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WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 25, 2004
High school basketball
GHSAAAAAA
tournament
(at Macon Coliseum)
Thursday
■ Houston County girls vs.
Riverdale, 4 p.m.
GHSAAAA
tournament (at Savannah
State)
Thursday
■ Perry boys vs. Monroe-
Albany, 8:30 p.m.
GISAAAA
tournament (at Georgia
College In Mllledgeville)
Thursday
■ Central Fellowship girls vs.
George Walton, 7 p.m.
WR Rec holding
diamond signups
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will began baseball
and softball registration Saturday
and will continue until all leagues
are filled.
The age control date is Dec.
31, 2003, for softball and July 31
for baseball. A birth certificate
must be presented at the time of
signup, unless it is on file.
The cost is: $29 for city resi
dents, $59 for county residents
and slOl for those residing out
side of the county. Call 929-1916
for more information.
MU Angels holding
baskotbal tryouts
The South Georgia Angels girls
AAU basketball team is currently
having ongoing tryouts in Tifton.
Tryout dates are Wednesday and
March 3. The team is open to
girls ages 13-14. Contact Carlos
Howard at (229) 388-8949 for
more information.
Perry Rotary Club to
sponsor tourney
The Perry Rotary Club will
sponsor a charity bass tourna
ment and raffle March 13. The
cost is $125 per two-person
team. First prize is SI,OOO. Visit
www.rotarydistrict692o.net or call
987-8000 for more information.
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Which teams played in the first
World Series?
On tMs date...
1932 Malcolm Campbell set a
Daytona speed record when he
went 253.96 mph.
Local flavor...
First she won the Warner Robins
Recreation Department’s Elks
Hoop Shoot. Then she won at dis
trict. This past weekend, Katlyn
Winner won state.
She made nine out of 10 (free
throws) to take a two-bucket lead,
and then hit 11-of-15 in the second
round to win by three.
“It was really a neat thing to see
the youngest kid in the contest
and the shortest by far come out
on top," said her father Scott
Wimmer, a major in the Air Force
and stationed at Robins AFB.
He added she is back in the gym
shooting “200 shots every day" and
getting ready for the next level
the multi-state regional in Valdosta
March 27. She will compete against
winners from Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Mississippi, South
Carolina, Panama and Puerto Rico
and is only one step away from
making the National contest in
Massachusetts.
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"He turned Ns life around. He
used to be depressed and miser
able. Now he’s miserable and
depressed.’
Harry Kales, on
Garry Maddox
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prepares for baseball opener
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Peppy goes it the old way on the highway
By Joe Sersey
HHJ Sports Writer
PERRY
One of the hardest parts
of playoff basketball is
preparation. Although
the teams get several days to
prepare, the
coaches don’t
always know for
what.
“I’m afraid to
put in anything
new. It might
just confuse (the
players),” Perry
coach Brett
Hardy said of his
preparation for
the Panthers’
state playoff
game against
GHSAAAA
tourney
(at Savannah
State)
■ Perry vs.
Monroe-Albany,
Thursday, 8:30
p.m.
Monroe-Albany. “Our old style
has gotten us this far.”
And that is a long way. The
Panthers haven’t been past the
first round since before 1999.
The only player on the team
Growing season
Panthers begin two weeks of spring football training
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
PERRY Pass by a
high school and you’ll see
teams entrenched in
spring sport activities
soccer, baseball, tennis,
golf and/or track and field.
Pass by Perry and you’ll
see that
and more.
They’re
getting
ready for
football.
“There’s
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good time to have it
(spring training that
for them will last until
March 4),” said Perry
head football coach Chuck
Conley.
“If you look at last year,
we were playing baseball
until late. I knew coach
(Brett) Hardy (and the
Panthers’ basketball
team) was going to be a lot
better, but I didn’t expect
them to have a shot at
Macon.”
Of course that’s a “good
thing,” he added, and he
mentioned it because their
success means four-to-five
players would not be able
to work with the team
one of those being Montay
West who he also said had
a good shot at being the
team’s No. 1 quarterback.
But, he added, “I don’t
really mind missing those
guys because we know
where they’ll play and we
know what they can do.”
As far as the rest of the
80-plus a sharp
increase over the approxi
mate 55 from last year
who turned out, they were
put through the paces
Monday.
See SPRING, page 12A
Houston County swim team now has several All-American swimmers
Special to the HHJ
WESTMINSTER The
Houston County High school
girls swim team swam to a sev
enth place
team finish at the Georgia
High School Association
AAAAA swimming champi
onships held this past weekend
at Westminster High School.
The team, paced by freshman
Brigitte Gausche and sopho
more Lauren Rhea, scored scor
ing 105 points the best finish
ever of any are high school at
state, said assistant coach
James Parker.
Rhea started the team off in
grand fashion with a third-place
finish in the women's 200 yard
freestyle and, with a personal
best rime of 1:66.69.
"Lauren was a true competi
tor in this event," said Parker,
Sports
We're going to have
to turn it into a
(aster game.'
Perry boys head basketball
coach Brett Hardy
with any postseason experience
is Jai Bowens, who was a fresh
man when Perry lost in the first
round of its last appearance.
“We have a lot of people who
have played a lot of minutes,”
Hardy said. “We want to press
to create turnovers.”
That is Perry’s old/current
style of play.
Monroe advanced with a 46-
43 win. According to Hardy,
who scouted the game, both
teams focus on a half-court
game.
“You could tell they were a
well-coached team,” Hardy
added.
See PERRY, page 12A
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Perry defensive coordinator Andy Scott provides instruction on tackling Monday
during the Panthers’ opening day of spring football practice.
"swimming against the two top
200-yard freestyler’s in the
country including the Amanda
Weir who many expect will
make the Olympic team."
She then followed that up
with a fifth-place finish in the
women's 500-yard freestyle and
in the process swam to a high
school All-American qualifying
time. Lauren's performances
will land her a spot on the
GHSA All-State team, Parker
said.
"I have always been
impressed by Lauren's competi
tive nature,” he said. “She has
never given less the 100 percent
effort in any race."
Not to be out done, her team
mate Brigitte Gausche swam to
a fifth place finish in the
women's 60-yard freestyle.
See AMERICAN, page 12A
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Perry’s Ashton Stripling kicks a pass out to teammate Brandon Davis during the
Panthers’ GHSA AAA state playoff opening win Friday. They will travel and play
Monroe-Albany Thursday at Savannah State.
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pool during tha stata compaction Saturday at Westminster High School.
10A
Lady Lancers,
prepare for
Final Four
By Riley Smith
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON
The Central
Fellowship Lady
Lancers may be in
unfamiliar territory - head
ing to their first Georgia
Independent
School
Association
Final Four
State
Tournament
- but not
everybody
will seem
like
strangers
once they get
there.
Central
Fellowship
(23-5) will
square off
GISAAAA
tourney
(at Georgia
College in
Milledgeville)
Thursday
■ Central
Fellowship vs.
George Walton
against George Walton (22-
6) at Georgia College in
Milledgeville at 7 p.m.
Thursday.
Deerfield-Windsor will
face First Presbyterian Day
in the other state semifinal
at 4 p.m.
The Lancers fell to
Deerfield by two points on
Jan. 1; they split a pair with
region foe FPD this season.
Thursday’s matchup will
be Central Fellowship’s first
one with George Walton.
But the Lady Lancers don’t
enter the game totally
blind.
“I’ve seen them play, and
I’ve watched a little film on
them, but we haven’t played
them this year,” Central
Fellowship head coach Todd
Whetsel said. “We spent a
week with them at summer
camp, and played them a
time or two there.”
“They’ve been doing the
same thing for so many
See FOUR, page 12A