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' FRIDAY,
MAY 19, 2006
OUR
ON DECK
Today
Major League Baseball
M Atlanta at Arizona, 9:40 p.m., on
TBS
BRAVES CORNER
Braves 6, Marlins 4
Florida 000 000 030 014 91
Atlanta 002 000 001 036 12 1
(11 innings)
Nolasco, Herges (4), Petit (5),
Kensing (8),
Borowski
0,
Messenger
(11) and
Brasty
Olivo, Treanor (8) Smoitz, Remlinger
(8), Ray (9), Reitsma (10), Villarreal
(11) and McCann, Pratt (11). W-
Villarreal 6-0. L-Messenger 0-3.
HR-Atlanta, CJones (3).
SUMMARY: (AP) - The Atlanta
Braves trailed going to the bottom
of the ninth inning. They were in the
same predicament heading to the
bottom of the 11th.
No worries. That's right where
they like to be.
Atlanta pulled off another improb
able comeback when Chipper Jones
hit a three-run homer in the 11th
to beat the Florida Marlins 6-4 on
Wednesday night.
He'll get no argument from the
shellshocked Marlins, who squan
dered a 3-2 lead in the ninth and a
4-3 edge in the 11th - basically the
same script as the previous night,
when they blew leads in those two
innings for a 4-3 loss. The Braves
got the series started by overcoming
a 5-0 deficit to win 11-8 on Monday.
Atlanta (20-20) won for the eighth
time in 10 games, got to .500 for the
first time since April 23 and closed to
4 1/2 games of the first-place New
York Mets in the NL East.
The Braves were nine games
back just 11 days ago, but they've
taken advantage of the schedule to
halve their deficit. Atlanta’s last nine
games have been against Florida
and Washington ~ the two worst
teams in the division.
Oscar Villareal (6-0) won it despite
giving up the 11th-inning run.
John Smoltz blanked the young
Marlins for seven innings, throwing
112 pitches. When he went back out
in the eighth, Florida rallied against
the 39-year-old pitcher. Dan Uggla
had a sacrifice fly and Mike Jacobs
hit a two-run single off reliever Mike
Remlinger, with all three runs were
charged to the starter.
Smoltz wound up throwing 130
pitches, his most since a 132-pitch
outing against Colorado on Sept. 14,
1997. He was feeling a little better
after his teammates rallied to win.
National League East Standings
W L Pct GB
New York 24 15 615 -
Philadelphia 22 17 564 2
Atlanta 20 20 .500 41/2
Washington 13 27 325 111/2
Florida 11 27 289 121/
IN BRIEF
Shrine Club to host tourney
The Houston County Shrine Club
will hold its annual golf tournament
Saturday at Waterford golf course.
The entry fee is S4O per person.
A barbecue lunch will be served
at 11:30 am. with tee-off at 1:30
p.m. The tourney will be a four-man
scramble format.
You can bring your own team or
be teamed by the club staff. Prizes,
based on 20 teams signing up, will
total SI,OOO. Call the course at 328-
7533 to sign up or Harry Cuppett at
923-1249 for more information.
PY club to hold golf touney
The Perry High School Panther
Touchdown Club is sponsoring its
Second Annual Golf Tournament at
8 a.m. Saturday. The Perry Country
Club will host the two-man scramble
and entry fees are SSO per player.
Entry fees will include Green/Cart
Fees, lunch and door prizes.
In addition to the door prizes, first
place will receive S4OO, second S2OO
and third SIOO. Handicaps will be
determined after the first nine holes.
Al monies raised will be used
to support the Panther Football
Program.
Contacts for the event are
Michelle Bowen at 951-6177, Clay
Kirk 987-7802 or 329-2176, or the
Perry Country Club at 987-1033.
CGSA to hold tryouts
The Central Georgia Soccer
Association will be holding tryouts for
its Select & Academy Programs for
the Fall 2006 & Spring 2007 seasons
on the following dates: May 30-June
3 for the Academy program (U-9 thru
U-12) and June 12-23 for the Select
programg (U-13 thru U-19).
Contact the CGSA at 987-2455
or visit their Web site at gasoccer.
org/cgsa for more details.
Columbus sweeps Panthers from postseason
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Perry players shake hands with Columbus players following the latters sweep in the
GHSA AAA Sweet 16 Wednesday in Columbus ~
Bears bounce Wolverines; set school record with quarterfinal berth
By DON MONCRIEF
HHJ Sports Editor
Brian Wilkerson faced 32
batters. Only
one of them
meant any
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tournament,
round two:
Houston
County 9,
Union Grove
5; Bears 8,
Wolverines 7
1 of a double
header in the GHSA AAAAA
Sweet 16 Wednesday at
home, the Bears No. 1 start
er had faced him twice with
the same results: A home
run.
In the case of the first
two, Riehn, batting third
in the lineup, had led off
the inning, and had taken
Wilkerson deep to left-cen
ter field on both occasions.
His first home run cut
Houston County’s 2-0 lead
in the fourth down to one.
His second, with the Bears
putting a five-spot on the
board in the bottom of that
inning, hardly seemed to
matter.
The third time he stepped
up to the plate, however,
that was hardly the case.
That was in the seventh.
The Wolverines had already
added a run at the begin
ning of the inning to make it
9-5 (both Union Grove and
Houston County scored two
runs in the sixth) and fol
lowing a pair of singles, he
Babe was a hetter man, Aaron's record should stand
n a recent sports talk show, the panel
couldn’t understand why everybody put
so much stock in Babe Ruth’s accom
plishments since he has been surpassed by Hank
Aaron and will eventually become third behind
Barry Bonds.
Minority sports reporters, evidently with axes
to grind, insist that attacks on Bonds are racially
motivated.
Come on, my bruthas, give the Babe his props.
Herman “Babe” Ruth began the home run
craze. Before him, hitters seldom managed more
than 10 or 15 dingers a season.
Also, Ruth broke into the majors as a pitcher
and was switched to the field because he was such
a good hitter.
Don’t forget the Babe finished his career with a
batting average over .320.
Because Ruth was the first to end his career
with more than 700 home runs, he set the stan
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ond. Granted it was one of only a few errors the Bears had in their GHSA AAAAA state tournament sweep of Union
Grove at home Wednesday.
came to bat with a chance to
cut it to one.
“Initially, I was going to
walk him,” said Bears head
coach Andy Gentry in regard
to his subsequent visit to the
mound. “But then I told him
(Wilkerson) to stay outside,
throw him a curveball in the
dirt and see if he will swing
at it.
“He did ... That was a big
out.”
Wilkerson’s first two
offerings were exactly where
Gentry wanted them. The
third, with Riehn probably
thinking he wasn’t going to
see anything hittable, was
across the heart of the plate
for a strike.
That must have gotten the
wheels turning in Riehn’s
mind because on the next
pitch, which was outside
and quickly heading into the
dirt, he made a half-offering
at it.
It subsequently bounced
on one hop to Joe Vasquez
at second, where he wheeled
and cut down the runner
headed to second.
See ELITE, page 6B
Joe Sersey
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is that at age 30, after a bad season, many baseball
“experts” believed that he was finished. He had a
bad season and the writers discussed his weight,
his drinking and his partying as responsible for
his downfall.
Ruth used that off-season to get back in shape.
Ruth was one of the first athletes to use a per
sonal trainer, and spent his down time getting
back in shape. He even dieted.
See SERSEY, page 2B
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
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his second straight shutout
of the players, Merit Hicks
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the 12-foot outfield wall dec
orated with multiple state
championship banners, and
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You ought to be in pictures ... And he was. Ben Collins bats
in the background while a remote camera takes his picture.
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victory for Columbus in
its two-game sweep of the
Panthers on Wednesday.
Perry, which won its first
round series in three games
last weekend at home, had
mental lapses on offense and
defense in the first game.
Columbus took advantage of
the defensive mistakes in a
four-run inning, which was
the difference in a 6-2 open
ing victory.
Ogawa, who shut down
Westover in the Blue Devils’
first action of the 2006 play
offs, gave up just two hits to
Perry in seven innings of the
second game, a 5-0 final. The
left-hander did as much as
what Benedictine’s Michael
Patton, also a lefty, did in the
first round in Perry when he
won a 6-0 game. Only this
time, the Panthers did have
one fly ball out.
“What do you say?”
Masters said after the dou
bleheader when asked about
See SWEEPS, page 2B
feel, the Perry
High School
Panthers left
Columbus
High School
with a learn
ing experience
but no wins in
their GHSA
Class AAA
state Sweet
16 series with
the defending
state cham
pion Blue
Devils.
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Ogawapitched
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Perry’s Membrila to
contend at Mid-Am
Special to the HHJ
Michael Membrila of Perry is the only local
golfer listed to contend at the Georgia State
Golf Association’s 25th Annual Georgia Mid-
Amateur Championship, which begins today
and runs through Sunday at Cartersville
Country Club.
The entire field numbers 144, which will be
cut to the low 40 and ties after 36 holes.
The tournament began in 1982 and has
been contested at GSGA member clubs in all
corners of the state.
There have been 16 different winners in the
history of the event, with current Champions
Tour player Allen Doyle claiming the most
titles (five), winning in 1984 and 1986-89.
Legendary Atlanta amateur Danny Yates won
three times (1983, ‘BS, ‘94). Wright Waddell
of Columbus (1990, ‘99) and Rick Cloninger
Y See CONTEND, page 6B