Newspaper Page Text
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
Papers, trash turn out to be cash
Special to the HHJ
CONCORD, N.C. - Edwin
Workman and Todd Little,
the Hickory
sanita
tion work
ers who
returned
$5,100 they
discovered
in a bag of
discarded
clothing
TAP
Wednesday:
Reigning Busch
champion feeling
some earty pres
sure.
while working their route,
will be rewarded with VIP
experiences during the
NASCAR NEXTEL All-Star
Challenge May 21, at Lowe’s
RALLY
From page 1B
With 2:50 left to go, it was
seven, 44-37.
By that time, it was a
battle of the free-throw
line, and Wilkerson took on
the brunt of it for Warner
Robins. She was sent to the
line four times in the final
period and connected on 6-
of-8 attempts. She finished
the night with 11.
Cherie White was a close
second from the char
ity stripe, followed by C.C.
Jackson. The first was 3-of-4
(7-of-8 overall) while the sec
ond was 2-of-4 (3-of-6 over
all). White finished the night
with 13 points while Jackson
led the team with 16.
The Lady Tigers, on the
other hand, went to the free
throw line eight times in the
final eight minutes and hit
on 7-of-14 opportunities.
They hit six 3-pointers in
the first half but in the third
quarter were forced out of
that strategy.
“We went man-to-man,”
said Warner Robins head
coach Tom Mobley, who
added the second half was
probably the best the team
has had all year. “And num
ber 33 (Milaiki Pricard who
provided a big presence
inside) had four fouls and
that allowed us to stay in
man-to-man.”
The win improved the
Demonettes’ record to 11-8
overall and 3-3 in Region
3S-AAAA. Carver fell to 4-2
in the division.
“We tried to put a lot of
emphasis on this ballgame,”
Mobley added. “The way
the standings are, if we had
lost we could be looking at
DEPLETED
From page 1B
“We committed 15 in the
first half,” Malone, whose
team fell to 3-3 in Region
3S-AAAA, said. Carver, on
the other hand, swept the
Demons on the year and
improved to 4-2 in 3S-AAAA.
“We’ve never had that many
turnovers in a half.”
It got worse as the game
went along - 31 in all.
Despite that, they still led
after one quarter of play,
13-11. And Carver didn’t get
three of those points until
the final few seconds when
its Charlie Woods hit a 3-
pointer.
The Tigers’ J.T. Turpin hit
another trey just seconds into
the second quarter, however,
and things played out like
a bad copy of the “Sound of
Music” for Warner Robins
from there.
By the time the buzzer
sounded for the half they
were down 32-20.
After a 3-for-15 per
formance - compared to
Carver’s 5-of-8 - in the third,
they trailed 46-29.
In defense of Warner
Robins, they were playing
without Alton Sanders who
was on a recruiting trip to
West Virginia and Jeronte
Johnson who separated is
shoulder and is probably
done for the year, Malone
said.
The first represented
points plus a seven-rebound
a-game average. The second
over the course of the past
three games had been aver
aging 22 points.
Johnson was replaced on
the roster by sophomore
Kenny Willis who finally got
his first varsity points at
home with a 3-pointer at the
Motor Speedway.
After discovering the
money'- 51 SIOO bills -the
men returned the money to
the house where they had
picked up the bag.
H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler,
president and general
manager of Lowe’s Motor
Speedway, was so impressed
with the men’s honesty he
decided to reward them.
“What these two men did
was absolutely wonderful,”
Wheeler said.
“I’ve always admired
people who are honest and
Edwin and Todd are a great
being three games behind
two teams and two games
behind another.
“We’d possibly be facing a
fourth seed and I wouldn’t
want to have to go back to
Carver and have to win a
m m■
. .
Ok mil
. *:
: iteitWwtti* A -amumriPiih , -
n j§ *1
HIM Don Moncrief
Warner Robins' Symone Wilkerson takes a long shot from
the field in the Demonettes' win over Carver, Friday at
home.
1:34 mark of the third quar
ter. Prior to that, he was
0-for-5 - even though one
bounced in and out.
“He’s a pretty good shoot
er,” Malone said. “He just
couldn’t get anything to
fall.”
That is until the fourth
quarter when he was 2-for
2, adding four points to his
total.
The Demons appeared as
if they might yet make a
run at Carver early in the
fourth.
Pierre Miller, who sat out
a good portion of the third
_
. v ' Jlgfi *'
r- -r •- . •••«-• imp*'- ■"
; I HI ~ jflp "
igr --- x , • I m §r* * J
k m; I t. r : mm
j fe ./ * fljßt - , j
H P r ||S f Jr* #Jj.
_4
J r \ j&. / .1 '< ;
HHJ/Don Moncrief
Warner Robins' Mark Wright Jr., makes a head fake
before posting up for a jumper in the Demons' loss at
home Friday.
example of honest, hard
working people.”
Wheeler phoned the men
Monday with an invitation
to attend the All-Star event.
Each man will receive two
VIP tickets, a reserved park
ing space and a pre-race pit
tour.
Wheeler also told the men
he plans to introduce them
during pre-race ceremonies.
“NASCAR is a working
mans’ sport and you guys
are honest, hard-work
ing people,” Wheeler told
Workman and Little during
their conversation.
game and then have to turn
around the next night and
win again to be able to go to
state.”
Besides, it’s hard to be
late when you’re playing at
home.
quarter, came in with rested
legs and immediately stole
a ball and took it in for a
layup. Then on the Warner
Robins’ next possession, he
drove through the lanes for
another layup and this time
was fouled. He then made
the free throw.
The biggest problems with
all that was it only cut the
Tigers’ lead to 16, 50-34.
And, he was only one player.
“He was the only one with
any ‘pop’ (at that time), said
Malone.
Well, him and the speak
ers.
SPORTS
EDGE
From page 1B
13 points. Shipp’s deuce
was the last field goal.
“We didn’t make very
many bad shots,” Nix said,
“until the free throws at
the end of the game.”
The Bears missed consec
utive foul shots on the front
end of one and ones.
A defensive rebound led
to a Dastyn Baker field goal
to make the score 50-48.
Shipp it the first of two
free throws on a shooting
foul to make it a three-point
game, but Cullins respond
ed by driving the lane on
the defensive rebound from
the missed second shot to
make the score 51-50.
Another two missed free
throws at 8.3 seconds and
Cullins was off to the races
again.
Houston County’s Avery
Wright and Quintin Banks
were there to disrupt his
shot and Houston County
ended Tift County’s unbeat
en region record.
SCOREBOARD
HOUSTON COUNTY 51, TIFT
COUNTY 50
TC: 6 14 13 17-50
HC: 8 16 14 13-51
Halflime: (HC) 24-20. Scorers: (TC)
Donnell Cullins 19, Justin Brownlee 13,
Robinson 2, Burns 3, Baker 7, Pitts
2, Dean 4; (HC) Johnson 5, Pero 8,
Justin Shipp 12, Wright 8, Warren
: jr I
~r #|r ifffilfi Mm * "H
SF % ' w' '* m
; /..axiwMMmi t T - s
VLj m f Kh ■
Bt u
HHJ Joe Sersey
Houston County's Cassi Stuart (32) and Ray-Donee Jones pursue Tift County's
Imesha Wells Friday at Houston County.
NIP-
From page 1B
Devils made it a one-point
game after Java Dawson
made both of her free
throws, but the Lady Bears
went two for four from the
charity stripe in the final 10
seconds to capture the lead.
Those free throws were
made possible when Houston
County’s Janessa Johnson
forced a key turnover on
what turned out to be Tift
County’s last possession.
“We had turnovers at
crucial times,” said Tift
County head coach Michelle
Cauldwell. “Our (point
guard) made a bad deci
sion and passed the ball to
the only player who had a
defender in her face.”
That was Johnson, and
she slapped the ball lose in
what became a mad scramble
and jump ball. The posses
sion arrow pointed towards
Houston County and that
was it.
Jenkins did try a despera
tion trey from midcourt at
the buzzer, but a miracle
wasn’t in the works.
Johnson’s defense played
an important part in the
Lady Bears’ victory. The
Lady Blue Devils’ Justina
Brownlee scored nine of her
11 points in the first quar
ter.
Johnson came in for
Borne mr ear j-f-.
to Goodwill H
Call 1-866-let-lt-Go! r/ I
www.gootlwillworks.org E_J
/ .
I .
I*,- -.
I
11 lid Joe Sersey
Houston County's Marcus Northern grabs a rebound as
the buzzer sounds to end the first quarter in the Bears'
win over Tift County, Friday at home.
Gregory 16, Banks 2. 3-pointers: (TC)
Cullins, Brownlee; (HC) Johnson, Pero
2, Gregory 2, Shipp. Records: (TC) 13-
some spot defensive duty to
defend Brownlee during the
game, but played most of
the fourth quarter against
Tift County’s top shooter.
Houston County trailed
much of the first quarter,
but Cassi Stuart hit her only
3-pointer of the game to give
the Lady Bears a 15-14 lead
at the end.
Both teams bought into a
slow tempo game, neither
able to break lose for any
consistent runs.
Last week, Baxley installed
an new offense designed to
isolate the low post.
That lineup included
transfer freshman Tonia
Williams and sophomore
Hannah Channell, with
Lauren Campbell an&
Lindsey Wynn seeing some
quality minutes.
Houston County led 25-
22 with less than a minute
to play in the half, but Tift
county went 4-for-4 from
the line in the final 30 sec
onds to take a 26-25 half
time lead.
The lead changed four
times in the third quarter.
At one point, Tift County
was up 31-30, when Baxley
and guard Brittany Torain
did a bit of acting on an
inbounds pass under their
basket.
As Stuart was handed
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2005 ♦
7, 4-1 in GHSA 1-AAAAA; (HC) 10-9,
3-2. Next: (HC) vs. Colquitt County, Fri.,
8:30 p.m.
the ball, Baxley looked to
be yelling a Torain. When
Stuart received the ball from
the official, Torain stepped
away from Baxley, took the
pass and made a wide-open
3-pointer to put Houston
County ahead 33-31.
“We’ve been running that
play for five years,” Baxley
said. “Two years ago we
ran that play at a clinic at
Georgia, and they said they
were going to use it and call
it the Houston play.”
Again, it was free throws
that finished a period. With
the Lady Bears down 37-35
in the third quarter, Stuart
hit both her shots from
the charity stripe to tie the
game at 37-37 going into the
fourth quarter.
In essence, free throws
finished every quarter but
the first. The last six points
of the game came from the
foul line.
SCOF BOARD
HOUSTON COUNTY 51,
TIFT COUNTY 48
TC: 14 12 11 11 -48
HC: 15 10 12 14-51
Halftime: (TC) 26-25. Scorers: Welker
4, Gibbs 5, Jenkins 4, Baxter 9. Wells
6, Dunn 2, Dawson 7, Justina Brownlee
11; (HC) Jones 6, Clark 5, Johnson 1,
Brittany Torain 12, Channell 4, Cassi
Stuart 15, Williams 8. 3-pointers: (TC)
Gibbs, Baxter; (HC) Jones, Torain,
Stuart. Records: (TC) 13-7, 3-2; (HC)
9-10,4-1. Next: (HC) vs, Colquitt County,
Fri„ 7 p.m.
3B