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Wed.. Nov. 17, 1999, Houston Home Journal
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Perry boys open basketball at home Nov. 20
By ALLEVE KENT
Home Joltrkai. Sro«T3
The leaves are changing,
the weather is supposed to
be turning cooler and that
means it is time to watch the
Panthers play roundball.
Basketball opens in Perry
Nov. 20 as the Perry Pan
thers host Echols County, a
Class A school from
Statenville. near Valdosta.
Head Coach Carl Thomas
is entering his 12th season
continued the Perry tradition
of winning. During his time
as head of the Panther pro
gram, Thomas has chalked
up three region champi
onships and four region run
ner-up titles. Perry played for
the state title in 1997.
With their win in Region 3-
AA last year, the Panthers
put together their first back
to-back titles in 25 years.
Gone from the highly suc
cessful region winning team
are it’s four outstanding ath
letes: Dontarrious Thomas.
Dannorris Harvey, Dante
Holmes and Johnny
Watkins, all of whom are
playing either football or bas
ketball on the college level.
“We graduated four
starters and lost three
things, talent, experience
PMS opens basketball play Nov. 17
By ALLINE KENT
Home Journal Spokts
With football just aver,
basketball season starts this
week at Perry Middle School.
“Because of the length of
our football season, we are
looking at having three days
of practice, Friday. Monday,
Tuesday, before our first
game Wednesday,” said
Coach Leslie Belcher. “We
are a week behind everyone
else that didn't make it to the
football playoffs."
“The biggest thing we have
to do as coaches is get men
tally prepared. The mental
challenges are the biggest
when you go from football to
basketball in a week," he
added.
With 30 years under his
belt as Perry Middle, John
Warlick will be at the helm of
the Bth grade boys team,
while James Lattimore, will
take over responsibilities of
the 7lh grade team in his
first full year as a basketball
head coach.
Pamela Ware, in her first
year at Perry Middle School,
takes over the Bth grade girls
team and Belcher has the
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and confidence," Thomas
said last week.
As bleak as it sounds, it is
not the worst graduation in
Perry history. The 1994 team
had five senior starters and a
year later, Thomas took his
team to a region runner-up
title.
Because of the lack of
experience on this year’s
team, Thomas expects more
young men to see playing
time than last season. “We
may have lost four starters,
but there are some positives
with our team this year. We
do have the ability to shoot
the ball," he said. “And more
depth than we have had in 3
or 4 years."
As usual, it is Perry
val. Dodge County that con
cerns Thomas, his team and
Panther fans. The Indians
are returning three three
7th grade girls, in his fourth
year at Perry Middle School.
Belcher, who coached bas
ketball on the high school
level before coming to the
Panthers, spent five years as
a girls varsity head coach.
While he has worked with
the boys program at Pern'
Middle in the past, this will
be his first year coaching the
girls.
"Coaching girls used to be
a lot different than coaching
boys, but not anymore,” said
Belcher. “They do a lot of
pressing and have full court
action where they used to
only have half court."
This year’s Bth grade girls
team won the county cham
pionship as 7th graders
while the Bth grade boys
team finished in 3rd place
last year as 7th graders.
The season will start Nov.
17 against Rumble. The 7th
grade team will play at home
with the Bth grade away.
Then comes Thanksgiving
holidays, with a week off,
and then only four games
before Christmas holidays.
“We try to get them in
game shape prior to the hol-
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year starters back this sea
son. Jeffery Thomas, Yendell
Brown and Jonathan John
son and one two-year starter,
Cedric Northcutt. All but
Johnson are still involved
with football since Dodge
County made it into the AA
football playoffs.
Dodge Coach Willis Jones,
in his 7th year with the Indi
ans, has won 3 region cham
pionships, and said during a
telephone interview that due
to football he is practicing
with 8 players. Jones said
that it was something that he
has had to get used to; dur
ing his seven-year tenure at
the school, the Indians have
gone to the football playoffs
six years.
One Dodge returning
starter is a familiar name to
football and basketball fans,
Jeffery Thomas. Thomas
averaged 22 points last sea
son with 44 percent from the
3-point range. Last season
he was selected by the
Atlanta Constitution as one of
the top five players in the
region.
Th? 4-AA region is one of
the toughest in the state and
according to Thomas, getting
tougher. "Our region is just
getting more and more com-
idays. There’s not a lot of
pressure on them in the
beginning," Belcher said.
“In middle school, it's not
how you start it’s how you
finish," said Belcher referring
to the end of the season tour
nament in which all seven
middle schools participate.
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Southeast returns five
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Perry might have lost
their core to graduation but
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