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SUNDAY,
JANUARY 23, 2005
ON TAP
High school basketball
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 swimming
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at Clarke,
time TBD
■ Houston County at Americus,
time TBD
IN BRIEF
VMeybal group
looking tor players
The Central , Georgia
Volleyball Association is seek
ing girls for its under-15 team.
Potential players cannot have
reached 15 prior to Sept. 1.
Call 442-1305 for more infor
mation.
C6SA gearing iv lor
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-line 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.
Uhvavs association
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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 cU
slates lead-off Auer
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 informa
tion, call club president Tim
West at 923-0773.
WW to host aver
Bowl party
The Warner Robins VFW
Memorial Post 6605 will hold a
Super J3owl party Feb. 6.
The cost is SIOO which
allows the purchaser to bring
one guest and includes free
drinks, heavy finger food and
entry into four different draw
ings totalling $5,000.
Advance tickets can be pur
chased at the Post Home at
1011 Corder Road. Call 922-
2154 for more information.
TRIVIA: TRIVIAL
Quck quiz...
In what year did the first
Monte Carlo motor rally take
place?
On this date...
1979 - The Pittsburgh
Steelers beat the Dallas
Cowboys 35-31 in Super Bowl
XIII.
Answer: 1911
A horse of a different color
Local loams prepare to mount a challenge for title
In unrelated news, Perry finds out
its in Area Duals tourney after all
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
County high school grap-
piers are
scheduled
to meet at
Houston
County
High
School
Tuesday
at 5 p.m.
for the
Houston
County
Duals.
GLANCE
What: Houston
County Wrestling
Duals
When: Tuesday, 5
p.m.
Where: Houston
County High School
The Bears are the hosts
after winning last year’s
meet at Perry.
“We want to repeat at
county champions,” said
Bears head coach Heath
Burch matter-of-factly.
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Houston County’s Katie Carpenter takes a break from training Tuesday. With two regu
lar-season meets to go, the junior has already qualified for the state tournament in
three relay events as well as the 50 Freestyle and 100-meter Breaststroke.
If I were a Carpenter
HoCo swimmer is, she nails the competition
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Katie Carpenter has
logged more hours
in the water than
Flipper. The Houston County
junior is a member of her
school’s swim team and the
Warner Robins Aquanauts.
She began swimming at
age five and started swim
ming with James Parker and
the Aquanauts in 1995 at
age seven.
“Katie is the kind of kid
every coach wants,” Parker
said. “She’s a hard worker.
She’ll do whatever you want
Sports
as the favorites. Houston
County brings a record of
28-3 and sent four wrestlers
to the championship round
of the Eagles Classic Jan.
7-8 at Northside.
“I’ve been pumping the
seniors, telling them this
would be the first time for
back-to-back champion
ships,” Burch said.
His seniors are Zach Wiley,
Daniel Busbee, Andrew
Wynn, Leslie Lane and Seth
Lavender.
Other coaches may be
picking Houston County,
but Burch says Northside,
which held the approxi
mate four-foot trophy for
more years than anyone
can remember before the
Panthers took it in 2003, is
the team to watch.
See CHALLENGE, page 3B
to the best of her ability.
She’s all about the team.”
Carpenter has already
qualified for the high school
state meets in three realy
events and in the 50 free
style and 100 breaststroke.
“I enjoy swimming,”
Carpenter said. “To me, it
builds character. I’m more
self-disciplined.”
It shows in other facets of
. her life. Carpenter carries a
3.6 grade point average with
math as her favorite subject.
She says that participating
in swimming has taught her
to focus and organize her
time.
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Losers in practice matches during workouts at Houston County - this one on Thursday
- get to carry the winners. The exercise, according to Bears head coach Heath Burch,
helps wrestlers get used to carrying weight during matches.
“Swimming is such a time
consuming sport,” Carpenter
said. “To be decent or good,
you have to put time into
it.”
It takes character to make
that kind of sacrifice and
that Carpenter has in abun
dance says her coach.
“She has always been
an all-around swimmer,”
Parker said. “Her specialty
was the breaststroke. Lasy
year I asked her to sacrifice
the breaststroke because we
needed her on the free style
relay team.”
Parker said that many
See CARPENTER, page 2B
Shades of Bengay
Hornets hold
alumni games
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
PERRY - It might have
been a long time since they
last touched a basketball
but some of Westfield’s
former students proved
they haven’t lost their
touch, while taking part
in the school’s annual
alumni games this past
weekend.
Take Chad Bailey,
Michael Morris and Ben
Hulbert for instance. The
first graduated in ’99,
the second in ’BB and the
third, ’97. And yet each
had no problem draining
a 3-pointer - four in the
case of the first and two
in the case of the second
- while leading the Green
team to a 48-42 win over
the Gray team.
Four of those treys came
in the second quarter - of
a 15-minute running clock
so, as one school official
put it, “the ‘old timers’
could make it through the
game” - and helped the
green jump out to a 31-19
halftime lead.
Longtime Hornet passes
From Staff Reports
PERRY - The local area
received some sad news
Thursday in learning
that longtime Westfield
coach Percy Hardy Jr. has
passed away.
Hardy, father of Perry
boys head basketball
coach Brett Hardy, joined
Westfield’s teaching ranks
in 1974.
He also served as head
basketball coach and
assistant football coach
until his retirement from
coaching in 1986.
“He was the kind of
coach who loved you even
while he yelled at you,”
said Kay Bloodworth
Grier who was a point
guard at Westfield from
1980 to 1983.
Now a counselor at
Westfield, she said,
“People who played for
him loved him.”
Hardy also coached the
varsity football team to a
9-3 record and a region
championship in 1975
while head coach Marvin
SECTION
B
After a four-point first
quarter, the grays got the
hint.
They started shoot
ing - or rather “hitting”
might be a better choice
of words - from outside
the arc in the second.
Eddie Wilson, from the
class of ’7B, Chris Kothe,
’BB, and Eddie Moreland,
’74, each hit a 3-pointer
in the second period to at
least cut into the green’s
lead.
Jimmy Beeland, ’79,
and Jeff Brett, ’B4, got
into the act in the third
with a single trey. Their
team outscored the green
17-10 during that span to
cut the lead to 41-36.
Beeland and Kothe
also hit a 3-pointer in the
fourth - the only points
the team scored - only to
find the Green team had
abandoned the strategy.
Morris, Bailey and
Travis Adams, who was
a graduate of the class
of ’BB, each hit a single
basket - Bailey added a
See ALUMNI, page 3B
'He was the kind
ol coach who
loved you even
while he yelled at
you. People who
played fop him
loved Irim/
- Westfield counselor Kay
Bloodworth Grier, on Percy
Hardy Jr.
Arrington took a sabbati
cal to complete his mas
ter’s degree.
Hardy was born in
Houston County March 9,
1938, to Mary Tunnison
and the late Percy Hardy
Sr.
He lived in Perry and
graduated from Perry
High School.
Before attending
Georgia Southwestern
College where he received
a bachelor’s and later a
See HORNET, page 2B