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WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 7, 2005
SCOREBOARD
■ Nothing reported
Coadm/asstetants: Please cal and
leave a menage on your scares at
887-1823 Ext 281 (please provide
stats - score by being, leading
hitters/defenders) or cal 828-4812 to
speak to the editor.
ON TAP
High school softball
Today
■ Hardaway at Warner Robins,
5:15 p.m.
■ Central at Northside, 5:15
p.m.
Thursday
■ Houston County at Tift County,
5:45 p.m.
■ Perry at Northeast, 4:30 p.m.
Friday
■ Warner Robins at Evans
Tournament, times and teams
to be determined
Saturday
■ Warner Robins at Evans
Tournament; times and teams
to be determined
■ Westfield at ABAC
Tournament, times and teams
to be determined
High school football
Friday
■ Peach County at Houston
County, 7:30 p.m.
■ Warner Robins at Luella, 7:30
p.m.
■ Northside at Stockbridge,
7:30 p.m.
■ Perry at Central-Carrollton,
7:30 p.m.
■ Westfield at Tattnall, 8 p.m.
Coaches' Pleas: tax your
schedules to 888-1181 or e-mal them
to donm@evansnewspapers.com
IN BRIEF
Warner Rollins 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 held 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 informa
tion.
TRIVIA TRIVIAL
Quick quz...
Which NHL goalie was born
in South Africa and nicknamed
Godzilla?
Just for fin...
One Day the Devil challenged
the Lord to a Judo tournament.
Smiling the Lord proclaimed,
“You don't have a chance, I
have Kano, Mifune, Kotani,
Kimura and all the greatest
players up here.”
“Yes", snickered the Devil,
“but I have all the referees."
On tlis date...
1943 - The youngest play
er to appear in an American
League game was pitcher Carl
Scheib of the Philadelphia
Athletics. He was 16 years,
eight months and five days.
Answer: Olaf Kolzig
HoCo to host a surprisingly winless Peach County
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Staff Writer
It’s Houston County
versus
Peach
County
on Friday
for a 7:30
p.m.
kickoff at
the Mac
... or is it
the Bears
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Peach County at
Houston County,
Friday,
7:30 p.m.
versus Chris Slaughter?
Bears head coach Doug
Johnson doesn’t want to
get too caught up in wor
rying about one player,
’lft a typical reach team. Slaughter
makes a big difference because he
is a go-to guy. Defensively they are
always real strong.'
- Houston County head football coach Doug Johnson
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Perry's Nick Zammit (46), Darrick Stover (81), Robert Evans (47) and the rest of the Panthers warm up prior to their
loss to Fitzgerald Friday in the Panther Pit. They will attempt to rebound Friday when they travel and play Central,
Carroll.
Perry focuses on rebound
Prepare for roadtrip to Central, Carroll
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
One essential element in
Perry’s bid to beat Central,
Carroll
Friday:
Good direc
tions.
One
wrong
turn and
they might
end up at
Carrollton.
Perry at Central,
Carroll, Friday,
7:30 p.m.
The difference - both schools
are listed in the same city
and both reside in Region
6-AAA - was a 10-0 versus
Westfield to do battle with 'older' Tattnall
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Staff Writer
Tattnall Square had a down year
in football in 2004. The bad news
for GISA AAA teams
is that it didn’t stay
2004 for another
year.
“Everybody knows
Tattnall was young
last year,” said
Westfield head coach
Ronnie Jones, who
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Westfield at
Tattnall Square,
Friday, 8 p.m.
is taking his Hornets to Macon on
Friday to face the more grown-up
Trojans. “Tattnall doesn’t stay down
long. They just do too good a job of
Sports
even though Peach does
possess arguably the
state’s top playmaker in
Slaughter. Johnson knows
that, year after year, this
Fort Valley school loads up
with a host of Georgia’s
best athletes.
“He’s a really good
player, but they have a
lot more than him,” said
Johnson, who takes his
1-1 Bears into battle
against a Trojan club
seeking its first victory
of 2005. “We’ve been
watching film, and all the
See HOCO, page 9A
a 1-9 record last year.
The Panthers, provided
they don’t get lost, will play
the latter. And that’s not to
say they couldn’t beat either
and besides, the wrinkle
is the Lions are already 2-
0 this year, having beaten
Woodland, a AAAA school,
7-0, and Temple, a single A
school, 35-3.
“The biggest thing is
they’ve obviously gotten a
lot better,” said Perry head
football coach Andy Scott,
who added one reason
Carrollton had such a good
record versus its neighbor
coaching up there, and
Tattnall is 2-0 so far while Westfield
sports a 2-1 mark after a thrashing
of Windsor Academy, also in Macon,
41-0. Last year the Hornets stung the
Trojans 14-10 at home, then followed
it up with another three-point win,
17-14, against state runner-up First
Presbyterian Day.
Westfield will host FPD on Sept.
23 after a bye week. So the Hornets
would love to score their first win
against a team in its own classifica
tion to keep a winning streak going
into that contest.
Much like Stratford, the defending
state champions who beat Westfield in
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The official signifies Houston County will receive following the coin toss Friday at
McConnell-Talbert Stadium, as team captain Jeremy Whitley listens in. The Bears beat
Crisp County during that game for their first win. They will attempt to up that by one when
they host Peach County this Friday.
'The biggest thing for us is to ensure
we can rush the passer. Make sure we
do a good job of covering the passing
lanes and making sure we do a lot
better in coverage/
- Perry head football coach Andy Scott
was it pretty much had the
pick of the litter.
One reason they’ve gotten
better is that head coach
Randy Padgett’s son, who
is also the quarterback, has
gotten one year older and
wiser.
“He’s something like 6-
foot-1, 215 pounds and
throws a good ball,” Scott
said. Because of that, the
team has a throw first
- typically based out of
the shotgun - run second,
See PERRY, page 9A
Perry two weeks ago, Tattnall Square
has a fairly simple playbook on offense.
But while the Eagles are tailback-ori
ented, the Trojans are option crazy,
and you never know who will get the
football snap-by-snap.
“They look like the old Tattnall on
film,” said Jones. “They don’t do any
thing fancy. They just do what they
do, and do a good job of it.
“Tattnall seems to always have a
good tailback, and it looks like they
have two or three they are using.
The difference between Tattnall and
everyone we’ve played so far is they
run a lot of option.
See WESTFIELD, page 9A
PAGE 7A
Joe Sersey
HHJ Correspondent
Young athletes
have the peal
'inside' scoop
I spent much of the
past week watch
ing Little League
playoffs. Thank God for
ESPN and the Deuce.
And to ABC, “Bite me.”
The ESPN stations car
ried the bulk of the Little
League Regionals, and
World Series but had to
give way to the parent
station for the big games.
I’m not a fan of Brent
Musburger. I had to give
up my seat to him at a
Savannah Sand Gnats
game a few years ago and
have yet to forgive him or
the Gnats.
I brought my baseball
team to a game at their
invitation. They gave us
box seats behind home
plate until they heard the
mighty Mus was coming,
and we were unceremoni
ously relocated.
Then ABC dumped on
its viewers at the height
of the World Series cham
pionship game.
Hawaii made a dra
matic comeback to force
extra innings, but ABC
switched coverage.
Musburger told the
viewing audience that
in the East, ABC would
present the news, but
viewers in the West could
stay put to see the rest of
the game.
ABC did not air
the news, instead the
local affiliate showed
“Hollywood Insider.” To
see the end of the game,
I guessed right. ESPN2
continued coverage.
I got to see Hawaii win
the Little League World
Series on a dramatic
home run.
Color commentator
Harold Reynolds said it
was one of the most excit
ing Little League champi
onship games he had ever
seen and he was right.
I hadn’t seen that
many bombs in one game
since George Lopez’s
last standup routine on
See SERSEY, page 7A