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FRIDAY,
JANUARY 21, 2005
ON
High school basketball
Today
■ Carver at Warner Robins,
6 p.m.
■ First Presbyterian Day at
Central Fellowship, 6:30 p.m.
■ Spalding at Perry, 7 p.m.
■ Tift County at Houston
County, 7 p.m.
■ Westfield at Deerfield-
Windsor, 6 p.m.
■ Westside at Northside, 7
p.m.
Saturday
■ Central Fellowship at
Deerfield-Windsor, 4 p.m.
■ Houston County at Lowndes,
6 p.m.
■ Westfield at Tiftarea, 4 p.m.
■ Northside at Crisp County,
6 p.m.
High school wrestling
Today
■ Warner Robins at Rutland,
5 p.m.
■ AAAA state duals, time/
opponents to be determined
(through Saturday)
High school swimming
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at Clarke,
time TBD
■ Houston County at Americus,
time TBD
CGSA gearing iv for
spring session
The Central Georgia Soccer
Association is currently gearing
up for its upcoming spring ses
sion. To that end, the group is
conducting on-iine registration
- it's open to children ages 4-
19 - from through Sunday.
Registration for the Select
Academy has also begun and
is slated to run through Feb.
25. The CGSA Web site can
be found at www.gasoccer.
org/cgsa. Contact Bette Dillon
at 987-2455 for more.
Umpres association
to hold meethgs
The Warner Robins Umpires
Association will hold its first
two meetings of the year, one
Jan. 31 and the other Feb. 7 at
the Warner Robins Recreation
Department. If you are inter
ested in umpiring, call 328-
8995 or 923-6038.
Demon booster cMi
states lead-off iftner
The Warner Robins
Diamond Demon Booster Club
is hosting its Baseball Lead-off
Dinner Thursday.
The fund raiser is scheduled
to start at 6:30 p.m. and will
cost $25 per ticket. The cost
covers a steak dinner pro
vided by Outback, door prizes
and a silent auction.
Confirmed guests will
include major leaguers Glen
Hubbard, Cal Daniels, Mark
Johnson, Adam Wainwright,
Steve Bedrosian and Ron
Reed.
Tickets are on sale in the high
school office or at Satterfield
Jewelers in Centerville. For
more information, call club
president Tim West at 923-
0773.
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the NFL.
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“We’re like a hockey team.
We play in shifts. And I’m still
driving the Zamboni.”
- Dave Collins, on a constant
Reds lineup change
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Federation sets dates for its liirkeyrama, Fisharama
From staff reports
PERRY - The Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter will
once again be the site of the Georgia
Wildlife Federation’s Turkeyrama
and Fisharama. Both are slated for
Feb. 11-13.
According to a release from the
Georgia Wildlife Federation, the
Turkeyrama will feature: “Hundreds
of hunting and fishing exhibits,
great low prices, top-notch speakers,
thousands of dollars in door prizes
and the ‘famous’ Realtree Grand
America turkey calling contest.”
Headlining the show for the
Turkeyrama will be the “Sting
Team” consisting of Mike Pentecost,
Matt Van Cise, Joe Drake, Sadler
McGraw, Jim Pollard, Billy Yargus
and Doug Crabtree.
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Perry’s Tony Patterson, right, wrestling in the 119-pound division, maneuvers Jones County’s Doug Stephens into
position during the Panthers’ dual meet at home Tuesday. Patterson won the match 8-2. He also beat his Warner
Robins opponent and finished the day 2-0.
Are you pulling my leg?
Perry sweeps past Warner Robins, Jones County at home
From staff reports
PERRY - The Panthers
doubled their pleasure in
a wrestling
meet they
hosted
Tuesday at
the school.
Perry
defeated
Jones
County 45-
33 to start
the evening
and then
Warner
Robins 56-
24 in the
nightcap.
In the
ON TAP
Sunday: Local
wrestling teams
will go head-to
head Tuesday for
bragging rights
when they meet
in the Houston
County Duals at
Houston County
High School.
Catch a preview
in the weekend's
HHJ.
course of the wins, the
Panthers had seven of then
wrestlers score perfect
nights.
Brandon Montgomery,
wrestling in the 103-pound
division, Tony Patterson
in the 119, Talmadge
Borthwick, 125, Dustin
Tally, 130, Chad Shelton,
135 and Sam Noel, 171 were
each 2-0.
Tyler Andrews and Justin
Postalwait both wrestled in
the 160-pound division and
both were 1-0.
Eric Danforth, 112, Joe
Steele, 152, Jon Beale, 215
and Ryan Black were each
Sports
“These guys
have hundreds of
combined years
of hunting expe
rience,” accord
ing the release,
“and plenty of
know-how when
it comes to call
ing in the big gob
bler.”
This will be the
12th year the tur-
key calling con
test has been held at the facility.
The event is scheduled to start at
1 p.m. Feb. 12, with the finals set
for 1 p.m. Feb. 13. First prize in
the senior division is set for $3,000
plus a set of Realtree camouflage
clothing.
1-1.
Tommy Turner, 140, Kyle
Hood, 145 and Brandon
HHJ/Joe Seney
Warner Robins’ Robert Schmidt struggles against Jones County’s Nathaniel Williams
in the 130-pound division of Perry’s dual meet Tuesday. Despite his best efforts,
Schmidt lost the match by a pin.
Capt. Mark Noble of the Golden
Isles Charter Fishing Association
will be one of the featured guests
for the Fisharama. He has plenty of
experience fishing on the Georgia
coast and, according to the release,
“will motivate new and young
anglers alike to participate in the
diversity backwater and ocean fish
ing can provide.”
Joining him will be Capt. Gary
Altman and Capt. Billy McGee,
who are scheduled to teach visitors
about everything from techniques
to equipment to the importance of
tides, water clarity and the types of
bait to use for any quarry.
Also back by “popular demand”
are “world-famous” celebrities Joey
Mines from the show “Outdoors
with Joey Mines” and Jerry Nolan
GLANCE
What: Turkeyrama
and Fisharama
When: Feb. 11-13
Where: Georgia
National Fairgrounds
and Agricenter
Cost: $7 for adults,
$4 for seniors, $4 for
children 6-12
Golden, 189, will each have
to wait until Perry wrestles
again - the Houston County
Duals Tuesday - before they
get a chance to pick up their
next win.
of “Strollin’ with Nolan in the
Outdoors” fame.
Two others on the list of guests
are Capt. A 1 Phillips, who is slated to
teach “secrets on fishing with spin
ner baits, buzz baits and worms,”
and Keith Johnson, a former mili
tary man who has won seven tour
nament championships. He is going
to share some of his (fishing) stories,
according to the release.
Both the Turkeyrama and
Fisharama are educational fund
raising events for the federation.
Admission is $7 for adults, $4 for
seniors and $4 for children 6-12.
Parking is free.
Gates open and close for the
events from: 1-8 p.m., Feb. 11; 10
a.m.-8 p.m., Feb. 12 and 10 a.m.-6
p.m., Feb. 13.
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Timothy Graham
HHJ Staff Writer
It's all still
just a game
to baseball
Major League
Baseball has
announced that
it has decided to take the
issue of drugs in the sport
seriously. It will now come
down hard on anyone
using drugs. Right.
Major League Baseball
will never really deal seri
ously with the issue of
drugs. Just like no other
professional sports league
in the United States will
deal seriously with the
issue. The reason why
they won’t: The athletes
are unionized and the
majority of the union
members don’t want to
clean up the game.
The union agreed to
go along with MLB’s
watered-down proposal
because they knew they
would face a public rela
tions firestorm if they
didn’t. But they refused to
allow amphetamines to be
included in the program
and they still refused to
endorse meaningful pun
ishments for transgres
sors.
If you get caught pump
ing yourself up with ste
roids you face a fierce 10
game suspension. Wow!
That’s strict! Of course
it beats the NFL where
you have to get caught for
a third time before they
start making you take a
break from the action.
This is all in contrast
with international sports
where you can take a seri
ous hit if you get caught
trying to supplement your
training regimen with
illegal substances.
If the international
Olympic Committee
catches you it means a
two-year suspension. Two
years off from an Olympic
sport is pretty much a
death sentence, but you l
still find athletes like
Marion Jones trying to
play fast ones.
Lance Armstrong has
been dogged for years by
claims that he uses illegal
substances but interna
tional cycling is one of the
most drug-tested sports
in the world.
During the course of an
event like the Tour de
France athletes are sub
jected to random drug
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