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SIGN UP TIME ~ Perry High gr um-VK. Me; .i O.iiey signs up for
a 4-year scholarship at Troy State University. Watching are (standing,
from left) parents Pmtl ana I>*r>- Hicks and G U johnny Barton of
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Her parents, Paul and Lucy Hicks
of Perry and PHS Golf Coacl :
Chief Master Sg: loh
watched the signing.
For the pasi t v.. years, Culies
won the low
title at the Georgia High School
Association Suite Championship
held at Bi
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ORCtfftS -- lorry Johnso:; >!.->; •• -. fcoislwvs v. with Morris
Johnson of tim Bombers in the Pmy Recreation 11*1.2 year-old
league. Morris Johnson hit a towering home run during the game.
Johnson hits bail out of Huckaby Field
Special to the Times-Journal
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Braves in the Pern R creation
Department 11 12 year-old hoys
baseball league a mighty boom
was seen and heard.
Morris Johnson stepped up to
the plate in • v >" f 'p,h inmne »*->.?•
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HE'S SAFE Dante Williams (sliding into third) is safe in Perry
Recreation League action. He is on the Bombers team. The unidenti
fied third baseman plays for the Expos.
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stop positions .she fettered lour
ears in hi ! - hon j softball. She
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the Most Lii. • ..i A i fete .a Perry
Hindi School, for 1990-1997.
Barton said of Colley, “She is a
hard worker at her game and has
the ability to stay focused. 1
grooved right 1 >wn the middle
Johnson ■■■..■. . ■ Jo; a Hast
that left liii a and landed deep
.eg;;- . .v; .fit fence in the
top of the pine trees. The fence
from home plate is 237 feet.
His shot must have been at
least 265 feet or more, according
to recreation officials.
Johnson is j» the record books
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Times-Journal Photos by Eric Zellars
OCHLEHATCHEE ALL
STAR ACTION Billy
obert (sliding, above) is
>afe at third base during the
Ochlahatchee All Star game
for 11-12 year olds. He is
smiling at Dusty Dent, a
member of the National
team. The American team
won 6-4 in the game played
June 26. Michael Drivey
(right photo) stands on first
and talks with his coach,
Mike Greathouse, while
Austin Griffin of the
National team watches. Top
players from the All Star
y. roe will be named to a
raveling team to represent
Ochlahatchee in the Dixie
Touth tournament at
Barnesville during July.
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HEADED TO TOURNEY Members of the 9-10 year-old All Star team from Ochlahatchee include
Shane Ashley, Mitchell Fowler, Mike Roberts, Bruce Vance, Bryon Duckworth, Matthew Waller, Joey
Greathouse, Jordy Stokes, Carsten Franklin, Philip Rice, William Gray, Daniel Poke and Josh
Davidson. Coaches are Mike Fowler, John Davidson and Sean Ashley. The tournament will be July
12-19 at Tolleson Field.
Y rr ekend tournament held at Perry Rec Center
Girls softball teams headed to post-season tournament at Warner Robins
Special to the Times-Journal
This weekend the tournament was held for the
boys baseball in the Perry Recreation League.
In all age groups this year the standings were
close, and recreation department officials reported a
great season with excellent and competitive ball
pi ■ n all the kids.
8 year-olds, the White Sox, coached by
Mike Kelly took first place and second place was the
Braves coached by Greg Thomas.
In the 9-10 year-old league, the Rangers, coached
by Jeff Rosner took first place and the Mariners
coached by Lee Jones took second place.
In the 11-12 year-olds the Bombers, coached by
Danny Williams, took first place and the Expos,
coached by Morris Bowens, took second place.
Not only were the boys’ teams successful, but the
girls’ teams that play with the Warner Robins
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Recreation Department all finished in the top two in
their league, officials at the Perry Recreation
Department said.
The Perry 7-8 year-old girls Cubs coached by
Dale Williams took first place and the Rockets
coached by Chipper Harrell took second place.
The Perry 9-10 year-old Strikers, coached by
Robert King, took second place with an 8-2 record.
The 11-12 year-old Bandits coached by Ralph
Thomas took first place with a 7-1 record.
The 13-14 year-old Indians, coached by Susan
Crook, took second place with an 8-2 record.
Officials said the girls softball teams will be play
ing in a post-season tournament in Warner Robins
beginning July 8.
Officials said they were very dependent on volun
teers to coach and work with the athletes, and they
were appreciative of the efforts of all the volunteers.
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Phil
Clark
Times-Journal
Sports
Violence in sports
is spilling over
We’re concerned in today’s
society about increasing vio
lence, particularly among our
youngsters.
Who’s to blame? Certainly,
there’s a lack of discipline from
the ground level. Often there’s no
discipline at home, consequently
there can be no discipline in the
schools.
But the disciplinary problem
begins with our sports stars.
They have reached such status
that they appear beyond reach of
disciplinary measures. Case in
point. Winton Guerreo of the Los
Angeles Dodgers broke a bat in a
recent game, and before he could
retrieve the parts, the home plate
umpire picked up the barrel end
and noticed it had been filled
with cork. Immediate ejection,
immediate suspension.
But hold it. The players’ union
jumped in when the Dodgers sus
pended Guerreo for eight games
without pay. The union was set to
file an appeal, and the Dodgers
then suspended Guerreo with
pay. So what’s the penalty? It’s
more like a vacation. Eight
games off while being paid is
nonsense. The team is the loser
here.
Albert Belle elbows a second
baseman going into the bag and
draws a slap on the wrist.
Dennis Rodman has been in so
much trouble an ordinary person
would still be trying to dig out.
But Rodman gets a few games’
suspension, a sometimes hefty
fine, and he goes right back and
does it again.
Great role models for the
youngsters looking in. If
Rodman can usurp the rules and
get by, if Belle can commit bat
tery on the baselines and get
away, if obvious rules infractions
go unpunished, then what are the
young people to think? Hey, let’s
just do it. If there’s punishment,
we’ll appeal.
It’s done every day in sports.
The unions don’t care about
what’s right or what’s wrong,
they immediately jump in and
defend the actions of the players.
Owners have become so afraid
of the unions, and of the big
mouthed super stars, they are
afraid of the consequences, so
they dole out minimal punish
ment. What’s a $50,000 fine to a
guy making six or eight million a
year?
But the clincher came
Saturday night in the so-called
boxing match between Evander
Holyfield and Mike Tyson.
Tyson is, always has been and
always will be a thug. He simply
can’t accept the fact that he is not
the fighter he once was.
His ear-biting incident in the
title fight prompted disqualifica
tion, which was followed by a
typical Tyson reaction. His thugs
swarmed into the ring, and the
melee carried over to the parking
lot where some fans were hurt.
OK, so what’s the discipline to
be? Try to hold up his purse, as
the normal process would dic
tate, and he cries foul, all sorts of
organizations hop into the fracas.
Tyson has to be disciplined
severely, like being banned for
life from the boxing ring, or at
least in organized boxing. Skip
Caray, the Atlanta Braves’
announcer, suggested a fight
between Tyson and Belle.
Pete Rose must be taking all
of this in with complete bewil
derment. Rose, as you know, was
banned from baseball for life, but
does have the right to apply for
reinstatement. Mike Tyson was
convicted of rape, sent to prison,
served a little time and came
back to the ring making millions
upon millions for a fight, as if
nothing ever happened.
Rose served time, too, for
income tax evasion. He was
banned from baseball for alleged
ly betting on sports but he insists
to this day he never bet on base
ball, and nobody ever did prove
he did. They had the word of a
few thugs, so Rose sits on the
outside waiting to be reinstated.
Tyson goes back to the ring
while still on probation and
engages in the inhuman act of
biting an opponent’s ear off.
Think he sent a message to the
streets?