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SATURDAY,
JUNE 3, 2006
OUR
SANPLOT
ON DECK
Today
Major League Baseball
■ Arizona at Atlanta, 7:05 p.m.,
TBS
BRAVES CORNER
Diamondbacks 2, Braves 1
ATLANTA (AP) - Horacio Ramirez
made one major mistake. Juan Cruz
didn't make
any.
Cruz pitched
seven shut
out innings in
the longest outing of his career, and
the Arizona Diamondbacks broke a
24-inning scoreless streak with two
unearned runs in the eighth tor a 2-1
victory over the Atlanta Braves on
Thursday night.
Shawn Green lined a two-out, two
run single off Mike Remlinger alter
the Braves' bullpen nearly wiggled
out of a bases-loaded jam set up by
Ramirez's throwing error.
Cruz (3-3), who started the sea
son in the bullpen, hasn't allowed a
run in his last two starts. In all, he's
put together 14 straight scoreless
innings. He gave up five hits and
escaped his only big jam in the sixth
when Jeff Francoeur flied out to cen
ter with the bases loaded, prompting
Cruz to pound his chest defiantly as
he walked off the mound.
IN BRIEF
Cross country series dates set
Warner Robins High School head
cross country coach David Erpelding
is prepanng to host the Sixth Annual
Middle
Georgia
Cross
Country
Summer
Series
at Pearl
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Stephens Elementary School in
Warner Robins. The races are open
to everyone and the following races
are planned:
■ June 15:3000 meters
■ July 6:4000 meters
■ July 20: 5000 Meters
Each race is slated to start at 730
p.m. on the Thursdays listed above.
Awards will be given for the top
five in each age group male and
female. 14-and-under, 15-19 and
20 and over. The entry fee is $5.
Runners register on race day. Contact
Erpelding at 328-3208 or via e-mail
at Erpelding@bellsouth.net for more
information.
PY coaches to put on camp
The Perry baseball camp will be
hosted at the school by Panthers
head coach Shawn Masters and his
staff June 12-15. The camp will run
from 8 a.m.-noon each day. The cost
is $75 which includes an event T
shirt and instruction on fundamentals
and skills needed to play the game
correctly. For more information, con
tact Masters at 988-6314.
Landings offers summer special
Landings Golf Course has a sum
mer 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 pri
vate lession (a S4O value).
HoCo band members to tee off
The Houston County High
School golf tournament will be held
Saturday at International City Golf
Course. The format is four-person
scramble. The cost is $35 which
includes lunch. Registration begins
at 8 a.m. on the day with the tourna
ment slated to begin with a shotgun
start at 10 a.m.
There will be prizes awarded to
the top three teams along with a
longest drive and closest to the pin
contest. There will also be a hole in
one contest, which is sponsored by
Butler Toyota of Macon.
The event is a fund-raising event
sponsored by the Houston County
Band Boosters. To register or for
further information call 988-6365 or
visit the Web site: www.blackandsil
verbrigade.com. The rain date will
be June 10.
MR Cheer Club to host tourney
The Warner Robins High School
Cheer Booster Club Golf Scramble
win be held June 10 at Waterford
Golf Course.
The format is four-person scram
ble - choose your own team - and
the cost is SSO per person or S2OO
per team. The tournament is slated
to begin with a 2 p.m. shotgun start
lunch is at noon. The entry fee
includes: Lunch, green fee, cart and
range balls. There will be prizes for
first-third (teams) and for the last
place team
There wifi also be a longest drive
and closest to the pin contests. Make
checks out to: WRHS Cheer Booster
Club and mail to: P.O. Box 456.
Bonaire, GA 3J005. For more infor
mation, call 397-4596 or 923-3652.
Hornets' Barfield signs with Young Harris
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
The days of long layoffs
from throwing a baseball are
over for Jeff Barfield. He’s
got to keep that arm loose
and ready to make an impact
on one of the country’s top
junior college programs.
Barfield, who concluded his
playing career at Westfield
Schools in the 2006 season,
has signed on with the Young
Harris College Mountain
Lions, a team that in the
past decade has surpassed
Middle Georgia College as
the state’s top two-year
school on the diamond.
The most updated reports
on the Young Harris College
baseball website show that,
under head coach Rick
Robinson, the Lions have
won five Georgia state junior
college championships since
2000.
In 2004 and 2005, Young
Harris was ranked No. 2
in the NJCAA baseball poll
with records of 52-8 (2004)
and 51-11 (2005).
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Perry third baseman Sullivan deYampert applies the tag to a Northside player during the two teams’ H.A.R.D Ball
Tournament game Thursday at Perry.
Local teams begin H.A.R.D. tourney
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
No lineup cards exchanged,
free substitutions, just a
relaxed atmosphere at the
ballpark to get the summer
started.
Houston County is the
site of a plethora of high
school baseball action for
the first three weekends
in June, and the Houston
County High Bears is tak
ing its turn this weekend as
the host institution with its
H.A.R.D. Ball Tournament.
The loaded slate of games
started on Thursday at the
Bear Den and the Perry
High School Panther Pit.
On Friday, the field expand
ed to include the Demon
Diamond at Warner Robins
High School and Northside
High’s Dyson Field, and
that will carry over until
Sunday.
Thursday’s games saw a
pair of last-inning heroic
efforts at the plate, not to
mention some heads-up
defensive plays that denied
other chances for big come
backs.
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Chris Barnard pitched five
complete innings and drove
in two runs at the plate for
the Northside Eagles in a
tournament-opening victory
against the Perry Panthers
at the Panther Pit.
In his five innings,
Sports
'(Young Harris)
is a good, quality
program. It has
a lot of baseball
tradition, and I'm
excited to get up
there.'
- Westfield's Jeff Barfield
An unofficial report on
the 2006 GJCAA standings
showed the Mountain Lions
well ahead of the rest of the
pack at 25-3.
Robinson has made Young
Harris by far the most suc
cessful junior college pro
gram on the East Coast dur
ing that time period.
Barfield plans to add to
that tradition. He is a two
time All-State player in GISA
Class AAA and three-time
All-Region 3-AAA player.
He said pitching will
See SIGNS, page 5 B
Summer storm
Barnard gave up both Perry
runs on five hits and three
walks. He struck out five.
Chance Kitchens pitched
the sixth, giving up one hit
and walking one with one
strikeout. Due to the two
hour time limit for all tour
nament games, the contest
only lasted six innings.
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Jeff Barfield sits with his folks Jane and Edgar Barfield at Westfield Schools, where he
had an All-State baseball career. As he looks towards Young Harris College, wishing
him well are Westfield athletic director Ronnie Jones, Westfield baseball coach Billy
Sellers and Chance Reynolds of TNL Sports, which sponsors Barfield’s summer team.
Evan Jones had nine
strikeouts in four innings
as Perry’s starting pitcher.
It was JC Cook’s double
in the top of the first inning
that followed a hit bat
ter and a walk and gave
Northside an early 1-0 lead.
Perry got the run back in
the bottom half as Sullivan
deYampert doubled to left
with one out and scored
with two outs on a flare to
left by Jeff Stewart that fell
for an RBI double.
Two times in the first two
innings the Panthers would
have baserunners picked
off.
See TOURNEY, page 8B
SECTON
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Riley comes
up short in
U.S. qualifier
From staff reports
There was no such luck
for Perry’s Mary Riley at
the U.S. Women’s Amateur
Public Links Sectional
Qualifier at the Oaks Course
in Covington Thursday.
“I didn’t do too bad but I
didn’t do too good,” she said.
“The cuts just weren’t fall
ing for me.”
Riley was trying to earn
one of six available primary
spots or one of the two alter
nate positions.
All were trying to be a
part of the field for the
30th annual U.S. Women’s
Amateur
Public Links
Championship, which is to
be held at Walking Stick
Golf Course in Pueblo,
Colo., June 20-25.
Those who did get in
included Kyu Ri Ban of
Duluth who topped the field
with a 72.
Just behind her were
See RILEY, page 5B
No retraction
needed... yet
Thought I was going
to have to run a
retraction didn’t
you?
So did I.
I mean there I was dog
ging Ray Evemham, dog
ging Dodge Chargers and
then what
do I get?
Jeremy
(Mayfield)
enters the
Nex t e 1
Challenge
two week
ends back
saying it’s
the “best
car” he’s
had all
year. It,
of course,
didn’t
Don Moncrief
HHJ Sport* Editor
leave that way - in pieces
(not of his own making as
you more than likely saw) -
but then he qualifies second
in another car for Sunday’s
race.
He finishes 15th in the
end but there are times I’m
thinking he looks downright
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racy.
I’m also thinking: Guess
I’ll have to take back some
of those bad things I said
about the organization.
Then comes Monday.
See YET, page SB