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TUESDAY,
JANUARY 25, 2005
SCOREBOARD
High school basketball
Tuesday
■ Northside girls 44. Westside
40 (see box score 2B)
■ Northside boys 61, Westside
47 (see box score 2B)
■ Perry boys 98. Spalding 41
(see box score 2B)
■ Perry girls 66, Spalding 61
(see box score 2B)
■ FPD boys 60, Central
Fellowship 51 (see box score
2B)
■ FPD girls 58, Central
Fellowship 33 (see box score
2B)
■ Deerfield-Windsor 83,
Westfield boys 61: Westfield
boys 69, Tiftarea 62 (see story
in Wednesday's HHJ)
ON TAP
High school basketball
Today
■ Warner Robins at Central,
6 p.m.
■ Mount de Sales at Central
Fellowship. 6:30 p.m.
■ Perry at Northeast, 6 p.m.
■ Westfield at Southland, 6
p.m.
■ Northside at Carver, 7 p.m.
Friday
■ Northside at Warner Robins,
7 p.m.
■ Central Fellowship at
Stratford. 6:30 p.m.
■ Washington County at Perry,
7 p.m.
■ Colquitt County at Houston
County, 7 p.m.
■ Westfield at Sherwood, 6
p.m.
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at West
Laurens, 6 p.m.
■ Mary Persons at Perry, 6
p.m.
■ Houston County at Valdosta,
6 p.m.
High school swimming
Wednesday
■ Houston County meet at
Fort Valley State, 3:30 p.m.
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at
Westminster, time TBA
High school wrestling
Wednesday
■ Westfield at Deerfield (ver
sus them and Southland), 7
p.m.
■ Northside and Houston
County at Vidalia tournament
(through Saturday), time TBA
Saturday
■ Westfield at region tourna
ment in Americus, time TBA
High school cheerleading
Saturday
■ Northside, Warner Robins
and Perry at region, time TBA
IN BRIEF
VMeybal pom
looking lor 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.
Perry rec looking to
form bowfcig league
The Perry Recreation
Department is interested in
forming a bowling league. Call
988-2860 for more.
TRIVIA TRIVIAL
Quick nil...
In what year did Primo
Camera make his American
boxing debut?
On iMs date...
1947 - NFL owners voted
to allow a sudden-death over
time in playoff games.
Answer: 1930
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Warner Robins’ Shayla James (10) has a shot blocked by Carver’s Milaiki Prikard, in the
Demonettes’ win Friday at Warner Robins. Looking on for Warner Robins is Cherie White.
Demonettes paly to beat Carver
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
WARNER ROBINS - It’s
one thing to be fashionably
late, but it’s another thing
all together to think you can
be tardy (30 or so minutes)
and beat the home team.
Yet that’s what Carver’s
girls tried to do Friday in
their Region 3S-AAAA
matchup at Warner Robins.
The Lady Tigers, which
eventually lost 51-44, led the
Demonettes 17-11 after one
and 30-20 at the half.
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Warner Robins’ Chris LeShoure (32) and Dominique Davenport (3) battle for a rebound in
the team’s loss Friday to Carver.
Depleted Demons fall hard
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
WARNER ROBINS - Stop
the music. Stop the music.
“No! Stop the music!”
That’s what one official
cried when it came on sud
denly, unexpectedly over the
public address system in
Warner Robins’ boy’s bas
ketball matchup at home
against Carver Friday.
Sports
Warner
Robins
began its
comeback
in the third.
Its girls
outscored
Carver 11-
2 during
that period.
■ Warner Robins
51, Carver 44
The Demonettes hit four of
nine attempts from the field
while the Lady Tigers were
l-of-4. They also turned the
ball over eight times. By
the time the quarter ended,
It had no
absolutely
no impact
on the
game - the
Demons lost
bad 60-41.
But it did at
least drown
out their
■ Carver 60,
Warner Robins 41
sorrows for a few seconds.
As the speakers boomed
their lead, which at its high
est was 11, had been cut to
one, 32-31.
Symone Wilkerson took
care of that, too. She hit
a basket with 7:48 left to
play, to give Warner Robins
its first lead of the night,
33-32.
For about two minutes
beyond that, the scored
stayed within a basket - two
or three. Then at the mid
way point, the Demonettes
stretched it to four.
See RALLY, page 3B
with a steady thud (the
intro to a rap song - think
of one of those cars going
down the road with a speak
er in the trunk the size of
Cleveland) Warner Robins
head coach Chip Malone was
on the sidelines screaming:
Stop the turnovers. Stop the
turnovers. “No! Stop the
turnovers!”
See DEPLETED, page 3B
Bears edge
lift County
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS
- Tift County head coach
Robert Moore came into
Friday’s boys 1-AAAAA
basketball game without
a region loss.
So much for that.
Houston County sur
vived a last-second drive
for layup by Tift County’s
Donnell Cullins to hold
on for a 51-50 win.
“We had the ball in the
hands of our best shooter,”
Moore said. “We couldn’t
get it done.”
Cullings Finished the
night with game-high 19
points, but missed the
game winner and in the
ensuing scramble for the
ball, time expired.
Tift County dictated
the tempo from the begin
ning.
“We usually play slow
down,” Moor said. “That’s
our game.”
It was slow. Houston
County led 8-6 after the
first quarter and 24 20 at
the half.
“Because they’re so
patient, it makes us
patient,” said Houston
County head coach Greg
Nix.
Houston County
extended its lead 28-20
when senior Justin Shipp
scored back-to-back goals
on a tip in and layup from
a turnover.
“We came out real slug
gish in the first half,” said
Moore. “Houston County’s
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Houston County’s Brittany Torain makes a pass in
the Lady Bears’ win Friday at home.
HoCo girls nip
Lady Blue Devils
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Houston County survived
12 lead changes to defeat
visiting Tift County 51-48
in girls GHSA 1-AAAAA
basketball Friday night.
Tonia Williams forced
the baseline with two and
a half minutes left in the
game to hit a layup that
gave the Lady Bears a 43-
42 lead that held up.
Meanwhile, Houston
County’s defense held
Tift County scoreless
until Jessica Jenkins put
up two with under a min
ute left. By then the Lady
Bears led 46-44.
Houston County shot
SECTION
B
defense
was the
reason
for that.”
That
defense
contin
ued to
contain
the Blue
■ Houston County
51, Tift County 50
Devils in the third quar
ter, holding Tift County
to only four field goals in
that frame.
What kept the game
close was the 5-for-7 free
throw shooting.
Houston County went
to the line once for two
shots in the first quarter,
but not again until the
fourth.
Treys by the Bears’
Warren Gregory and
Shipp kept the Blue Devils
at bay, giving the Bears a
38-33 lead at the end of
the third quarter.
Shipp was playing and
battling a migraine. He
ended the game with 12
points and Gregory scored
a team-high 16.
Houston County led by
as much as seven points,
44-37, with five minutes
left to play. Then the Blue
Devils began to whittle
away at the lead.
Shipp scored six of his
total in the fourth to get
a four-point margin, 50-
46, after back-to-back 3-
pointers by Tift County’s
Cullins and Justin
Brownlee.
Brownlee finished with
See EDGE, page 3B
12 free
throws in
the final
minute
and a
half, and
didn’t
take a
single
shot from
■ Houston County
51, Tift County 48
the field in the final min
ute.
Jenkins made it a one
point game, 47-46, on a
jumper off an offensive
rebound at 32 seconds,
but Candice Clark hit both
free throws to push the
lead back to three points,
49-46 a second later.
Again the Lady Blue
See NIP, page 3B