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V FRIDAY,
JULY 11, 2003
ON TAP
Warner Robins American Little
League
State tourney
Saturday
■ Minor and Major teams at
Danielsville vs. teams (and times)
to be determined
■ Junior team at Elberton (through
Sunday) vs. teams (and times) to
be determined
Warner Robins National League
USSSA tourney
Saturday
■ Girls softball at Perry vs. teams
(and times) to be determined
IN BRIEF
Robins Youth center
offering sign-ups
If you’re a Robins Air Force
Base youth, mark your calendar
for Saturday. On that day, the
Youth Center will begin registra
tion for a host of activities includ
ing: Cheerleading, tackle and
flag football, soccer and inline
hockey.
At least the first four - check
with the center on ages for inline
hockey are open for children
beginning with age 5.
Cheerleading runs through age
12, tackle and flag football is
open to those no older than 10
for flag and 12 for tackle and for
soccer you just need to be 18 or
younger. Cheerleading costs are
yet to be determined; tackle, flag
football and soccer are priced at
$55 and inline hockey goes for
$75.
Call the center at 926-2110 for
more.
Base to play host to
basketball tourney
The Robins Air Force Base
Youth Center will also hold
Hoopfest 2003, a 3-on-3 tourna
ment, slam dunk contest (with
the goal set at eight feet) and 3-
point shoot out all rolled into one
July 18-20.
The registration deadline is
today. The cost is S4O per team
and, according to Ron Hayes,
director of the center, is open to
the public. Age groups are as fol
lows: Girls 11-13 and 14-16;
boys 9 and 10, 11 and 12, 13-15
and 16-18.
Applications can be picked up
at the Warner Robins Recreation
Department on Watson.
TRIVIA TRIVIAL
Quick quiz...
Who is the oldest head coach
to lead his team to a Super Bowl
victory?
Fans, jocks...
Meet David Aguilar, 38, a
Tech. Sgt.
stationed at
Robins Air
Force Base
and a
Bonaire res
ident. His
favorite
sport is
baseball.
He is origi-
AGUILAR
nally from
Youngstown, Ohio, and lived
here for about a year and a half.
Although in regard to wife
Kara, son David and he —Til
probably retire in this area. I like
it here.”
On this date...
1985 Nolan Ryan of the
Houston Astros became the first
major league pitcher to earn
4,000 strikeouts in a career.
He said it...
“Sweat plus sacrifice equals
success.”
Charlie Finley
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From out of the ashes ...
Warner Robins East rises up to win district title
By Will Kieman
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON - People might have
doubted Warner Robins’ East
All-Stars after they dropped a
game to the West in
Bloomfield’s District Five tour
nament.
But they fought back through
the brackets and erased all
doubt Wednesday night with a
6-3 win over the West in the
“if” game to take the champi
onship.
“I had full confidence in the
team,” East head coach Billy
Fortenberry said.
“I knew that if we played
smart ball then we would win.”
“I’m proud of both teams,
they both represent Warner
Robins real well. “
Like they did in Tuesday
night’s win and didn’t in their
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Perry All-Stars pitcher Josh Stewart retired the only nine batters he faced to start out his team’s first round playoff match up
versus Effingham County All-Stars. Five of the nine batters Stewart faced struck out. Stewart left after the third inning with
a perfect game, preserving his arm for a later game in the tournament held at Rozar Park.
Perry All-Stars roll in opener
Senior team of county talent beats Effingham County 11-1
By Josh Gordon
HHJ Sports Writer
PERRY lt didn’t take long
for the Perry All-Stars to dis
patch the Effingham County
All-Stars Wednesday at Rozar
Park in the first game of the
Georgia Parks and Recreation
Senior State Baseball
Tournament.
Behind stellar pitching
Perry beat the visitors 11-1 in
six innings.
“We saw a good team (in
Perry) today, they played a
good ball game,” said
Houston County hosts volleyball camp
Warner Robins sends
group as it prepares
for inaugural season
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
WARNER ROBINS Fresh
off their inaugural volleyball
season, Houston County has
added another first to its pro
gram.
The Lady Bears - as well as
some students/players from
Warner Robins High School as
the Lady Demons prepare to
kick off their first year at the
net in the coming months -
hosted a camp at the school
Monday through Wednesday.
The goal, according to
Spoils
earlier loss
to the West,
the East
dominated
early with
four runs in
the first
inning.
“If we
jump on
them in the
first couple
of innings
then the
momentum
is on our
side,” East
shortstop
David
Aguilar
said.
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Little League
District V
tournament
Major baseball
M WRALL East 6,
WRALL West 3
“It makes it a little easier for
us.” Also making things a little
easier for Aguilar’s team were
Effingham coach Lynn Rahn.
Perry pitched a trio of talent
from schools around the coun
ty. Perry’s Josh Stewart led of
the game with three perfect
innings of baseball that includ
ed a team high five strikeouts.
Warner Robins pitcher Parker
McConnell took over in the
fourth inning allowing the
games only run, but after a
lead off triple.
Another Warner Robins ace,
Justin Phelps, entered the
game in the sixth inning with
a mighty heater and powerful
'One ol the big
things we needed to
improve on irom last
year was
communication
and talking to
each other.’
- Houston County volleyball head
coach Andrea Andorfer
Houston County volleyball
head second-year coach Andrea
Andorfer last year she was
assistant coach was to learn,
or rather relearn “everything.”
“They learned to correctly
the three errors committed by
the West in the first, which put
three runners on base. The
East only had two errors occur
throughout the entire meeting.
“What we try to do is play
good, sound, fundamental
ball,” Fortenberry added.
The errors were costly when
they did occur. An error helped
push in the West’s first runs of
Corey Stinson and Chad
Bannister in the second inning.
The West failed to score any
more until an error in the fifth
helped move Chris Thompson
around and across the plate.
Unlike the East, the West
struggled at the plate thanks to
Jacob Vargas. Vargas struck out
nine batters and gave up just
three hits.
Vargas started the big surge
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breaking stuff, closing the door
on the Effingham All-Stars.
“It’s funny what they say of
Josh, that he couldn’t throw
a Josh Stewart (Perry)
a Casey Stuart (Houston County)
B Cody Hellar (HoCo)
B Justin Phelps (Warner Robins)
B Dustin Carter (Northside)
a Blake Allen (WR)
pass, serve, spike, block and
set,” she said adding that last
year’s team didn’t even get
started until a week before
competition began. “And then,
like today (Wednesday) they’re
learning to put it all together.
“They’re learning how to dig
... after it’s been spiked, how to
get it back to the setter.
“These are things they were
taught last year,” she added,
“But now we’re teaching more
of how to play together this
year. One of the big things we
needed to improve on from last
year was communication and
talking to each other.
“They’ve learned a lot of that
this year also.”
The camp itself was taught
See CAMP, page 2B
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Members of the Warner Robins American Little League East
Junrior baseball team charge toward the scoreboard for a
photo opportunity following their 6-3 District V win over the
West.
hard enough to break a win
dow,” Perry head coach Todd
Smith said.
See ALL-STARS, page 2B
Parry All-Stars
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B Parker McConnell (WR)
B Justin Beatty (WR)
B Frankie Miller (HoCo)
B Nick Shelton (Westfield)
B Bubba Blalock (WF)
a Derek Bowman (NS)
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Brian Williamson instructs player hopefuls on proper blocking
techniques at Houston County High School Wednesday. The
Villa Rica volleyball head coach was the lead instructor for a
camp held at the school Monday through Wednesday.
Predators
earn World
Series berth
Contributed story
PERRY Just like their
namesake, the Perry Predators
devoured the competition en
route to winning the USSSA 8-
year-old state baseball title
June 26-29.
The Predators finished the
tournament 6-0, beating
Lakeland, Fla. 12-3 in the title
game.
They will
now play in
the league’s
World
Series
beginning
next week
end in
Augusta.
Not rest
ing on their
laurels, the
INSIDE
WRNL USSSA
baseball team
prepares for its
trip to World
Series
See 2B
Predators also won the state
tournament this past weekend
in Augusta, this time going
undefeated as well.
The first order of business
was to take care of another
undefeated team Rockdale.
They did just that, but it did
take extra innings.
Tal Lineberger provided the
team’s late-inning heroics with
a two-run single that highlight
ed a four-run eighth and gave
them the win 8-4.
Defense had been the team’s
trademark up until that point
recording two shutouts and
allowing only one run in anoth
er game but offense came to
the forefront in the title game
against Savannah.
Down 7-5 with two outs in
the fifth inning, the team ral
lied to beat the Intruders 8-7.
Luke Lineberger started
things off with a single to right.
Evans Williams followed with a
double. Reid Hudson then sin
gled to center scoring
Lineberger and a sliding
Williams for the tying
See PREDATORS, page 2B
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