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THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
SCOREBOARD
■ Nothing reported
Coactos/asstetMti: Pleaie cal and
leave a message on your acorea at
887-1823 Ext 281 (please provide
state - score by bring, leading
Mtters/detenters) or cal 828-4812 to
speak to the edttor.
ON TAP
High school softball
Today
■ Deerfield at Westfield, 4:30
p.m.
■ Houston County at Warner
Robins, 5:15 p.m.
■ Northside at Boulder
Invitational, times and teams to
be determined
■ Peach County at Perry, 5
p.m.
Friday
■ Northside at Boulder
Invitational, times and teams to
be determined
■ Perry at Labor Day Tourney,
times and teams to be deter
mined
Saturday
■ Northside at Boulder
Invitational, times and teams to
be determined
■ Perry at Labor Day Tourney,.
times and teams to be deter
mined
High school football
Friday
■ Crisp County at Houston
County, 7:30 p.m.
■ Northside at Griffin, 7:30
p.m.
■ Fitzgerald at Perry, 7:30 p.m.
■ Riverside Military at Central
Fellowship, 8 p.m.
■ Westfield at Windsor, 8 p.m.
Saturday
■ Stockbridge at Warner
Robins, 7:30 p.m.
High school volleyball
Today
■ Houston County and Mary
Persons at Warner Robins,
4:30 p.m.
■ Perry at Northside, 5 p.m.
Coaches: Please fax your
schedules to 888-1181 or e-nril them
to donm@evansnewspapers.com
IN BfllEF
Warner Robins chamber
sets annual Play Day
The Warner Robins Area
Chamber of Commerce will
be holding its 15th Annual
Play Day Golf Tournament
and Celebration Food Festival
Sept. 15 at the Landings Golf
Club.
For more information, visit
www.warner-robins.com or
contact Chrones via email
achrones@ warner-robins,
com or by phone at 922-
8585.
Chapter to hold second
annual golf tournament
The Maj. Gen. Joseph A.
McNeil Chapter will be hosting
its second annual golf tourna
ment to benefit the preserva
tion/history of the Tuskegee
Airmen Sept. 10 at Pine Oaks
Golf Course on Robins.
Sponsors can support by
donating gift certificates, golf
balls, et cetera, and/or by
sponsoring a hole for SIOO.
The cost is S4O per golfer.
Team registration is slated
to start at 7:30 a.m. the day of
the tournament. Call Jeanette
McElhaney at 379-0212 for
more information.
TRIVIA TRIVIAL
On this date...
1962 - Rookie Ken Hubbs
of the Cubs played his 74th
game without an error. It was
a record at the time - later bro
ken by Joe Morgan.
He said it...
"The urge to gamble is so
universal and its practice so
pleasurable that I assume it
must be evil."
Heywood Hale Broun
Lady Hornets brush off early troubles to beat FPD
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Staff Writer
It’s amazing how one
bad inning can bring back
all the fun
damentals
learned by a
ball player.
It also
helps to get
a little moti
vation from
the top.
After giv
ing up two
unearned
runs to
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Presbyterian
Day School 3
First Presbyterian Day at
home Tuesday, Westfield’s
softball club rallied back
for a 4-2 non-region win.
This was the first full
game played at home in
2005 as the Hornets and
Tattnall Square were
rained out in the third
inning Monday.
With the win, Westfield
improved to 5-3 overall
with Deerfield-Windsor
coming to Perry today for a
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/f they swarm like this on Friday, they'll be fine ... Perry's first team defense gang
tackles a junior varsity ball carrier Tuesday during practice at the school - the latter of
which was running Fitzgerald plays.
Circle of rife
Perry attempts to keep its unbeaten string intact
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Staff Writer
For those who consider
coaching to be the corner*
stone of
success for
high school
football
teams, then
this coming
Friday at
the Panther
Pit is one of
West Laurens at
Perry, Friday,
7 p.m.
those battles of the old war
rior against the young lion.
Perry has given its rookie
head coach, Andy Scott, a
2-0 start in 2005 after first
upsetting Stephens County
at home and following it up
with a shutout performance
on the road at Crisp County.
Can it be a 3-0 beginning
for this program looking for
even more respectability
throughout the state?
If so, the Class AAA
Panthers will need to turn
back the challenge of one
Spores
Region 3-AAA clash.
“I got on to them, and
they responded,” said Lady
Hornets head coach Rodney
Culverhouse, referring to a
two-run second inning by
First Presbyterian.
The leadoff batter for the
Vikings walked, and the
next bunted, but Westfield
booted the ball. Another
error followed and First
Presbyterian had the 2-0
advantage.
“After that one inning,
everything decided to click
on in their brains,” said
Culverhouse. “We played
real good defense in the
fifth inning to keep them
from scoring after a runner
got on third base.”
Lana Mackey was the
winning pitcher.
She was also the main
catalyst on offense to get
Westfield on the scoreboard
in two different innings.
She led off the bottom
of the fourth with a solid
See TROUBLES, page 2B
'The biggest thing for us defensively is
he has never been shut out in the state
of Georgia.'
- Perry head football coach Andy Scott
of the more powerful AA
squads in South Georgia,
the Fitzgerald Purple
Hurricanes, and their head
coach, Robby Pruitt.
Fitzgerald is 1-1 after drop
ping a road game against
Tift County High of Class
AAAAA this past weekend.
The Hurricanes were
hanging well with the Blue
Devils until one particu
lar sequence - consecutive
delay of game penalties
while first-and-goal at the 1
- took Fitzgerald out of the
contest.
One thing about the
Hurricanes Scott knows for
sure: There won’t be any of
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Westfield third baseman Kelsey Gilliam and a First Presbyterian Day runner both break
toward the plate during their teams' game Tuesday at Westfield.
the spread-out throwing he
saw from Crisp County.
This one should be decided
in the trenches.
And the coach is expect
ing the visitors on Friday
to show the kind of scoring
punch that put 51 points on
the board in a win against
Berrien.
“Robby Pruitt is a very
good football coach,” said
Scott about the former
Warner Robins High football
boss - if only for one year.
“He’s in the Florida football
Hall of Fame. They will be a
tough opponent for us.
“He has a wing-T
See STRING, page 3B
Conlon leads Demonettes
to shutout ot Westside
ByJOESERSEY
HHJ Correspondent
Warner Robins defeat
ed Westside 11-0 in five
innings as Demonettes
pitcher Amber Conlon
faced
two bat
ters over
the mini
mum in
3S-AAAA
fast-pitch
action at
Warner
Robins
Tuesday.
Conlon
improved
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WARNER ROBINS
DEMONS
Warner Robins
11, Westside 0
her record to 2-1, allow
ing only one hit. Three
Lady Seminoles reached
base in the game
one got beyond first base.
Conlon struck out seven
and walked none.
“My drop and rise were
working really good,” she
said. “I tried to hit the
spot I wanted to hit.”
While she was holding
Westside in check, her
teammates were making
their own adjustments at
the plate.
Westside’s Julie Tingley
pitched one, two, three
innings through the first
two frames and had two
outs with a runner on in
the third before the bot
tom fell out.
Joni Schnable started
the Demonettes attack in
the third when she singled
with one out. Before the
inning was over, Warner
Robins had sent 10 bat-
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Warner Robins' Lauren Graham slides in safely at
home as Westside's catcher chases a wide throw
Tuesday at Warner Robins.
SECTION
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ters to the plate and fin
ished with six runs on six
hits and two errors.
The onslaught was
capped by Katie Farnelli’s
double.
“We did a lot of hit
ting in the batting cages
(Monday),” Schnable
said.
The Demonettes did a
lot of hitting on the field,
Tuesday. In only two
innings, Warner Robins
struck for 10 hits, includ
ing a Lauren Graham
triple and a Farinelli dou
ble.
The Demonettes struck
for five more runs in the
fourth, sending nine hit
ters to the plate.
Again, it was Schnable
starting the rampage,
reaching first on an error,
one of four the Lady
Seminoles committed.
Westside had a chance
to score in the second
inning when Lauren
Jackson reached on an
error. The overthrow on
her grounder allowed her
to advance to second. She
moved to third on a sac
rifice but was thrown out
at home trying to score
when Jennifer Gunnell
grounded to third.
“We should have scored
in the second, but base
running errors cost us,”
said Westside head coach
Deb Baber. “We’re a
young team. We had two
and a half good innings,
(but then) we made four
See SHUTOUT, page 2B