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THURSDAY,
JULY 24, 2003
ON TAP
Warner Robins
National League
Friday
■ Prospects, a USSSA Major
Division travelling team (with five
Warner Robins players) at Orlando
vs. teams (and at times to be
determined)
Warner Robins
American Little League
Aug. 2
■ Junior League softball team at
South Region in Fort Myers Florida
vs. teams (and at times to be
determined)
Perry Junior League
Aug. 2
■ Debs at World Series vs. teams
(and at times to be determined)
■ Angels at World Series vs.
teams (and at times to be deter
mined)
IN BRIEF
WR American to hold
car wash to aid team
The Georgia state champion
Warner Robins American Little
League Junior girls softball team
will hold a car wash Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m at DJ's
Galaxy Quest.
Proceeds/donations will go
toward sending the team to the
Southeastern Regional
Tournament beginning Aug. 2 in
Fort Myers, Fla.
Fall league softball
sign-ups to begin
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department will hold
team registration for the 2003
Fall Softball League Aug, .11 and
12. Teams can register between
the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
the center at 800 Watson Blvd.
According to their release, they
will register the first 28 coed and
21 mens teams. The entry fee is
$312 per team.
For more information, call 929-
1914 or 1916.
International City
course hosts tourney
International City Golf Course
will host Bill Butler’s “Drive fro
Chrysler" Scramble Tournament
to benefit the Houston County
chapter of Habitat for Humanity
Aug. 9 starting at 9 a.m. The reg
istration fee is S4O. The prize for
a hole-in-one is a brand new
Chrysler.
For more information contact
tournament director Allen Slentz
at 971-7777.
TRIVIA TRIVIAL
Quick quiz...
When did the first college bas
ketball game take place?
Local flavor...
Perry offensive coordinator
Jeff Kaiser upon he hearing the
moans and groans of an intense
opening day Panthers practice.
“If it was fun, there’d be 300
people out here.”
On this date...
1972 Eddie Merckx of
Belgium won his fourth consecu
tive Tour de France bicycling
competition.
Born on date...
July 24,1933 Doug Sanders:
He burst upon the scene after
winning the 1956 Canadian
Open, the only amateur to do so.
His missed putt on the 18th hole
in the 1970 British Open is among
the most famous in golf history.
He said it...
“It's lack of faith that makes
people afraid of meeting chal
lenges, and I believed in myself."
Muhammad Ali
Quick quiz: Feb. 9, 1895 between
Hamline College and the Minnesota
State School of Agriculture
Northside holds ninth-annual Ironman competition
By Josh Gordon
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Northside is ending
its summer condition
ing program in the same way
they’ve done for nine years run
ning now with their Ironman
competition, a contest designed
to showcase the players’
strength and endurance.
“It’s a way for us to put an end
or climax to our winter and sum
mer workouts,” Northside head
coach Conrad Nix said. “We do
that trying to recognize differ
ent guys who worked hard or
have achieved in their particular
field or a particular area.”
For the Eagles, the work
starts after the last game of the
season in many ways.
“There’s a lot of work that
goes into the off season pro
gram,” he continued. “It starts
up from the last regular season
game, that next Monday or
Local players
prepare to make
a pitch at world
championships
By Josh Gordon
HHJ Sports Writer
PERRY lt’s a horse “shoe
in” for five members of
Perry’s Horseshoe Pitchers
League.
The group is headed to Eau Claire,
Wis., Aug. 4-16 to compete in the
Horseshoe World Championships.
Rick Thompson, Tom Carter,
Doyle “Shorty” Johnson, Howard
Kuehn and Buddy Awer, are all
members of the
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incidentally just
AMPP happens to be the
ULAIMUC largest in
What: Horseshoe Georgia.
World “We get up for
Championships it every year,”
When: Aug. 4 Thompson said of
through 16 the tournament.
Where: Eau “it’s just a won-
Claire, Wis. derful, wonderful
trip.”
Thompson
attributes some of the success of the
Perry club to the facilities.
“We have excellent facilities out at
Rozar Park (in Perry),” he said.
Thompson, a two time World
Champion in his class, has partici
pated in the two-week tournament
every year since 1996.
He first discovered horseshoes in
1995 when the World Championship
was held at Perry’s Agriculture
Center.
“My buddy said, ‘Hey, come on
down here and look at this,’”
Thompson said. “I said, ‘I always
liked horseshoes, so I will go look at
it.’
“When I got down there and
looked at it I said, ‘Man, I love this’.
I got into it right after that.”
Now he partakes annually, pitch
ing for his required three days, and
using the rest of the time as vaca
tion.
See RINGER, page 2B
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HIM Don Mont t irf
Chase Brown eyes a pitch during a practice at Simpson Park
Monday, while Scott Willis at catcher waits for the ball’s
arrival. The two teen-agers are members of the Prospects, a
Warner Robins National League USSSA team which will play
in the World Series beginning Sunday.
Tuesday, in the weight room or
doing various other things in the
weight room and outside, doing
agility type stuff, too.
“Then, through the winter
and the spring and then it gets
hot and heavy again in the sum
mer. This is the time where we
sort of bring that phase to an
end.”
The 2003 Ironman Contest
consists of three days of events
and station drills and culmi
nates on the fourth day when
every player participates in the
mile run.
At the first station players
perform clean jerks and bench
press. At the second station
players execute squats, the
power press, and use the incline
bench.
The third station consists of
the shuttle run, the 10-yard
dash, the 40-yard dash and the
bench end.
See IRONMAN, page 3B
A mile in their 'shoes'
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Rick Thompson shows off horseshoes that have been with him through competitions
beginning in 1996. They may look rusty and old now, but he will have them cleaned at
painted before tossing his first ringer at the World Championships starting Aug. 4 in
Eau Claire, Wis.
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New Northside quarterback Ferlando Williams leads the backfield in their first event in the
four-day Ironman Contest. Used as a round up to off season work outs, Northside head foot
ball coach and the rest of the staff believe the competition brings closeness to the team
through hard work and sacrifice.
Prospects' look good for WRNL team
By Will Kiernan
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS The
Warner Robins Prospects have
seen 20 to 25 different players
throughout the fine-tuning of
their lineup.
That accomplished, the final
cut of the Prospects which
includes five players from
Warner Robins will take a
shot at the Junior League World
Series in Kissimmee, Fla. start
ing this Sunday.
“I left a lot of good players off
this team,” Prospects coach
Joey Brown said.
“But I wanted just 10 play
ers.”
The final cut are a half
Macon, half Warner Robins con
glomeration.
Josh Cooke and Jacob Vargas
of Northside, along with Chase
Brown and Logan Simmons of
Houston County High make up
the majority of the Houston
contingent. Scott Willis of
Warner Robins completes the
Warner Robins lineup.
“When we started the season,
all of our players had been with
the Lizella Lizards except for
Scott Willis,” Brown said.
“I picked up Cooke, Ben
Treadway, Vargas and Daniel
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Don Moncrief
Sports Editor
donm@evansnewspapers.com
Nextel attempts
to pull the plug
on competition
There’s considerable
chatter in the NASCAR
community regarding
the effect Nextel as the new
Winston Cup sponsor will
have on the sport.
The initial concern from
owners, drivers ... fans who
were deathly afraid they would
n’t be able to bring their cell
phone to the racetrack ... and
my uncle who has to wear hear
ing aids to listen to the TV
was they would monopolize
anything to do with telecommu
nications.
That indeed does appear to be
the intent to a certain extent.
Already, AT&T is on its way
out the door as sponsor on Ken
Schrader’s Dodge. Some say it’s
because Carrot Top is just that
scary but and even though
NASCAR tried to exercise dam
age control by taking the blame
when Nextel was deluged with
letters most fingers dialed
down the center.
When they did, it was the
Reston, Va., company that
picked up.
The latest rumor is Nextel
also has thoughts of monitoring
(translated: cornering the mar
ket on) those scanners-head
phones fans use to tune into
radio frequencies to hear
behind-the-scenes conversa
tions between pit crews and
drivers.
Actually, Pm sort of shocked,
See MONCRIEF, page 2B
Chapman after three of our
players left.
Tyler Brown, Cam Fulcher,
Brian Nicholson, Treadway and
Chapman complete the team
and all hail from Macon.
The Prospects originated
from the traveling team named
the Lizella Lizards but, as men
tioned before, the lineup has
been customized to the point of
no return.
Of the 10 players, Fulcher,
Simmons, Tyler and Chase
Brown are the only ones with
experience in big tournaments.
Brown will need to work with
See PROSPECTS, page 3B
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