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Final leg
Warner Robins head cross-country
coach David Erpelding put on the
last race in the summer cross coun
try series - 5,000 meters - Thursday
at Pearl Stephens Elementary
School. For results, see Tuesday's
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CLOCKWISE: Competitors get the
word "go. " Runners ascend the first
of three hills. Demons cross-coun
try runner Vinny Gillmore chases
the front-runners.
Photos by Don Moncrief
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WRALL
From page 1B
If they did, the local team
would start semifinal play
Sunday. If they didn’t,
WRALL’s 9-10-year-olds
were out of the Georgia
State tournament.
At first things looked
promising. Midway was los
ing by four runs. But they
rallied eventually winning
by one, and ending a “great
year,” head coach Mike Wells
said. “We’ve been playing
ball since I think the end of
March,” he said. “And we’re
really satisfied with what we
did.
“In all reality, I think if we
had played like we did in the
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From page 1B
adult ladies softball to the
state tournament - the same
one that won last year.)
Team members include
Reggie Pero and Avery
Wright from Houston
County, Chris LeShoure
from Warner Robins, Frank
Brown and Ainsley Blackmon
from Northside. Charles
McKenzie from Northside is
also a part of the team but
due to other commitments,
he was unable to attend.
The team has pretty
much been as it is - there
have been a few additions
and subtractions, Hill said,
since each member was 12.
Regulations, he added, allow
them to form up the day
following the final day of
the Georgia High School
Association’s state tourna
ment.
To get into this year’s
event, they had to first qual
ify at the state level. That
took place back in May. They
had to finish in the top four
out of 29 teams competing
and that’s exactly where
they placed - fourth.
This particular team also
competed in the same tour
nament when they were 14
and finished 12th.
“We’ve obviously gotten a
lot better,” Hill said. Lethal
about sums it up to date.
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Macon tourney (winning the
District Five title) we could
have beaten anybody. But I
think it just finally caught
up with the kids.
"They were totally exhaust
ed.”
As far as Thursday’s game,
Nick Marten pitched three
innings for WRALL, Micah
Wells threw three, Hunter
Jackson tossed an inning
and a half and Jason Gifford
closed.
According to Wells, most
of the runs came courtesy
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of walks, but R.J. Skeen did
have a single that drove in
two runs and Jackson and
Gifford also singled.
As far as WRALL’s 11-
year-olds mentioned earlier,
they were the team that
needed Master City, a squad
that was winless up until
Wednesday, to beat Rome.
They didn’t which meant
that local squad was elimi
nated.
They too at least ended
the year with the solace they
won the District Five title.
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SPORTS
APPROACH
From page 1B
They will have switched
workstations every five, 10
or 15 minutes - depending
on what period they’re in
- and the whole process will
last for 18 periods.
To watch it from a dis
tance is to say it looks like a
lot and it is.
For instance, here’s what
the defense’s list of things
to do looked like Wednesday:
Tackling circuit, ladder/
shuffle, bag, butt-up, weave,
ball, strip and step drills,
form fumble reads, scoop
score reads, kickoff, punt
cautious, bandits, pass rush
moves and counters, perim
eter versus offense, team
defense, teach and retreat,
point after touchdown, field
goal and “gassers.”
Here’s the one for the
offense: Goal line, veer,
drill, stalk, G-trap, catch
and route drills, reach drive,
G-trap footwork, “root hog,”
bags, play-action footwork,
alignment, kickoff, punt
cautious, “bandits,” pass
protection, perimeter ver
sus defense, offensive team,
dime offense, point after
touchdown and field goal.
And if that wasn’t enough,
the majority of those drills
are broken down even fur
ther internally into any
where from a few to a bunch
of smaller exercises.
“The biggest thing is
we’re trying to get in as
much teaching as possible in
a short period of time,” said
Scott. “This keeps every
body on the same page as
far as the practice plan. This
ensures coaches do exactly
what we’ve mapped out in
our coaches meetings.”
The program itself was
not just put together over
night, either.
In fact, it was 12 years
in the making. That’s how
long Scott said he has saved
- gleaning a little bit here,
a little bit there (the book
on this is about twice as
thick as an encyclopedia),
and sculpted his “dream.”
The only change has
been to “tweak” things in
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‘Normally other schools won't put
in another play until the oNense
or defense masters the first one.
Whereas we're giving our kids
everything we've got.'
- Perry head football coach Andy Scott
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dummies while attempting to catch a ball tossed to him.
conjunction with how his
assistants feel they can best
accomplish what he’s laid
out.
Also, Scott added doing
things this way complements
another aspect of their over
all plan for this year.
“Normally other schools
won’t put in another play
until the offense or defense
masters the first one,” he
said. “Whereas we’re giving
our kids everything we’ve
got (most of it already taught
on the blackboard and on
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the field during voluntary
summer workouts).
“So next week when we
get in pads, we can kind of
start over. Then the kids
will have prior knowledge.”
He also added they would
incorporate other aspects
such as the Oklahoma, a
gauntlet type drill, as well as
intra-squad-type scrimmag
ing and other elements to
their training at that time.
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