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High school soccer
■ Region 3-AAAA playoffs: Upson-
Lee Warner Robins boys match, details
still to be determined: Northside girls at
Hardaway. 5 p.m.
■ Colquitt County at Houston County, 6
p.m. girls. 8 p.m.. boys
■ Washington County at Perry, 5 p.m.
girls. 7 p.m. boys
High school baseball
■ Mary Persons at Perry, 6 p.m.
■ Southland at Westfield, 6:30 p.m.
■ Hardaway at Northside, 5:45 p.m.
High school tennis
■ Peach County at Perry, 7 p.m.
High school golf
■ Southland and Deerfield at Westfield at
Houston Lake Country Club, 2:30 p.m.
■ Eagle's Landing and Bleckley County
at Northside at the Landings, 3:15 p.m.
High school track and field
■ Perry boys at Hawkinsville, to be
determined
BRAVES CORNER
Sunday
Padres 4, Braves 3
San Diego 000 000 310-4 6 0
Atlanta 021 000 000-3 9 0
WWilliams, Embree (7), Linebrink(7),
Hoffman (9) and Bowen Thomson,
Ray (7), Villarreal (7), Remlinger (8),
Cormier (9) and Pratt. McCann (9).
W-Linebrink 1-1. L-Remlinger 1-1.
Sv-Hoffman (1). HRs-San Diego,
BGiles (1). Atlanta, AJones (4).
SUMMARY: Only two days after
taking his first loss in almost a year,
San Diego's Scott Linebrink pitched
out of jams in the seventh and
eighth innings as the Padres beat
the Atlanta Braves 4-3 to avoid a
three-game sweep.
Linebrink gave up a go-ahead
homer to Jeff Francoeur with two
outs in the eighth inning Friday.
On Sunday, Linebrink (1-1) relieved
Alan Embree with two on and two
outs in the seventh and struck out
pinch-hitter Brian Jordan. Linebrink
then retired Francoeur to open the
eighth, and with runners on second
and third in the inning, he struck out
Pete Orr.
Atlanta led 3-0 before Brian
Giles sparked the comeback with
his first homer of the season. The
solo homer in the seventh off Ken
Ray, who had just entered, ended
San Diego's scoreless streak at 20
innings. Rob Bowen and Adrian
Gonzalez followed with doubles,
and Oscar Villarreal relieved and
gave up Josh Barfield’s tying sac
rifice fly.
Dave Roberts tripled off Mike
Remlinger (1-1) past a diving Ryan
Langerhans in left field leading off
the eighth. Pinch-hitter Eric Young
followed with a grounder that deflect
ed off Orr’s glove at third base for a
go-ahead infield single.
Braves starter John Thomson
allowed one hit in six shutout innings
and struck out six. He was removed
after 74 pitches.
Saturday
Braves 2, Padres 0
San Diego 000 000 000-0 4 0
Atlanta 010 000 10x-2 4 0
Peavy, Cassidy (8) and Piazza
Smoltz and McCann. W-Smoltz 1 -1.
L-Peavy 1-2. HR-Atlanta, Laßoche
(3).
SUMMARY: John Smoltz gave the
Braves pitching staff a much-need
ed lift. Smoltz served as the Braves'
stopper with a four-hit shutout to lift
Atlanta past Jake Peavy and the
San Diego Padres 2-0 Saturday
night.
Smoltz (1-1), relying more on a
changeup he says he threw about
25 times, recorded his 16th career
shutout and 51st complete game.
Peavy (1-2) gave up only four hits
and two runs in seven innings as the
Braves were held under four runs for
the first time this year. He struck out
eight batters and issued two walks,
one intentional.
National League East Standings
W L Pet GB
New York 9 2.818-
Atlanta 6 7 .462 4
Philadelphia 5 7 .417 4 1/2
Washington 4 9 .308 6
Florida 3 8 .273 6
IN BRIEF
Habitat to tee off at Waterford
The Houston County Habitat is slated
to hold its fourth annual golf tournament
April 28 at Waterford Golf Course. The
cost is SSO per person or S3OO, SSOO or
SI,OOO for a team sponsorship.
The scramble format event is slated to
begin with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. and
1 p.m. Lunch will be provided at noon.
Prizes will be awarded for first through
fourth place. To register, call the organiza
tion at 328-3388.
Landings sets mowing schedule
Those at the Landings Golf Club
would like to remind everyone that now
that spring has sprung, they will be mow
ing the range. To that end, the course
will close at 6 p.m. on Wednesday’s and
re-open Thursday at 8:30 a.m.
Mt. Calvary to hold fund-raiser
The senior youth of Mt. Calvary
Lutheran Church in Warner Robins will
host their annual fund-raising golf tourna
ment at Waterford Golf Course Saturday
23. Lunch is set for 1 p.m. with a tee off
at 2 p.m. The cost is S4O per player which
includes the lunch, range balls and golf.
Interested sponsors and golf
ers can contact Bill Leipprandt at
wcleippr@bellsouth.net or 335-4665 for
additional information.
Lung association offering golf cards
The American Lung Association is cur
rently offering Golf Privilege cards, which
offer the holder the opportunity to golf at
more than 600 courses total throughout
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
and South Carolina.
The cost is $25 each or interested
parties can buy three and get the fourth
one free. For more information, call the
association at 1-800-LUNGUSA or visit
them on the web at www.golfsouth.org.
TUESDAY,
APRIL 18, 2006
Lady Eagles end state playoff drought
UpsorvLee denies Northside boys of advance
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
The good news for Northside’s
girls soccer team was they beat
Upson-Lee 3-1 in the opening round
of the Region 3-AAAA playoffs and
at the home of the Lady Bulldogs.
The bad news was they might have
lost their leading scorer Elisa Routt.
She went down with a knee injury,
albeit not until after she had scored
two goals for the Lady Eagles.
The first of those came from about
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Beans shut out Vikings
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
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Houston County
boys 3,
Lowndes 0
inched closer to that goal
by shutting out Lowndes
High 3-0 Friday at Tanner
Park. Shutouts, though, are
pretty much commonplace
when talking about this
Houston defense.
“Our defense has played
Coggins leads Houston County girls past Lowndes
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
Amanda Coggins scored
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Houston County
boys 3,
Lowndes 0
Tanner Park.
'lt's always been our philosophy and
tradition that it's not when you get
knocked out, but how you're going to
answer the bell.'
- Houston County boys head soccer coach Chris McCook
going into the
final week
of regular
season play:
Not only win
the Region
1-AA A A A
champion
ship but win
it with a
perfect 10-0
record.
The Bears
well all year,” said Houston
head coach Chris McCook.
“We gave up four goals
Tuesday to Harrison ... we
gave them four goals. It’s
always been our philosophy
and tradition that it’s not
when you get knocked out,
but how you’re going to
answer the bell.
“(Friday) the defense
answered the bell. We did a
good job helping each other
out and making sure we
had 2 v. 1 situations in the
All three goals for Coggins
were set up in about the
same manner. That means
she found a briefly unguard
ed net and poked the ball
good from a short range.
“We had a couple of good
crosses,” said head coach
Sid Baxley. “The first one
was a little bit - you don’t
want to say ‘cheap’ - but
the keeper misplayed it and
(Coggins) got there.
“But on the other two we
had a couple of good crosses
and she was there to finish
them. On one of them the
three goals in
the first half,
and Houston
County
High’s girls
soccer team
survived
a rejuve
nated effort
ljy Lowndes
High to beat
the Vikettes
4-1 Friday at
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25 yards out, and considering the
fact Upson-Lee had taken the lead
inside 10 minutes, tied the score.
She later put Northside on top for
good with a kick from about 30 yards
out, said head coach Scott Wynn.
The early difference in the Lady
Eagles trailing, Wynn added, could
be attributed to the playing surface/
measurements itself.
“Their field is real narrow,” he
said. “And their grass is way too high
for a soccer field. It slowed us down
and took us out of our
rhythm. Our passes
were not going as far,
that sort of thing.
“It took us about 20
minutes to adjust but
once we did, the girls
really played well.”
But, on the other
hand, they were con
tending against a
physical bunch, he
said, which resulted
not only in the injury
to Routt but three others as well.
As far as their status, Wynn said
back. We had nice coverage.
Everybody moved in and
played well. Giving up only
one goal in eight region
games is big.”
Houston County’s offense
had control in the way of
scoring opportunities, some
of which were set up by
goalkeeper Kyle Cleveland.
The keeper punted the ball
over midfield, and Buddy
Tribble took an immediate
cross shot six minutes into
play.
ball was coming pretty hot
and she got up and put her
leg on it.”
Her first score came just
under five minutes into
play. Lowndes had won
three of Houston County’s
goal kicks on the Lady Bear
side of the field. Candace
Clark finally got her foot on
the ball for the home team
and dribbled it down the
middle to the Vikette goal.
Houston County caught
the goalkeeper away from
the net, and Coggins
dropped the ball in easily.
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Jacob Primm also had a
cross that Eric Atkins fed
to him at 31:30. That shot
missed, as did a Houston
close free kick. In fact, the
Bears had a few free kicks
on the Lowndes side, but no
first touches on the ball.
At the 19:28 mark, Jacob
Primm drew a foul in the
good area, the area that
gave his team a penalty
kick. Anthony Randolph did
the honors and put his team
ahead 1-0.
In the remainder of the
first half, Cleveland had to
smother a few long Lowndes
free kicks and saved one
shot taken off a Viking’s
head. Two of his defensive
teammates had to sandwich
another Lowndes player to
prevent him from taking
See BEARS, page 8A
Not only did this play give
the Lady Bears a 1-0 lead,
but it prompted a switch at
the keeper position by the
Lowndes coaches.
Coggins found the net
empty again at 28:32 of the
first half and scored her
second goal up close.
Lady Bear goalkeeper Kim
Heaburg had five saves in
the first half. She stopped a
pair of hard Lowndes shots
after her team took the 2-0
advantage.
With Clark and Coggins
See COGGINS, page 8A
PAGE 7A
the “other” three he felt would be
back, just a little bit sore. Routt, on
the other hand, is questionable.
In regard to Northside’s final score,
it came With 33 seconds remain
ing and off the foot of Alex Walker
whose direct kick hit the back post
and went in.
The win guaranteed the Lady
Eagles a berth to the state tourna
ment as well as a continued shot at
being region champion.
They were slated to play the
Hardaway-Stockbridge winner
Tuesday.
See DROUGHT, page 8A
Demons roH
past Griffin,
into round 2
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
Thanks to a scheduling
conflict that had Warner
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Warner Robins
boys 5, Griffin 1
the first round
of the Region 3-AAAA tour
nament Saturday.
Trevor Whelan put Warner
Robins, now 12-1-1 overall
- Griffin’s year ended at
7-9 - put the Demons on
the board first at the 21:15
mark.
He did so with an assist
from Wellington Lopez. The
two, on crosses through the
box both times, connected
again at 66:59.
That was after David
Zaremba made it 2-0 at
27:25 and on an unassisted
goal, and after Griffin had
cut it to 2-1 at the 58-minute
mark.
After Lopez scored again,
Stephen Clark got into the
action. His goal was unas
sisted but came off a deflec
tion of a Bear, Warner Robins
head coach
See DEMONS, page 8A
Base runners at a
premium in WRs'
victory over NS
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
Before it was over with,
Northside may have had
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Warner Robins
6, Northside 4
Robins won
the rematch Friday night 6-4
- the first time the two met,
SIDE
Errors prove
costly in Bears'
loss to Valdosta
See 9A
one of the two to not put
at least one runner on base
each inning. They went one
two-three in the fifth.
The Eagles on the other
hand left 11 on base.
That all sort of seemed
out of character consider
ing Chris Snipes was on the
mound for Warner Robins
See PREMIUM, page 9A
Robins’ boy’s
soccer team
on the road,
Griffin had
the home-field
advantage.
It did the
Bears little
good, however,
as the Demons
still beat them
easily 5-1 in
to replace
some bases.
Between the
Eagles and
Demons,
chances are at
least one was
worn to the
core.
Warner
the Demons
also won 5-
4 in extra
innings - but
not before
stranding 10
runners.
In fact, they
were the only