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PJL 7-8 year-olds win district title at Monticello
By ALLINE KENT
Home Journal Sports
tV 7 k 8 year olds on
the Perry Junior League
All Star team stayed up
way past bed time every
night last week as they
traveled to Monticello dev
astating every opponent
and bringing home the
Junior League District
Championship.
The tournament week
started off with a 15-0 slam
of Monroe County. Adam
Davis and Casey Young
combined for a no-hit ter
with 10 strikeouts.
Left fielder. Thomas
Arrington helped to pre
serve the shutout with a
great diving catch.
Taylor Crook started the
rout off with a bunt that
brought in Perry's first runs
of the tournament.
Game Two of the tourna
ment actually meant two
trips to Monticello. During
the first inning, the game
against North Macon Amer
ican was called because of
a thunderstorm but not
before Dustin Sanders hit a
three-run home run over
the left Held fence to send
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State 7-8 year-old baseball title on line July 17
By ALLINE KENT
Home Journal Sports
If you really want to see a baseball
game, the way baseball was meant to be
played, you will need to travel to Zebu
lon July 17.
That’s where the 7 and 8-year-old
All-Stars from the Perry Junior League
will be competing in the first round of
the state tournament.
The 13 boys on the team won the dis
trict title July 10 and earned their spot
in the state tournament.
Coaches from all six teams in the 7
and 8-year-old league selected the All-
Stars based on their individual perfor
mance during the regular season.
The boys play the game of baseball,
the way it was invented to play, with
heart and ability while having a lot of
fun, coaches say.
On defense, the boys are giving a
strong performance which includes
turning double plays, the PJL coaches
the local All-Stars out 3-0.
The game resumed the
next evening and so did
Sanders’ hitting streak as
he hit another home run
over the right field fence.
Home Journal Photos by Torey Jolley
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Hitting hasn't been bad either with a
team batting average of .435. Several of
the team members are hitting over .500
including Casey Young, Chad
Rough ton, Jordan Stephens, Nicholas
Kinsley, Sam Kinnas, and Dustin
Sanders.
July 10 the All-Stars entered the
sixth and last game of the District Tour
nament undefeated. Starting pitcher
Adam Davis, pitched three innings
against their opponent, North Macon,
giving up only one run in the first.
Dustin Sanders pitched the 4th and
sth innings, giving up one run in the
sth but striking out the last batter to
win the championship.
Davis's stand-up triple brought in the
go ahead run and Casey Young's single
in the third sent another runner across
the plate. Taylor Crook also got a triple
in the game.
Coaches said starting catcher Chad
Brooks Moody made a
great throw from third base
to first to get an out on a
runner caught between sec
ond and first. Clint Mixon
went 2-2 at the plate and
Georgia Hall of Fame membership hard to claim
There are exclusive clubs
to which membership is
virtually impossible to the
average person. The Geor
gia Sports Hall of Fame is
not exclusive in the sense
that others might be, since
social status is not a pre
requisite
Nevertheless, it is darn
near impossible to gain
membership. Originally
established to honor Geor
gia High School coaches, it
now includes everyone
professional and amateur,
coaches, players and offi
cials.
That’s why is such an
honor to be inducted.
That’s why there is such a
qualified board of 17 people
charged with the huge
responsibility of deciding
whether to accept or deny
membership.
One member of the board
is Herb St. John of Peny.
There could not be a more
sincere, conscientious and
honest individual. The
other members of the
board, some of whom I
know, some I don’t, are
likewise honorable individ
uals.
Sure, there could be a
certain degree of politics
involved, but not nearly as
much as in years past.
It is a travesty that it
took so long to honor Nor
man Faircloth of Fort Val
ley. His longhand outstand
ing career as a basketball
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Perry Kiser scored the first
run of the 7-2 victory.
The All-Stars’ saw their
bats slow down a little in a
5-4 nailbiter against
Shurlington in game three.
Phil
Clark
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and football championship
coach was finally recog-
with Faircloth’s
recent induction.
He coached a state.
championship football
team at Fort Valley in 1961,
37 years before he was
finally recognized by the
present board. They made
an excellent choice.
There are others who
will get the board’s atten
tion over the next few
years. Jimmy Maffett, the
first football coach at
Macon County High School
who held the post for 23
years, is being considered.
It is the fourth year since
Maffett’s nomination. A
nominee must be inducted
within five years, or he or
she will be dropped from
consideration, and must
then be re-nominated down
the line, and have that
nomination accepted.
Maffett doesn’t have the
glowing won-loss creden
tials of many coaches who
will be nominated in years
to come. He brought some-
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Roughton did an outstanding job
throughout the tournament and was
backed up by Brooks Moody and Clint
Kirk, who also performed well at the
plate.
One of the most amazing things
about the talent of the team is the pitch
ing. During regular season at Ochla
hatchee, a pitching machine is used
Coaches said the four pitchers on the
team went into the district tournament
with absolutely no game pitching expe
rience.
Adam Davis pitched 11 innings dur
ing the tournament, with 29 strikeouts;
Dustin Sanders had seven innings with
16 strikeouts.
Jordan Stephens pitched six innings
with 15 strikeouts while Casey Young
pitched seven innings and recorded 12
strikeouts.
The All-Stars, coached by Ken Davis,
Trey Moody and Perry Kiser, outscored
their opponents 51 -20 in the tournament.
Clint Kirk got a key hit to
bring in two runs that gave
Perry the edge to hold off a
Shurlington comeback in
the fifth inning.
Games 4 and 5 were a
thing else to the table. He
brought a sincere, honest
concern for each and every
one of his players, on the
field, in the classroom, and
in the home. That's the way
he began coaching football
in 1962, and that's the way
he always did it.
1 don’t suppose you
could find a single player
over those 23 years who
will tell you he was ever
embarrassed by Coach
Jimmy Maffett. It was not
in his demeanor to belittle
his players, as some Coach
es do.
He might have raised his
voice for emphasis, but he
never yelled at them, and
he certainly never enter
tained the notion of using a
profane word! Perish that
thought. Jimmy Maffett
might not be inducted into
the Georgia Sports Hall of
Fame. But he certainly
deserves to be there.
There are others, too.
Norman Carter of Butler
won 134 games in a row at
one stretch with his Butler
(Taylor County) girls. That
included several state
championships. Carter was
also an outstanding player
at Talbotton and at Mercer
University. He was an out
standing tennis coach, as
well, with state champions
in that sport. He needs to
be in the Hall of Fame.
So does Carl Peaster of
Macon County, and the
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double header. First up,
North Macon National, the
team that beat Perry last
year to win the tourna
ment.
Pitching came through
against North Macon with
Jordan Stephens and
Dustin Sanders closing
down the fifth for the 10-5
win.
Sam Kinnas scored twice
and Thomas Arrington hit
a base cleaning triple in
the second inning that
gave the All-Stars a boost.
Dustin Sanders went 2 for
2 at the plate again while
Nicholas Kinsley provided
a key hit in the second that
brought home Thomas and
scored the fifth run.
In the last game of the
double header, Perry faced
Monroe County. Combin
ing their pitching, Dustin
Sanders, Jordan Stephens,
and Casey Young all did an
excellent Job on the mound
getting a total of 13 strike
outs.
Jordan Stephens went 2
for 2 with a walk and Adam
Davis had 3 RBl’s with a
double. Perry walked away
with all-7 victory.
late Bill Martin of Montezu
ma High.
Again, the job the 17
members of the executive
board must undertake
each year is mindboggling.
From the list of qualified
candidates whose nomina
tions have been accepted,
the board must decide
which, if any, nominee will
be inducted into the Hall. It
is not an easy chore.
I respect Herb St. John
and others on the board,
like former Southwest
Macon and Macon College
basketball coach Donald
Richardson, former Cedar
town coach Doc Ayers, who
later logged a little time at
UGA.
There’s former Georgia
Tech all-American Ray
Beck, and amateur golfing
great Ray Cox of Albany,
now of Americus.
Rick Camp, the former
Atlanta Braves pitcher, is
on the board. Longtime
sports enthusiast Johnny
Mitchell of Macon, Coach
Stan Lomax of Fort Valley
State, and former Georgia
coach Johnny Griffith Eire
others.
I don’t envy them the job
of choosing whether or not
to accept a nominee into
the Hall. But I know they
will put every bit of thought
and soul searching they
can muster into whatever
decisions they make with
this year’s list of nominees.
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