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Towns County Herald’s Sporting News Sports Writer JIM BRYANT Local Racing Action by Carl Vanzura Photo by Jack Appleget The North Georgia Rap- ids Swim Team recently headed south to Winder, Georgia to compete in the North Georgia Swim League Pentathlon Swim Meet. Eleven teams, consist- ing of over 250 swimmers par- ticipated in this popular sum- mer meet. With family vacations impacting the team’s numbers, the team sent only seven swim- mers to compete. Of those seven, five finished within the top seven of their age group, North Georgia Rapids Swim Team taking home beautiful rosette ribbons for their efforts. All team members swam personal best times and were pleased with their team’s achieve- ments. The team practices at the Blue Ridge Mountain Fit- ness Club’s saltwater pool year round. New team mem- bers are always welcome with ages ranging from six to eigh- teen. For more information contact swim coach Barry Gay at 706-835-1662. Herald’s sports quote of the week - Bruce Lee, martial artist “If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.” Recreation Department’s July 4 Activity Day The Towns County Recreation Department’s annual July 4 Activity Day will be on Friday, July 3 at the Recreation Department Ball fields. The Recreation Department invites everyone to come out and have fun in the sun! The Schedule of the events during the day and locations are as follows: Youth Singles Horseshoes 16 & Under Boys/Girls: ball field, 9:30 am Mens Singles Horseshoes 17 & Older: ball field, 10 am Womens Singles Horseshoes 16 & Older: ball field, 10:30 am Mens Partner Horseshoes 17 & Older: ball field, 11 am Mens Homerun Derby 15 & Older: ball field, 10:30 am Youth Home Run Derby 14 & Under Boys/Girls: ball field, 10:45 am Youth Home Run Derby 11 & Under Boys/Girls: ball field, 11 am Womens Home Run Derby 15 & Older: ball field, 11:15 am 3-Legged Race 10 & Under Boys & Girls: ball field, 11:30 am 3-Legged Race 13 & Under Boys & Girls: ball field, 11:40 am Little Miss Recreation Girls 2 thru 6: Outdoor stage at Fairground next to ball field, 1pm In each of the Recreation Department events, Plaques and Trophies will be given to all winners in each event. There is no charge for any of the activities. All events will begin at the times listed. To pre-register just be on time for the events you wish to participate. See all of you on July 3. For more information call the Recreation Department at 896-2600. The Georgia Mountain Fair is taking applications for girls ages 17-24 to represent the fair in community events dur- ing 2009-10. The Miss GMF Pageant, to be held Monday, July 20, will consist of evening gown, one-piece swimsuit, personal interview, stage question and overall presentation. After judging of regular pageant, an optional talent contest will be held. There is no entry fee. There will be cash & merchan- Miss Ga Mtn Fair Beauty Pageant dise prizes. To qualify, contestants must be residents or full-time high school/college students in the counties of Towns, Union, Rabun, White, Habersham, Lumpkin, Fannin, and Stephens in Georgia or Clay and Chero- kee counties in North Carolina; they must be single, never mar- ried, nor have children, and all applications should be received in office by Sunday, July 12. For more info & applica- tion: call 706-896-4191 or go to georgiamountainfairgrounds.com You need a few more tent construction considerations be- fore purchasing your soft shel- ter. Although the bottom of your tent is made of reinforced mate- rial that is thicker than either the rainfly or tent walls, the ground is an abrasive place. To prevent accidental puncture from rocks and twigs, lay a plastic GROUND CLOTH under the tent’s floor. This ground cover should be cut or folded to the shape of the tent but several inches small that the width of the tent. A ground sheet that pro- trudes outside the edges of the tent will channel water under- neath and between the tent and ground sheet and no amount of waterproofing will stop water from seeping inside the tent. The best ground cover on the market is blue on one side for summer use and silver on the other side Finalizing tent consider- ations before purchasing for reflective winter use. The best is made of rip-stop mate- rial but a sheet of plastic from the local hardware store will suffice and is far cheaper. KEY POINTS IN TENT CONSTRUCTION . Light-weight nylon taffeta tent material . Waterproof tub bot- tom which extends up the side of the tent 6” . “No-see-um” mesh in windows, doors and dome pan- els . Breathable air space between tent and rainfly . Shock-corded tent sup- port poles . Sleeved or hooked in- ternal pole system . Water-proof rip-stop nylon rainfly . Free standing . Anchor stakes Despite the heavy con- struction going on at the Young Harris College Site, the sixth annual softball camp was held on schedule. With construction noises in the background, the coaches still had a great time working with the seventeen players that signed up for the three day camp. This year the staff at YHC even added an additional day on Thursday due to the popularity for advanced pitchers. Each day from 9:00-3:00, the camp had three hours of pitching and fundamentals with guest coaches, followed by hit- ting instructions and batting cage practice by YHC Assis- tant Coach, Danny Rubino and a player from the Gordon Col- lege varsity team. Proper throwing and catching mechan- ics were taught by YHC Head Coach Eric Geldart and YHC pitcher, Rikki Powers. Each day a new fundamental was taught by guest coach Brian Staubly, Head Softball Coach from Broward Community Col- lege and at the end of the camp, a recruiting seminar was held to show the players how to market themselves to various potential colleges. Annual softball camp held at YHC YHC pitcher, Rikki Powers works on pitching with a softball camp participant. Broward College coach, Brian Staubly works on fielding fundamentals with player. One of the younger pitchers works to YHC coach Eric Geldart. YHC assistant coach, Danny Rubino works with a group of catchers. Photos by Jim and Lisa Bryant Outfielders practice their fielding fundamentals at sixth annual YHC softball camp. Coach Rubino and Gordon College player work inside the net with the catchers. With 4th win, Bobby Panter takes Sportsman point lead Morganton GA driver Bobby Panter took the Sports- man point lead at Tri-County Race Tracks with his 4th fea- ture win in the Kenny Garrett Hiawassee based GRT Chevy. After several restarts with outside pole setter Sammy Berrong, the two blasted into the first turn side-by-side with Panter taking the lead and holding it for the 20-lap win. Preston Crisp, racing out of Robbinsville, NC, worked his way through the pack to challenge Panter and finish second, followed by Doug Sneed, Mike Davis and Adam Morrow. Also as Panter from Morganton , Kevin Sutton , a former winner at the “County” when he drove in the Mini Stock division, thrilled the crowd with his first win since moving up to the Nesmith Crate Late Model ranks. In a battle of the Kevin’s, Hiawassee’s Kevin Bradshaw drove Ricky Franks’ Chevy to a runner up spot in front of Terry Ledford, Jacob Anderson and Jeremiah Bolling. Murphy driver Mike Bryson took the win in the highly competitive Modified Street feature when he led Greg Sudderth, Heather Taylor, Brandon Dills and Jeffery Woods across the finish line stripe. A good field of cars showed up for the Mid-Season Cham- pionship in the Street Stock race won by Hiawassee’s Steven Sofield. Sofield, celebrating his 20th birthday won his sixth straight feature in his Chevy Camaro as Johnny Burnett ran second, followed by Jim Exum, William Watson and Chris Laitner. Andrews driver Marty Clark won the first of two Mini Stock features when he edged Sylva’s Justin Woodard by inches in one of the most exciting races of the night. Jamie Cross, Adam Creekmore and Travis Robinson rounded out the top five. In the second feature, it was another close action packed main event as Jamie Cross and Justin Woodard battled the whole 15-lap race trading paint in each corner as Cross edged out the win. Woodard, Phil Henderson, Adam Creekmore and Travis Robinson filled the top five spots in the 12 car field. Racing at Tri-County is gearing up for the big Circuit World of Murphy Southern All Stars Super Late Model Se- ries show and fireworks show on July 4th. In other racing action, 13 year old Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Aaron’s Lucky Dog Dream Machine, made his tenth career Late Model start last weekend among some of the best Late Model drivers in the Southeast, including Bubba Pollard and Augie Grill. The second-generation driver made his debut at South Alabama Speedway (Kinston, Ala.) in the Pro Late Model Viper Series, qualifying fifth, starting sec- ond after the inversion and finishing third. After his great run at Tri-County last week in the Ten- nessee Thunder race, Ray Cook won $10,000 in the Lucas Oil Series race Saturday at Fayetteville Speedway. On Fri- day at Cherokee Speedway he ran 13th while having car prob- lems. Chris Madden won that race. Jonathan Davenport was 14th after running in the top five before a flat dropped him out of the top. Davenport also had a flat at Fayetteville while running forth with just two laps to go. Vic Hill won the Ten- nessee Thunder race at Maryville, TN Saturday night. Cleve- land Speedway had to cancell when they had problems with some track equipment. Track manager Monty Morrow said they will race next week. David McCoy won the Southeast- ern Sportsman Series race at Toccoa Speedway. Babby Panter won for the 4th time at Tri-County. Steven Sofield celebrates his 29th birthday with a win Saturday night Chatuge Shores golf scores 5-14-09 Jim Taylor hole in one hole # 16 5-14-09 Bill Kiser, Jim Taylor, Robert Lyle 9- Under, score 63 5-21-09 Bill Kiser, Ray Ward, Glen Greenwald 6- Un- der, score 66 6-4-09 Chuck Woodworth, John Chambers, Bill Kiser, Bucky Hancock 9- Under, score 63 Summer is just around the corner and that means hot weather and Summer Day Camp for boys and girls ages 6 thru 12. This summer The Rec- reation Department will offer day camp for 4 sessions, each session being two weeks, run- ning Monday thru Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sessions will be as follows: Session III July 6 - July 17 Session IV July 20 - July 3l The fee for the two week session is $120, payable to the Towns County Recreation De- partment the first Monday of each session. Day Camp offers children 2009 Rec Dept Summer Day Camp sports game activities, social game activities, field trips, na- ture hikes and much more. Give your child a lot to do this sum- mer and sign them up for Day Camp. You may send your child to any or all of the sessions. Children need to bring a swimsuit, towel, sprayable sunscreen and sack lunch. The Recreation department will furnish the drinks for the campers. Registration will be the first Monday of each session at the Recreation Department lo- cated on Hwy. 76 west of Hiawassee. For more info, call 706-896-2600. Registration for Towns County Youth Football will be held on June 27 and July 11 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Field House located at the Towns County High School Football Field. The cost of reg- istration is $60.00. Each player will need to present the regis- tration fee and a copy of the player's birth certificate upon registration. If the player played last year no birth certificate is required. Towns County Youth Football along with the assis- tance of the Head and Assis- tant Football Coaches for the Towns County High School will also hold a mini camp on July 13 and July 14 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Towns County Soccer Field. There is no cost for this camp. If you have any ques- tions, you may contact Jimmy Smith at 706-896-2622 or 706- 835-6176. Youth Football Registration The Rock Regional Sports Academy (formerly Baseball Instructional Camps @ YHC) has set dates for sum- mer camps for baseball, soc- cer and tennis. Our 2009 Cross-Training for Christ Multi-Sport camp and Leadership Training Camp dates are July 6-10. New to The Rock are Tennis, Soccer & Baseball lessons ranging from individual to small group to team. For more info or for a registra- tion form, call 706-897-2363 or e-mail [email protected] The Rock Regional Sports Academy June 25 2009 sports.p65 6/22/2009, 8:25 AM 2
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Towns County Herald’s Sporting News
Sports Writer
JIM BRYANT
Local RacingAction
by Carl Vanzura
Photo by Jack Appleget
The North Georgia Rap-ids Swim Team recently headedsouth to Winder, Georgia tocompete in the North GeorgiaSwim League Pentathlon SwimMeet. Eleven teams, consist-ing of over 250 swimmers par-ticipated in this popular sum-mer meet.
With family vacationsimpacting the team’s numbers,the team sent only seven swim-mers to compete. Of thoseseven, five finished within thetop seven of their age group,
North Georgia Rapids Swim Team
taking home beautiful rosetteribbons for their efforts. Allteam members swam personalbest times and were pleasedwith their team’s achieve-ments.
The team practices atthe Blue Ridge Mountain Fit-ness Club’s saltwater poolyear round. New team mem-bers are always welcome withages ranging from six to eigh-teen. For more informationcontact swim coach Barry Gayat 706-835-1662.
Herald’s sports quote of the week
- Bruce Lee, martial artist
“If you want to learn to swim jump intothe water. On dry land no frame of mind isever going to help you.”
Recreation Department’s July 4 Activity DayThe Towns County Recreation Department’s annual July
4 Activity Day will be on Friday, July 3 at the RecreationDepartment Ball fields. The Recreation Department inviteseveryone to come out and have fun in the sun! The Schedule ofthe events during the day and locations are as follows:
Youth Singles Horseshoes 16 & Under Boys/Girls: ball field, 9:30 amMens Singles Horseshoes 17 & Older: ball field, 10 amWomens Singles Horseshoes 16 & Older: ball field, 10:30 amMens Partner Horseshoes 17 & Older: ball field, 11 amMens Homerun Derby 15 & Older: ball field, 10:30 amYouth Home Run Derby 14 & Under Boys/Girls: ball field, 10:45 amYouth Home Run Derby 11 & Under Boys/Girls: ball field, 11 amWomens Home Run Derby 15 & Older: ball field, 11:15 am3-Legged Race 10 & Under Boys & Girls: ball field, 11:30 am3-Legged Race 13 & Under Boys & Girls: ball field, 11:40 am
Little Miss Recreation Girls 2 thru 6: Outdoor stage at Fairgroundnext to ball field, 1pm
In each of the Recreation Department events, Plaquesand Trophies will be given to all winners in each event. Thereis no charge for any of the activities. All events will begin atthe times listed. To pre-register just be on time for the eventsyou wish to participate. See all of you on July 3. For moreinformation call the Recreation Department at 896-2600.
The Georgia MountainFair is taking applications forgirls ages 17-24 to represent thefair in community events dur-ing 2009-10.
The Miss GMF Pageant,to be held Monday, July 20,will consist of evening gown,one-piece swimsuit, personalinterview, stage question andoverall presentation. Afterjudging of regular pageant, anoptional talent contest will beheld.
There is no entry fee.There will be cash & merchan-
Miss Ga Mtn Fair Beauty Pageantdise prizes.
To qualify, contestantsmust be residents or full-timehigh school/college students inthe counties of Towns, Union,Rabun, White, Habersham,Lumpkin, Fannin, and Stephensin Georgia or Clay and Chero-kee counties in North Carolina;they must be single, never mar-ried, nor have children, and allapplications should be receivedin office by Sunday, July 12.
For more info & applica-tion: call 706-896-4191 or go togeorgiamountainfairgrounds.com
You need a few more tentconstruction considerations be-fore purchasing your soft shel-ter. Although the bottom of yourtent is made of reinforced mate-rial that is thicker than eitherthe rainfly or tent walls, theground is an abrasive place. Toprevent accidental puncture fromrocks and twigs, lay a plasticGROUND CLOTH under thetent’s floor. This ground covershould be cut or folded to theshape of the tent but severalinches small that the width of thetent. A ground sheet that pro-trudes outside the edges of thetent will channel water under-neath and between the tent andground sheet and no amount ofwaterproofing will stop waterfrom seeping inside the tent. Thebest ground cover on the marketis blue on one side for summeruse and silver on the other side
Finalizing tent consider-ations before purchasing
for reflective winter use. Thebest is made of rip-stop mate-rial but a sheet of plastic fromthe local hardware store willsuffice and is far cheaper.KEY POINTS IN TENTCONSTRUCTION
. Light-weight nylontaffeta tent material
. Waterproof tub bot-tom which extends up the sideof the tent 6”
. “No-see-um” mesh inwindows, doors and dome pan-els
. Breathable air spacebetween tent and rainfly
. Shock-corded tent sup-port poles
. Sleeved or hooked in-ternal pole system
. Water-proof rip-stopnylon rainfly
. Free standing
. Anchor stakes
Despite the heavy con-struction going on at the YoungHarris College Site, the sixthannual softball camp was heldon schedule. With constructionnoises in the background, thecoaches still had a great timeworking with the seventeenplayers that signed up for thethree day camp. This year thestaff at YHC even added anadditional day on Thursday dueto the popularity for advancedpitchers.
Each day from 9:00-3:00,the camp had three hours ofpitching and fundamentals withguest coaches, followed by hit-ting instructions and battingcage practice by YHC Assis-tant Coach, Danny Rubino anda player from the Gordon Col-lege varsity team. Properthrowing and catching mechan-ics were taught by YHC HeadCoach Eric Geldart and YHCpitcher, Rikki Powers. Eachday a new fundamental wastaught by guest coach BrianStaubly, Head Softball Coachfrom Broward Community Col-lege and at the end of the camp,a recruiting seminar was heldto show the players how tomarket themselves to variouspotential colleges.
Annual softball camp held at YHC
YHC pitcher, Rikki Powersworks on pitching with a softballcamp participant.
Broward College coach, BrianStaubly works on fieldingfundamentals with player.
One of the younger pitchersworks to YHC coach EricGeldart.
YHC assistant coach, Danny Rubino works with a group ofcatchers. Photos by Jim and Lisa Bryant
Outfielders practice their fielding fundamentals at sixth annualYHC softball camp.
Coach Rubino and Gordon College player work inside the net with the catchers.
With 4th win, Bobby Panter takes Sportsman point leadMorganton GA driver Bobby Panter took the Sports-
man point lead at Tri-County Race Tracks with his 4th fea-ture win in the Kenny Garrett Hiawassee based GRT Chevy.After several restarts with outside pole setter Sammy Berrong,the two blasted into the first turn side-by-side with Pantertaking the lead and holding it for the 20-lap win. PrestonCrisp, racing out of Robbinsville, NC, worked his way throughthe pack to challenge Panter and finish second, followed byDoug Sneed, Mike Davis and Adam Morrow.
Also as Panter from Morganton , Kevin Sutton , aformer winner at the “County” when he drove in the MiniStock division, thrilled the crowd with his first win sincemoving up to the Nesmith Crate Late Model ranks. In abattle of the Kevin’s, Hiawassee’s Kevin Bradshaw droveRicky Franks’ Chevy to a runner up spot in front of TerryLedford, Jacob Anderson and Jeremiah Bolling.
Murphy driver Mike Bryson took the win in the highlycompetitive Modified Street feature when he led GregSudderth, Heather Taylor, Brandon Dills and Jeffery Woodsacross the finish line stripe.
A good field of cars showed up for the Mid-Season Cham-pionship in the Street Stock race won by Hiawassee’s StevenSofield. Sofield, celebrating his 20th birthday won his sixth straightfeature in his Chevy Camaro as Johnny Burnett ran second,followed by Jim Exum, William Watson and Chris Laitner.
Andrews driver Marty Clark won the first of two MiniStock features when he edged Sylva’s Justin Woodard by inchesin one of the most exciting races of the night. Jamie Cross,Adam Creekmore and Travis Robinson rounded out the topfive. In the second feature, it was another close action packedmain event as Jamie Cross and Justin Woodard battled thewhole 15-lap race trading paint in each corner as Cross edgedout the win. Woodard, Phil Henderson, Adam Creekmore andTravis Robinson filled the top five spots in the 12 car field.
Racing at Tri-County is gearing up for the big CircuitWorld of Murphy Southern All Stars Super Late Model Se-ries show and fireworks show on July 4th.
In other racing action, 13 year old Chase Elliott, driverof the No. 9 Aaron’s Lucky Dog Dream Machine, made histenth career Late Model start last weekend among some ofthe best Late Model drivers in the Southeast, including BubbaPollard and Augie Grill. The second-generation driver madehis debut at South Alabama Speedway (Kinston, Ala.) in thePro Late Model Viper Series, qualifying fifth, starting sec-ond after the inversion and finishing third.
After his great run at Tri-County last week in the Ten-nessee Thunder race, Ray Cook won $10,000 in the LucasOil Series race Saturday at Fayetteville Speedway. On Fri-day at Cherokee Speedway he ran 13th while having car prob-lems. Chris Madden won that race. Jonathan Davenport was14th after running in the top five before a flat dropped himout of the top. Davenport also had a flat at Fayetteville whilerunning forth with just two laps to go. Vic Hill won the Ten-nessee Thunder race at Maryville, TN Saturday night. Cleve-land Speedway had to cancell when they had problems withsome track equipment. Track manager Monty Morrow saidthey will race next week. David McCoy won the Southeast-ern Sportsman Series race at Toccoa Speedway.
Babby Panter won for the 4th time at Tri-County.
Steven Sofield celebrates his 29th birthday with a winSaturday night
Chatuge Shores golf scores5-14-09 Jim Taylor hole
in one hole # 165-14-09 Bill Kiser, Jim
Taylor, Robert Lyle 9- Under,score 63
5-21-09 Bill Kiser, Ray
Ward, Glen Greenwald 6- Un-der, score 66
6-4-09 Chuck Woodworth,John Chambers, Bill Kiser,Bucky Hancock
9- Under, score 63
Summer is just around thecorner and that means hotweather and Summer DayCamp for boys and girls ages 6thru 12. This summer The Rec-reation Department will offerday camp for 4 sessions, eachsession being two weeks, run-ning Monday thru Friday from8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Sessions will be as follows:Session III July 6 - July 17Session IV July 20 - July 3l
The fee for the two weeksession is $120, payable to theTowns County Recreation De-partment the first Monday ofeach session.
Day Camp offers children
2009 Rec Dept Summer Day Campsports game activities, socialgame activities, field trips, na-ture hikes and much more. Giveyour child a lot to do this sum-mer and sign them up for DayCamp. You may send your childto any or all of the sessions.
Children need to bringa swimsuit, towel, sprayablesunscreen and sack lunch.The Recreation departmentwill furnish the drinks forthe campers.
Registration will be thefirst Monday of each session atthe Recreation Department lo-cated on Hwy. 76 west ofHiawassee. For more info,call 706-896-2600.
Registration for TownsCounty Youth Football will beheld on June 27 and July 11 from5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at theField House located at theTowns County High SchoolFootball Field. The cost of reg-istration is $60.00. Each playerwill need to present the regis-tration fee and a copy of theplayer's birth certificate uponregistration. If the player playedlast year no birth certificate isrequired.
Towns County YouthFootball along with the assis-tance of the Head and Assis-tant Football Coaches for theTowns County High Schoolwill also hold a mini camp onJuly 13 and July 14 from 6:00p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the TownsCounty Soccer Field. There isno cost for this camp.
If you have any ques-tions, you may contact JimmySmith at 706-896-2622 or 706-835-6176.
Youth Football Registration
The Rock RegionalSports Academy (formerlyBaseball Instructional Camps@ YHC) has set dates for sum-mer camps for baseball, soc-cer and tennis.
Our 2009 Cross-Trainingfor Christ Multi-Sport camp
and Leadership Training Campdates are July 6-10. New toThe Rock are Tennis, Soccer& Baseball lessons ranging fromindividual to small group to team.For more info or for a registra-tion form, call 706-897-2363 ore-mail [email protected]
The Rock Regional Sports Academy
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