggish start
to built up a 28-21 halftime lead
and went on to win the game 64-
57.
Theseia Edmunds, who scored
21 in the first meeting between the
two teams of Panthers, did not
start the game, and scored eight of
her 10 points in the last quarter as
Americus closed an 11-point
Perry lead to just seven.
SkyHa Barthell, held to 4 points
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WRESTLER Eric Gaston wrestles with an opponent during the annual Perry
Invitational Wrestling Tournament last weekend at Perry High. The host Panthers fin
ished 1 Oth in the tournament out of 24 teams.
team-high 12 points in the third.
Harvey, with nine and brother
Dannorris Harvey with seven
helped Perry match Americus
almost basket-for-basket in the
quarter.
In the fourth, with Americus
forced to foul to stop th* clock,
Perry put up 22 more points to
gain the 22-point margin of victo
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It could have been more, too,
but the Perry Panthers misfired on
16 free throw attempts in the
fourth quarter.
Daniel Harvey scored 28,
Dannorris Harvey 13, Reggie
Clark 12 and Johnny Watkins 10
for the Panthers, while Jackson
had 12, Derrick Simmons and
Fabian Walker 11 each for
Americus.
Perry will meet Dodge County
Jan 31 at the Eric P. Staples gym
nasium in a region 3-AA South
encounter. Dodge won the first
meeting 65-62 in overtime.
in the first half by the Perry
defense, scored 13 of her team
high 17 after intermission.
With Americus leading 6-2 just
2:40 into the game, coach Max
Vickers substituted an entire
squad to try and spark his team.
The reserves then outscored
Americus 14-7 to take a 16-13
lead after one quarter.
Eugenia Radford, who did not
start the game for Perry, and
Krystal Lester sparked a 33-point
effort off the bench for the Lady
Panthers with Lester taking team
honors with her 15 points.
Radford and Shanequia Howard
each scored 11 and April Fendley
scored 9.
PAGE 6A
Wed. Jan. 29, 1997
Westfield
sweeps pair
from Windsor
By PHIL CLARK
Times-Journal Sports
The Westfield basketball teams
each improved to 6-5 on the sea
son Jan 21 as they swept both
games from the visiting Windsor
Knights.
The Lady Hornets hit 16 of 20
from the foul line in their 62-50
victory, which pleased coach
Billy Sellers.
“We’ve been hitting just under
50 percent for the season, and it’s
good to see us step up and knock
some down like that,” Sellers said.
Stephanie Barr hit nine of her
team-high 21 points in the first
quarter, leading Westfield to an
18-12 advantage.
Mary Katherine Walker hit a
three-point basket in each of the first
three quarters on the way to a 15-
point night, and Laura Posey added
11, eight of them in the first half.
Claire Hart continued her
excellent backboard work, pulling
down 12 rebounds and chipping
in with nine points. Westfield had
to hold off a second half Windsor
charge led by Paige Hencley, who
scored 16 of her game high 24
points in the last half.
Westfield’s defense shut down
the rest of the team to pick up
their first region 1-AAA win. It
was, in fact, the region opener for
both teams.
In the nightcap, Jim Massey’s
Hornets did everything right in
building up a 41-18 halftime lead
over the visiting Knights. After
gaining a 15-6 first quarter advan
tage, Westfield erupted for 26 points
in the second quarter on the way to
a 67-50 region 1-AAA victory.
The Hornets had four players in
double figures, though reserves
played the best part of the second half.
Brian Hartley, who continues
to impress in his starter’s role, led
the team with 19, while Chip
Davis had 13, Trey Wilder 12 and
Ben Hulbert 10. Hartley and
Wilder each scored 12 points in
the first half.
Tony Pirozzi had a game-high
21 points as he scored 14 in the
second half for the Knights.
MDS pounds Hornets
By PHIL CLARK
Times-Journal Sports
The Mount de Sales Cavaliers
finished off a rough weekend in
Macon for the Westfield Hornets,
taking a 77-59 non-region win Jan
25 as Dione Cooper and Toby
Leslie each scored 21 points.
The Cavaliers (13-2) had taken
a 37-27 lead at halftime before
outscoring the Hornets 40-22 over
the final two quarters.
Brian Hartley did all he could
to keep the Hornets in the game,
scoring a career-high 32 points.
But Hartley was the only Hornet
to solve the Cavaliers’ defense as
he accounted for more than half
his team’s total. The Hornets
dropped to 6-7 for the year.
The Lady Hornets, after letting
a game slip through their hands a
night earlier at FPD, battled from a
22-13 halftime deficit to challenge
the 9-7 Lady Cavs in the last half.
But the effort came up just
short as Mount de Sales took a 45-
41 non-region victory. Westfield
(6-7) got 11 points each from
Claire Hart and Mary Katherine
Walker.
Westfield will play a region 1-
AAA game Jan 31 at Windsor, and
a non-region game Feb. 1 at
Fullington.
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LOOKING AHEAD - Westfield Hornet JR Moore (11)
drives to the basket in action against FPD last week.
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FIGHTING FOR TWO Claire Hart (15) wrestles for the
ball against FPD last week. Watching is Laura Posey (5).
Vikings take early lead, down Westfield
By PHIL CLARK
Times-Journal Sports
Down on the farm, out behind
the bam, they would have called
this a ‘whupping’. That’s a step or
two past a whipping! And that’s
what the First Presbyterian
Vikings did to Westfield Jan 24 at
FPD, bolting to a 24-11 first quar
ter lead, then never looking back
as they took a region 1-AAA victo
ry 73-45.
The usually animated and vocal
coach Jim Massey could only sit
in his chair along the sidelines and
watch the second half as his
troops could do little right against
the homestanding Vikings.
With Mack Lloyd and Jantzen
Gianfrancesco bombing from the
outside and big Miller Hambrick
handling the inside, the Vikings
took a 17-point lead at halftime,
40-23.
FPD snatches win from Lady Hornets
By PHIL CLARK
Times-Journal Sports
In one of those close, nail-bit
ing games that has to leave some
body disappointed, the First
Presbyterian Lady Vikings
outscored Westfield 12-5 in the
last quarter Jan 24 to pull out a
tough 40-36 victory over
Westfield in a region 1-AAA
matchup at FPD.
Mary Katherine Walker had
wasted little time in giving
Westfield the lead, canning a
three-pointer just 24 seconds into
the game. The Lady Hornets went
Houston Times-Journal
Gianfrancesco had four three
pointers for the night, his only
baskets, while Lloyd hit two early
treys in the first quarter then was
silent the rest of the night.
Hambrick played a steady
game inside, and had accumulated
his game-high 22 points by the
end of the third quarter.
Meanwhile, Ben Hulbert was
about the only Hornet who could
get the ball to go into the basket,
as the senior guard scored four
three-pointers and a total of 16
points.
No other Hornet was able to
score more than six points as the
Vikings dominated the game on
the backboards. With both teams
turning it over to the reserves in
the last quarter, Ron Marshall hit a
couple of three-pointers for
Westfield. In all, 20 players scored
points in the game.
on to take a 10-6 first quarter lead
and held it, except for a brief lb
-14 FPD lead in the second quarter,
until Dana Lyles tied the game at
32-32 with 6:17 left to play.
From that point on, though,
FPD outscored Westfield 8-4
down the stretch to pull out the
victory.
After the tie, Westfield eased
back ahead on a basket by Walker
before Beth Wilson again tied the
game with 2:00 left. After a Jenna
Girardeau steal and a Westfield
(See FPD, Page 7A)
Phil
Clark
Times-Journal
Sports
Twelve in a
row for NFC
The National Football
Conference domination of the
Super Bowl continues. In the
spectacle at the New Orleans
Superdome Jan 26, the NFC
champion Green Bay Packers
used big plays to subdue a deter
mined New England Patriots
team 35-21 for the NFC’s 12th
win in a row and 15th in the last
16 Super Bowls.
The last AFC team to win was
the 1984 Los Angeles Raiders.
In fact, the Raiders have taken
the AFC’s last two wins, and
before that, Pittsburgh had a
couple of wins in a row on two
different occasions.
But for the past 16 years, it’s
been all NFC. Credit New
England, though. They came
with a plan, and they played the
Packers tough all day. Take
away the two big scoring strikes
and the Desmond Howard back
breaking kick return for a touch
down, and New England han
dled the Pack pretty well.
Of course, you have to play
the whole game. But aside from
Brett Favre’s two scoring
strikes, New England had held
the Packers to just 188 yards in
total offense on 66 plays.
But the big plays! Ah, they’re
so much a part of the game,
aren’t they? 1991 Heisman tro
phy winner Desmond Howard
became the first special teams
player to win the game’s Most
Valuable Player award. It’s just
the sixth time than a non-offen
sive player won the award.
Dallas comerback Larry Brown
was a surprise winner last year.
This year, there were many
candidates. Certainly Howard
deserves it. His 99-yard touch
down on a kickoff return came
just seconds after the Pats had
closed the score to 27-21 and
had apparently gained a momen
tum swing. But the return did it
for the Packers.
Reggie White would have
been a good choice, too. He led
the Packers’ defense with three
sacks, and is also the inspira
tional leader of the team.
Quarterback Brett Favre could
have won it, too. He made few
mistakes, hit the big play when it
counted, and ran the Packers’
well-rounded offense to near
perfection.
There were a few Super Bowl
records broken. Howard’s kick
off return of 99 yards broke
Fulton Walker’s record of 98.
(The record had been tied by San
Diego’s Andre Coleman two
years ago). White’s three sacks
broke the old record of two (this
record has been kept since 1982,
and 10 different players have
recorded two each). The 81-yard
touchdown pass from Favre to
Antonio Freeman is the longest
play from scrimmage in Super
Bowl history.
New England would probably
rather play the game someplace
other than the New Orleans
Superdome. They’ve appeared
in the game twice, both times in
the Superdome, and they’ve lost
both times. Maybe it’s the date,
and not the place. Both times,
the game was played on Jan. 26.
•••
In the midst of all the Super
Bowl coverage, the Senior skins
game was also on television. Lee
Trevino was playing in the
match because Arnold Palmer
had to withdraw.
Palmer, as most of you know,
was diagnosed a few weeks ago
as having prostate cancer. He,
and his doctors, decided to do
surgery immediately. The
surgery was successful, and
Palmer, who was interviewed
during the Skins game, said he is
feeling fine, that he will play
competitive golf again.
He did say, though, that his
doctors have put a no-no on any
thing but his putter until the first
of March. But that would be
remarkable in itself, that he
could begin to swing his clubs
again by March.
The native of Latrobe, Pa is
the most admired golfer of all
time. You just havd-to watch a
(See ARMY, Page 7A)
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