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FRIDAY,
MAY 26, 2006
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ON DECK
Today
Major League Baseball
B Atlanta at Chicago, 2:20 p.m.,
TBS
BRAVES CORNER
Braves 10, Padres 6
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Andruw Jones
hit a pair of two-run home runs
and Chipper
Jones had four
singles and
scored three
runs to lead the
Bressly
Atlanta Braves to a 10-6 win over the
San Diego Padres on Wednesday
night.
A night after Chipper Jones
lamented the Braves' inability to
score runs in San Diego, Atlanta
worked over spacious Petco Park,
Padres pitchers and catcher Mike
Piazza.
Edgar Renteria also homered,
Andruw Jones scored three runs
and Adam Laßoche had three RBIs
for the Braves, who took two of three
from the slumping Padres. Taking
advantage of Piazza's weak arm,
Chipper Jones and Matt Diaz each
stole two bases.
The Braves scored four runs in
the first two games of the series.
San Diego lost for the seventh
time in nine games.
John Thomson (2-3) went 7 1-3
innings for the win, allowing eight
hits and six runs, four earned. He
struck out three and walked one.
San Diego's Chris Young was
knocked out after three innings, his
shortest start of the year.
Young (3-3) fell behind 3-0 before
he got two outs in the first inning.
Renteria hit a solo homer into the
home-run porch down the right-field
line with one out, Chipper Jones
singled and Andruw Jones ended
his 71 at-bat homerless drought by
going deep into the left-field corner
on a full-count.
Andruw Jones has 11 homers this
year. It was his second multihomer
game this year and the 32nd of
his career. Chipper Jones finished
4-for-5.
COMING
Demon signs golf letter
Warner Robins High School
golf stand-
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out Johnny
Pagura signed
a scholarship
Wednesday
to continue
his education
with Georgia
Southwestern
S tata
University.
Read more in
Pagura
Saturday's Houston Home Journal.
IN BRIEF
CGSA to hold Academy 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
programs (U-13 thru U-19).
Contact the CGSA at 987-2455
or visit their Web site at gasoccer.
org/cgsa for more details.
Landings to hold golf clinic
Landings Golf Course will be
holding a Junior Golf Clinic Tuesday-
June 1.
The cost is $65 for Landings
members and $75 for nonmembers.
Times are as follows: Ages 7-9, 9-
10:30 a.m.; Ages 10-and-up, 10:30
a.m.-noon.
The cost includés: Goodie bag,
rule book and event T-shirt. Clubs
and balls will also be supplied.
Call PGA Professional Bill Goggin
at 923-5222 for more information.
Also, the course has a summer
special for those ages 7 and up.
The cost is S2OO for nonmembers
and $175 for members and includes
the aforementioned clinics, two two
week programs and entry into all
junior tournaments. Participants also
receive one private lession (a S4O
value.
Northside to host softhall camp
Northside High School will be
hosting “Soaring Eagles” softball
camp June 12-16 at the school.
The camp is open to children age
4 on up to ninth-graders.
The cost is SSO.
According to a release these
areas will be taught: Hitting, bunting,
the suicide squeeze, base running,
sliding/diving, situational/position
defense, the hit and run, pitching,
catching and team compaetition.
Contact Mitch Horton at 397-0977
for more information or visit the
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more. You can at
mhorton@hcbe.net.
sampson strengthens Middle Georgia
Lady Eagle signs soccer scholarship
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
Northside High School’s
athletic program couldn’t let
the school term end with
out one precedent-setting
moment.
Brittany Sampson recent
ly saw her eareer as a high
school soccer player end; but
a new one is on the horizon.
She became the first
player from the Lady Eagle
program ever to sign col
lege scholarship papers on
Wednesday when she joined
the Middle Georgia College
‘The biggest thing Brittany brought to
the team was leadership. | think that will
carry her a long way for the rest of her
career.’
- Northside girls head soccer coach Scott Wynn
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A pair of Bears players work on fundamentals during the team’s spring training at the school May 16. The two-week
session concluded with an intersquad scrimmage at McConnell-Talbert Stadium May 18.
Better, best
Bears like whepe they stand in some areas, work to fix others
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
Fortunately for Doug
Johnson and the Houston
County High School foot
ball staff, there’s much more
than 10 days to figure out
that one little inch that kept
the Bears out of the state
Class AAAAA playoffs.
Unfortunately, Houston
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tending I was throwing a
famous player out at home.
I'm from a small town in
Missouri. I can remember
listening to the Kansas City
Athletics on the radio.
Charlie Finley owned
them, and they were bad—
like Royals today.
My grandfather and I
would sit in his back yard
and listen to them on the
aponts
Warriors in Cochran.
Sampson isn’t the type
of player whose name will
come up often - if ever - in
a scoring summary. Her high
school head coach, Scott
Wynn, said her contributions
aren’t the kind measured in
statistics. She was co-Most
Valuable Player for the 2006
season, one where the Lady
Eagles made the state play
offs in Class AAAA.
“She has a lot of charac
ter,” said Wynn. “She’s a
kid you can always depend
See SOCCER, page 2B
County was the odd team out
in the final top four stand
ings of the loaded Region
1-AAAAA, and the arsenal of
competition in the football
field keeps getting stronger.
The Bears completed the
10 days known as spring
practice last week with
pleasing results, according
to Johnson.
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like Rocky Colavito and Jim
Gentile.
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Brittany Sampson, seated center, signs her Middle Georgia Coliege soccer scholar
ship Wednesday at Northside High School. Seated with her are parents Lisa and Roger
Urquhart. Standing are Northside girls soccer coach Scott Wynn and Middle Georgia
College soccer coach Kevin Pych.
He admits, though, that
10 days isn’t much time to
do everything needed to
build towards a football sea
son, but it was enough to
get down the basics of his
offense and defense.
And as many other coaches
around the state surely did,
Johnson took a look at his
personnel and moved a few
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bat at the pitcher and then
set for the pitch. He struck
out a lot.
Gentile was intense. He
was thrown out of games a
lot.
people around to compen
sate for the loss of a veteran
senior class.
“We’re better in some
spots, but we’re still short in
other spots,” said Johnson.
“We’re going to try to iron
that out in the fall, who
is going to be where. Our
depth will be better, but
See BEARS, page 2B
Then Finley took the A’s
to Oakland, and my grand
father and I sat in his back
yard and listened to the
St. Louis Cardinals on the
radio.
I was listening when they
beat the Yankees in the
World Series in 1960 or ’6l.
It was a long time ago.
To this day, although I
watch games on TV, I still
prefer to listen to them on
the radio. ;
When the Royals came to
K.C., my grandfather and I
split our time between them
and the Cardinals.
Radio is the way to lis
ten to baseball. We sat in
See SERSEY, page 2B
SECTION
Riley falls
Special to the HHJ
Things went from bad
to worse for Perry’s Mary
Riley at the Georgia State
Golf Association’s 37th
Annual Greater Atlanta
Women's Amateur
Championship held
Monday-Wednesday at
the Atlanta National Golf
Club in Alpharetta.
After shooting an 87 on
the second day of competi
tion and dropping out of
the top 10 overall she then
carded a 93 on the final
day of competition, which
pretty much took care of
any chance she might rally
back in.
She also dropped a posi
tion in the Championship
Flight - where she was
bracketed - as a result. For
the first two days of com
petition she was eighth
among the champions but
ended up ninth.
Garrett Phillips of
Augusta was the over
all winner, firing a final
round 75.
Newnan’s Jean
Reynolds, who closed
to within two shots of
Phillips, stumbled at num
ber 16 and finished three
shots behind in second
place.
Lawrenceville’s Ye Jin
Na, who began the final
round in a tie for fourth
moved into third position
after carding 75, giving
her a 229 for the champi
onship.
Defending champion,
Laura Coble of Augusta,
finished with an 81 in
the final round and fell
to fourth place overall.
Duluth’s Kyu Ri Ban card
ed a final-round 79 to fin
ish in fifth.
In a tie for sixth place
was Kristen Bragg of
Evans and first-flight win
ner Donna Gonsalves of
Eatonton at 236. Alone
in eighth was Valdosta’s
Dori Carter, a rising soph
omore at the University of
Mississippi. Ninth went to
Eastman’s Christy Cheek
and 10th to Cumming’s
Lori Whitaker.
Other flight win
ners include: 2nd flight
~ Danielle Davis of St.
Simon’s Island (251); 3rd
flight -~ Helen Kirbo of
Albany (258); 4th flight
~ Gail Glass of Atlanta
and Janet Thielemann of
Marietta (265); sth flight
- Louise Beaudoin of
Alpharetta (279).