NASCAR 2019 Port These Athletes! Everyone Fannin: Big Creek, Rock Creek and Toccoa River by Gerald Hodges/The Racing Reporter Is Welcome to Participate
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Page 3CJuly THE 17, NORTH 2019 THEGEORGIA NORTH NEWS GEORGIA July 17, NEWS 2019 Page 3C North Georgia Rapids Swim Team excels Football: Meet the Team set for Aug. 23 The North Georgia Rap- ids Swim Team finished the Summer season recently by attending the league’s two-day championship swim meet. Fifteen teams in all, com- peted Friday night July 5th in Gainesville and then again the following day in Clarkesville, Georgia The league is divided into two classifications. The larger teams, those with over 45 swimmers, and then the smaller teams, less than 45, in which there are 11 teams. The Rapids are at the lower end of the small teams division with just 15 swim- mers attending the meet, but Nustayev. Third place boys - 8 bons and contributing to total had tremendous overall suc- and under: Wyatt Yancey. Third team points include: Lily Hel- cess finishing fourth. Both the place girls - 14 and under: ton, Courtney Foster, Liam second and third place teams Brooke Yancey. Second place Smith, Violet Davenport and Panther football’s annual Meet the Team event is scheduled for Friday Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. Photo/Todd Forrest finishing ahead of the Rapids, boys - 18 and under: Brian Ava Wheeler. had over 30 swimmers each. Williams. It was a very successful MUSA’s Colorful Run 5K benefit race Aug. 31 So considering the numbers, Other team members weekend for the Rapids. The Go online and register the Rapids made an impressive with excellent performances team would like to express its showing. -- all medal winners: Hunter for Blairsville’s first EVER col- appreciation to the Union Gen- or run 5k. This is open to kids, The team’s top perform- Yancey (4), Wyatt Nichols (4), eral Hospital and the Wellness ers earning individual trophies, Nicholas Nushtayev (3), Mi- adults, grandparents, runners, Center staff for providing us the walkers, joggers - anyone who were as follows: chael Dillard (2), Hunter White excellent facilities to train. First place boys - 10 (2), Steven Williams (2). would like some exercise while and under age group: Andrew Swimmers earning rib- getting showered in color! You can register online now at https://endurancecui. Corn Hole Tournament active.com/event-reg/select- race?e=63477154. to benefit Team Dream Ride Bound Make sure to register by Team Dream (Hwy. 325) Blairsville, GA on Please come out and August 5th to assure you get a Ride Bound is Saturday, July 20, 2019, reg- support this wonderful group shirt and the size you would a group who are istration begins at 12:30 PM; of Special Athletes. Help them like as after that date it will raising money play begins at 2 PM. Blind make this fantastic trip and be while supplies last! If you to send Spe- Draw Double Elimination; have fun in the meantime! would like to sponsor and be cial Athletes to entry fee: $25 per person; Top For more info contact: on the shirt message us and we Farmington, CT Prize: $250; 2nd place: $100; Doug Hughes, 706-781-7654; will get you on there! to the Dream Ride Rally, Au- 3rd Place: $50. Concessions Paulette Dyer, 706-897-9938; All monies will go to gust 22-26, 2019. We are hav- will be available. Suzanne Taylor, 706-897-8997. help kids with their individual ing a Corn Hole Tournament to raise the funds to reach our registration costs. goal. Trout stocking sites Come out have some week of July 8-12, 2019 fun, win some prizes, and sup- NASCAR 2019 port these athletes! Everyone Fannin: Big Creek, Rock Creek and Toccoa River By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter is welcome to participate. You Union: Cooper Creek and Toccoa River don’t have to be a pro. Note: Information is subject to change. Please call the Busch Brothers Sweep Kentucky Team Dream Ride hatchery at 706-838-4723 for questions. Stay up-to-date with SPARTA, KY - Kurt Bound Cornhole Tourna- stocking and events through Facebook www.facebook.com/ Busch beat his brother to the fin- ment will be held at Nottley chattahoocheeforestnfh.The hatchery also provides trout for ish line by .076 seconds in Sat- Lakeside Billards/cornhole/ the state. Please contact Georgia DNR for information on sites urday night’s Cup Series race. A dart, 2547 Nottley Dam Road stocked by the state. N(Jul17,Z16)CA two-lap overtime finish between the two was set up when Bubba Wallace spun in Turn 2 with six laps left in the 267-lap race. Joey Logano, Erik Jones, the Busch brothers and Denny Hamlin stayed out on older tires for the overtime, with Kurt Busch hav- ing fresher rubber on his left side, thanks to a four-tire pit stop un- der green on Lap 213. On the restart Kyle Busch shot ahead of Logano coming out of turn two on the first lap and made it three-wide with Kurt Busch and Erik Jones. By the time the white flag flew, both Kyle and Kurt were side by side racing for the win. The pair of siblings bumped and banged into Kurt Busch celebrates Kentucky Victory each other several times as they 492, 5. H. Burton-448, 6. Rhodes- Still, Almirola is in good battled for the victory. 444, 7. Hill-412, 8. Gilliland-392, shape in the standings as he enters But Kurt had fresher tires 9. Creed-387, 10. Sauter-373. the final stretch into this year’s and was able to sneak by Kyle in ALMIROLA LOOKS playoffs. He’s 11th heading into turns three and four for his first FORWARD TO this week’s race at Daytona, and victory of the season in the No. 1 NEW HAMPSHIRE is hoping to hit a higher level as Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet. Some drivers look forward the second half of the season be- “What an awesome run,” to certain race weekends more gins, which includes that antici- Kurt Busch said. “Whatever last than others. Aric Almirola, driver pated race at New Hampshire. week was, we got the ‘W’ now! of the No. 10 Stewart-Haas Ford, Racing Joke: Usually, be- That was epic. I was hopeful that enjoys racing at New Hampshire fore a Sunday’s race, Jimmie at- we would get a shot, just one more than some because of what tends a local church service. more restart. We got that yellow he’s able to do beyond the race Before the Phoenix race, … with my little brother — it’s track. he spots a golden telephone on a the best guy in the world to go Over the last few years, wall and is intrigued with a sign race against.” when the racing ends at New which reads “$10,000 a minute”. It was the first time Kurt Hampshire Motor Speedway, he After the service, he asks has beat his younger brother in and his family have stuck around about the phone and the sign. The a 1-2 finish. “I’m glad it was a and taken a family road trip pastor answers that this golden thriller,” Kyle Busch said. “Just around the New England area. phone is, in fact, a direct line to unfortunately we were on the It’s a way for Almirola, who’s Heaven, and if he pays the price wrong end of the deal. Maybe I from Florida, to catch up with he can talk directly to God. should have just gotten in front friends in New Hampshire and He thanks the pastor and of him and messed up his air. New England that he hasn’t seen continues on his way. As he con- It’s so easy to do with these cars. in a while. tinues to visit churches in Ft. It’s pretty much just air games. I And during a long racing Worth, Chicago, Iowa, Dover, missed my chance over there, I season, it’s a way to help break Pocono and on around the United guess. That’s about all I could re- up the monotony and stress of States, he finds more phones with ally have done different.” racing. the same sign, and the same an- Jones finished third, fol- “There’s a lot of race swer from each pastor. lowed by Kyle Larson, Hamlin, weekends I show up to the race Finally, he arrives at a Clint Bowyer, Logano, polesitter track and it’s just me, or me church in Atlanta. Upon entering, Daniel Suarez, Ryan Newman and my family and we’re there, lo and behold, he sees the usual and Chris Buescher completed I’m just there to work,” Almi- golden telephone. But this time the top-10. rola said. “I’ve got friends that the sign reads “Calls: 25 cents”. Kurt Busch won Stage 1 of live in the New Hampshire area Fascinated, he asks to talk to the the race, while Kyle took Stage 2. and New England area, so being pastor. Jimmie Johnson and his able to visit and see them almost “Reverend, I have been in team continue to struggle. He makes going to the races seem a cities all across the country and in spun around and bounced off the little bit like a vacation, just be- each church I found this golden wall during lap 180 and finished ing able to go see people that you telephone, and I have been told it 30th. haven’t seen in a year.” is a direct line to Heaven and that Top-10 leaders after 19 This year is no different. I could talk to God, but in the oth- of 36: 1.