August 11, 2010 THE TOWNS COUNTY HERALD Page 11A Towns County Sports Town’s County’s Leader In Sports T www.townscountyherald.net • E-mail: [email protected] Severe weather late last week sent the Indians football team indoors to continue practice

The Indians, in prepa- ration for the Aug. 27 season opener against arch rival Union County, didn’t mind the break from the soaring heat that has dominated practice since the team gathered a week ago at The Refuge on Plott Town Road. First things first as the Indians must get in the groove to take on Fannin County in a scrimmage game in Blue Ridge on Aug. 19. It’s the first time in two years that the Indians have not utilized their scrimmage game against Union County. Rather, Noah Calhoun takes the handoff from quarterback Jackson Noblet in 2010, the Panthers are the during indoor drills. first regular season game on the Once the Indians face off On Sept. 24, the Indians schedule. against the Panthers on Aug. 27 make the pilgrimage to Milled- “Experience-wise and at Frank McClure Stadium, the geville to take on the Bulldogs veteran-wise, we’re as expe- schedule begins to unfold with of Georgia Military as the Indi- rienced as we’ve been in two a chance of a return to respect- ans seek to avenge a 15-0 loss years,” Coach Kyle Langford ability. to GMC in 2009. The backs get in their agility drills during indoor practice last week at Bill Kendall Gymnasium. said. “Technique-wise, right The Cherokee Braves Towns County adds two now, we’re not very good. But come to town Sept. 3 follow- non-traditional rivals to its we’ve still got a good ways to ing the season-opening clash schedule in 2010. On Oct. 1, the go. But I feel good about the against Union, as the Indians travel to Kennesaw to kids that we’ve got out here Indians open the regu- take on the North Cobb Chris- right now.” lar season with their first two tian School Eagles. Coach Langford gave games at home. Following the The Indians return to rave reviews of Indians’ line- Cherokee game, the Indians be- Frank McClure Stadium on backer Wesley Bloodworth. gin a four-game road trip, trav- Oct. 15 following an open week “He’s looking like he’s elling first on Sept. 10 to Cop- to take on the River ready to take the field and start per Hill, Tenn. to take on the Ridge Knights out of the season tomorrow,” he said. Copper Basin Cougars. Cherokee County. “We’ve got depth at linebacker The Indians are eager to The following week, Oct. this season and that’s a good turn the tide on the Cougars af- 22, Glascock County’s Panthers thing.” ter last season’s 7-6 loss. The come to town for their annual Defensively, the Indians Indians then travel to Hayes- matchup with the Indians. On return nine starters and from ville, NC on Sept. 17 to take on Oct. 29, the Indians travel to the looks of this season’s crop the arch-rival Yellow Jackets. Gainesville to take on Lakev- of youngsters, they have some- The Indians thumped Hayes- iew Academy’s Lions followed thing they haven’t had in two ville last year 48-12 to avenge a by the season finale on Nov. 5 years – depth, Coach Langford bitter 2008, 34-32 loss in Clay at home against Hebron Chris- said. County, NC. tian Academy’s Lions. NASCAR 2010 By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter The Indians focus on Aug 19 scrimmage versus Fannin County. Montoya wins easily at The Glen Youth Coed Trout stocking sites “It was a wonderful day Basketball week of August 2-6, 2010 smoked the rest of the field on for us,” said Ambrose, who his way to victory in Sunday’s has not announced plans for League FANNIN: Big Creek, ***NOTE: Information Sprint Cup race at Watkins next year, though the rumor The Towns County Rec- Lake Blue Ridge Tailwaters is subject to change. Please Glen. He dominated the 90-lap mill says he’s likely to land in (below Dam), Rock Creek, call the hatchery at 706-838- race and finished over 5-sec- a NASCAR Sprint Cup ride reation Department will be- gin registration for The Youth Toccoa River. 4723 for questions. The hatch- onds ahead of runner-up Kurt at Motorsports. LUMPKIN: Etowah ery also provides trout for the Busch. “We’ve had our troubles at Coed Basketball League for River, Nimblewill Creek. state. Please contact Georgia “We had our problems, JTG this year, and we’re part- children ages 5 thru 7. (Must UNION: Cooper Creek, DNR for information on sites turn 5 by November 1st of but we understood each other, ing ways at the end of the sea- Toccoa River. stocked by the state. N(Aug11,X1)SH and this is the result of a lot of son, and this is a really fitting 2009 to be eligible). hard work,” said Montoya. way to finish this thing off.” Boys and girls will be It was Montoya’s first Top-10 points leaders Day date. placed together on teams. Local Cup win since 2007. after 22 of 35: 1. Keselows- At least Clark won’t have Teams will have volunteer “We had a hard fought ki-3509, 2. Edwards-3182, the headache of trying to sell coaches who will lead, teach Racing Action battle,” said . “We 3. -3036, 4. All- tickets for a March date few and direct their team. Regis- By: Carl Vanzura were right there in the mix. We gaier-2984, 5. Harvick-2774, wanted because the weather al- tration will begin on August slipped a lot, but it was a good 6. Menard-2732, 7. S. Wal- ways seemed to be a factor. 23rd and run thru Saturday run for us.” lace-2626, 8. Bayne-2441, “It’s a business deci- September 4th. Fee for the Charlotte driver Rick Goss takes Marcos Ambrose, the 9. Gaughan-2420, 10. Lef- sion,” Clark continued. “Are program will be $25 per child Georgia Mini Sprint feature event winner of Saturday’s Nation- fler-2384 we happy about it? No, but (this includes a uniform). You TODD BODINE ROLLS we’re very supportive of the must register your child and Charlotte North Caro- Clark Molster to take the Street wide Series race, passed Mon- lina driver Rick Goss blasted toya for the lead about midway TO NASHVILLE TRUCK company. The most difficult volunteer to coach during this Stock feature followed by Har- period. around Tri-County Race Track old Garrett and Josh Roberts. of the race, but faded in the WIN thing for me was a lot of loyal Saturday night on the way to Todd Bodine tightened people have worked a lot of For more information Sylva driver Justin Woo- closing laps and was lucky to victory over Atlanta’s Matt dard drove his to victo- come in third. his hold on the Camping World years to build what we have.” contact the Recreation Depart- McCulough, Werner, Jim Wall ment at (706) 896-2600 Mon- ry in the Mini Stock feature as “We lost the handle Truck Series point standings The Kansas City Star re- and Sam Williams in the top Lynn Burchfield Gary Wilkins there at the end, and there was with a dominant victory in ported that day thru Friday 9 a.m. till 9 five. Goss came from last place and Joshua Cordin round out no way to fix it that late in the the Nashville 200 at Nashville will also be awarded a second p.m. And Saturday 9 a.m. till in his feature to start on the the field. race,” said Ambrose. Superspeedway on Saturday date, beginning in 2011. 7 p.m. T(Aug11,J2)SH front row. The 20-lap feature Racing returns to Tri- The remaining top-10 night. While Kansas Speedway was run at speeds approach County this Saturday night finishers were: A.J. Allmend- But the veteran driver president Pat Warren has not 100 mile per hour and went with the Mid- inger, , Jamie isn’t about to start celebrating received formal notification Mountain caution free. Season Championship and in McMurray, , his second truck series cham- from NASCAR, he said, “We High Hikers The Late Model Sports- two weeks with the Southern Kyle Busch, , and pionship yet. fully expect when the schedule man feature saw Peachtree’s Regional Racing Series Super is announced, or when they at Hiking Club Jamie Olive beat Bobby Panter Late Model touring show. . “No, not really. It can be through turn one to take the Dale Earnhardt and his lost,” Bodine said. “You can least tell us what our portion of Mountain High Hik- In other action around lead and out pace the field to the area, Ray Cook took the team turned in a poor perfor- never count anybody out. Rac- the schedule will be, that we an- ers schedules two hikes each take his second feature in a Tuesday, occasional specialty SRRS $3000 to win feature at mance, as he finished 26th. ing, you never know what’s ticipate next year we will have row as Panter, Danny Ledford, Cleveland Speedway. Blairs- “It was a terrible race, going to happen. We’ve just two Sprint Cup races.” hikes, and regular trail main- Preston Crisp and Doug Sneed ville’s Jacob Grizzle finished terrible car,” said Earnhardt. got to keep doing what we’re Kansas’ receiving a taining trips - all in the beauti- rounded out the top five spots. 12th and now trails Tony Mor- “No it was worse than that, it doing every week. If we take second date is part of several ful mountains of Georgia and Copperhill speedster Ja- ris by just a few points for the was awful.” care of what we do and don’t changes to the NASCAR sched- . Check the son Deal held on to his points championship. The SRRS will hit the worry about everybody else, ule that will be announced next website www.mountainhigh- lead in the GM Performance visit Tri-County in two weeks. outside wall with 20-laps to go we’ll be just fine.” week. hikers.org for schedule and Late Models as he out lasted David McCoy won at Toccoa and finished 28th. Top-10 points leaders af- , in meeting locations. N(Aug11-G2)gg Kevin Bradshaw, Sam Parris, Speedway as local racer Ran- ran into ter 14 of 25: 1. Bodine-2188, 2. Fontana, will relin- Trevor Parker and Tony Led- dy Nichols managed a fourth Johnson’s wrecked car and Almirola-2014, 3. Peters-1956, quish one of its two Cup dates, ford. place finish. Boyds Speedway wound up with a DNF. He was 4. Sauter-1955, 5. Dillon-1900, and that’s apparently the one go- Brasstown’s Greg Sud- got rained out as well as Di- Gray Panthers derth took the lead in the Corn- credited with a 37th place fin- 6. Crafton-1894, 7. Horna- ing to Kansas Speedway. xie Speedway. Westminster The Gray Panthers of the well Tools Modified Street Speedway was idle last week ish. day-1875, 8. Skinner-1854, 9. Chicagoland Speedway Senior Men’s Softball League feature on the 13th lap of the Starr-1773, 10. White-1706 has scheduled a Monday news as the track was taken over by Top-15 Chase contenders dropped a pair of games to 15 lap event when Hiawassee’s two new promoters. Hartwell with four races remaining be- KENTUCKY WINS, conference to announce it will Towns County this past Sun- Stephen Sofield slid high com- Speedway shut down last week fore the 12-driver Chase format ATLANTA LOSES move its July date to September day. The Panthers were led by ing off of turn two after lead- and is now for sale. Jonathan begins: 1. Harvick-3210, 2. J. Tradition continues to and kick off the Chase for the Davey Jones who was a perfect ing from the drop of the green. Davenport finished fourth in Gordon-3025, 3. Burton-2895, crumble in the world of NA- Sprint Cup in 2011. 6 for 6. Tyree Dietz was 5 for 6 Brad Thomas, Mike Bryson the $50000 to win USA Na- 4. Kurt Busch-2892, 5. John- SCAR racing Weekend Racing: The Sprint and Ron Massucco was 4 for 7. and Sammy Berrong crossed tionals at Cedar - son-2882, 6. Hamlin-2872, 7. Politics and Kentucky Cup and Nationwide teams are Craig Arlotta was 3 for 4 with under the checker in the top way where Scott Bloomquist Kyle Busch-2866, 8. Stew- Speedway won. at the 2-mile Brooklyn, Michi- a double and Steve Robitaille five positions. took home the big money. art-2865, 9. Edwards-2821, 10. gan track, while the Camping had 3 hits including a triple. Robbinsville’s Charles NT(Aug11,C2)ac Toomey bested 78 year old Kenseth-2806, 11. Biffle-2743, will lose its spring race. World Trucks are at the historic Bob Pittman and Syd Garrett 12. Martin-2641, 13. Bow- When the reshuffled Darlington Motor Speedway. also collected 3 hits. The Pan- yer-2631, 14. Newman-2558, schedule is announced in the Sat., Aug. 14, Nationwide Series thers are sponsored by Union 15. McMurray-2547 coming weeks, the 1.5-mile Carfax 250, race 23 of 35; Start- Realty and Jock’s Sporting AMBROSE GETS track will pick up the date At- ing time: 1 pm ET; TV: ESPN2. Goods. NT(Aug11,C1)ac NATIONWIDE WIN lanta had in March and begin Sat., Aug. 14, Camping World Marcos Ambrose earned its venture into NASCAR’s top Series Too Tough To Tame, race his third consecutive victory at series with an early July date. 15 of 25; Starting time: 7 pm Watkins Glen, as he dominated “We’ve now gotten the ET; TV: Speed. Trout most of the race and pulled word,” said AMS president Ed Sun., Aug. 15, Sprint Cup Car- Unlimited 692 away from runner-up Joey Lo- Clark. “It’s time to step back fax 400, race 23 of 36; Starting gano to win the Zippo 200 by and refocus. A lot of tracks have time: 1 pm ET; TV: ESPN. monthly meeting Racing Trivia Question: nearly three seconds. one NASCAR event weekends Ken We meet on the second Though his future is un- and do very well. That’s what Schrader continues to race in Thursday of each month at the Truck series at the age of certain, with his announced we intend to do. Cadence Bank in Blairsville, 55. What year did he win the departure from JTG/Daugherty “That’s one thing about GA at 7 PM. Information may this; great moments have oc- Sprint Cup rookie of the year? Racing for parts—or team— be found on our website www. curred here, and that’s not go- Last Week’s Question: Where unknown, Ambrose drove im- ngatu692.com. maculately Saturday afternoon ing to go away. We’re going to is ’s home state? make some more.” Answer. He is from Bellflower, To contact TU 692 you in picking up his third straight may call our chapter Presi- NASCAR Nationwide Series Atlanta now joins Dar- California. lington, which historically You may contact the Racing dent, Ken Bachman at 706- victory at Watkins Glen In- 636-5373 or 561-762-4800 or ternational, winning from the hosted the Labor Day race, has Reporter at: hodgesnews@ email [email protected]. Charlotte driver Rick Goss visited Victory Lane Saturday night at pole. done with its lone Mother’s earthlink.net. NT(Aug11,C1)ac Tri-County N(Aug11,A4)SH

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