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Phil
Clark
Times-Joumal
Sports
Seniors must lead
I realize it’s the middle of the
summer, but anew school year
will be upon us before we know
it. Perry High School and
Westfield lost some quality senior
leadership, and the search is on
for new folks to step up and take
the role.
George Collins’ football team at
Perry High wasn’t hit as hard as
some of the other teams, with just
four seniors departing. Dawkins
Ennis was a team leader, and he
will be missed. But there are some
really outstanding juniors ready to
come forward as they reach their
senior year. Joe Smith, John
Brewer, Chris Deaton, Wade
Stewart and Keith Morton come to
mind immediately. They have been
mainstays for a couple of years and
have the experience and character
to assume leadership roles.
At Westfield, Ronnie Jones has
a bigger task. Most of his senior
football players were also his
team leaders. It’s hard to replace
players, and leaders, like Ben
Hulbert, Chip Davis, Charlie
Evans, Marsh Wall, Keith Waites,
Brian Staines, J.T. Shy and JR
Moore. Rising seniors like Trey
Wilder, Ben Nash, Jerry Horton
and Burke Murph will have some
important roles to fill,both as
players and as leaders.
Perry wasn’t hit as hard by
graduation in other sports, either.
Max Vickers’ Lady Panthers bas
ketball team loses Monique
Kendrick and Eugenia Radford,
the team leaders. I’m also
impressed by the potential of
Jessica Nolen, both as a leader
and as a player.
One of Carl Thomas’ main
concerns last year was the lack of
senior leadership. He really didn’t
have one who could fill the role.
Fact is, he didn’t have many
seniors at all. By season’s end,
Damien Simon was the only true
senior with leadership qualities,
and he was a reserve. Reggie
Clark must provide the leadership
in the upcoming season.
Billy Sellers returns all but one
of his players, but that one is
Mary Katherine Walker, who will
be extremely hard to replace. New
Westfield boys’ coach Rennie
Adkinson will have a little more
to be concerned with. Hulbert,
Davis and Joe Brumbelow gone,
but there is potential for outstand
ing leadership from the returning
players.
Sellers has some outstanding
rising seniors he can count on.
Stephanie Barr, Claire Hart and
Jennifer Stewart were all starters,
and track star Amy Harold logged
a lot of playing time. All have
excellent leadership capabilities.
Adkinson will look to Trey
Wilder, Britt Bazemore and Andy
Conrad for leadership.
While coaches lose their lead
ers, so do newspaper writers. We
set up our own ‘roster’ of players
we can focus on. Some of the
players on my roster I’ll be look
ing to replace are Dawkins Ennis
off the Perry football team and
Kendrick off the girls’ basketball
team. I have also been very
impressed over the last few years
by Marina Culley, who plays soft
ball and is a golfer at Perry High.
Culley very modestly accepted
her second straight girls’ low
medalist honors this year and
capped it off with a golf scholar
ship to Troy State.
Keri Eckhardt was another of
my favorites. Keri was a cheer
leader for football and basketball
and was a member of the tennis
team. Mary Katherine Walker,
who did just about everything at
Westfield, is one of the most
pleasant individuals I’ve ever
met. Modest almost to the point of
being shy, she nonetheless was a
team leader in softball, basketball
and'track. Walker always dis
played a positive attitude to
everything and everybody.
Ben Hulbert was much the
same way. I will really miss this
pair. Joey Brumbelow became
one of my favorites, too, and Britt
Bazemore, Chip Davis, Keith
Waites and Brian Staines, for hard
work and their polite approach to
this reporter.
I have my favorites picked out
for next season, too, but I won’t
tell you who they are. When you
attend a game, look for the team
leaders, the take-charge types.
That’ll be my favorites.
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FIRST ROUND WINNERS Members of the Ochlahatchee 11 -12-year-old all star team advanced to the
second round of the Dixie Youth League sub-district playoffs at Bamesville after they defeated Monticello
4-3 on July 12. Matt Hunt had 15 strikeouts to help his own cause on the mound. Leading the team at the
plate were Jordon Holt, 3-3; Chad Van Horn, 2-3; Chris Frye, 1-2; Russ Crum, 1-1; and Kyle McCarty, 1-
3. The team played the winner of the Jackson vs. Barnesville game at 8 p.m. July 15. If the team takes first
or second in the tournament, they will advance to the district tournament July 19 at Forsyth. Members of
the team include (front, from left) Jordon Holt, Tyler Lawhorn, Bubba Blalock, Russ Crum, Chris Frye, Eric
Booker, (second row) Lawton Wilson, Kyle McCarty, Brad Woodard, Matt Hunt, Chad Van Horn, Lucas
Flournoy and James Liipfert. Coaches (back row) are Brad Blalock, Johnny McCarty and Ron Holt.
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WINNERS Members of the Rotary team captured first place at Ochlahatchee Field in the Boy's 9-10
Ssar old leaaue. Team members are (front, from left) Robbie Grisenwaite, Michael Walker, Shane Ashley,
Hchell Fowler, Clifton Baxter, (second row) Rusty Pollard, Daniel Clay, Chris Lawley, Mitchell Patterson and
Shad O'Neil. Coach for the team was Mike Fowler. Not pictured are Daniel Miles, player and Shawn
Ashley, assistant coach. The team's record was 13 wins, two losses.
Perryans in world horseshoe tournament
By HOWARD KEUHN
Special to the Times-Journal
Five Perry Horseshoe Club
members are going to Kitchener,
Canada to participate in the World
Horseshoe Tournament being held
July 14-27.
Those members include Buddy
Ayre, Jan Collier, Doyle Johnson,
Howard Kuehn and Rick
Thompson.
At the State Doubles
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Jerome Kennedy and
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Houston Times-Journal
Perry Junior League
7-8 team wins district
Dixie Youth title
From Staff Reports
MONTICELLO Members
of the Perry Junior League 7-8-
year-old team swept the Dixie
Youth Boys District Three cham
pionship July 11.
The team, composed of all stars
from the Ochlahatchee-based
league, won five straight games to
take the tournament played at the
Jasper County Recreation
Department.
Perry won the championship
game by downing Shurlington
National of Macon 7-2. In that
game, Perry scored five runs in the
first inning on Robby Taylor’s
fourth home run of the tournament
and an off-the-fence double by
Stephen Calhoun.
Matthew Schlag pitched, going
the distance. He walked four bat
ters and earned the win.
According to Coach Mark
Schlag, the defense was outstand
ing the championship game, he
cited the play of Taylor, Brad
Knowles and Phillip Vance.
The Junior League team started
their run with a 5-4 win over
Jackson National July 7. Taylor
threw a one-hitter, allowing a
grand slam home run.
The Perryans picked up the win
on Jarrod Jackson’s bases-loaded
single, the only hit of the game for
Perry.
The next night, Perry downed
Shurlington National 6-2 to stay in
the winners’ bracket.
Brad Knowles allowed three
hits and one run in five innings,
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before being replaced in the sixth.
According to Schlag, Perry had
tied the score in the fifth inning to
force extra innings, and then took
the lead in the sixth.
Sullivan Deyampert relieved
Knowles, allowing Shurlington to
tie the score. Matthew Schlag
relieved him in the seventh to pre
serve the win after Perry took the
four-run lead in the top half of the
inning.
Stephen Calhoun sent a runner
home in the fifth to tie the game
while the go ahead run was sent
home by Jackson in the sixth, and
Slag picked up the winning RBI in
the seventh inning.
Perry had no problems with
Shurlington American, downing
them 13-2 on July 9. Perry jumped
to a 7-0 lead in the first two
innings. Taylor and Jackson hit
back-to-back home runs (out of
the park style) in the first inning,
and they both hit another home run
later in the game.
Matthew Schlag pitched the
complete game win for the Perry
team.
In the semifinal game, the Perry
squad pounded Jackson National
11-5.
Perry scored five in the first and
four in the second en route to their
fourth tournament win. Taylor
pitched, picking up his second
win.
The team now advances to the
state Dixie Youth League tourna
ment at Zebulon. The first game is
July 19.
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