February 29, 2012 THE TOWNS COUNTY HERALD Page 13A Towns County Sports Towns County’s Leader In Sports T www.townscountyherald.net • E-mail: [email protected] Basketball follow ups and odds and ends Fuzion Dance Company to hold spring concert See the Fuzion Dance ther, there was no return game Company in their only con- played between the Lady Indi- cert of the year on Saturday, ans and the Wilbanks girls but March 10 at 7 p.m. at Towns the Lady Indians outlasted them County School Auditorium. in the tournament. They will be performing all of JIM MELTON AND DION the special competition pieces ELLER in jazz, lyrical, contemporary, Although a picture of the and modern for this year as two coaches in the newspaper well as other favorites in bal- made it clear that Eller was in let, tap and hip hop. Also join- attendance when Melton broke ing the company will be the his career coaching wins record young performing group of in basketball at TCHS, your reporter had intended to com- Brasstown Dance Academy in ment about Eller’s presence. He their debut concert. Both of graciously drove to Commerce these groups performed in The after missing his ride with your Nutcracker in December. The reporter in order to congratu- Fuzion Dance Company also late Melton in anticipation of performed in the Towns Coun- his breaking the record on that ty High School musical Grease The BDA Young Performers Group in November. Coach Lana Parker gives instructions to her Lady Indians. evening. Melton expressed his clearly sincere appreciation Fuzion Company mem- Photo by James Reese bers are Lindy Hollingshead By Jerry Kendall nior Mike Hedden’s 266 points to Eller for his presence at the game. and Caitlin Sheffield of Hia- Towns County Herald with 226 as a sophomore during JORDAN MOSS AND MIS- wassee, Sarina Kurrimbukus [email protected] Bryson’s freshman year. SY CONRAD of Hayesville, and Ansley Var- In having a truly unusual LANA BROWN (PARKER) deman of Young Harris. They number of specialty articles ad- When mentioning Lana Two former Lady Indi- ans, Jordan Moss and Missy are joined by former Company dressing wonderful basketball Brown in the tribute to Jim member Taylor Vardeman of accomplishments of various Melton and Dion Eller as being Conrad, had their best games of the season in a recently played Young Harris. Performance Lady Indians and Indians this the head coach of the Towns Group members are Tori An- year, it is often easy to slip up County Middle School Lady contest between Young Harris College and Barber-Scotia Col- derson, Mai Lim, Skylar and forget to include comments Indians team, your reporter in- Stephens, and Jamison Wood or address accomplishments tended to include a few details lege of Concord, North Caro- lina, with your reporter having of Hiawassee; Jordan Smith, intended to be included but of their recently completed sea- Montana Walker, and Ashlyn forgotten at the time of the oc- son but simply forgot to do this. the intent to mention it soon after the event but forgetting to Leatherwood of Hayesville. currence. Further, a few follow The Lady Indians completed Fuzion is a nonprofit up type events and accomplish- a 13-5 season with increasing do so. Moss had a team lead- ments of interest have recently success throughout the season ing 19 points and 11 rebounds Dance Company supported by occurred perhaps worthy of while utilizing for the most along with 2 steals in the 69-31 sponsors and company member mention as will follow: part three eighth graders—Joc- victory while Conrad scored 5 dues as a project of Brasstown L-R Taylor Vardeman, Caitlin Sheffield, Sarina Kurrimbukus, Lin- BOB BRYSON elyn Byers, Savanna Dyer, and points with 4 rebounds, 3 steals, Dance Academy. The Spring and 1 assist in the game. Concert is sponsored by Bob dy Hollingshead and Ansley Vardeman The inclusion of informa- Brooke Smith—and three sev- EZEKIEL GRIBBLE tion about the brilliant career of enth graders—Kristen Henson, Anderson of Raymond James. Dance Academy for informa- Studio hours are Mon- Bob Bryson in the article about Madison Landress, and Emory This item is not about Admission at the door is $10 tion about classes or the Fuzion day-Thursday 2 – 6 p.m. and Dallas Manus breaking Bryson’s Patton—against teams of most, basketball but it is about a for- for adults and $5 for students. Dance Company performance the phone number is (706) mer Indians basketball player, freshman school scoring record if not all, eighth graders. Most Call or visit Brasstown schedule. 379-2651. NT(Feb29,C4)ac set in 1953 brought about sev- of the schools the Lady Indi- Ezekiel Gribble, who is a mem- eral comments, including from ans faced are much larger than ber of the Young Harris College Bob Bryson himself. Bryson Towns County Middle School Mountain Lions baseball team. called your reporter to express and have both an eighth grade Gribble was red shirted as ex- NASCAR 2012 pected as a freshman two years appreciation for his having and a seventh grade team. By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter been remembered in the article Three of the five losses ago and then suffered an unfor- with an accompanying interest were to Rabun County but tunate injury requiring surgery Buescher gets first Nationwide win in learning of Manus’ talent and with noteworthy improvement the first day of fall practice as style of play. shown as the season progressed a sophomore, missing all of James Buescher weaved out, helmet still on, and Bryson was so pleased against the Lady Wildcats. The the fall season and most of the his way down the front straight- stormed into her team hauler, at being remembered that he Lady Indians lost by a 56-32 spring but with some late sea- away through a mass of wreck- ignoring the small army of re- called his first cousin, Zell score at Rabun early in the sea- son success after an earlier than ing and spinning cars to win porters. Miller, to ask if he had seen the son, by a 40-28 score at home expected return to action. Saturday’s Nationwide race. “There isn’t much I can article with the legendary po- several weeks later, and then by In last Sunday’s sec- He was running in the say,” said Whitt. “I simply got litical leader also expressing his just a 36-30 margin much clos- ond game of a double header 11th position going into turn-4. into her. It wasn’t much, but it James Buescher celebrates his appreciation for the coverage of er than the final score would against Montreat College near As Kurt Busch, Tony Stew- was enough to spin her out.” first Nationwide win his stellar career. Bryson fur- indicate in the finals of the Asheville, North Carolina, art, and the other leaders be- On Thursday she was million, 8. Danica Patrick - ther informed your reporter that tournament at Wilbanks Middle he had his finest moment as a gan smacking into each other bumped by Aric Almirola. $12 million [indy car], 9. Matt he had purchased extra newspa- School in Habersham County. Mountain Lion. After lining out and sliding all over the track, The wreck on Saturday Kenseth - $11.5 million, 10. pers to send to his son, Robert, One of the other losses to right field as a pinch hitter Buescher never let up and was ruined what could have been a Kasey Kahne - $11 million and daughter, Sharon, who live was by a 32-24 score at Union in the fifth inning, he battled good day for Patrick, who on Weekend Racing: The through a ten pitch at bat in the somehow able to avoid the me- in Florida. Bob and your report- County in the season opening lee of cars. Friday became just the second Nationwide and Cup teams er actually share kinship with game before the Lady Indians sixth in fouling off five pitches woman ever to sit on the pole are at the 1-mile Phoenix, AZ before stroking his first colle- However, there was Robert and Sharon as they are took a stunning come from some controversy surrounding for a Nationwide Series race. track. The Trucks do not race the daughters of your reporter’s behind 38-36 win in the clos- giate home run, a grand slam to She finished 38th. right field. The Mountain Lions his win. again until Mar. 31 first cousin, the former Marga- ing seconds at home and then According to Brad Ke- KING WINS WILD After the crash-filled ret Kendall of Hiawassee. As an a 41-31 victory over the Lady won the game 14-0 for their DAYTONA TRUCK RACE tenth straight victory and an selowski, who finished third, races at Daytona, things will addendum to the article, Robert Panthers in the semi finals of NASCAR should have put out It required three attempts slow down at Phoenix. Unlike is a very highly regarded youth the tournament. The other loss overall 13-4 record on the still young season. the caution earlier. He said that at a green-white-checkered fin- the 2.5-mile Daytona track, coach in Brooksville, Florida. was by a 45-21 score in a sub it was six-seconds after the big ish for John King to win Friday which has up to 31-degree Finally, as related to the par performance by the Lady A wrap up of tournament activity for neighboring and wreck occurred before the yel- night’s Daytona Truck race.