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Warner Robins Recreation
Department
Youth baseball
11-12-year-old
Perry Red Sox 13, Braves 0
PY: 54004-13
BR: 0 0 00 0-0
WP: King, 13Ks, 3Ws, IH.
Leading hitters: King, 1-2, HR.
Coaches/asslstants: Please cal in your
scores at 987-1823 Ext 231 (please
leave a message with stats - score
by inning, leadbig hitters - only at tNs
number) or 258-6127
ON TAP
Warner Robins Recreation
Department Youth
Youth baseball/softball
Today
■ Make-up games, as neces
sary
Adult softball
■ Make-up games, to be deter
mined. Playoffs begin Monday.
High school
Today
■ Warner Robins girls at camp
at Auburn
■ Westfield fast-pitch camp
(through today)
■ Perry baseball camp (through
today)
Coaches: Please fax your sched
ules to 888-1181 or e-mal them to
donm@evansnewspapers.com
IN BRIEF
Warner Robins to bold
cross country series
Warner Robins High School
will host the Middle Georgia
Cross County Summer Series
today (3,000 meters), July 7
(4,000 meters) and 21 (5,000
meters on the course behind
Pearl Stephens Elementary
School.
The cost for each race is $5
and registration can be made
the day of. The venue is open
to all. Call David Erpelding at
328-3208 for more.
Nnrthside coaches to
held wrestling camp
Northside wrestling head
coach Dan Kelly and members
of his staff will be holding the
Triple Option Wrestling camp
for those in grades 7-12, June
27-30 at First Presbyterian
Day School in Macon.
The camp will target three
levels of wrestling: Neutral,
top and bottom.
The cost is SIOO and the
camp will run daily from 9
a.m.-4 p.m. Contact Kelly at
501-2054 for more.
Northside te host
softball camp
Northside High will be offer
ing a softball camp for girls,
ages 5-12. The dates are June
20-23, from 9 a.m.-noon.
If interested, contact Vicki
Jones at 953-5619. The cost
is $55.
Rapp taking applications
for baseball camp
The 25th Annual Robert
Sapp baseball camp is cur
rently accepting applications
for its summer session June
20-24 at Rozar Park in Perry.
The camp is scheduled to
run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. each
day and is for boys 7-14. The
fee is slls with team rates
available ($lO discount for five
or more boys from one sum
mer league).
Sapp will be the lead instruc
tor, but once again Andy
Gentry, Houston County High
School’s head baseball coach,
will be assistant director.
According to the camp bro
chure, fundamentals, game
competition, videos, lectures
and demonstrations will be
part of the agenda.
Information and brochures
can be obtained by calling
Gentry at 988-4538, or at the
Perry Recreation Department
or at the Ochlahatchee Park
concession stands.
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Monday at the school. She and other Lady Hornets players are spending their week
working on hitting and fielding at a softball camp conducted by Westfield girls fast
pitch head coach Rodney Culverhouse. For more, see Friday’s HHJ.
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Eighth-grader Carly Albritton soft tosses to eighth-grader Ashley Moreland during hit
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Ginny Jackson
Serious business: Teacher
Favorite team: Atlanta
Braves. “I watch a lot of the
Braves."
Least favorite team:
Georgia Bulldogs. However,
Sports
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HHJ/Joe Sersey
“When (quarterback) Buck
Beleu (approximately 1980)
played for them, I liked
them. ”
Favorite sport: Softball. “My
daughter plays and my hus
band coaches. I like drag rac
ing too. My 10-year-old son
races junior dragsters."
What’s wrong with sports
today?
“The exorbitant amount of
money that athletes get to
play."
What’s right with sports today?
“Youth sports. They teach
values and a work ethic."
If you were Queen of sports,
what would you change?
“I'd (eliminate) the pressure
parents put on children.
They’re trying to re-live what
they didn’t achieve."
NBA playoffs could benefit from changes
As I’ve been watching the NBA
playoffs during the past few
weeks, I’ve noticed a couple of
things I think would be better changed.
This isn’t a radical column that is going
to try to reshape the game by adding a
four-point line or anything like that, it’s
just that there are two things I think
could be done to better the play of the
game, especially in the finals.
The first deals specifically with the
finals. For the entire playoffs leading
up to the last series, the format for the
games is 2-2-1-1-1, meaning that the
higher-ranked team plays two games at
home, then two away, then one at home,
one away, and a possible Game 7 at
home.
Then, for the finals, the NBA switches
to a 2-3-2 format.
I don’t know the exact reasoning behind
this, other than it cuts down on travel for
the teams.
However, one thing that it does, that I
believe is unfair, is that it gives the lower-
WRNL turns focus
to postseason play
Selects All'Stars for three age brackets
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
Thanks to the weath
er, the Warner Robins
National League has a
week to go to finish up its
regular season. Its junior
league teams have to
make up several rainouts.
“We had I don’t know
how many rainouts,” said
president Tim Thomas.
“(So) we’ll be playing
(this) Monday through
Thursday.”
All is not in flux, how
ever, as the All-Star teams
for girls softball and boys
13-under and 12-under
baseball have been select
ed and named.
The girls are part of
Dixie League play, which
means their state tourna
ment will be at Perry’s
Perry, Westfield continue summep
play with games against each other
By JOE SERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
Acting Westfield base
ball coach Allen Smith,
sitting in for head coach
Billy Sellers who is help
ing out with weight train
ing for the football team
(Sellers was at the game,
however), hopes a tradi
tion has started - or actu
ally been re-established
and will continue.
“I want Houston County
baseball to thrive,” he
said. “I want all the
Houston County teams to
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Perry pitcher Seth Reber throws out Westfield lead
off hitter Tanner Williams after the latter grounded
back to the mound Tuesday in Perry.
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highest ranked team” is the one with
the best regular season record. By using
a 2-3-2 format, the best team ends up
having to win two consecutive elimina
tion games, should both teams win their
home games.
The other thing I think should be
altered is the NBA’s handling of techni
cal fouls. Now, a technical foul results in
one free throw and possession of the ball
See CAMPBELL, page 3B
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Ochlahatchee Park begin
ning July 9 said WRNL
softball director Ray
Flanders.
“We’ll have two teams,
15-under and 12-under,
playing in the tourna
ment,” he said.
Outside of the play
offs, the Warner Robins
National League has more
going on.
According to Thomas,
the league is trying to
develop travel teams.
“We’re trying to get
the best players in our
league better competition
by playing travel ball,”
he said. “It’s still new, so
we’ll see how it goes.”
He said that the goal is
to form a travel team for
every age division.
See WRNL, page 2B
play each other during the
summer.”
“We didn’t play last
year,” he added, “but we
played the year before and
beat them 4-3 in the bot
tom of the seventh with a
bases loaded single.”
Added Perry head
baseball coach Shawn
Masters: “It’s only six or
seven miles to the far
thest team.
“That’s easy games and
easy travel.”
To that end, the
See SUMMER, page 2B
ranked team the
possibility of gain
ing the upper hand
merely by winning
all of their home
games.
I think during
the playoffs, the
highest ranked
team should always
have the edge, so to
speak.
In the finals, the