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IN BRIEF
Youth center sets registration
The Robins Air Force Base
Youth Center’s sports registration
will be held July 15. Parents may
resister from 1-6 p.m. on that day
and from 3-6 p.m. the following
Monday-Fnday.
Youth may register for cheer
leading ages 5-12, NFL flag foot
ball ages 5-10, tackle football
ages 11-12 and fall soccer ages
5-16.
Registration will continue until
teams are full.
Also, the center is currently
accepting applications for volun
teer cheerleading/football/soccer
coaches.
No experience is required.
Training will be provided though
the youth center. Apply in person
at Robins Youth Center or call
Ron Hayes at 926-2110.
Cross country series dates set
Warner Robins High School
head cross country coach David
Erpeldmg is preparing to host
the Sixth Annual Middle Georgia
Cross Country Summer Series
at Pearl Stephens Elementary
School in Warner Robins.
The races are open to every
one and the following races are
planned:
■ July 6:4000 meters
■ July 20: 5000 Meters
Each race is slated to start at
7:30 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.
Runners register on race day.
Contact Erpelding at 328-3208 or
via e-mail at Erpelding@bellsouth.
net for more information.
The entry fee is $5.
IB.CC to host clinic, more
Houston Lake Country Club will
be holding a Junior Golf Clinic
July 11-13, 9:30-11 a.m. all three
days. Each clinic is limited to the
first 50 golfers to sign up. The cost
is SIOO for members and $l2O for
nonmentbers. The club will also
have a Junior Club Championship
July 27.
Call the Pro Shop at 218-5252
to sign up or for more informa
tion. In addition, the 25th Annual
Ron Stafford Invitational Two-man
Best Ball tournament sponsored
by Coca-Cola will be held July 22
and 23 at the course. Sign up is in
the pro shop.
WR Rec to hold registrations
The Warner Robins Recreation
Department will begin football and
cheerleading registration July 15
from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Registration
will be held at the WRRD located
at 800 Watson Boulevard.
The fees are as follows:
Cheerleading - City of Warner
Robins, $75: county, $100: out of
county, $l2O. Football: City, SSO;
county. $103; out of county $177.
Call 929-1916 for more.
You’ve got questions...
Heads up, all Houston County
golfers!
The Houston Home
Journal sports department is
putting together a new regular
feature aiming at improving your
understanding of the game of golf
and the way you play out of the
course.
For this "Ask the Pros" column,
we are asking you, the avid golfer,
to submit any question you may
have concerning the rules of the
sport or your golf swings, strokes
and putts. We will then forward
your question to a local golf pro
from one of five Houston County
golf clubs, and that pro will in turn
answer the question. That answer
will appear in the Home Journal.
Send your questions,
including your name and
where you live, via e-mail to
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or by regular mail to the Houston
Home Journal, attn: sports,
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31069.
HE SAID IT
“Without a positive attitude,
you're not going anywhere - in
raang or in life."
- Brett Bodlrte
SATURDAY,
JULY 1, 2006
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Daryl McNeil, head coach of the International City Warriors, pitches
the football with another one in his hands as he runs a running back
drill Thursday.
Nix remembers his roots while leading Georgia Tech on the gridiron
(Editor's note: The fol
lowing is one of four stories
gathered from interviews
conducted at the Georgia
Sports Hall of Fame’s Peach
State Pigskin Preview media
day Thursday, to appear in
the Houston Home Journal.)
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
He just might be
Northside High
School football’s
No. 1 fan, and he never suit
ed up for the Eagles nor
Pigskin
Preview
1 of 4
it’s been much easier to keep
up with things since he took
a job in Atlanta in 2002.
Patrick Nix is the offen
sive coordinator at Georgia
Tech, a former head coach
in college football and for
mer starting quarterback at
Auburn University.
All of his learning and
development in the game
of football took place in
Alabama.
His main teacher not just
State contenders make for strong team
Below is the Houston
Home Journal’s All-
Houston County base
ball team for 2006
First team
■ Brian Wilkerson, Houston
County
■ Chase Brown, Houston
County
■ Joe Vasquez, Houston
County (tie)
■ Brad Jackson, Houston
County
■ Chris Snipes, Warner Robins
■ Matt Summers, Warner
Robins
■ Jeremy Elliott, Warner Robins
■ Seth Reber, Perry
■ Josh Stewart, Perry
■ Philip Rice, Perry
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attend a
class on
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Warner
Robins.
But he
does have
a heart-felt
interest in
what goes
on with
this pro
gram, and
HIIJ/Matthew Brown
Georgia Tech offensive coordinator Patrick Nix talks to media during the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Pigskin Preview
media day Thursday in Macon.
in all things related to the
gridiron, but in all things
related to growing up and
being a good human being
was his father, Conrad Nix,
the current head football
coach at Northside.
All-Houston
County
Compiled by Don Moncrief
■ Josh O’Neal, Westfield (tie)
Second team
■ Ryan Beitler, Houston County
■ Jordan Beatty, Warner Robins
■ Joseph Herrmann, Warner
Robins
■ Matt Hvizdzak, Warner
Robins
■ Blake Lee, Warner Robins
■ Jacob Vargas, Warner Robins
■ Scott Willis, Warner Robins
Sports
For Warriors, nothing
short of a title will do
By MATTHEW BROWN
HHJ Sports Writer
Ready or not, a new football season
is about to begin. The International
City Warriors aren’t just looking to
make the Southern Football League
bigger and more competitive. This
group wants to be the competition to
make all others be on the lookout.
One week from today, the new sea
son for the new semi-pro gridiron
squad begins in Gadsden, Ala., against
the Avengers. Ironically, Gadsden is
the hometown of International City
head coach Daryl McNeil, who came to
Houston County when the Army base
in Gadsden closed.
McNeil is a former assistant coach
for the now defunct Middle Georgia
Stallions, a team that had a two-year
unbeaten streak end only because
the team was forced to fold. McNeil
said this Warrior team wants noth
ing less than to recapture what the
Stallions accomplished, all the way to
the EFA national championship game
in Atlantic City at the end of the year.
“Some of these guys have been
out almost a year,” said McNeil on
Thursday as he waited on his players
for a practice session at the field across
from Perry Primary School. “They are
“He can be tough to deal
with at times, I can tell you
that,” said Patrick, who rep
resented Georgia Tech at the
Peach State Pigskin media
day at the Georgia Sports
Hall of Fame in Macon.
■ Kevin Gifford, Northside
■ Jeff Stewart, Perry
■ Phillip Vance, Perry
■ Tony Albritton, Westfield
■ Jarrod Taylor, Westfield
First team
Brian Wilkerson f§|
School: Houston County
Position: Pitcher/first base
Impact: Overall, he hit .513.
He had 41 hits, of which four
were home runs and six were
doubles. He also had 38 RBI
and scored 26 runs. He had
a slugging percentage of .738
and an on base percentage of
.600. His fielding percentage at
first basq was .973 and on the
mound it was .957.
“After 34 years of dealing
with him, it’s sometimes
good and sometimes bad.
But I’ve learned a lot about
life in general, probably
more about how to be a good
person, how to do things the
He posted a 9-1 record from
the hill and added three saves
to that. He struck out 114, only
walked 10 and had an ERA of
1.81. He gave up 63 hits and
28 runs.
Chase Brown
School: Houston County
Position: Pitcher/shortstop
Impact: Overall, he hit .385.
He had 30 hits, of which one was
a home run, one was a triple and
six were doubles. He also had 11
RBI and scored 30 runs. He had
a slugging percentage of .526
and an on base percentage of
.547. His fielding percentage at
shortstop was .898 and on the
mound it was a perfect 1.000.
See TEAM, page 5B
'Right now, I would say we
are one of the fittest teams
in the league. Conditioning
is first and foremost with
this team. We do run a
West Coast offense, so you
have to lie well conditioned
to run it/
- International City Warriors head coach Daryl
McNeil
pretty much ready to get back on the
field and do some hitting.
“Right now, I would say we are one
of the fittest teams in the league.
Conditioning is first and foremost with
this team. We do run a West Coast
offense, so you have to be well condi
tioned to run it.”
The West Coast offense is well known
to avid National Football League fans
as what brought Super Bowl cham
pionships to the San Francisco 49ers
and Green Bay Packers. The Warriors
will have someone with pro experience
running the show in a former five-
right way, work hard and
treat people like they’re sup
posed to be treated.”
Patrick Nix was born
in Attalla, Ala., and
had -an award-winning
See NIX, page 2B
Davidson finishes
fourth at top 60
From staff reports
Katie Davidson of
Bonaire fell one notch
from the first day of com
petition, to fourth, and
that’s how she finished
at the Georgia State Golf
Association Georgia Top
60 Women’s Classic held
Wednesday-Thursday
at Barnsley Gardens in
Adairs ville.
She shot a 78 and 79,
respectively. Kyu Ri Ban
of Duluth shot a 73 and
74 to finish first overall.
• Davidson also fin
ished fourth in the
Championship Flight
while Ban was also
See TOP, page SB
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