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WEEKEND,
SEPTEMBER 27-29, 2003
High school football
■ Americus 37, Crisp County 21
■ Augusta Christian 20, First
Presbyterian Day 13
■ Blessed Trinity 35, Mt. Zion-
Carroli 6
■ Bremen 14, Haralson County
0
■ Buford 38, Banks County 0
■ Bulloch Academy 42,
Pinewood Christian 16
■ Calhoun County 51, Stewart-
Quitman 0
For more scores, see page 3B
High school fast-pitcn
Thursday
■ Stockbridge 5, Northside 0
Warner Robins-Perry
Recreation departments
football
Saturday
■ Cowboys at Steelers (Mite), 9
a.m., Perkins
■ Express at Generals (Mite),
10:30 a.m., Perkins
■ Outlaws at Falcons (Midget),
11 a.m., Robins Air Force Base
■ Oilers at Eagles (Midget),
noon, RAFB
■ Rams at Chiefs (Mini), 9 a.m.,
Schenck '
■ Packers at Jets (Mini), 10:15
a.m., Schenck
■ Falcons at Titans (Mighty),
11:30 a.m., Schenck
■ Ravens at Cowboys (Mighty),
9 a.m., Creekwood
High school football
Saturday
■ Tiftarea at Central Fellowship,
8 p.m.
Saturday
■ Stockbridge at Northside, 7:30
p.m.
College football
■ Georgia bye
Saturday
■ Georgia Tech at Vanderbilt, 7
p.m.
■ Fort Valley at Clark Atlanta, 5
p.m.
Habitat to sponsor
god tourney
The Houston County chapter
of Habitat for Humanity is spon
soring a golf tournament Oct.
11 at 9 a.m. at the International
City Golf Course in Warner
Robins. The cost is S4O per
player. Those interested in
playing should call 328-3388 to
register.
Perry New Ufa to
hold golf challenge
New Life of Perry is sponsor
ing the second annual Perry
Volunteer Outreach golf chal
lenge Friday through Oct. 12 at
the Georgia National Fair.
Proceeds go to the PVO.
Prizes will be awarded. Look for
their booth at the south gate
entrance.
Qidck quiz...
Whose nickname is the
“Wizard of Westwood?
Born 0n...
Sept. 27, 1939 Kathy
Whitworth: At the end of her fijst
season on the pro Tour, her
stroke average was above 80.
But then she began to win ... and
win. Her 83 U.S. victories are
near the top of the all-time list.
On this date...
1936: Walter Alston played in his
only major league game as a late
inning substitute at first base for
Johnny Mize of St. Louis. He
struck out in his only time at bat.
He said 1t...
“When I broke in, they didn’t
have bats we just grabbed a
branch off a tree."
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Perry falls to Noptheast in OT
By Giovanni Chin-A-Sen
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON The Perry
Panthers visited the
Northeast Raiders on
Friday night at
Thompson Stadium and
for 48 minutes played
their hearts out.
Unfortunately for the
Panthers it came down to
overtime and the Raiders
scored a touchdown after
holding off the Panthers
to win the game by a score
of 6-0.
The first half was a
game of field position as
the Raiders’ average field
position was their 44-yard
line while the Panthers’
average field position was
their 23-yard line.
The Bears are King
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Houston County quarterback Brandon King (4) brings the Bears to the line against Eagle’s Landing Friday at
McConnell-Talbert Stadium. King finished the night 5 11 passing for 86 yards and also rushed for 52 yards in
the teams 29-0 win over the Golden Eagles.
Houston County picks up third straight win
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
WARNER ROBINS - It
became quite evident
before the first quarter
was over that the question
was not going to be
whether or
not
Houston
County
would beat
Eagle’s
Landing -
the answer
to that was
a 16-0 lead
initially -
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Houston County
29, Eagle’s
Landing 0
but whether or not they
could post their third
straight shut out.
Yes. Unequivocally.
The Bears took advan
tage of a fumble recovery
Lady Panthers win; pitching ace Tucker falls ill
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
PERRY - The Lady
Panthers beat Southwest
9-1 at home
Thursday.
In the
process,
they
improved to
14-4 overall
and 11-1 in
the region
and inched
just a little
bit closer to
&
Perry 9,
Southwest 1
clinching the top seed for
late October’s sectionals.
Kaitlin Ellis helped lead
Sports
But each time the
Raiders threatened to
take over the game, the
Panthers’ defense
clamped down.
The Panthers fumbled
on their
opening
kickoff
return of
the sec
ond half,
giving up
very good
field posi
tion to the
Northeast 6,
Perry 0
Raiders.
The Raiders were
marching towards the
end zone when a critical
sack by Markese Howard
stopped them in their
See PANTHERS, page 3B
and three interceptions -
one pick each by Quentin
Banks, Brandon Williams
and Cory Jackson - to
build a 23-0 halftime lead.
They put one more on
the board in the second
half and went on to win
29-0. At the same time,
they improved their
record to 3-1 overall, 2-1
in Region 2-AAAAA and
kept their scoreless string
intact for yet another
week. It is the first time
since 1999 head coach
Doug Johnson said they
have put together that
many shutouts in a row.
“They played really
good early on,” Johnson
said. “They gave the
offense several opportuni
ties to really ... I mean, we
Perry at the plate. She
was 1-4 with a double and
two RBIs. Senior Kristin
Schratt made her first
start of the year for Perry
and picked up her first
win.
Although obviously
happy with, the perform
ance, the reason she was
on the mound versus No.
1 starter Amanda Tucker
is a concern for the Lady
Panthers’ coaching staff
among others. ,
She is sick.
“They really don’t know
(why) at this point,” said
Perry assistant coadh and
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Perry’s DeMaurio Clark, right, fights against a
Northeast player during their game Friday in Macon.
’They played
really good early
on. They gave the
ollense several
opportunities to
really... I mean,
we had it at the
hah.’
Houston County head
football coach Doug Johnson
had it at the half. We got
up 29-0 and then we kind
of relaxed.”
Perhaps they were just
impressed. Everybody else
was. The Bears were sim-
’She pitched five of six games at the
tournament. She was fine early
Sunday when she went for a tryout
with a traveling team, but than she
started having some pain. Monday
she was down and out’
Perry assistant fast-pitch coach Lome Tucker
father to the senior his
oldest Lome Tucker.
“We’re not sure if she has
kidney stones or what.
She pitched five of six
games at the tournament
ply dominant in the first
24 minutes.
They held the Golden
Eagles (1-1, 1-2) to just 21
yards rushing and five
passing in the first 24
minutes of play. At the
same time, Houston
County enjoyed a better
than two-to-one time of
possession ratio.
On offense, the Bears
pushed and swept their
way to 94 ground gains
and 77 in the air to start.
They compiled 201 total
rushing yards and 86
passing to Eagle’s
Landings 64 and 35
respectively.
Saul Tyrus added the
Bears’ final score when he
broke for a 43-yard run.
See Bears, page 3B
(this past weekend at
Cartersville). She was fine
early Sunday when she
went for a tryout with a
traveling team, but then
See FAST-PITCH, page 2B
INSIDE SECTION
■ NASCAR n^b
notebook
See page 2B ■■
■ College
capsules
See page 3B
Westfield
rolls past
Monroe
By Josh Gordon
HHJ Sports Writer
FORSYTH For the first
time in two weeks Westfield
took to the road to take on
Monroe Academy in
Forsyth.
The Mustangs may not
have seen what hit them as
Westfield
scored on
every pos
session of
the first half
to lead 34-0.
The
Hornets sys
tematically
drilled the
Mustangs
through the
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Westfield 41,
Monroe
Academy 7
air in the first half and the
ground only in the second
half to dominate 41-7 in
front of a sparsely populat
ed Monroe Academy
Stadium.
“The first-team kids took
care of business and allowed
our second-team kids to
play,” Jones said.
Jones said that the game
could act as a confidence
builder for a still young
football team.
“I would say we’ve made
some strides both on the
offense and the defense,”
Jones said.
Westfield’s defense played
extremely well on the night.
They yielded no points to
the Mustangs and limited
their hosts to just two first
downs while taking the ball
away twice as well.
The only Monroe
Academy touchdown came
on a Lee McMichael scoop
and score in the final stanza
of play Friday night.
“I thought we played
aggressive on defense,”
Jones said. “Any time we do
that I would say we’ve got a
chance to improve.”
Senior quarterback
Bubba Blalock had an
amazing first half.
See HORNETS, page 3B
’The first-team
kids took care of
business and
allowed our
second-team kids
to play’
Westfield head football
coach Ronnie Jones
Morrow no
match for
Demons
From staff reports
Warner Robins broke a
two-game losing streak
Friday with a 42-12 road
win over Morrow.
The Demons (3-2, 3-1)
scored at
least one
touchdown
in every
quarter
while giving
up two
third-quar
ter scores to
Morrow (0-
4, 0-3).
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Warner Robins
42, Morrow 12
Kyle Hick led the Warner
Robins effort on offense. He
carried the ball 14 times for
116 yards and two touch
downs.
Steven Jackson and
Robert Schleider each con
tributed to the defense’s
effort with interceptions.
All told, Warner Robins
rolled up 374 yards to
Morrow’s 252.