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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
BEARS
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“We approach (prepara
tion) differently,” Johnson
said. “Right now, we want
to get our base set this
week. If we can’t run a base
offense or defense, we can’t
run anything.”
“We line up our kids and
say let’s play,” he added.
“Nothing fancy.”
He won’t film practice
until the end of this week.
Then, Johnson will have his
players come in early for the
evening practice to watch
film.
As part of his team’s
preparation for the season,
Johnson uses his camp to
CAMPUS
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“We use these camps to
try to better prepare us for
the season,” said head foot
ball coach Conrad Nix. “We
will have extended prac
tices on and off the field.”
When they are in uni
form, the Eagles will be
studying playbooks or
videos of past games or
PREPARES
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past three weeks at practice,
helping the girls prepare.
There are approximately 12
teams vying for the World
Series title.
The championship games
are played in a double-elimi
nation fashion.
'We know we will play at
least two games,” Hughes
said, “and hopefully more
than that.”
The girls age from 10-and
under and they are undoubt
edly thrilled with the idea of
becoming World Series cham
pions.
"I think it is good that we
get to go,” said Myereisha
Walker. “We have done a
great job and I hope that we
win.
Hughes introduces player
Amanda Klusman as "John
Smoltz." Klusman is a pitcher
for the team as well as the
first and third baseman.
All of the girls are pumped
about traveling and having
an opportunity to win the
series. This is the first World
Series for almost all of the
girls.
"It’s going to be so much
fun," said catcher Jansson
Hughes.
The Perry Junior League
qualified for the honor of
attending when they won the
state title - against North
Macon in the finals - in June.
Amanda
Klusman catch
es at first base
while Garbett
looks on to
cover.
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find out about his players’
abilities. For example, he
said he might test a lineman
by running plays to the
same spot to see if he can
block.
“We’ll find out if he can
do the job or if we need to
find someone else,”
Johnson said.
More than 100 players
have dressed out for camp.
He’s boiled his practices
down to morning and
evening, without the mid
day effort and makes up for
it with a lot of scrimmaging.
The bottom line for
Johnson, though, is making
sure that the Bears can do
practices.
The intent of the camp is
to give the players time to
focus on football.
“Hopefully, we’ll get bet
ter in all areas,” Nix said,
“including individual posi
tions.”
Nix, coaches and players
will be living at the school,
camped out in the cafeteria
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the fundamental parts of
their offense and defense
before moving on to the
more sophisticated plays.
As part of Houston
County’s preseason prepa
ration, the Bears booster
club will host what Johnson
called his annual “Eat ‘n
Meet.” It is a covered dish
supper scheduled for 7 p.m.
Monday in the school cafe
teria.
“It gives parents a chance
to meet with coaches,”
Johnson said. “They will get
a copy of the schedule and
talk to the coaches about
any questions they may
have.”
until the end of practice
Thursday night.
Players and coaches will
get a chance to get to know
each other through four
days and three nights of
close association.
“We’ll work on who
might be a starter,” Nix
said, “and who might be a
backup.”
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Two Perry Junior League teams sponsored by Domino’s of Perry fared well on the
baseball diamond recently. The PJL’s 8-and-under Dots, at top, finished first in their
division, while, above, the PJL 8-year-old All-Star team traveled to Monroe where they
finished runner-up in a tournament. Dots members were, front row from left, Olivia
Albritton, Randi Lee Woodard, Makayla Clifton, Delaney Foster and Hanna Simpson.
Back row, Sierra Moore, Regan Westmoreland, Anna Marie Swartz, Melissa Eckman
and coaches Rusty Swartz and Darryl Albritton. All-Star team members were, front row
from left, Cierra McDowell, Victoria Tucker, Alanna Reece, Kinsley Gilliam and Callie
Hammerly. Back row, Brooke Barker, Morgan Smith, Samantha Gidney, Olivia
Albritton, Anna Marie Swartz, Regan Westmoreland, Marie Smith and coaches Jay
Barker, Rusty Swartz and Phil Gilliam.
Evans: Georgia changes are his decisions
By CHARLES ODUM
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Saying he's
not a puppet for the universi
ty president, Georgia athletic
director Damon Evans insist
ed Monday that he's the one
calling the shots in his
department.
Evans, nearing the end of
his first month of the job, has
already fired three of former
athletic director Vince
Dooley's most loyal senior
staffers and forced another
into retirement. In addition,
Evans changed the title of
several longtime department
employees.
There has been much spec
ulation that Georgia presi
dent Michael Adams is
behind the personnel moves,
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wanting to lessen Dooley's
influence over the depart
ment.
"That's not my goal what
soever,” Evans told a group of
state sportswriters at a
Georgia Associated Press
meeting. "I have not received
any directive from anyone.
It's just a plan that I have to
come in and do what I think
is appropriate for the direc
tion I want to lead us in."
Evans, 34, had been one of
Dooley's top lieutenants
before his promotion as the
first black athletic director in
the Southeastern
Conference, taking over after
Adams rejected Dooley's
request for a contract deci
sion.
Evans said he knew before
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he took over on July 1 that
all decisions would be ana
lyzed against the backdrop of
the larger context of the feud
between Dooley and Adams.
"I knew everything I did
was going to be questioned
whether I'm doing it ...
because of Adams," Evans
said. "I'll sit here and tell
everybody in this room and
look you dead in the eye: I'm
doing it because it's what I
think is appropriate."
Evans dismissed Avery
McLean, Freddy Jones and
Hoke Wilder, who had a com
bined 60 years of service
under Dooley in the athletic
department, and accepted
the resignation of associate
athletic director for develop
ment Kit Trensch.
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