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IN BRIEF
Bowling Congress to
hold Initial meeting
The Middle Georgia United
States Bowling Congress asso
ciation will hold its initial meet
ing today at 6:30 p.m. at the
Centerville Lion's Clubhouse at
612 North Houston Lake Blvd.,
in Centerville. The meeting is
open to all sanctioned bowlers.
Its purpose will be to elect offi
cers as well as answer any ques
tions in regard to its formation -
the result of a merger between
the Warner Robins Bowling
Association, the Warner Robins
Women's Bowling Association
and the Warner Robins Young
American Bowling Alliance.
Contact transition committee
chairman Jay Taylor at 256-
0393 for more information.
Pine Oaks to host
Stephens tournament
The Jerome Stephens Sr.,
Golf Classic will be held Friday
at Pine Oaks Golf Course on
Robins Air Force Base.
All proceeds for the event ben
efit the Life Changers Center, a
program of the Union Grove
Community Enhancement
Group, Inc., designed to transi
tion individuals from dependen
cy to self-sufficiency through the
use of training courses, monthly
financial assistance and more.
The venue will feature guest
appearances by Cal Daniels,
Eddie Anderson and Ben
Smith.
The cost is SSO per player,
which includes lunch, range
balls, cart and more.
Prizes will be awarded for
first-third place. Contact Rena
Laster at 929-8585 for more
information.
CGSA begins on-line
soccer registration
The Central Georgia Soccer
Association is now open for on
line registration.
All children ages 4-19 are
invited to sign up at their Web
site at www.gasoccer.org/cgsa.
Click on the link and follow the
directions.
Warner Robins rec
sets volleyball date
The Warner Robins
Recreation Department will
begin registration for volleyball
Aug. 15 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at
the department. The opportu
nity is open for boys and girls
between ages 13 and 18, with
the age control date being Aug.
31. A birth certificate is required
upon registration unless it is
currently on file.
The fee, which is also due
upon signup, is $25 for city resi
dents, SSO for county and SBS
for those out of county. Call the
department 929-1916 for more
information.
TRIVIA TRIVIAL
Quck quz...
Which NHL team holds the
longest streak of making it to
the playoffs?
on uis date...
1937 - The U.S. captured the
Davis Cup by beating Britain,
four matches to one.
Answer: St. Louis with 23
THURSDAY,
JULY 28, 2005
WRALL Majors pass first test
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The Warner Robins
American Little League 11-
12-year-old All Stars passed
their first test Monday in
the State Tournament as
they won over Midway
Heights 11-3.
Warner Robins was to face
Master City out of Augusta
Tuesday at 8 p.m. (results
pending) in its second game
of pool play.
Warner Robins got on the
board first with a single
run in the second inning
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Kristine Martin has a ball careen off her racquet while practicing on the Warner
Robins Recreation Department's courts last week. She, along with a group of others,
will represent Warner Robins at the state team tennis tournament Friday-Sunday in
Macon.
tennis players to contend at state
Special to the HHJ
Five teams will represent
Warner Robins in the state
team tennis tournament
Friday-Sunday in Macon
at the USA Junior State
Tennis Championships, a
USTA-sanctioned tourna
ment event.
The players represent age
groups 10 on up to 18 and
PJL preps for Dixie national tourney
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
The Perry Junior League
9-10-year-old softball team
will be leaving this week
to play in the Dixie Youth
National Tournament in
Dothan, Ala.
The young ladies earned
the trip by winning the state
title on their home field
Ochlahatchee in Perry.
They took the state title
with a 9-7 win over Monroe
County, a 12-1 win over
Sports
and then
put three
big runs
on the
board in
the third
to take a
4-0 lead.
But
Midway
Heights
tool
advantage
of some
A
warm Robins
Little League
Georgia State
Tournament
■ WRALL 11,
Midway Heights 3
uncharacteristic bad field
ing to put up three quick
runs in the bottom of the
are some of the “best play
ers in the (Houston County)
area,” said head coach and
local league director Kerry
Bacon.
To be selected locally, they
first had to qualify. That
took place last fall at the
Warner Robins Recreation
Department.
Now they will compete
Marion
County
and a
repeat
2 2-12
win over
Monroe
County.
Perry
will play
its first
tourna
ment
game on
AT A
GLANCE
What: Perry Junior
League at Dixie
Youth National
Tournament - ver
sus Virginia (in
tourney opener)
When: Saturday,
3 p.m.
Where: Dothan,
Ala.
Saturday at 3 p.m. against
third.
Jerry Stuckey then came
on to toe the rubber with
one out and shut down the
rally.
Warner Robins added a
single run in the fourth,
four in the fifth, and two
more in the sixth for their
final total.
Stuckey led the hit parade
with three singles and a
double on 4-for-4 hitting.
Justin Godwin was also
4-for-4 with a pair of home
runs.
See MAJORS, page 3B
against nearly 1,200 players
from across Georgia, Bacon
said, in a round-robin for
mat.
The winning team in each
division will compete in
either the Georgia-Florida
Championships, which will
be held in Jacksonville,
Fla., in October, or the
See TENNIS, page 3B
Virginia.
“Pitching is our definite
strength,” said head coach
Rusty Swartz. “Savannah
Ransome is a good fastball
pitcher and Anna Marie
Swartz and Mary Jan
Lawless are good backups.”
“We also have a core of
good hitters who put the
bat on the ball,” he said.
“We won’t hit a lot of grand
slams, but we will put the
ball in play.”
See PJL, page 2B
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Avery Sports Photography
Eagles' Johnson
battles leukemia
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
Don’t be surprised if you
spot a auspicious decal on
the back of the Eagles’ hel
mets jaheiL the.. 2005 foot
ball season kicks off. It will
be the number 96, that of
Chris Johnson, one of their
teammates.
It was back during June
that his mother, Pat, noticed
he, a strapping 220-pound
defensive end, was more
tired than usual and didn’t
have his usual hearty appe
tite. She attributed it, how
ever, to the heat coupled
with Northside’s practice.
That is until a short time
later when she also noted
his lymph glands had obvi
ously swollen out of pro
portion, she said. She took
him to the hospital, where
over the course of the next
few weeks, a series of tests
- the last of which was a
bone marrow biopsy - fol
lowed.
Finally on July 14 the
family received the diagno
sis: He had leukemia.
“It just caught us total
Tm not into all that (percentages) but
the Man upstairs, He knows.
He's a child. He's strong and he's going
to bounce back.'
- Pat Johnson
Football is a 'glorious 1 reunion
“Glory days well they’ll
pass you by
Glory days in the wink of
a young girl’s eye
Glory days, glory days”
Play on Bruce ...
Five years ago
I was in the best
shape of my life.
I was in the Air Force,
but that’s not why I was
in great shape. Shoot, by
my 10-year-anniversary I
had learned the secret to
passing the annual fitness
test (that was before they
changed it from a mile and
a half run - or was it a mile
- to the stationary bicy
cle) was exercising the old
coffee cup and then pray
ing you didn’t get a heart
attack come D-Day.
Sometime within my
last year, however, I was
SECTION
B
ly by surprise,” said his
mother Pat, who had
already seen the results of
cancer through her moth
er. “(Initially) I was think
ing more along the lines
of mono or something like
that. Leukemia was the
last thing on my mind.”
What has followed and
will continue over the
course of the next six to
eight months - right now
weekly but they could
become less frequent,
maybe even monthly, she
said - is chemotherapy.
The result to date has
been an “intensive care roll
er coaster,” that response
from her following a rough
past weekend in which he
had to be placed in ICU
(but was back out into the
regular ward by Monday).
“The prognosis is good,
though,” she added. “The
chance of putting it into
remission is good. The kind
he has is the most common
in children with an 85-90
percent cure rate.
“I’m not into all that
See JOHNSON, page 2B
Don Moncrief
HHJ Sports Editor
donm@evansnewspapets.com
proudly (they said “proud
ly,” I said, “What you talk
ing about Willis?”) selected
to the Combat Engineers’
Readiness Challenge team.
It seems the firemen and
engineers and carpenters
got together and decided
See MONCRIEF, page 3B