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Warner Robins Recreation
Department
Today
■ Georgia Recreation and
Parks Association 17-and
under baseball tournament at
Perkins Field, 5:30 p.m. and 8
p.m. (the latter, if necessary),
teams to be determined
■ Georgia Recreation and
Parks Association Senior
girls softball tournament at
Warner Robins High School,
5 p.m. and 7 p.m. (the latter,
if necessary), teams to be
determined
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Firry rec sits signup
dates, cheep clinic
The Perry Recreation
Department will begin fall soc
cer, football and cheerleading
signups Monday from 8 a.m.-5
p.m. and they will continue to
hold them until July 22. A late
fee will be charged after that.
There will also be a one-day
cheerleading clinic Saturday
from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Call 988-
2860 for more information.
WR Rnc registering Inr
swimming lessons
Warner Robins Recreation
Department is registering for
American Red Cross swim
ming lessons. For more infor
mation, call 929-1916.
WR Rnc sets football
raglstration dates
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department is
scheduled to begin registration
for its youth football and cheer
leading program July 16 from 8
a.m. until 1 p.m.
Registration will continue
the following week, July 18-22,
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. until all of the leagues
are filled. The program is for
boys and girls ages 5 to 12.
For football, the cost per child
is SSO for city, $lO3 for county
and $177 for out of county. For
cheerleading, the cost per child
is $75 for city, SIOO for county
and $l2O for out of county.
For more information, call
929-1916.
TRIVIAL TRIVIAL
Qrickqifz...
How many times have the
San Francisco 49ers won the
Super Bowl?
On Ms date...
Nationally: 1889 - John L.
Sullivan and Jake Kilrain met
in the last championship bare
knuckle fight. Sullivan won
after 75 rounds.
Locally: 1995 - Sissi Gann
of Perry was selected the team
captain to lead the Georgia team
against Florida in the Georgia
State Golf Association's annual
battle between the states.
Also, the Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agricenter
played host to the horseshoe
world tournament, bringing
more than 1,000 competitors to
the local area.
He taM it...
“Last season we (the
Vancouver Canucks) couldn't
win at home, and this season
we cant win on the road. My
failure as a coach is that I
can't think of anyplace else
to play."
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FRIDAY,
JULY 8, 2005
Brannon prepares to take on Kentucky Speedway
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
Expectations are off the
Or
ARCA RE/MAX
Channel 5 150,
today. 8:30
p.m., SPEED
first top 10
- he finished 10th - of the
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Warner Robins American Little League player Carmen Fields scores the first run for the team in its rout of Western
Wednesday at Bloomfield in Macon. She also led the team on the mound en route to a District V title.
WRALL Majors dust Western
Win gives team
District Five title
ByJOESERSEY
HHJ Sports Writer
The Warner Robins
American Little League
Majors softball team jumped
on Western in the first
inning and went on to win
14-3 in five innings to win
the District Five champion
ship at Bloomfield in Macon
Wednesday night.
Warner Robins advances
to the state tournament in
Columbus July 16.
WRALL scored five runs
in the top of the first and
scored in every inning but
the second.
The Warner Robins Majors
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Age: 43
Serious business:
Maintenance Manager
Favorite team: Georgia Tech.
Tm a Double E (electronics
engineer) alumna."
Favorite sport: Softball. "We
do it as a family. We enjoy
spending time together."
Favorite player: "John
BRANNEN
chart in the
Walt Brannen
camp.
For start
ers, the Elko
native and
ARCA RE/
MAX driver
recorded his
race,” he
said. “Now things are start
ing to click.”
were up 9-0 before Western
pushed three across in the
bottom of the third.
WRALL pitcher Carmon
Fields allowed only one run
ner in the final two innings
as she went the distance
for her second tournament
win. Fields struck out six
while walking five and giv
ing up two hits.
“Carmen pitched a great
game,” said head coach
Mark Red.
His daughter Brooke Red
led the attack, going 3-for
-3 at the plate and scoring
four runs. She walked in
her first plate appearance.
“We played a lot of short
game,” said Red. “We scored
bunting and running.”
Warner Robins performed
WMn&fey
Smoltz for his endurance. He
went from being a starter,
then a closer and back to
being a starter this late in his
career."
What’s wrong with sports
today?
"Notenough kids are involved.
Kids involved are great kids
and they’re healthy"
What’s right with sports today?
"The camaraderie and it
teaches our young ladies to
be team players."
If you wore the queen of
sports, what would you
change?
"Title IX has gone a long way
to balance collegiate sports.
We need something more
for high schools. I want to
see sixth-graders play middle
school sports. If they’re old
enough for middle school,
they ought to be allowed to
play."
Sports
year two
weeks
ago at
Michigan.
“We’re a
young team
but we’re
growing
and get
ting better
with every
'We're a young team but we're
growing and getting better with every
race. Now things are starting to cflck.'
-ARCA RE/MAX driver Walt Brannen
And now the team is head
ed to Sparta amd Kentucky
Speedway for the running
of the Channel 5 150 (today
at 8:30 p.m. on SPEED
ROUNDUP
Little League District Five
tournament
six sacrifice bunts that
resulted in five RBIs.
Casie Goodman led in the
sacrifice bunt department
with two and had one RBI,
but Leah Daughtry had two
singles and a sacrifice and
drove in a team-high four
runs.
The highlight of Red’s
"run 'em into the ground"
attack came when Jessica
Fair stole home in the third
inning.
She was well off the bag
after the pitch and as soon
as the catcher returned the
Texas' Rogers stirs up All-Star controversy
It’s almost time
for one of the
biggest sport
ing events of the
summer, the Megor
League Baseball All-
Star game.
Like almost every
other year, this
year’s selections
for the game have
aroused controversy
among many base
ball fans.
At the heart of this controversy lies
Kenny Rogers, the pitcher for the Texas
Rangers who was recently suspended 20
games for assaulting a cameraman.
Most of the baseball world is split on
whether he should be allowed to pitch in
the All-Star game or if his punishment
should include being banned from this
game as well.
Due to issues regarding an appeal that
has been filed on behalf of Rogers by the
Players’ Association, he was al-lowed to
be chosen as part of this year’s team.
In addition, he receives a $50,000
Channel).
The series ran there
in May of this year, and
although he didn’t run well,
“We just had a lot of bad
ball to the pitcher, she was
off. She easily slid in safe.
In other Little League
action, at West Macon Little
League, West Macon’s No. 2
Minor League team (9-10-
year-olds) defeated Warner
Robins West No. 2, 6-2, to
earn a berth in the champi
onship game.
Warner Robins fell to the
losers bracket and tonight
at 7 p.m. will face the win
ner of Thursday’s Western
No. 2-Wamer Robins West
No. 1 game.
Also at West Macon Little
League, the Warner Robins
East defeated Ocmulgee
10-0 Wednesday night and
will play West Macon at 6
p.m. today to stay alive in
See WRALL, page 14A
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luck,” he said, it’s a track he
said he definitely likes.
In fact he recorded his
best career ARCA RE/MAX
finish there last year when
he came in fourth.
“I love Kentucky after
Daytona,” he said. “Daytona
is just hard to top because .
of its history, but Kentucky
is real fast. Michigan was
three, sometimes four
grooves wide."
Sm BRANNEN, page 14A
Horseshoe
pitchers go
lor Wttrld
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
Somebody is going to
have a tiger by the tail.
Buddy Ayer, Rick
Thompson and Shorty
Johnson are each hop
ing it’s the competition
when they take on the
field in their respec
tive divisions at the
81st World Horseshoe
Pitching Championship in
Bakersfield, Calif, (home
of Buck
Owens, AT A
who
sung the
song:
“I’ve got
a tiger
by the
tail”
- hence
the bad
humor)
July 18-
23.
Ayer
will be
trying to
avenge
his loss
at the
same
venue -
different
location;
it was
in Idaho
- last year. During that
tournament, he was one
horseshoe away from
another world title, his
second. He won in 2003
and in eight years of
going also has three sec
ond-place finishes. This
past year, however, it was
dependent on his compet
itor. If the latter slipped,
which he didn’t, he threw
a ringer, Ayer would be
the champion. Instead he
ended up in a tie with
another pitcher - one he
had already beaten - and
pitched off where he
ended up second.
As far as Thompson, he
will be trying to bring
See HORSESHOE, page 14A
bonus for making the team, which has
also been the cause of uproar.
Two issues that seem to reappear every
year have come up again, and they deal
with which participants are chosen and
the way in which they are chosen.
In a league that lays claim to hav
ing the best players in the world, there
are always going to be instances where
deserving players get snubbed.
Also, there are going to be times when
seemingly undeserving players get picked
based on past accomplishments, despite
not having a stellar year.
This year’s noticeable omissions
include Florida’s Carlos Delgado, New
York’s Cliff Floyd, and Houston’s Morgan
Ensberg. All three put up numbers that
could easily have been considered All-
Star worthy.
Other players who have been All-Star
mainstays in the past that were not
included on this year’s team consist of
Greg Maddux, Ken Griffey Jr., Barry
Bonds and Randy Johnson.
While none of these players had years
that resembled them in their prime,
Sh CAMPBELL, page 14A
GLANCE
Whet: World
Horseshoe Pitching
Championship
When: July 18-23
When: California
Of note: Daily
schedules/scor
ing updates can
be found at www
horseshoepitching,
com
Other: Don't
miss the Perry
Horseshoe Pitching
Club in action
Saturday during
the state mixed
doubles tourna
ment starting at 10
a.m. at Rozar Park
in Perry.