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Wed.. Aug. 25. 1999, Houston Home Jourmil Page 8A Perry JV claims Turner softball title By ALLINE KENT berry's Junior Varsity won the Turner County tournament on Saturday, giving them a 5-0 record after only one week of play. The JV Lady Panthers beat Worth Coun ty 13-11; Lanier County 6-1 and Turner County, their strongest competition all day, 5-3. “I am so proud of them." said head coach Christy Horstring after the tournament ended. They are really coming together as a team. Since these girls are mostly fresh man. it is exciting seeing what I have to look forward to in a few years on varsity," she said. Horstring said the JV had a “never quit attitude" during the tournament. “We were down twice and came back against both Worth and Turner County to win.” The Varsity finished third in the nine team tournament , concluding a very strong tirst week of play. The Lady Panthers opened their '99 sea son bv traveling to Washington County last week. Junior Sherry Nipper pitched for Perry and picked up the 17-7 win. Lindsey Brown went 4-4 with three doubles and a triple in the game. Courtney Harris went 3- 4 with two doubles and a single and Tonya Gilbert went 3-4 with 4 RBI. "I didn't know what to expect since Perry didn’t play them last year," said Horstring. “But it was a fairly easy game for us. We came out hitting the ball and picked out good pitches.” The Panthers traveled to Jones County Aug. 19 where they lost a non region game in a close 8-7 score. “Defensively we played well." Horstring explained. "People just should have provid ed hits and didn’t”. In the Turner County Tournament Aug. 21, Perry participated in five non-region games, starting the day with their first game against Lanier County and former Panther coach Brenda Allen. The Panthers won soundly 6-4, with Sherry Nipper again picking up the win. Kristin Stokes went 2-3; Sherry Nipper 2-4; Tiffany Harris 2-4; Courtney Harris 2-4; and catcher in the game, Miranda Garren went 2-2. Perry faced Dooly County next in the tournament and won that game 22-4. ‘That game really got us fired up,” said Horstring. "We knew going in that we should beat them. Our defensive looked real good against Dooly County. We you get ahead big you have a tendency to slack off, but we held to it.” The entire Perry team scored in the Dooly County game, with the majority of the team batting over .500. Courtney Har ris went 3-3 with two singles, one double and four RBI. Perry followed with Brooks County, the first team all day that had power hitters according to Coach. Brooks hit the ball hard and long, but Perry still pounded Brannen 13th in nationals Fkom Staff Reports Elko resident Walt fclran nen and Team 911 finished 13th in the third annual Legends Cars Sports Design Young Lions National Championship at the Texas Speedway Aug. 21. Brannen captured a sec ond place in his heat race to gain a sixth starting slot for the feature race. He got a good start, and worked uj) to fourth before a bump late in the reace caused Brannen to go sideways. Earlier in the week, at Charlotte Motor Speedway Aug. 19. Brannen got rammed from the rear and finished sixth in the quali fying heat. He got rammed again during the feature race and finished 20th. Brannen was as high as second in the Charlotte standings two weeks ago and finished the sason at seventh place out of 45 cars in the semi-pro class 10-race season. Summertime, and the livin' is easy at For more information, please call Telephone: 987-8179 ‘The girls are responding to my phi losophy and it is showing in our wins. One individual can't win a game.’ Christi Horsting, Perry High softball coach. them 20-8. Junior Courtney Harris had a 3-4 game marked by a home run and six RBI. Nipper went 3-4: Coby Williard and Rachel Kinnas both went 2-4., as a team the Panthers went over .500 for the second time in the tournament. Perry' picked up their only loss against Worth County, 5-4 after extra innings. Horstring said the game “would have been a good one to sit down and watch. Both teams had good defense, we were pretty evenly matched.” In the eighth and last inning with the score tied, the Panthers, on defense, got into a bases loaded situation with only one out. According to Horstring it gave her team some valuable experience. “Bases loaded, one out is not something you can practice, you have to experience it in a game,” she said. The loss to Worth sent the Panthers to the losers' bracket where they faced Lanier County again winning in extra innings 10- 6. Lead off batter Tiffany Harris had a strong hitting game the entire tournament and went 4-5 in the second Lanier County game with two singles and two triples. Candice Herald, a freshman, went 4-5 with two singles and one double and Sarah Stuckey went 3-4 with a single and two doubles. Lindsey Brown, w'ho hit well against Washington County and Jones County went 4-4. Perry has two non-region opponents on tap this week. Macon County, and Ameri cus before traveling to Montezuma for the Macon County tournament. The Panthers finished first in the Macon County tourna ment last season. The following week will be a tough one when Perry faces three of their four subre gion opponents. The Panthers will play four nights in a row, taking on Washington County, Bleckley, and West Laurens. Non region opponent Jones County is also on tap for the week. “With our nonregion games next week. 1 will be playing around with my lineup. The girls know that I am still working with it and they are really working hard to earn their spots. Our best 10 will be on the field to get the job done,” Horsting said. After oply three weeks on the job and one week of play, Horstring seems pleased with the team's performance so far this season. “The girls are responding to my philoso phy and it is showing in our wins. One individual can't win a game,” she said. Perry's next home game will be at Rozier Park against Washington County Aug. 30 at 4:30 p.m. Thank You To the wonderful people of Perry Thank you! My wife, Sara, and 1 have now returned to San Anto nio from the funeral of our brother. Jimmy Wilson in Perry. Nothing we have ever experienced could com pare to the overwhelming response that was shown during this time of grief and there are no words that we know to express our humble appreciation for the many acts of sympathy and kindness that were shown to us and our family. We could never reach everyone who performed so admirably, but it seems necessary that we mention some who went far beyond the normal requirements at such a time. First, there was Larry Walker, who delivered the eulogy. None of us could have done it. and yet. he was able to do a great job. Next was Carol Horton, who spent many, many hours serving food and providing encouragement and sympathy where ever it was required. Also, there were many people that we did not know people from the Sunday school and the Methodist Church people from far away places such as Miami. San Francisco. Westmoreland. Tenn., and relatives and friends from all of Georgia. Texas. Michigan, Flori da, Montana. New Jersey and other places. To all of you, the only words we can say are "thank you." Mark "Bo" Wilson 12807 Castle George San Antonio. Texas, 78230 The Hamptons of Perry Come by and let Pollie make the livin' easy for you! South Houston County's Premier Apartment Community is now leasing Luxury 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartment Homes. & Page: 765-6545 Football Panthers get eating break By ALLINE KENT Home Journal Sports The Panthers took a night off from football practice Aug. 19 and enjoyed a steak dinner courtesy of the hospitality of First Baptist Church. The informal evening of food and fellowship is something that "really makes our kids feel spe cial. “ said George Collins, athletic director at the high school. Guest speaker for the evening was Dicky’ Clark, state director of the Fel lowship of Christian Ath letes. Clark is a former All-SEC player at the Uni versity of Georgia. Alter college, Clark spent 18 years in coach ing at Vanderbilt Univer County middle schools to host first-ever football jamboree Aug. 28 at Bonaire By ALLINE KENT Home Journal Spokts the Athletic Directors from all seven middle schools in the county put their heads together and came up with an idea to highlight their eighth grade football teams a little earlier this year. The idea, which has been around for awhile on the high school level, is a middle school foot ball jamboree. This year marks the first time it has been done with middle schoolers in Houston County. Perry Middle School w'ill join with the seven eighth grade teams in the county to participate in the event with the addition of Weaver Middle School from Macon to com plete the eight-team format. Not only will the Jamboree give Perry- Middle School coaches Danny Shelton and John Warliek the opportunity to observe their team in actual competition, they will also get a sneak peak at their opponents. “We will be doing basic stuff," said Shel ton. "We don’t want to show everybody everything we will be running." The event will consist of two games. Bonaire will team up with Tabor and play versus Warner Robins and Northside start ing at 10:00 am. In the second game, the Perry Panthers will combine with Feagin Mill and compete The DOG DAYS Sale at Wayne Morris Ford LOOK AT THESE TAIL-WAGGING DEALS ON ALL OTHER NEW MODELS REBATES AS HIGH AS S 1500! Financing as low as 0.75 99 EXPLORERS V-6, Keyless Entry, CD. Leather, All Options $359 a month SIOOO down, 60 month retail 99 Rangers starting at $179.00/mo. 60 month rental Get out of the “Heat” in a Quality USED car or truck 99 Windstar LX Dual A/C Low Miles. 1 left $31,900 98 F-150 Supercab 4X4 Lariat. 15K miles. 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