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ftttfeißiSM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2003 Warner Robins-Perry Recreation departments football Today ■ Cowboys at Bengals (Mite), 6 p.m., Perkins ■ Generals at Express (Mite), 7:30 p.m., Perkins ■ Saints at Jets (Mini), 6 p.m., Schenck ■ Titans at 49ers (Mighty), 7:15 p.m., Schenck ■ Packers at Rams (Mini), 6 p.m., Creekwood ■ Bandits at Cowboys (Mighty), 7:15 p.m., Creekwood High school football ■ Perry bye Thursday ■ Jonesboro at Warner Robins, 7:30 p.m. Friday ■ Westside at Houston County, 7:30 p.m. ■ Westfield at Stratford, 8 p.m. ■ Mount de Sales at Central Fellowship, 8 p.m. Saturday ■ Northside at Morrow, 7:30 p.m. Habitat to sponsor golf tourney The Houston County chapter of Habitat for Humanity is spon soring a golf tournament Saturday at 9 a.m. at the International City Golf Course in Warner Robins. The cost is S4O per player. Those interest ed in playing should call 328- 3388 to register. Perry New Lit e to Hold golf cnaiiengo New Life of Perry is sponsor ing the second annual Perry Volunteer Outreach golf chal lenge Friday through Sunday at the Georgia National Fair. Proceeds go to the PVO. Prizes will be awarded. Look for their booth at the south gate entrance. YMCA offering Y-Oknawan karate The Houston County YMCA is currently offering Y-Okinawan karate for people 5 and up. The sessions run Tuesdays and Thursdays. The cost for ses sion II is S7O for full members or SBS for program members. The cost for session 111 is $35 for full members or $43 for program members. The classes are taught by Shihan Duane Vincent and emphasize strict discipline, fit ness training, self control, real ism and effective self defense. For more information, call the center at 922-2566. Quick quiz... Who was the first goalie to wear a mask on a permanent basis? Born 0n... Sept. 30, 1926 lt’s a truism that a major league pitcher can’t get by on just a fast ball, but Robin Roberts did it, and he is a Hall of Famer. Pitching for the Philadelphia Phillies, he won 20 or more games six seasons in a row from 1950 through 1955. On this date... 1927: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run of the season to set the major league record at the time. He said 1t... “Monday through Friday they want you to be like Harvard. On Saturday, they want you to play like Oklahoma." Jim Valvano Quick quiz: Jacques Plante of Montreal in 1959 Eagles rebound from slow start to pound Tigers By Don Moncrief HHJ Sports Editor WARNER ROBINS Against a tougher oppo nent, Northside might have gotten itself into some early trouble. Stockbridge, Against however, three turnovers in the first quarter was dis concerting, but little more than a bump in Northside 56, Stockbridge 7 the road than anything else. The Eagles (3-0, 2-0) recovered and rolled to a 56-7 win. . j§L -gsiplb- , |lhHb Bjß m \ ■*£*'*'% y'K r ’ •- : - I H'-' f * ' \L/ i - 1 • .I I. " '. - • * ~.. , ' : HHJ Don Moncrief Houston County’s Kyle Moore, left, looks on from the sidelines during the Bears’ game at Jonesboro Sept. 20. The 6-foot-6, 240-pound defensive end is helping the team create havoc on opposing offenses. Bears behemoth dominating on defense By Josh Gordon HHJ Sports Writer WARNER ROBINS Kyle Moore is big. Not high school big, not big for his age big ... he’s grown up big. Standing, rather, towering at 6-foot-6 240 pounds, the only thing small about the Houston County junior defensive end is the age on his crisp new driver’s license. The Bears recorded their third consecutive shut out Friday night ver sus Eagle’s Landing as a defensive unit, but no one among Houston County’s impressive bunch stands out more than Moore. Northside always delighted whenever It's a Gray day; Winnersville no more? Nothing short of scoring lights up the Northside crowd more than seeing Tommy Gray, who lost both his legs to a child hood illness,-come into the ballgame for the Eagles. They got their wishes Saturday with the Eagles ahead 56-7 late in the ball game. Gray came in and to the chant of “Tommy, Tommy” from the crowd recorded three tackles in limited play. “He is just a special per- Sports “I think it was pretty obvious in the beginning we were not ready to go,” said Northside head coach Conrad Nix. “But I was proud of the way the guys settled down ... they played pretty good from there on.” Added Stockbridge head coach Danny Fairbanks, “We came out and looked like we could play with anybody,” he said. “After awhile though, it looked like they had about five million supermen out there.” Although the Eagles were nearly twice more intercepted before the half, Northside put it together after the Tigers’ Moore or less Ift Just that when It's a throwing situation he just lights up and tries to get there.’ Houston County head football coach Doug Johnson Bears’ head coach Doug Johnson said he attributes some of the unit’s success this year to speed, and Moore is very much a part of that, despite his intimi dating stature. “It’s not easily done,” Johnson said of the string of shut out football. “You can beat people and beat them pretty good but it’s hard to get a shut out. You High school notebook Compiled by Josh Gordon and Don Moncrief son,” said head coach Conrad Nix. “He IB inspir ing in the things he does (he also wrestles, among other sports). We don’t give him special treatment and he doesn’t want us to. He wants to earn it. “Sometimes we don’t realize how great it is for him to be out here. But the fans do.” * ’After awhile though, It looked IBn they had about five million supermen out there.’ Stockbridge head football coach Danny Fairbanks (0-4, 0-3) wake-up call tied it at 7 with 5:13 left in the first quarter. Starting on their own 31, they bolted up the field, picked up three straight first downs and See EAGLES, page 3B have to have a lot of things go your way.” One of the things that went Johnson’s way is Moore’s commitment to becoming a better player through hard work and buying into the coaching staff’s plan for success. The man-child began the 2002 football season 30 pounds above where Johnson thought he could IN ALL FAIR’NESS: Despite their record, Stockbridge head coach Danny Fairbanks hasn’t given up hope on his squad. Especially in lieu of next week’s opponent, winless Henry County. “They’re more like us,” he said. Of course there is bad news: “Then we come back and have to play Houston County and Westside ... (Middle Georgia) has by far the best football in the state.” See NOTEBOOK, page 2B ■* ■ «W3i aaiBBL '' ‘*s. 1 uHR^^ HHJ/Don Moncrief Northside’s Rodrick Hayward breaks into the open field during the first quarter of the Eagles’ game against Stockbridge Saturday. Northside rolled to its third win 56-7. be most effective 2BO. “I jumped up to 280 because I was busy but not that active,” Moore said. He re-committed him self to weight training and even played basketball with the school’s team to become better. Now he’s down to a not so-lean 240 and has improved both his quick ness and his speed. “We realized when he got here last year we had to rest him quite a bit because he was carrying too much weight for him to be effective,” Moore’s coach explained. See MOORE, page 3B Lancers win a nail biter By Josh Gordon HHJ Sports Writer MACON Central Fellowship hosted Tiftarea Academy Friday night and hung on to a 14-13 lead to win in Macon. The Lancers jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the first half thanks to A Central Fellowship 14, Tiftarea 13 superb running by wing back Javaris Parker. He notched touchdown runs of 41 and 23 in the first and second quarters respec- INSIDE SECTION ■ Charity golf BVA popular in county See page 2B ■ Perry rec soccer See page 3B .Sjj ' Nick Campbell HHJ Student Writer When it comes to football, I'm no 'recluse' I had a good idea for today’s column. It was going to be about what it felt like not to play in a football game. Fortunately for me (but unfortunately for the column), I was able to play. - You see, I was bitten by a brown recluse spider last week and it was doubtful as to whether or not I would be able to play. The only thing good that came out of the whole event was that I have gained a great new respect for doctors and have sworn off ever making fun of them. However, athletic trainers are not exempt from this; I’ll make fun of our trainer, Mike Edgar, repeatedly, including several times in this column. If you’re not familiar with brown recluses, let me give you a little background information on them. They are a member of the Arachnids, which comes from the words Arach, meaning “creatures” and Nids, meaning “that are unnecessarily aggravating.” Also falling into this catego ry are wasps, bees, fresh men, and Dick Vitale. My ordeal began on Monday, which was when I first became sore. I went to Mike for him to do some thing about it, thinking it was only a rash of some sort on my elbow. He did some preliminary tests that See CAMPBELL, page 2B tively to give his team a 14- 0 lead midway through the second quarter. Tiftarea would not be kept down, however. Utilizing their , spread offensive attack they tossed a 65-yard touch down pass to draw within in a touchdown at the half. “One of our safeties broke on the ball and tried to make a play,” Lancer head coach Todd Whetsel said. “The safety did what he should have done and played real aggressive.” Tiftarea scored another touchdown with a minute and a half remaining in the See LANCERS, page 3B