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Officers of the Houston County Young American Bowlers Alliance, from left, Kimberly
Maloney (vice president), Noel Lynn (secretary), Michael Britt (president) and Justtyn
Hutcheson (sergeant at arms) stand next to the trophies they - as part of their official
duties - handed out during the YABA tournament held at the Robins Bowling Center
on Robins Air Force Base Sunday. Maloney and Lynn attend Northside, Britt attends
Houston County and Hutcheson goes to Middle Georgia. They all bowl for Russell
Parkway Gold Cup.
Russell bowlers fare well at touruey
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
ROBINS AIR FORCE
BASE - Gold Cup on Russell
Parkway, currently closed
for renovation, had a last
hurrah before it reopens in
November.
Its junior-senior boys and
girls teams and its bantam
boys teams won three of
the four events sponsored
by Young American Bowling
Alliance at the Robins
Bowling Center Sunday
afternoon.
The Young American
Bowling Alliance sponsors
three such tournaments
during its August through
May season.
The tournaments are
divided into bantam and
junior-senior divisions by
gender.
Bantam is for 11-and
under bowlers and the
junior-seniors are for bowl
ers 12-21.
Also known as YABA, the
state-wide group partici
pates in a state tournament
that runs for five weekends
starting with April 30-May
1. More than 300 teams from
around the state will com
pete in Athens in singles,
doubles and team competi
tion.
Houston County has three
bowlingcenters, Robins AFB,
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Perry Country Club head pro Mike Baker explains the rules for hitting out of a bunker
to Rebecca Murphy, 7, left and Natalie Rossi Saturday at the club.
Perry club hosts girls' golf clinic
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
PERRY - Mike Baker,
head professional at Perry
Country Club, hosted
the first clinic for girls
in support of initiatives
begun by United States
Golf Association and the
Ladies Professional Golf
Association at Perry
Country Club Sunday
afternoon.
Girls ages 6-12 met from
1 to 2:30 p.m. and girls 13-
18 met from 3-4:30 p.m.
The participants
received instruction in
posture, grip and align
ment.
Baker said this was the
first of several such clinics
he is planning on offering
as part of the USGA’s and
LPGA’s efforts to get more
girls involved in golf.
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Becca Haldenbrand watches her offering for a potential
strike.
Gold Cup on North Houston
and Russell Parkway.
While Russell Parkway is
closed for renovation, those
teams will compete out of
the North Houston center.
Sixty young bowlers com
peted Sunday at Robins in
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what was called a Top 5
tournament. The top five
teams in each division from
each Houston County bowl
ing center competed.
The North Houston Gold
Cup team won the bantam
girls division.
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SPORTS
Randolph brings no-nonsense approach
By LISA RIDDLE
Scripps Howard News
Service
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.
- New Mets manager Willie
Randolph has had his nose
buried in business since his
charges started arriving at
Tradition Field for the start
of spring training nearly
two months ago.
He roves the fields, con
sults with coaches and stud
ies statistics. Time to relax
in the Florida sun? Not a
luxury for Randolph. He has
taken his extensive baseball
knowledge and spent count
less hours studying players,
coaching, lineups, equip
ment and even haircuts.
Every aspect of the team
is subject to his inspection,
right down to his decisions
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fourth and fifth innings,
and the Bears took advan
tage of two hits and a walk
to go up 3-2 in the fourth.
Chris Tyler began the
inning with a walk, and
Cody Heller sacrificed him
to second.
Joe Vasquez singled to
put runners on the corners
and then Jackson’s double
cleared the bases.
Houston County extended
its lead in the fifth. Stuart
reached first on an error.
Tyler walked with two outs
and Heller’s RBI single
scored Stuart.
The Bears were up 4-2 at
that point.
Disaster struck in the
sixth. The Vikings sent
eight batters to the plate
and scored three runs on
two hits and two errors.
“We struggle with 0-2 and
1-2 pitches,” Gentry said.
“We’re not putting (hitters)
away. They’re hitting dou
bles.”
The Vikings finished the
game with four doubles and
a home run. Three of those
doubles came with the bat
ter facing two strikes, and
on two of them, the hitter
was 0-2.
Although Lowndes’ Ryan
Carpenter hit a runs-scor
ing double in the sixth, it
was the errors that hurt.
“We have yet to play a
complete game,” Gentry
said. “We’ll play three or
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'to third as the Panthers
begin the second half of
their region schedule.
Masters said the top four
will be between Washington
County, Spalding, Mary
Persons, Peach County and
Perry; that’s five teams bat
tling for four spots, with
Southwest and Northeast
still in the mix.
“Those two teams are
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below the players’ lips.
Randolph, 50, is driven
and expects the same from
his players.
“He’s very up front about
wanting guys to come in
and work hard and be pro
fessional,” veteran pitcher
Tom Glavine said. “That
has set a great tone for
everything that we’re try
ing to do.”
His no-nonsense approach
keeps his emotions in
check.
“Willie is going to be a cold
blooded manager,” Pedro
Martinez said of Randolph’s
reserved and non-emotive
style. “He’s very quiet, you
four good innings and then
three bad ones. We need
to put seven good innings
together.”
The Vikings’ Summers
started the inning with a
walk. Matt Harper reached
on an error at third that
moved Summers to second.
Ray Meyers tried to
bunt the runners over, but
Bryan Sermons, running
for Summers, was forced
at third.
Gentry said when the
lead-off batter reaches base,
62 percent of the time he
will score. That didn’t hap
pen against the Vikings.
The three batters following
that scored.
Harper was on second
and courtesy runner Jermel
Demps, in for Meyers was
at first. That set the stage
for catastrophe.
The Vikings’ pinch hitter
R. J. Harris singled up the
middle that scored Harper,
but the ball was misplayed
in the outfield and rolled
to the fence. That allowed
Demps to score and Harris
ended up at third.
He capped the Vikings
four-run sixth when he
crossed on Carpenter’s two
out double.
Lowndes added an insur
ance run in the seventh on
back-to-back doubles that
finished Wilkerson.
Chris Tyler came in to
shut the Vikings down.
Although Houston County
scary,” Masters said.
On paper, Southwest and
Northeast are walkovers, but
they have two good coaches
in Robert Fitzpatrick and
Lance Perlman, respective
ly, Masters said. Fitzpatrick
has played professional
baseball and Perlman has
past high school coaching
experience.
Although neither school
is noted for its baseball,
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can barely notice him. He’s
like (Yankees manager) Joe
Torre. When they make a
pitching change, you just see
them walking out. Nothing
else. He’s just thinking and
doesn’t say much - reacts
when he needs to react.”
Instruction has been the
easy part of spring training
for Randolph, who coached
the Yankees for 11 years
prior to coming to the Mets.
Ten of those years, he was a
third-base coach for Torre.
Before that he spent one
year as an assistant general
manager for the Yankees.
His playing career spanned
18 years and ended in 1992
when he played 90 games
at second base for the Mets.
He played the longest for
the Yankees, 1976-88.
had touched relief pitcher
Jon Michael Redding for a
run, he got his fourth win
and Ryan Carpenter his
third save.
Redding had replaced
starter Brandon Waller in
the fifth and Carpenter
came on in the sixth.
Houston County had run
ners on in the sixth and sev
enth but couldn’t score.
Bo Fernandez singled
with one out in the sixth,
but the next two batters
struck out.
“We set there and let their
guys throw first-pitch fast
balls for strikes,” Gentry
said. “We had six strike
outs looking.”
That’s how the game
ended. Stuart doubled with
one out. A pop fly to third
and a backwards “K” ended
it for the Bears.
“This is a tough region,”
said Lowndes head coach
Danny Redshaw. “All the
games are going to be like
that for everybody. They’re
going to be battles.”
SCOREBOARD
LOWNDES 7, HOUSTON
COUNTY 4
L: 011 004 1 - 7 10 3
H: 001 210 0-4 7 4
WP: Jon Michael Redding (4-0). LP:
Brian Wilkerson (4-1). Save: Ryan
Carpenter (3). Leading hitters: (L)
Carpenter 2-4, Jake Summers 2-4;
(H) Brad Jackson 2-3, Casey Stuart
3-4. Records: (L) 9-4, 1-0 in GHSA
1 -AAAAA; (H) 10-2, 0-1. Next: (H)
at Tift Co. today, 6 p.m.; at Colquitt
Co., Fri., 7 p.m.
Masters pointed out that
they both have excellent
athletes.
“We beat Southwest 7-0,”
he said, “but we had to play
the full seven innings to do
it.”
He also said Peach County
is better this season because
they are older. Last year’s
team was very young and
most of those players have
returned.
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