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Page 11 THE TOWNS COUNTY HERALD August 6, 2014 August 6, 2014 THE TOWNS COUNTY HERALD Page 11 Towns County Sports Towns County’s Leader In Sports www.townscountyherald.net • E-mail: [email protected] Mountain Gymnastics Center Dash to the Vineyards 10 K Race Dash to the Vineyards held (unsanctioned) that same The Ridges Resort) or online shines in Savannah, Gainesville meets 10K Race will be held Sat- morning, also starting at 8:30 at www.active.com. Forms are urday, August 23, 2014. This a.m. Walkers/runners will also available on the Cham- sanctioned foot race will be- leave from Crane Creek Vine- ber’s website, www.moun- gin at the Stables of beautiful yards, run to a point out Byers taintopga.com - go to Visitors/ Brasstown Valley Resort at Creek Road and then double What to Do page. Cost is $25 8:30 a.m. and finish at Crane back on the same route to the for pre-registration (before Creek Vineyards. Racers will Vineyard. 8/8/14) and $30 after that date. have the opportunity to com- T-shirts are guaranteed For more information, call the pete on roads with hills, twists to all pre-registered partici- Chamber at (706) 896-4966. and best of all, beautiful scen- pants of both races. Special ery! Runners will leave the trophies will be awarded to VFW Golf Stables and continue out the 10K runners as follows: Top main entrance of the Resort, Overall Male and Female and League news run down Hwy. 76 to the in- Top Male and Female Masters Shooting an 8 under par tersection of Hwy. 66, make a (40 and over). Trophies will for a score of 64, the big guns right on Hwy. 66 and continue also be awarded to the top male Thursday were, Danny Bar- on to Byers Creek Road. From and female finisher in each rett, Randy Thompkins, Russ there racers will have both age group. Anyone who places Schoetker and Steve Sutherlin. downhill and uphill climbs will receive a commemorative Good to see Russ Schoetker to the finish at Crane Creek wine glass. hitting the ball again. Thursday, Vineyards. And, what a great Registrations are avail- August 7th par three tourna- time of year to be racing to a able at the Towns County ment come out, have some fun. vineyard – the vines at Crane Chamber office located at Thursday, August 28th is the Creek will be bursting with 1411 Jack Dayton Circle, date for the Frank Glebus 2014 grapes! Young Harris (directly across Memorial VFW Golf Tourna- A Fun Run will also be the street from the entrance to ment, 9 a.m. sharp tee off. Large conference for hikers coming to Georgia Hikers from across the vistas and/or waterfalls. Southeast are invited to the Registrants may pur- Eighth Biennial Conference chase tickets with their regis- Left to Right: Mia McCombs, Erin Raper, Evelyn McBride, Addicyn Dockery, Reagan Ledford, Laura of the Southeastern Foot Trails tration for two special meals: McGaha, Jaylen Hogsed. Coalition (SEFTC) in Blairs- Friday dinner at the large in- At 9-years old, McGa- ville, GA and neighboring Vo- door lakeside pavilion at Vogel By Todd Forrest Two of MGC’s 12-year gel State Park September 18- State Park with that park’s nat- ha placed first on the vault, Towns County Herald olds picked up second and 21, 2014. Registration for this uralist Jessica Mou as speaker [email protected] beam and on the floor, while fourth respectively. event has begun and may be and the mountain-grown musi- taking second on the bars. Evelyn McBride took The Mountain Gym- accomplished by going to the cian Nelson Thomas providing In the 10-year old divi- second all-around with a website southeastfoottrails.org the music, and Saturday’s eve- nastics Center’s Prep 2 team sion, McCombs took first on first place finish on the floor, competed in Savannah in or seftc.org ning meal at Brackett Center the vault and second on the second on the beam and bars, Highlighting this confer- in Blairsville with ATC’s Ron March and earned first place bars, beam, and floor. and third on the vault. ence will be presentations by Tipton speaking. in the team competition. Coming in second at Erin Raper placed Ron Tipton, Executive Direc- Housing for the confer- Seven girls competed and 10 years old was Addicyn fourth all around after tak- tor of the national Appalachian ence includes the three Blairs- the top three scores were Dockery. She placed first on ing fourth place on the bars, Trail Conservancy and Janet Ron Tipton vile motels, cottages at Vogel taken from each event and the bars and floor and fourth the floor, the beam, and the Zeller, National Accessibility State Park and elsewhere, and added together to achieve a on the beam and vault. vault. Program Manager, U.S. Forest Vogel’s pioneer campsite for combined score. Reagan Ledford placed Classes for ages 2 Service. Numerous other pre- those wishing to camp. The team would also third in the 11-year old divi- through college age are cur- senters will lead workshops The registration fee for travel to Gainesville in the sion after taking first on the rently underway at Moun- on Friday the 19th and Sunday all SEFTC Conference events, same month where Laura beam. tain Gymnastics Center in morning, the 21st. The Fri- workshops and hikes, but ex- McGaha and Mia McCombs She came in third on Blairsville. day plenary session and most cluding the two evening meal placed first all-around in the bars, the floor, and the Check out their website workshops, as well as registra- events, is $30 through August their respective age groups. vault. www.mtngym.com for the tion sign-in, will be at the new 31. The fee increases for late Union County Community registration to $40 on Septem- Center in Blairsville. ber 1 and for walk-ins at the Thursday afternoon, all conference dates. NASCAR 2014 day Saturday, and Sunday af- Southeastern Foot Trails By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter ternoon will feature hikes in the Coalition is composed of 36 mountains of northern Georgia, foot trail clubs and organiza- Earnhardt wins at Pocono southeastern Tennessee, and tions from across the Southeast southwestern . Janet Zeller that range in size from dozens POCONO, Penn.—Dale 10. -611. Most of these hikes will be of Appalachian and Benton Mac- of members to two with over Earnhardt Jr. saved the best for KESELOWSKI RUNS AWAY elle1-14117 red tag Sleep USA.qxp_5.25x10 community inc 7/23/14 3:19 PM Page 1 last on the way to victory in Sun- AT IOWA various lengths and descriptions Kaye trails with experienced 5,000 members. The coalition day’s Cup race. led 142 from easy to strenuous on the leaders. Most will feature scenic was established 15 years ago. Earnhardt never led a lap laps in winning the 250-lap Na- until late in the 160-lap race. He tionwide race at Newton, Iowa. passed after a restart Michael McDowell was on lap 146 to take the lead for second, followed by Trevor Jr. wins at Po- the first time. There were two Bayne, Sam Hornish, , cono more cautions, but each time he , , Chase ready has a terrific rapport with was able to stay out front. Elliott, , and Dale Jr. and is a fit with the or- The last restart came on . ganization. He and Chad had a lap 156. was Top-10 leaders after 20 of lot of success together, and all of lined up inside Earnhardt’s 33: 1. Elliott-714, 2. Smith-712, our crew chiefs think the world No. 88. By the time the leaders 3. Sadler-702, 4. T. Dillon-702, of him and what he’s accom- reached turn-1, Earnhardt was 5. Bayne-673, 6. Scott-673, 7. C. plished. Greg’s proven that he out front. Even though Harvick Buescher-586, 8. Gaughan-584, can win races, and he has all the made a race of it, all he could 9. Reed-538, 10. J. Bue- tools to do big things.” do was watch as Earnhardt’s car scher-533. crossed the finish line 0.24-sec- TAKES RETURNS TO ROUSH onds ahead of him. POCONO TRUCK RACE “It was hard holding Kev- Austin Dillon, who led announces that legendary NA- in off,” said Earnhardt. “He was three times for 23 laps in Sat- SCAR driver Mark Martin is re- catching me in turns 1 and 2, and urday’s truck race at Pocono turning to the race team where he I had to overdrive the car. We had Raceway pulled away on the drove for almost 20 years - this a fast car, but the credit goes to green-white-checkered restart to time as the team’s driver devel- Steve ( crew chief). win his first Truck Series race of opment coach. Martin was the His strategy was perfect.” the year. first driver hired by team owner The win was his third of “This was a pretty cool when he founded his the season, and assures him a win,” said Dillon. “The team NASCAR operation in 1988. spot in this year’s Chase. did a great job. We had a good Martin piloted the Roush “I almost wrecked my car truck and I gave it my best. It all Fenway No. 6 Ford from 1988 trying to catch Junior,” said Har- came together near the end, and until 2006. During that time he vick. “I made a lot of mistakes, this win just showed how good accumulated 35 NSCS victories. but there at the end, he was too we were.” At the end of his tenure at Roush fast.” Dillon was running first, Fenway he held a record five was third, with fellow Cup driver Clint prestigious IROC (International while was fourth, Bowyer in second on the final ) Champion- and Greg Biffle was fifth. restart. Dillon got a good jump ships and a then record 47 NA- , who finished on the field and went on to a SCAR Nationwide Series wins. sixth, led the most laps, but saw 2.125-second victory over run- For his career Martin posted 96 another possible victory elude ner-up , who did career NASCAR victories. him near the end. not lead any laps. “I’m excited to return to “We had an awesome car The guys had a lot of con- Roush Fenway Racing, as it feels but we didn’t have the track po- fidence, but I didn’t,” said Sau- like I’m going home to where sition we needed near the end,” ter. “The turns here have always I belong,” said Martin. “I was said Gordon. “We might not been a problem for me. We were fortunate to help build this team have won, but my confidence is shuffled back and forth through- from the beginning and it’s very sky high. I can’t wait to get to out the race, until we finally got humbling to be a part of Jack’s the next race.” in clean air near the end.” team again. When Jack first Rounding out the top-10 was third, hired me in 1988 we didn’t talk were: Jamie McMurray, Ryan followed by Clint Bowyer, Ryan about salary or benefits or perks, Newman, , and Blaney, , Ron Horna- we talked about testing, tires and . day, Darrell Wallace Jr., Justin putting the right personnel into Polesitter Lofton, and . place to win on the track. That came home 11th. Top-10 leaders after 11 commitment is what stood out to There was a huge pileup of of 22; 1. Blaney-408, 2. Sau- me then and it’s still what stands cars during lap 117. It appeared ter-401, 3. Crafton-396, 4. Hor- out to me today.” to begin after Denny Hamlin got naday-388, 5. Wallace Jr.-377, 6. Martin said his new role squirrelly, and had Quiroga-365, 7. Kennedy-364, will be strictly as a coach, not to swerve in order to miss him. 8. Peters-359, 9. Coulter-353, that of a driver. “It looked like the 11-car 10. Burton-324. Weekend Racing: The got loose and went 2015 CREW CHIEF NAMED Cup and Nationwide teams are up,” said , one of FOR at the 2.45-mile, 11-turn Watkins the drivers involved. “After that EARNHARDT Glen road course. The trucks it turned into a hell of a mess.” Crew chief will have the week off. Other drivers that were rejoin Sat., Aug. 9, Nationwide caught up in it included: Matt following the 2014 NASCAR Series race 21 of 33; Starting Kenseth, , Martin season to lead the No. 88 Sprint time: 2 pm ET; TV: ABC. Truex, Brad Keselowski, A J Cup Series team of driver Dale Sun., Aug. 10, Allmendinger, and Alex Bow- Earnhardt Jr. race 22 of 36; Starting time: 12 man. Ives, 34, was race en- noon ET; TV: ESPN. hit the gineer for Jimmie Johnson’s Racing Trivia Question: outside wall twice; once during historic run of five consecu- Who won the 2013 race at Wat- lap 10, and again on lap 111. He tive Sprint Cup championships kins Glen? did not finish the race. (2006-2010) with the No. 48 Last Week’s Question: Kyle Busch lost an engine Hendrick Motorsports team. He When was the first NASCAR and wound up 42nd. will work alongside Johnson’s race held at Pocono? The year Top-10 Chase leaders after crew chief, , in the was 1974, and the race was won 21 of 36: 1. Gordon-757, 2. Earn- shop shared by the #48 and 88 by . hardt-740, 3. Keselowski-687, 4. Chevy SS teams. You may contact the Kenseth-668, 5. Newman-642, “Greg was our - Racing Reporter at: hodges@ 6. Johnson-633, 7. Logano-633, one choice,” said . race500.com. NT(Aug6,C1)ac 8. Edwards-618, 9. Bowyer-617, “This is a talented guy who al-