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Houston County players run through a play Monday at the high school.
Bears looking to replace grad losses
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS
- Houston County began
two weeks of spring football
practice Monday.
For Bears head coach Doug
Johnson, it will be a time to
“see what’s what.”
“We’ll be young,” Johnson
said. “We’re returning only
eight seniors.”
One thing he plans to do
is look for a quarterback
to replace exiting Brandon
King who has signed to play
football for Purdue.
“There are no front-run
ners,” Johnson said.
Although the quarter
back search is important,
Johnson said that the spring
agenda would be focused on
fundamentals.
Monday, the Bears will
work on learning proper
stances, starting and align
ment.
“Tuesday will be the same,”
Johnson said. “Wednesday
through Friday we’ll crank
it up a notch. That’s what
we’ll do the whole spring,
work on our base offense
and base defense.”
JONES —
From page 7A
wants the best for her play
ers,” she said. “The campus
seemed like home. The (ath
letic) apartments are right
on campus.”
Planning on majoring in
electrical engineering, Jones
hopes to move on to a four-
SANS
From page 7A
Lady Panthers for six years,
from 1999-2004.
She took through the
transition from slow- to
fast-pitch in 2001, and in
their second year, they fin
ished fifth in state.
In 2003, they were
fourth.
Wheeless’ slow-pitch team
was area champion in 2000.
She says she decided to
step down to spend more
time with her family.
“I felt that I had lost my
competitive edge,” Wheeless
said. “I always said that
when it became a job, then I
would quit because I already
had one job and that was
being a teacher.”
She teaches physi
cal education at Lake Joy
Elementary School.
Wheeless is confident that
Sans will do a good job.
She said that he has a
good group coming back.
“Anquneta Buckholts,
Victoria Borden, Michelle
Harris, Bianca King, Kaitlin
Ellis and Sami Grier will be
seniors,” Wheeless said. “I
think most of the under
classmen from last year will
be back, and I’m sure that
some of the girls that quit
the team will also try out.
“(Sans) is going to be all
right.”
Sans plans to take time to
watch his team play travel
ball.
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Quarterback hopeful Chris Thompson takes the snap
from center Jacob Fruge.
year school after her stint at
ABAC. Conner says that 10
of her players have moved
on the four-year institutes.
To get what she wants,
Jones knows that hard work
is the key. She carries a 3.8
grade point average and
ranks 41st in her class.
“In June and July, I’ll
do some 2-and-ones,” Sans
said. “We’re going to work
hard to get ready for the
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“Nobody really knows
what they want to be,”
Jones said. “They know that
it takes hard work. It takes
hard work, being consistent,
believing in yourself and
your team.”
Jones intends to transfer
that ethic to the next level.
season.”
Sans will be teaching
business education at Perry
High School.
SPORTS
Lukas doubts Giacomo can win Preakness
By BEVERLEY SMITH
Toronto Globa and Mail
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
- Giacomo’s upset win in
the Kentucky Derby dashed
any hopes of a Triple Crown
winner this year, Hall of
Fame trainer D. Wayne
Lukas says.
Lukas, who has won more
Derbies than any living
trainer (four), said Giacomo
just isn’t good enough to
win the three tough races in
five weeks, something that
only 11 horses in history
have done.
Giacomo stunned a crowd
of 156,435, second largest in
Derby history, at Churchill
Downs to win at odds of 50
to 1 in the race on Saturday.
His $102.60 payout for a $2
win ticket was the second
largest in history, dwarfed
only by the $184.90 that
Donerail paid to win 92
years ago, in 1913.
He also generated outland
ish payouts on other more
exotic bets. Paired with 71-
1 shot Closing Arguments,
which finished second,
Giacomo paid $9,814.80 for
a $2 exacta ticket. And a $2
superfecta wager (top four
in order), paid $1,728,5072,
about $89,000 more than
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Giacomo earned for finish
ing first.
Total purse for the race
was $2,399,600.
The grey colt won with
a grinding stretch charge
after a troubled trip as he
wound in and out of the
large field of 20, and at
one point, had to jump over
another horse’s heels.
Winning jockey Mike
Smith disagreed with
Lukas, claiming that
Giacomo is so talented and
just finding his stride that
he will win the Preakness
and the Belmont, as well
as the $4-million Breeders’
Cup Classic at the end of
the season.
When told of Lukas’s
remarks, Smith said: “They
will say what they want to
say. I’m going to ride every
race to win. If it’s meant to
be, it will be. I’m not going
to make predictions, but I
made the one that we were
going to get here, and we
did that part.”
Giacomo flew under
everybody’s radar. Churchill
Downs did not even include
Giacomo’s location on the
backstretfch in its Derby
barn list.
Trainer Bobby Frankel
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said he never would have
included Giacomo in his
superfecta, but he wouldn’t
have included any of the
California horses, four of
which finished in the top
six.
“The only thing this will
ensure is 20-horse fields in
the Derby from now on,”
said Frankel, one of the most
astute trainers in the coun
try. “You had people saying
those horses didn’t belong,
but now it will ensure a
20-horse Derby for the next
10 years, until they forget
about it. Now, when every
body says a horse doesn’t
belong, they belong.”
Frankel’s High Limit, a
well-regarded horse at 20-
1, finished last among 20
but came back with cuts on
his heels. “At least I have
an excuse,” Frankel said. “I
don’t think (trainers Nick)
Zito and (Todd) Pletcher
have an excuse.”
Zito had a five-horse
entry in the Derby, includ
ing favorite Bellamy Road,
which finished seventh. All
of his horses had a shot,
but the other four finished
from eighth to 15th place
and missed the superfecta
altogether.
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