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THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 2, 2003
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High school fast-pitch
Today
■ Mary Persons at Perry, 6:30
p.m.
■ Morrow at Houston County,
5:45 p.m.
■ Warner Robins at Eagle’s
Landing, 5:45 p.m.
■ Mount Zion at Northside, 5:45
p.m.
High school football
■ Perry bye
Today
■ 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.
College football
Saturday
■ Alabama at Georgia, 3:30
p.m., CBS
■ North Carolina State at
Georgia Tech, noon
■ Alcorn State at Fort Valley
State, 6 p.m.
U BRIEF
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 Lite to
hold golf challenge
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-Okinawan 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, fitness training, self
control, realism and effective
self defense. For more informa
tion, call 922-2566.
&TRIVIAL
Quick quiz...
How many major champi
onships did Jack Nicklaus win?
Born 0n...
Oct. 2, 1932: Maury Wills
Base-stealing records have been
among the least durable in base
ball in recent years. Wills' 1962
total of 104 was thought to be
unapproachable but Lou Brock
stole 118 11 years later, and in
1982 Rickey Henderson stole
130.
On this date...
1968: Bob Gibson of the St.
Louis Cardinals established a new
World Series record by striking out
17 Detroit Tigers batters.
He said it...
“I knew it was time to retire
when I was driving down the
lane and got called for a three
second violation.”
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Northside wins rematch with Warner Robins
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
WARNER ROBINS
Northside avenged an earlier
season loss with
a 6-2 win over
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it was to their
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Perry’s Tion Kendrick takes a break during practice at the high school Tuesday.
Kendrick evolves into defensive leader
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
PERRY
The time was the
winter of 2002.
Tion Kendrick
and another wrestler had
turned up late and missed
the weigh-in for an away
meet that weekend.
Lady Panthers avenge Central loss
By Josh Gordon
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON After losing
to Central for their only
region loss all season
Perry bounced back nicely
beating the Lady Chargers
in a mirror image game, 4-
2, in Macon Tuesday
night.
“We didn’t play well in
the first game and today
wasn’t our best game,”
Perry head softball coach
Christi Wheeless said.
“I’m proud of the win
though. I am glad we beat
Sports
“It’s happened all year and
we just can’t get ourselves out
of it,” said Warner Robins head
fast-pitch coach Brenda
Amette of a trend. “I don’t
know ... it’s like we’re taking
the errors there (in other
games) and bringing them
here.
“They’ve just got to get their
mind set.”
On the Lady Eagles’ side of
the field, there was good new
everywhere.
They jumped on board with
an unearned run in the first
inning, added two more on a big
two-out, two-run RBI single by
Kelly Thornburg, and then
relied on the pitching of Rocky
Hemmer who was purposely
saved from the last time they
met for this occasion and
defense.
“We hit the ball real well,”
said Northside head fast-pitch
See REMATCH, page 2B
On guard
As a result, at the next
available practice, they
were forced to run “the
gauntlet.” They had to
wrestle each and every
teammate.
“It was terrible,” reflect
ed today’s 17-year-old sen
ior. “It was exhausting. I
hated it.”
Central.
“We dilly
dallied with
them again
for a little
while,” she
added.
“To win
and not play
our best
game is real
ly nice.”
Amanda Tucker struck
out six Lady Chargers (11-
6, 8-5 Region 4AAA) and
injected a dormant feeling
of comfort back into
At some point in his
sophomore year with the
football team, he was
moved from fullback to
defense.
“He wasn’t really doing
the things (head) coach
(Chuck) Conley was want
ing him to do at fullback,”
See KENDRICK, page 3B
Perry’s (15-4, 12-1 Region
4AAA) dugout.
“Having her back (she
was questionable due to
an illness) means a lot to
the girls,” Wheeless said.
“We had several players
that were really worried
about her. She’s a driving
force in our defense.
“Just having her on the
mound increases the confi
dence level of the defense.
They’ve gotten used to her
comfortable with her.”
Perry received plenty of
See AVENGE, page 2B
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Northside’s Lakeisha Levi leads off first base during the second inning of the Lady
Eagles’ game against Warner Robins Tuesday at Memorial Park. Northside won
the region-counter 6-2. Patrolling first for the Demonettes is Jessy Fortney.
Westfield faces tough
defense in Stratford
By Josh Gordon
HHJ Sports Writer
PERRY Both
Stratford and Westfield are
playing each other for
their final non-region con
test of the 2003 season.
Beginning tough region
schedules
next week
Westfield
(4-2) head
football
coach
Ronnie
Jones
under
stands the
importance
of this
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Westfield at
Stratford,
Friday,
8 p.m.
game and the quality of a
deceiving 3-3 Eagle team.
“They lost to Augusta
(Christian) (5-1) who lost
one game and George
Walton (5-0) and Deerfield
(0-0) who have lost no
games,” Jones said of the
Lancers contend with
Cavaliers' quarterback
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
MACON To hear both
head coaches talk, the dif
ference between Central
Fellowship
(2-3) and
Mount de
Sales and
who wins
or loses will
come down
to one posi
tion two
in the case
of the
Lancers
the quar
terback.
Central
Fellowship at
Mount de
Sales, Friday,
8 p.m.
For the 5-1 Cavaliers, it’s
6-foot-2, 198-pound Erik
Hardison.
“He is a very good play
er,” said Lancers head
coach Todd Whetsel
regarding seeing the signal
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INSIDE
■ Lady Bears
fall to
Westside
See page 2B
■ High school
prep poll
See page 3B
SECTION
B
difficulty of the Eagles’
schedule. “We haven’t
played those other folks.
It’s hard for us to compare
but they’ve got a real good
3-3 football team.”
According to Jones the
Eagles (3-3) are playing
well due in large part to
their impressive defense.
While they play a 4-3
scheme they are still able
to defend the run well
because of the size of the
defense line and the speed
of the linebackers. Their
ability to defend the
trenches with seven play
ers allowed them to play
extremely tight in pass
coyerage’s, stifling oppos
ing offenses.
“Defensively, everyone
that I’ve talked to says
their defensive line is the
best they’ve faced,” Jones
said.
See HORNETS, page 3B
caller on seeing him on
film of the team’s games
against Sherwood,
Southland and John
Milledge. “I have been very
impressed.”
“He does a good job of
leading the option attack
offense ... it’s pretty much
built around him. He is the
key to their offense. We
have to be very concerned
with him.”
Hardison has completed
15 out of 39 pass attempts
and accounts for all of
Mount de Sales’ passing
yards, 219.
Central Fellowship on
the other hand has in the
past used the tandem of
Mikey McWhirter and Kyle
Gordon. Combined,
they’ve only managed to
throw for 58 yards and
See LANCERS, page 3B
Perry ace
Amanda
Tucker deliv
ers to the
mound in the
Lady Panthers’
4-2 win over
Central
Tuesday in
Macon.
Looking on at
short is Bianca
King who fin
ished the day
1-3 with an
RBI.
HHJ/Josh Gordon