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December 1, 2010 THE TOWNS COUNTY HERALD Page 11A Towns County Sports Towns County’s Leader In Sports T www.townscountyherald.net • E-mail: [email protected] Indians go 0-2 versus Rabun, Union counties By James Reese first quarter, trailing only 7-4. NASCAR 2010 Towns County Herald However, the Panthers By Gerald Hodges/the Racing Reporter [email protected] went on a 15-2 second quar- The Towns County Mid- ter run to take a 22-6 halftime dle School Indians are young lead. and learning. The third quarter didn’t However, they weren’t get much better as the Panthers too excited about back-to-back continued their offensive as- defeats last week, first by the sault with an 11-2 third quarter Rabun County Wildcats, fol- run to take a 33-8 lead heading lowed by a loss to the Union into the final quarter. County Panthers. The Panthers contin- “We’ve got a lot of ued to pour it on in the fourth sixth graders,” Head Coach quarter with a 12-4 run to finish Frank Johnson said. “If you off the Indians 45-12, handing put a bunch of sixth graders up Towns County its third consec- against eighth graders, they get utive loss on the young season. kind of wide-eyed to the entire “These kids are in the experience.” midst of a learning process,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. will have new Ann-Margret in 1968 at Danang, On Monday, the Indi- Coach Johnson said. “If they crew chief Vietnam. courtesy of Ann-Mar- ans hung tough against Rabun can keep their heads up and gret.com County, but fell behind 8-4 at swallow this tough pill of learn- the end of the first quarter. ing, we ought to have some size SHAKEUP AT HENDRICK Cup drivers banned from Still suffering the effects next year and some shooters. MOTORSPORTS Nationwide Championship of the deer-in-the-headlights Things should be looking up.” Cruz Shook drives the lane against the Wildcats. Photo by James Reese. On the morning after Nationwide Series teams look, the Indians trailed 23-4 at Trace Moss led the Indi- Jimmie Johnson won his fifth expect that NASCAR will al- the end of the first half follow- ans with 8 points, followed by 2 Sprint Cup championship, Hen- low Sprint Cup drivers to ing a 15-0 second quarter run points each from Adam Barrett drick Motorsports announced compete in as many Nation- by the Wildcats. and Cruz Shook. that three Hendrick teams, all wide races as they want next Rabun continued to pour Coach Johnson praised except Johnson’s would have year, but that they will not it on in the third quarter, out- Barrett, a sixth grader. different crew chiefs. earn points toward the series scoring the Indians 13-2 en “He’s a big kid and he’s Jeff Gordon will move championship. NASCAR has route to a 36-6 lead heading not afraid to get right in the from the team led by crew chief not announced the change, but into the final quarter of play. middle of things and get some Steve Letarte to the team led Nationwide owners believe In the fourth quarter, the rebounds and score a point by crew chief Alan Gustafson; that when a driver applies for Indians battled back and out- or two,” Coach Johnson said. Mark Martin will move from his NASCAR license prior to scored the Wildcats 13-10 but it “He’s played every minute of Gustafson’s team to that of the season, the driver must de- wasn’t enough as they lost their every game. If he wants to be, crew chief Lance McGrew; clare whether he is racing for second game of the season 46- he’s going to be something spe- and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will points in Cup, Nationwide or 19. cial. move to Letarte’s team. the Truck Series. Eighth grader Trace “He can score on the “It’s not one of those “I don't think the Cup Moss paced the Indians with 12 inside or he can step out and points, followed by eighth grad- shoot,” Coach Johnson said. things that you can vote in,” guys are going to be getting er Cruz Shook with 3 points. “He’s got a chance to be some- Rick Hendrick said. “It’s one points at all if they're running The next day, the Indians thing special.” of those things that you have to the Nationwide Series,” team squared off against the Union The Indians return to ac- pull the trigger and go do it. owner Rusty Wallace said last County Panthers hoping to tion on Thursday against White “It’s probably one of the week. “Once they get their li- shake the ills of youth. It started County following the Lady In- most radical moves I’ve made cense, they're going to have off with promise as the Indians dians-Lady Warriors 4:15 p.m. in my years in racing to do this to commit, do you want your stayed with the Panthers in the matchup. many at one time. When you points in the Nationwide Se- know the guys – these crew ries, do you want your points chiefs and drivers, I know well in the Truck Series or do you Adam Barrett takes a jumper against Rabun County last week. Photo by – I felt like the strong person- want your points in the Cup James Reese. alities, and knowing the mo- Series? That's just a guess.” tors, chassis and the bodies are NASCAR Chairman all the same, it’s got to be the Brian France said an announce- Local hiker to chemistry inside the team.” ment would be made in January The crew chiefs will about the exact changes. The keep the cars they have worked last five years have seen full- present program with; they will just be repainted time Cup drivers win the Na- and renumbered. The pit crews, tionwide title, Kevin Harvick, on hiking in France for now, will stay with the crew Clint Bowyer, Carl Edwards, Bert Kunze will pres- Bert Kunze was born in chiefs they were working with Kyle Busch and Brad Kesel- ent a fascinating photo series 1938 and grew up in Starnberg at the end of the season. owski. Only two races last year and an informative talk about (Bavaria) on the foothills of Steve Letarte said he did were not won by Cup regulars, wilderness hiking in Corsica, the Alps. For many years he not question Rick Hendrick’s Justin Allgaier at Bristol and France, at the Sharp Memorial organized mountaineering, decision to move him from Boris Said at Montreal. United Methodist Church in skiing, climbing and hiking working with four-time Cup Keselowski and Edwards Trace Moss pushes the ball against Rabun last week. Photo by James Re- Young Harris, Georgia. Bert’s trips into the Bavarian, Swiss, champion Jeff Gordon to Earn- say they are committed to run ese. presentation will be at 7:30 Austrian, Italian, Yugoslavian hardt Jr., who has struggled the full schedules next year, not p.m. on Tuesday, December and French Alps. last three seasons at Hendrick just to their sponsors but to the Toys for Tots sponsored 7, in the church’s social hall. He was also a year under crew chiefs Tony Eury crews that work on the cars. This talk is sponsored by the round weekend volunteer with Jr. and Lance McGrew. A real American Patriot by the US Marine Corps Reserve Mountain High Hikers, and the Bavarian Mountain Rescue “I have 100 percent faith This past week, a tidbit Sponsored locally by will be part of their holiday (Bergwacht). In 1961 he grad- in Mr. Hendrick and the deci- of news in our local newspaper Unicoi Detachment of the membership meeting. The uated from the Polytechnical sion he makes,” Letarte said. caught my eye. Marine Corps League. Uni- public is welcome to partici- Academy of the University “I was excited for the opportu- Ann-Margret was being coi Detachment has been the pate. The Corsica slide show of Munich and started work- nity. I was humbled. It’s a task honored as Grand Marshal of sponsor of Toys for Tots in this will invite the viewers into a ing for Siemens in Munich. that he has given me that is not the Veteran’s Day Parade in area since 1993. We try to help “real wilderness”, some level Siemens transferred him to a small task, it’s not an insig- Mobile, AL. as many families in need as is 3 climbing and some antique the U.S. in 1979. He retired nificant task.” I was not directly in- possible. towns (Calvi and Bastia). to Hiawassee where he built While Hendrick Mo- volved in the Vietnam War, Collection boxes have In 2000, at age 62, Bert his own home. He has been torsports was reorganizing but I was in the Navy and been placed in the following (Trail name “Bert the Bavar- Hike coordinator for the lo- their four teams, the down news about her visits to troops business locations. Dollar Gen- ian”) through-hiked the entire cal Mountain High Hikers and and almost out Richard Petty reached me onboard ship in the eral, Ivy Log; Dollar General, 2,200 mile long Appalachian was honored twice by the U.S. Motorsports announced they middle of the ocean. Lance Connector; Dollar Gen- Trail from Georgia to Maine. Forest Service with Lifetime were downsizing from a four- She helped offset the eral, Hwy.