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THURSDAY,
JANUARY 27, 2005
SCOREBOARD
High school basketball
Tuesday
■ Central Fellowship boys 37,
Mount de Sales 34
■ Central Fellowship girls 37,
Mount de Sales 34
■ Northside girls 50, Carver
45
■ Northside/Carver boys - not
reported
■ Central boys 58, Warner
Robins 40
■ Warner Robins girls 54,
Central 36
■ Westtield/Southland boys
- not reported
ON TAP
High school basketball
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
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at
Westminster, time TBA
High school wrestling
Friday
■ 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
■ Houston County, Northside,
Warner Robins and Perry at
region, time TBA
IN BRIEF
Umpres association
to hold meetings
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 interested in
umpiring, call 328-8995 or 923-
6038.
Perry to haU
touchdown meeting
Perry High School will hold a
touchdown club meeting Feb.
10 at 7 p.m., in the school
cafeteria.
CGSA conlmues
Select registration
Registration for the Central
Georgia Soccer Association’s
Select Academy has 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.
TRIVIA TRIVIA!
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Perry tops
Northeast
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON - Perry had to survive three
lead changes, three ties and a two-point
deficit at the end of the
first quarter to defeat
Northeast 67-56 in boys
GHSA 4-AAA basketball
Tuesday night.
The Raiders were
within four points of
the Panthers late in the
fourth quarter until
Perry erupted in a 7-0
run in the final two min-
■ Perry 67,
Northeast 56
utes to extend its lead to 13, 67-54.
Northeast’s Duke Williams hit a layup
just before the buzzer to make the final
67-56.
“He’s a good ball player,” said Perry head
coach Brett Hardy. “(Williams) scored 29
against Peach. He’s hard to stop.”
Williams finished the night with a
game-high 21. He had five points in the
first quarter to help the Raiders to a 14-
12 lead.
Perry had three runs of six or more
points during that span but they Panthers
couldn’t pull away from the Raiders.
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Houston County’s Leslie Lane drops Northside’s Jamie Fiebiger to the mat in their matchup in the 160-pound
division of the county wrestling championship Tuesday at Houston County. Lane won the match and the Bears
defended the title they won last year.
Bears dominate to defend county championship
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
WARNER ROBINS
- Following Tuesday, there
was little doubt which team
was the best in the neigh
borhood at wrestling.
Houston County hosted
Northside, Warner Robins
and Perry for the annual
county championship and
then dominated all three.
“That’s one of the things
I talked to them (the wres
tlers) about,” said Bears
head wrestling coach Heath
Burch. “Last year we beat
Northside on a technicality
(a shoelace penalty assessed
against the Eagles).
“We didn’t want any con
troversy like that this year.
We pretty much wanted to
start off strong. We wanted
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Perry’s Montay West shoots while being defended by
Northeast’s Willie Brezeil (54) and Donte Jefferson, Tuesday
in Macon.
to make a statement.”
The final scores said it
all: Houston County 51,
Northside 26, Bears 52,
Perry 15 and the concur
rent title holders 57, Warner
Robins 21. (Note: Pending
the school’s promised sub
mission, see a complete list
of individual winners in
Friday’s HHJ.)
Led by its five, Houston
County drew Northside in
the opener.
It brought out sort of a
mixed bag of feelings in
Burch.
“We went up against them
first last year,” he said, “and
it didn’t work out too well.
“We knew they were going
to be the toughest and these
guys (his wrestlers) some
times have trouble warming
'Last year we beat Northside on
a technicality We didn’t want any
controversy like that this year. We
pretty much warned to start off strong.
We warned to make a statement.’
- Houston County head wrestling coach Heath Burch
up early.”
Adrenaline hardly seemed
to be a problem, however,
as the Bears won the first
three out of four matches
via a pin. They were up 24-
10 at one point and then
stretched that to 45-20
before the Eagles’ Tommy
Gray broke the drought
with a pin.
While that was going on,
Raiderettes hold
off Lady Panthers
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON - Helped by nine Perry first
quarter turnovers, Northeast leapt to
■
■ Northeast 50.
Perry 32
better defense. In the last
three quarters, they only outscored us by
two points.”
And that was despite Perry’s one-point
third quarter performance.
Perry started the second quarter with a
7-2 run to close the gap to 11, 26-15, but
managed only five points during the rest
of the half as Northeast closed out the
half with nine points.
All five of the Lady Raiders field goals
in the second quarter came off of Lady
Panthers turnovers.
Perry couldn’t figure out Northeast’s
half-court press.
“They run when they have to,” Chance
said. “We work on that, but we couldn’t
get people to the right spot.”
Northeast’s Shondra Brooks scored
See RAIDERETTES, page 2B
on the other mat, Perry
was busy beating Warner
Robins.
The Panthers took the
lead early, stretched it to 30-
17 at one point before the
Demons mounted a small
rally. They closed to 39-30
late but Perry took the last
two matches for the win.
“That’s just the result
See DEFEND, page 3B
SECTION
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a 24-8 lead and held on
to win 50-32 in girls 4-
AAA basketball Tuesday
night.
“We give up 24 points
in the first quarter, that’s
not good,” said Lady
Panthers head coach
John Chance. “Then we
turn around and play
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Seeing was
believing in
UGA, Falcons
This past week
was one of defi
nite “unexpect
eds” for me in watching
sports.
If you had asked me
last week to tell you what
I expected to see, very
few of these things would
have been mentioned.
First off, last Saturday,
Georgia defied all the
critics who said that the
men’s basketball team
wouldn’t win an SEC
game with a win against
Vanderbilt.
I’m proud to say that
I was in attendance to
see the Dawgs get their
first conference victory,
although I did not have a
lot of people by my side.
It was a surprising vic
tory, considering that
Georgia’s best player,
guard Levi Stukes, was
dressed in street clothes.
Walk-on Kevin Brophy,
who actually played bas
ketball in the GISA, had
a career day.
The freshman scored 19
points and had several key
baskets down the stretch
to put Georgia over the
Commodores.
I guess, in terms of UGA
basketball, things turned
back to the expected
with & horrendous loss to
Florida on Tuesday night.
At least they got over that
no-win huddle and hope
fully have a little bit of
confidence as well.
Another unexpected
came on Sunday, when I
was fortunate (depending
on how you look at it) to
get to see the Falcon’s
game on high definition
TV
It looked good for a
See CAMPBELL, page 2B