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FRIDAY,
MARCH 11, 2005
SCOREBOARD
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High school baseball
Wednesday
■ Dublin 4, Northside 1
ON TAP
High school sports
Today
■ BB - Americus-Sumter at
Warner Robins, 7:30 p.m.
■ BB - Perry at Crisp County,
7 p.m.
■ BB - First Presbyterian Day
at Central Fellowship, 4 p.m.
■ BB - Clarke Central at
Houston County, 6 p.m.
■ BB - Northside at Carver,
4 p.m.
■ SC - Houston County girls
and boys at Valdosta, 5:30
p.m./7:30 p.m.
■ SC - Mary Persons girls and
boys at Perry, 5 p.m./7 p.m.
■ SC - Hardaway girls and
boys at Warner Robins, 5:30
p.m./7:30 p.m.
■ SC - Augusta Prep girls at
Central Fellowship, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday
■ BB - Warner Robins
at Statesboro (at Georgia
Southern), 7:45 p.m.
■ SC - Northside girls and
boys at Colquitt County, 4
p.m./6 p.m.
■ TR - Warner Robins and
Northside at Fort Valley State
Invitational, TBA
Monday
■ BB - Dublin at Perry, 5:55
p.m.
■ BB - Jones County at
Houston County, 5:30 p.m.
■ BB - Windsor at Central
Fellowship, 4 p.m.
■ TN - Tift County at Houston
County, TBA
■ TN - Central Fellowship at
First Presbyterian Day, 2 p.m.
■ SC - Northside girls and
boys at Tift County, 5 p.m./7
p.m.
■ GF - Warner Robins at
Northside (the Landings), 3:30
p.m.
■ GF - Central Fellowship at
Trinity Invitational in Dublin, 9
a.m.
■ SC - Monroe Academy girls
at Central Fellowship, 6 p.m.
■ TR - Northside at Crawford
County, 4 p.m.
Key: BB = baseball; TN = tennis;
SC = soccer; GF = golf; TR = track
IN BRIEF
Rotary CW to hoH
bass tournament
The Rotary Club of Perry
will hold its third annual rotary
bass tournament Saturday.
Visit the club’s Web site at
www.perryrotary.org for addi
tional details.
YMCA to put on
benefit tourney
The Houston County YMCA
will hold a golf tournament
to benefit “Camp Can Do,” a
two-week summer camp for
children with special needs.
Sponsored by STAR and
AVAYA, it will be held April 29
at Waterford Golf Club.
The event is slated to begin
with an 11:15 a.m. lunch fol
lowed by a 12:30 p.m. shotgun
start. The format is a four-per
son team.
The entry fee is SSO, which
includes lunch, refreshments
and lots more. According to a
release from the agency, door
and team prizes will also be
awarded.
To sign up, contact Scott.
winner@afrc.af.mil or 327-
1492, Troy.hubbard@afrc.
af.mil or 327-1512.
All teams must sign up by
April 22.
TRIVIA' TRIVIAL
He said it...
“Man, if I made $1 million, I
would be in at 6 in the morn
ing, sweep the stands, wash the
uniforms, clean out the offices,
manage the team, and play the
game.”
- Duke Snider
Mayo, Hayes lead Northside past Central
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Lady Eagles edge Lady Chargers
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS
- Northside’s Courtney
Hoffman
scored with
24 minutes
left to give the
Lady Eagles
a 1-0 victory
over visit
ing Central-
Macon at
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Northside 5,
Central 1
Tanner Wednesday eve
ning.
“Courtney plays hard and
Perry girls hammer Washington County; boys blank Golden Hawks
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
If they were old enough, not under
the care of the school
system at the time and
traveling in an air
liner versus a yellow
school bus, the Perry
girls soccer team could
have taken a detour to
Vegas.
Based on what they
did to Washington
County, it would have
been a successful ven-
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Perry 11,
Washington
County 0;
Perry 2,
Washington 0
ture.
Proof is in the seven goals scored by
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that’s why she scores,” said
Northside head coach Scott
Wynn. “That’s why she gets
to play. She works hard all
of the time.”
Hoffman got the score
when Brittany Sampson
booted a rainbow from
beyond about 20 yards out.
Despite the high arc, the
ball was on line to the goal,
but Central’s keeper mis
handled the ball and the
hustling Hoffman kicked it
past her.
Hoffman was also helped
by Sami Jacobs. She fol
Caitlyn Mitchell and the 11 total while
blanking the Lady Golden Hawks of
Sandersville.
“The team played exceptionally well
and did a great job,” said head coach
Courtney Herbert. “They have really
stepped up at practice and have been
implementing everything we do in
practice.
In addition to Mitchell, four other
Lady Panthers, Maria Rowe, Ashley
Cawthon, Leslee Hendrix and Ibzan
Garcia, also hit the jackpot Tuesday.
In all Perry had 52 shots on goal,
while Washington County turned up
snake eyes - none.
“Washington County did a good job
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Sean
Mayo scored three goals and
Jesse Hayes
netted two to
lead Northside
to a 5-1 win
over visit
ing Central-
Macon in boys
3S-AAAA soc
cer at Tanner
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Northside 5,
Central 1
Wednesday night.
Although seniors Mayo
and Hayes did the scoring,
head coach Rusty Lane also
credited the work of fellow
senior Keith Beers for set
ting them up.
“He doesn’t get a lot of
recognition,” Lane said,
“but Beers regulates what
goes on on the field. He does
a lot of the hard work that
gets those guys in a position
to score.”
Mayo scored the first two
goals at five minutes and 11
minutes into the first half.
Hayes scored his first goal
lowed Sampson’s kick and
distracted the goalie, pre
venting her from defending
Hoffman’s shot.
The Central game was the
Lady Eagles’ first foray in
the 3S-AAAA region. They
entered the game undefeat
ed at 4-0 but, “We didn’t
want to start the region sea
son with a tie,” Wynn said.
“We didn’t play up to our
ability at all,” he added. “It
was an ugly win, but it was
a region win. We’ll take it.”
Leading scorer Kelsey
Torchia was forced to play
’We noticed they
were a little bit
slower on the
outside, so we
tried to take
advantage of that.'
- Northside boys head soccer
coach Rustly Lane
with an assist at 15 min
utes.
“Mayo passed it to me in
the box,” Hayes said.
Central capped the scoring
in the first half when Blaine
Hays took the ball near mid
field, dribbled down the mid
dle, around two defenders
and won a one-on-one battle
with goalie Steven Johnson.
“I thought he was going
to go left, so I went left,”
Johnson said. “He went
right.”
Central head coach T.
out of position because the
Lady Eagles’ second lead
ing scorer, sister Hillary
Torchia, was out with an
injury.
It took most of the first
half for Kelsey to get on
track. When she did, Central
had to adjust its defensive
scheme to defend her.
That opened other oppor
tunities.
Northside took 23 shots
at goal, but Central was not
the same team Wynn had
See EDGE, page 2B
for a first year team,” Herbert said.
“Once they learn the game they will
be a competitive team for us in our
region.”
True as that is, in this particular
case they should just be glad the game
wasn’t “21.”
PERRY BOYS 2, WASHINGTON COUNTY 0
As far as the Panthers, their final
wasn’t quite as lopsided - a shutout
still.
In their game they scored a goal in
each half. Joe Stinson netted the first
with an assist by Martin while Jason
Sweat scored the second goal unas
sisted.
See HAMMER, page 2B
Stahl said that’s the way the
Chargers play.
“We rely on our speed up
front,” he said. “We pass the
ball a couple of times then
kick it down field and our
guys outrun the defenders
to the ball.”
Stahl admitted, however,
the ploy doesn’t work against
disciplined defenses that
stay home. It only worked
once against Northside.
Central had other prob
lems, too. The officials issued
five yellow cards to five dif
ferent Chargers.
Most of them were for
taunting or arguing with the
referees.
“I told my players at half,
time to ignore them,” Lane
said. “We were going to play
the game the way it should
be played.”
In the second half, that’s
what the Eagles did.
Hayes scored his second
goal when the ball rebound
ed off of the goalie after a
See LEAD, page 2B
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Timothy Graham
HHJ Staff Writer
tgraham@evansnewspapers.com
Braves will
succeed; Vols
a mixed bag
It is about time for
my annual Braves
Will Win It All col
umn. The folks up in
Tennessee got awful tired
of it over the years, but
since I was right only
once in all that time, they
did get the chance to rub
it in my face a lot.
Atlanta has been able
to orchestrate their
usual solid pitching staff
anchored by Smoltz and
Hudson.
They seem to have a
pretty good starting staff
but the relievers are in
a state of flux. We might
see the starters take a
few more extra innings
this season.
My concern is the
offense this time out.
Chipper and Andruw
can’t do it by themselves.
They couldn’t do it with
the help of Sheffield,
they certainly can’t do it
alone.
Over the years the
Braves have seen most
See GRAHAM, page 2B
Hornets win
From staff reports
Westfield’s girls and
boys tennis teams pulled
off wins on the court
Wednesday.
The boys defeated
Fullington 5-0 while the
girls won 3-2.
For the first, Ryan
Campbell, Davis Evans,
and Reid Davis each had
singles victories while Ed
Turk, Jeremy Rowland
and Cam Arnold won in
doubles play.
Mallory and Morgan
Dawson each won in sin
gles for the girls while
Brooke Bekkers and
Leslie Sims won in dou
bles.
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