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THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 26, 2004
High school basketball
GHSA AAAAA
tournament
(at Macon Coliseum)
today
■ Houston County girls vs.
Riverdale, 4 p.m.
GHSA AAA
tournament (at Savannah
State)
today
■ Perry boys vs. Monroe-
Albany, 8:30 p.m.
GISA AAA
tournament (at Georgia
College in Milledgeville)
today
a Central Fellowship girls vs.
George Walton, 7 p.m.
WR Rec holding
diamond signups
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department 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
basketball 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.
Peppy 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.
YMCA looking for
veteran instructors
The Houston County YMCA is
currently hiring experienced gym
nastics, tumbling and aerobics
instructors. Apply in person at
the YMCA at 2954 Moody Road
in Warner Robins. Call them at
922-2566 for more information.
They also have fitness, cheer
leading, Rhythm Nation Dance
program, gymnastics and karate
course opportunities available.
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Eagles look
By Joe Sersey
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS
Leadership
will be the watch
word for Northside this
baseball season.
The
Eagles lost
eight sen
iors to
graduation
and are in a
new world.
PREVEW
Fhcing a 22-game schedule,
Northside coach Kevin
Kinsler must see some play
ers step up as leaders.
“Obviously, losing that
many seniors is going to
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Houston County’s Cassi Stuart sinks one of a pair of free throws during the Lady Bears’ AAAAA first-round
state playoff win over Tift County Saturday. They will play Riverdale today.
Houston County girls prepare for Sweet 16 showdown
By Joe Sersey
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS
When the Lady
Bears play the
Raiderettes of
Riverdale,
it will be
like playing
themselves.
“They
like to run
and push
the ball up
the court,”
said
Houston
County
girls bas
ketb a l l
head coach
Sid Baxley.
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GHSAAAAAA
tourney
(at Macon
Coliseum)
■ Houston
County vs.
Riverdale, today,
4 p.m.
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Central Fellowship assistant soccer coach
Kevin Bernard runs the Lady Lancers
through drifts Monday at the school.
Sports
have an
effect,”
Kinsler
said.
“Three of
them had
been start
ing since
sopho
mores.”
The
Eagles
were 15-9
last year with an 11-7 region
record. They narrowly
missed out on the postsea
son when they came out on
the wrong side of a three
way tie.
They have three key play
Sink or swim
they look Yor the quick
outlet, and then all five
take off.”
That sounds like
Houston County’s “D.”
“They’re pretty athlet
ic,” Baxley said. “The have
two girls about 6 feet and
their guards are real
active.”
That means that Tiffany
Lewis and LaTanya
Harrison will have to be
active, too.
Lewis is averaging more
than 10 points and seven
and a half rebounds a
game. And rebounds,
according to Baxley, will
be very important.
“(Riverdale) tries to get
the ball inside to the two
big girls,” Baxley said.
to leadership on the diamond
ers return
ing as sen
iors.
Chris
Wolfe,
Kinsler
said, will
be one of
four
starters.
Last
year’s 2-3
record
LEWIS
doesn’t reflect his ability
because he had to replace an
injured starter and was
forced to pitch against sev
eral of Region 2-AAAAA’s
top teams, Kinsler said.
Outfielder Stephen Lewis
'We like to run
sleo. It might be a
track meet early’
Houston County girls
basketball coach Sid Baxley
“Their guards shoot from
the outside.”
Physically, Lewis isn’t
the biggest girl in the low
post; she plays like it.
Look for her to hit the foul
line often because she has
a knack of getting position
and forcing her. opponents
to foul.
Although Harrison has a
seven points per game
average, she also handles
Lady Lancers soccer team hopes
to build on prior year's success
By Riley Smith
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON
The Central Fellowship
girls’ soccer team may be
young, but don’t see it as
a reason to
stand in the way
of big goals this
season. The
Lady Lancers
are coming off
one of the most
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successful years yet one that
saw them gain two region wins
and a first round playoff berth.
However, Central Fellowship
fell 2-0 in the first round of the
playoffs to North Cobb in the
GISA playoffs. The Lady Lancers
finished with a 2-4 region record,
6-13-1 overall last season.
Head coach Todd Bishop says
five seniors departed from that
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will be
starting
for the
first time
in his
career. He
had limit
ed playing
time last
year.
Lewis is
an aca
demic all-
WOLFE
star with several scholar
ship offers, including one for
$13,000 from Mercer.
Kinsler said he is expect
ing the most from catcher
Dustin Carter.
“Dustin is the most expe-
the intangibles.
“She’s a team leader,”
Baxley said, “but she’s
going to have to do some
scoring.”
Harrison isn’t the only
player who is going to
have to put up some offen
sive numbers.
The Lady Bears need
lights-out shooting from
Ray-Donee Jones like fans
saw at the Bear Brawl.
“She’s going to have to
shoot the ball early,”
Baxley said.
Jones scored 19.5 points
a game at the Brawl, but
has averaged only 9.6
since.
“We like to run also,”
Baxley said.
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Central Fellowship girls soccer
coach Todd Bishop
squad. This year, he has a roster
comprised of only two seniors
and a handftil of juniors; the rest
will be underclassmen.
Nonetheless, Bishop is optimistic
about this season’s outlook.
“I think we are in a region that
a region championship is not
outside the realm of possibility,
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rienced player starting,”
Kinsler said. “It’s going to
be real important that we
have some good leadership
(from him).”
He is looking to Carter to
provide that and he just
might have the credentials
to provide that spark.
Last year he batted .324.
Defensively, he threw out 54
percent of the runners who
tried to steal.
Kinsler admitted, howev
er, his Eagles may have a
tough start. With so many
players moving up, no one is
sure how they will react at
the varsity level.
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Don Moncrief
Sports Editor
donm@evansnewspapers.com
Let the chips
fall where
they may
Someone has a chip on
his shoulder.
Periodically, I receive
anonymous or not-so anony
mous phone calls/voice mes
sages or e-mails that go some
thing like this: “Why don’t
you ever cover ,”
where anything from a team
name to a school and at
the skill level beginning at
recreation play and on up to
high school can be inserted
in the blank space.
The politically correct
answer is, “Yes ma’am,” or
“Yes sir.” “We’ll try to do bet
ter.” After all, we don’t want
to lose your business.
However, when you’ve
already said you’re taking
that business elsewhere as
was the case in the latest and
greatest it appears I have
nothing to lose.
Let’s just cut to the chase,
shall we? You’re not fooling
anybody.
What you really meant to
say was, “Why don’t you ever
cover my (insert name of son
or daughter)?” (And by the
way, I looked at the roster
and pending some startling
coincidence you
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Things 'grear
in Perry camp
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
PERRY While day one
in Perry’s spring football
workouts was considered a
“good day”
by head
coach
Chuck
Conley, day
two was in
his words a
“great day.”
"The
young kids
were just so
much more
enthusias
tic,” he said. “And we had a
chance to work with them a
little more.”
Conley said the agenda
for Tuesday pretty much
mirrored the day before
teaching fundamentals with
some scrimmaging thrown
in.
“Controlled stuff,” he
said. "... 'bag period’ and
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