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FRIDAY,
APRIL 9, 2004
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High school baseball
Today
■ Henry County at Northside,
5:30 p.m.
■ Warner Robins at Houston
County, 7 p.m.
■ Deerfield-Windsor at Central
Fellowship, 1 p.m.
Saturday
■ Central Fellowship at Trinity
Christian, 4 p.m.
High school golf
Friday
■ Houston County and Warner
Robins at Vidalia Invitational
(through Saturday), time to be
determined
Professional baseball
Today
■ Chicago at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.,
TBS
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Base to host Earth
Day fishing rodeo
As part of Earth Day events.
Robins Air Force Base will host a
fishing rodeo plus games and
demonstrations on Luna Lake
April 17 from 8 a.m. to noon.
Anyone over the age of 16 must
have a state and RAFB license.
Contact the Nature Center on base
at 926-4500 for more information.
Local Bufetog CM to
hold spring social
The Museum of Aviation will
sponsor the Eighth Annual Bng.
Gen. Robert L. Scott Jr., golf tour
nament Apnl 16 at Barrington Hall
Golf Club.
The format is a four-person
scramble with an 8 a.m. start. The
cost is $96 per player, which
includes greens fee, cart, shirt,
range balls, lunch and an “evening
celebration.’
Call 923-6600 for more informa
tion.
Local Biidog CU> to
hold spring social
The Warner Robins Bulldog Club
will hold its spnng social Apnl 29 at
the Museum of Aviation (Hangar
One). The cost is $25 with the
event slated to begin at 7 p.m. (Big
Dawg talk at 8 p.m ).
Tickets are available from John
Bailey at The Furniture Gallery,
Jack Bryan of J. Bryan Jewelers or
call Paul Hibbitts at 922-9447,
Charles Jackson, 922-7456 or
Natalie Claxton. 923-8841. Tickets
must be purchased by Apnl 23.
Optmtst tor Kids
event set lor May
The fourth annual Optimist for
Kids golf scramble will be held May
21 at Houston Lake Country Club.
The event is slated to begin with a
1 p.m. shotgun start (lunch 11:30
a.m. -1 p.m.).
The entry fee is $75 per person
or S3OO per team, which includes
the entry fee. lunch, green fees,
pnzes and more
Sponsorships are also available.
Gold sponsorship is SSOO Hole
sponsorship is SSO. According to
their release, “all proceeds go to
benefit the youth in Houston
County" Call Jimmy Walker at 953-
1155, Kevin Greer, 922-7701 or
Kevin Lipford. 953-0125 for more
information.
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bowls?"
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Cleveland Indians became first
black manager of a major league
baseball team.
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“Happiness is going 2 for 5 and
seeing your average drop."
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Eagles' win over Stockbridge 'complete'
By Riley Smith
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS
Four home runs, error-free
play and only four hits
allowed ... that’s the recipe
the Northside
Eagles used
for an
impressive
11-4 region
win over the
Stockbridge
Tigers.
“It was a
complete
Northside 11,
Stockbridge 4
game,” Northside head
baseball coach Kevin
Kinsler said. “Defensively,
offensively, pitching, base
running ... they don’t hap
pen often, but I thought we
played a pretty complete
game.”
Stopping the slide
Demons use a youth movement to rally past Morrow
By Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
WARNER ROBINS
Anthony Lee entered the
box with only one varsity
at bat. His
lone appear
ance came
Saturday in
a 9-1 loss at
Coffee
County. He
struck out.
And yet
there he was
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Warner Robins
8. Morrow 7
Wednesday with Warner
Robins down 7-6 to
Morrow in the bottom of
the seventh.
Justin Phelps was on
third. He had walked,
moved to second on an
infield single by Blake
Allen and one short trip
away from home on a
fielder’s choice that wiped
out Allen and allowed
Chris Snipes to reach. In
between, Greg Gentry' had
popped out to short.
The scene was set.
His charge: “Look for a
fastball,” said Warner
Robins head coach Scott
Lamb, adding the hefty
lOth-grader was one of the
ones he, Lamb, had
expected to be a regular
until he had to have sur
gery on his finger. Now, he
was back.
“I knew he was capable
of turning on one,” Lamb
said He did. He ripped the
first pitch, a fastball, to
the fence in left on one
hop.
He made it to second
standing. Phelps scored to
tie the game.
Enter Judd Holland,
another up-and-coming
youngster. He replaced
Snipes as a pinch runner
and scored on a passed
ball two pitches later to
win it for the Demons 8-7.
“Each person knows
they have a role on this
team,” Lamb said. “If they
perform it like they’re
supposed to, we can win. If
they don’t, we’re not
going to do very good.”
The latter is exactly the
Peeples signs letter with MGC
Special to the HHJ
COCHRAN Middle
Georgia College announced
this week that Central
Fellowship's Ashley Peeples
had signed a scholarship to
play soccer for Middle Georgia
College’s inaugural soccer
team.
The Centerville resident
inked her letter of intent
Wednesday at the college.
Peeples has been playing soc
cer for nearly seven years.
MGC women’s head soccer
coach Michael Gross said he is
Sports
To the delight of their
skipper, the Eagles dis
played a hunger to compete
as soon as play began.
In the top of the first, left
fielder B.J. Stewart scram
bled nearly 30 yards and
made a diving catch on the
foul line to rob
Stockbridge’s second hitter,
Andy Love, of a possible
double. Eagle starting
pitcher then fanned oppos
ing shortstop Matt Settle
for a 1-2-3 inning.
“We’ve been trying to
preach in practice to make
things happen,” Kinsler
said. “And that’s what I tell
them set the tempo of
how you’re going to play.
“When B.J. makes thut
diving catch right there ...
even if he doesn’t catch
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Warner Robins’ Blake Allen applies the tag to Morrow's Mario Peek in the first
inning and on an attempted steal at third.
way it appeared things
were going to go in the
early innings. Phelps
struggled mightily on the
mound, while on offense,
the Demons wiped out
every early base runner
they had.
They went into the bot
tom of the third down 5-2.
They left it ,up 6-5,
thanks in part to a head
scratching three-run
glad to have
her coming on
board.
“Were
happy to have
her,” Gross
said. “You
can see the
competitive
ness and
deter mi na
tion in Ashley.
I could see she
has a lot to offer in the try
out."
Peeples said she is looking
Wve been trying to preach hi
practice to make things happen. And
that's what I tel them set the
tempo ol how you're going to play.'
Northside baseball head coach Kevin Kinsler
thut, he still set the tempo
thut was going to get after
it and try to make plays.
Our kids are just respond
ing to that right now.”
“I thought defensively,
the infield and outfield,
made the plays," he added,
“and that’s a big thing. You
want to make the routine
plays, and then occasional
ly, you’re going to make a
home run by Snipes. It
confused everybody
because it looked like an
easy pop fly meant simply
as a sacrifice fly to bring
Phelps, who had walked,
home. Instead and with
no wind it continued to
drift backward in right
until it cleared the fence.
Or did it.
The Mustang's bench
didn’t think so, but their
WQr
forward to attending the
Cochran campus in the fall.
“I’m really excited about
coming to MGC and playing
soccer,” Peeples said.
“Soccer’s more of a contact
sport and I epjoy the game.”
On another note, if you
would like to learn more about
MGC’s new soccer program,
call Gross at (478) 934-8409 or
e-mail him at
mgrossfa mgc.edu.
Or, contact Jeff Dixon at
(478) 934-3064 or at
jdixon(« mgc.edu.
PEEPLES
great play.
“I thought we had two or
three guys make outstand
ing plays. But the big thing
was we made the routine
plays.”
The Eagles’ leadoff hit
ter, Derek Bowen, reached
base four times and pound
ed a pair of solo home runs.
Bowen smacked an off
speed pitch from Tiger
right fielder never raised
his hand to single it
bounced over for a
ground-rule double.
The ruling stood.
“We may have gotten a
gift,” Lamb smiled. “But
we needed it bad.”
They also needed some
relief pitching and they
received it in the form of
Joey Mower.
See YOUTH, page 2B
Bears come up just
short to Warhawks
By Don Monchef
HHJ Sports Editor
Harry' Cany 5,
Houston Carty 4
starter Daniel Jackson over
the left-center field wall in
the first inning. Three bat
ters later, Northside third
baseman Shane Scott left
the yard with one runner
on base to extend the lead
to 3-0.
Later, with two down in
the first, Chris Wolfe sin
gled and Stewart reached
on an error by shortstop
Matt Setttle. Adam Smith
singled, knocking in Wolfe.
A bases loaded walk to
Bowen forced Stewart
home for the Eagle’s fifth
run of the inning.
Northside picked up in
the second inning just
where they’d left off in the
first. Another error by
Settle allowed Shane Scott
See COMPLETE, page 2B
Joe Sersey
Sports Writer
Jserwy@i-vansnewspapers com
All things
being equal;
I'm wrong
lam wrong. Worse, I’ve
been wrong since the
Gender Equity Law
went into effect.
I was coaching softball at
an area high school and was
sent with two other coaches
to attend a conference
intended to explain the new
law. The system paid S3OO
for the conference and also
paid for substitutes to
attend just so I/we could be
misinformed.
A representative at GHSA
said that there were people
traveling around the state
giving clinics on how gender
equity would apply to
schools. He made it clear
they were wrong.
For instance, there’s a dif
ference between equal and
equitable. The law was not
meant to make things
equal
The coaches at the confer
ence were told unequivocal
ly that if a baseball field
existed, the new softball
field had to match it. That is
not correct
The softball fields have to
match the other softball
fields in the system.
I was told that there could
only be one booster club per
school, not separate clubs
for each sport.
That was incorrect, and
now, as I understand it,
what booster clubs do for
the schools doesn’t mean
that the board has to make
sure that all schools get the
same.
It means that if Perry gets
See SERSEY, page 2B
It may have been a moral
victory, just not a win.
Houston County’s Billy
Dukes and Chris Tyler com
bined on the mound to outdu
el one of the nation’s top
baseball prospects, Mike
Rozier. Dukes had seven
strikeouts while Tyler fanned
four.
Henry County’s lefty finished the night
See SHORT, page 2B
1B