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Warner Robins American
Little League
Minor League
Sunbirds 18, Riptide 6
SB: 553 5-18
RT: 0 0 1 5 - 6
WP: Hailey Waites (5-0), 3IP,
4Ks. Leading hitters: Carlie
Farmer 2-2, HR; Kelly Warner
3-3; Katelyn Chappell 2-
4; Abbie Cook 3-3; Moriah
"Hatrack” Drawhorn 1-1.
Riptide: Lesley Sheeley 1-2.
Coactos assistants: Please cal in your
scores at 887-1823 Ext 231,
387-8811 or 256-8127
ON TAP
High school sports
Thursday-Saturday
■ TR - AAAA state at
Jeffersonville (boys only), TBA
Thursday
■ BB - AAAAA state, HC vs.
Camden County, time to be
determined
Key: BB = baseball; TN = tennis;
SC = soccer; GF = gotl; 18 = track
IN BRIEF
Perry staff to conduct
baseball camp
Perry High School head
baseball coach Shawn Masters
and his staff will conduct a
baseball camp for children 6-
12 June 13-16-8 a.m.-3 p.m.
each day - at the school.
The cost is $75, which
includes an event-specific T
shirt. Contact Masters at 988-
6313 or 988-6319 for more
information.
Fraternities to meet in
basketball challenge
The Omega Psi Phi fraternity
and Omega Gamma Gamma
chapter will face off against
Pearl Stephens Elementary
and Rumble Middle School
teachers and staff in a bas
ketball challenge at 11 a.m.,
Saturday at Rumble Middle
School.
Admission is can goods
and/or donations, which will go
toward the Omega food drive.
Demon touchdown club
to hold golf tourney
The Warner Robins High
School Touchdown Club
will holld its second annual
golf tournament May 21 at
Waterford Golf Club.
Start time for the scramble
format is 1 p.m. The registra
tion deadline is May 18.
The entry fee is SIOO which
includes cart caddy (a Demons
football player) fee and lunch.
Contact Tommy Wood at 328-
7533 or e-mail Warner Robins
athletics director Bryan Way
at bway@hcbe.net for more
information.
Houston County to
hold softball camp
Houston County will host its
Second Annual HCHS Lady
Bears softball camp June 13-
16. Coaches Tiffany Tootle
and Tara Asbill from Columbus
State, and former Lady Bear
Jaclyn Kaylor, who plays for
Georgia Southern, will con
duct the camp, along with
Houston County head coach
Cristi Griffin.
The cost is S6O per player
for early registration and $65
per player after June 3. The
camp is for girls ages 7-14 and
goes from 9 a.m. until noon
each day. Call Cristi Griffin
at 953-9719 or e-mail her at
cgriffin@hcbe.net for more.
Perry High School to
host football camp
The Perry High School foot
ball camp will be held June 6-8
from 9 a.m.-noon.
The camp will be run by
Panther athletics director Andy
Scott and his staff. The cost
is sls, which includes lunch.
Contact Scott at 988-6319 to
sign up.
THURSDAY,
MAY 12, 2005
Lancers mark second week of spring football
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
MACON - Mark Card
began his first season
as a football head coach
last week when Central
Fellowship began its first -
of two weeks total - spring
practice.
Card was an assistant at
the school for three years
before taking over the top
spot.
The Lancers are working
to overcome last year’s 0-
11 season.
“We lost one senior,
Dorell Singleton,” Card
said. “(And) right now (as
of Tuesday) we’ve had 20
out every day.”
Card said he is focusing
on improving his team’s
defense and building
strength.
In order to do that, “We
have to find people and put
them in the right spot,”
he said. “Our offensive
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From left, Warner Robins’ Laron Scott, Maurice Gray, Tramarius Gray, and in the back unseen, Dartez Walker, work
on handoffs May 5 at the school. The quartet will represent the Demons in the 4XIOO at the state tournament,
which begins today in Jeffersonville.
Demons track team prepares for competition
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Eight from Warner Robins
High School will be com
peting in the boys state
track and field meet today-
Saturday in Jeffersonville.
Antwan Thomas is sched
uled to run the 400 meters.
He ran a 48.58 at the region
meet. That, according to his
head coach Mark Taylor, is
one second faster than the
Williams' decision to enter NBA draft could be the wrong one
It came and went like it was noth
ing. Maybe because it happened
right in the middle of exam week.
Maybe everyone had already decided
what the outcome would be.
Regardless, it happened. The “it”
I am referring to is the decision by
Louis Williams, listed as the No. 1
high school basketball player in the
country by several reputable maga
zines and sources, to forego college
and enter the NBA.
The one person who could have
possibly turned around a program
that finished with the worst SEC
record in nearly a decade into a legiti-
Sports
'Our offensive line
average about
200 pounds, and
we've been having
them drag around
200-pound tires
to build strength.'
- Central Fellowship head
football coach Mark Card
line average about 200
pounds, and we’ve been
having them drag around
200-pound tires to build
strength.”
He has also started a
weight program mod
eled after what he says
is Washington County’s
“Bigger, Faster, Stronger”
system.
See LANCERS, page 2B
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nearest 400 competitor he’ll
see at state.
Romell Sanders and
Jeronte Johnson are com
peting in the high jump.
Both had jumps of six feet
at region.
Chapel Hill’s high jumper
did 6-4 and Creekside and
Bainbridge had high jump
ers that topped out at 6-2.
Michael Stuart won the
region with a pole vault of
12-6. His goal, however, is
mate contender
skipped right
past Athens
on his way to
the NBA draft,
and the general
feeling is, “Well,
it’s going to be
another one of
those years.”
There’s still a
chance he will
come to UGA.
With a large
amount of underclassmen, as well as
a few high schoolers who are more
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Central Fellowship’s Brandon King practices the "swim move” on a sled Tuesday at the
school.
13-6, but he’ll need to clear
14, he said, to take first.
“I want at least 13,”
Stuart said. “I want to fin
ish in the top three.”
That’s the goal for the
entire team. Win if possible
but place for sure.
“Last year Chapel Hill
took first in the team scores
with 41 points,” Taylor said.
“If we can score 16 points,
that will put us in the top
10. Out of 49 schools, that’s
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pretty good.”
Taylor set some goals for
his track team at the begin
ning of the season: win all
home meets, finish season
undefeated, win county
championship, four-peat as
Region 3-AAAA champions
and finish in the top 10 in
the state.
“We did the first four,”
Taylor said. The Demons
have won region the past
See TRACK, page 2B
physically prepared than Williams for
the NBA, entering the draft, he could
decide to get a year of college ball
under his belt rather than drop to the
second round.
Most of the mock drafts have him
going mid-to-late first round, and
some even have him dropping to the
second round. Neither of these posi
tions come with the enormous salary
guarantee that being a lottery pick
does, and second round picks have
almost no job security at all.
I can’t understand why anyone
would want to risk being taken in
See CAMPBELL, page 3B
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Warner Robins
golfers struggle
at state tourney
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
They’ll always have
region. In fact they,
Warner Robins golfing
seniors Robert Swinford,
Chris Wolfe, Brad Harvey
and Ryan Hall, will always
have four regions. Titles,
that is. They just won’t
have any state accolades
to go with them (other
than the fact they, unlike
plenty of other schools did
qualify).
That’s because the
Demons’ bid at the state
tournament this past
weekend in Columbus
was, “a struggle through
out,” said Warner Robins
head golf coach Scott
Lamb. “We played poorly
on the front nine and that
took us out of contention
for the day.
“After that it was kind
of scrambling to keep it
respectable.”
Etowah eventually
emerged the winner in
AAAA. Glynn Academy
won in AAAAA, Oconee
See STATE, page 2B
'We played
poorly on the
front nine and
that took us out
ol contention for
the day'
- Warner Robins head golf
coach Scott Lamb
Hornets finish
fifth in Albany
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
It wasn’t first, but out
of 16 teams competing
at the AAA state tourna
ment this past weekend at
Doublegate Country Club
in Albany, fifth wasn’t
half bad.
“We were very pleased at
how we did, ” said Westfield
golf coach Susie Greer of
the Hornets’ team score
of 319. Stratford finished
first. It shot a team score
of 291. Deerfield was next
at 301, followed by First
Presbyterian Day, which
shot 308. Westfield and
and John Milledge shot
the same score but the
fourth spot was awarded
See HORNETS, page 2B