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College baseball: Piedmont reaches NCAA tourney The Piedmont College baseball team will play Lynchburg College in the first round of the South Regional Baseball Championship of the NCAA Division-III Baseball Championship at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Daniel Park in Danville, Va. The game marks the first NCAA baseball playoff appearance for the third-seeded Lions and seventh among all Piedmont sports teams. The South Regional Baseball Championship is one of eight first-round sites in the championship. The winners at each site will qualify for the double-elimination championship on May 23-27 at Fox Cities ... |
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Wood aces No. 8 hole at Royal Lakes Local golfer Ed Wood shot a hole-in-one Tuesday on hole No. 8 at Royal Lakes Golf Course. Wood earned the shot from 150 yards using a No. 4 hybrid club. Malcom Colbert, Kim Gabrels and Neil Canfield witnessed the shot. In other local golf action, the Wednesday Dogfight group played Tuesday at Chicopee Woods Golf Course. The team of Jerry Horton, Don Gardner, Ron Bowyer and Gayle Gibson finished first with plus-22. Second place went to the team of Mark Black, Steve Ballard, Neil Tolbert and Ron Melin with plus-17. Wayne Strickland finished first individually with a plus-14. ... |
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Sherby: Hammer your opponent's weakness A player without a plan is a player in trouble. One singles strategy you might use in your next match is: Hammer the weakness. In the warm-up, determine if your opponent is much stronger on either the forehand or the backhand groundstroke. Occassionally there is an out-of-balance, marked difference to be exploited. Once this weakness is identified, your plan should be to hammer that weakness until it breaks down under constant pressure. Be relentless; there should be no doubt that this is your sole objective in the match. Serve to this side, rally to this side, and attack ... |
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Gainesville grad Owings a big hit in big leagues PHOENIX — Arizona manager Bob Melvin seeks out pitcher Micah Owings on the days he isn't starting. "We have a little running joke," Melvin said. "Before every game, I ask him if he has his spikes on. He has his spikes on in the first inning of every game." Many pitchers wear comfortable running shoes in between starts. Owings, a Gainesville High graduate, isn't a typical pitcher. He's batting .417 (10-for-24), and Owings knows that on any given night Melvin could summon him with the game in the balance, so he's always got his spikes ... 
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College soccer: Brenau adds new coach Brenau University soccer coach Mike Lochstampfor has announced the hiring of Ilisha Hall as an assistant coach. A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, Hall is a 2006 graduate of Northwest Oklahoma State University where she was the soccer team captain and an All-Conference selection. Hall also had coaching stints with the Austria FC soccer club and at Sheldon-Williams High School in Canada. |
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Lumpkin County graduate named top athlete at Georgia Southern Georgia Southern senior David Richardson, from Dahlonega, was named the athletic department’s Male Athlete of Year at the Georgia Southern Student-Athlete awards banquet Monday in Statesboro. Richardson, a 2004 Lumpkin County High graduate, is batting .382 this season and currently has a 14-game hitting streak for the Eagles (28-20). He added his latest game to the streak with a hit against Mercer on Monday as part of a 6-4 loss. One of his season highlights includes hitting for the cycle in a 15-9 win against College of Charleston on March 28. |
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College soccer: Golden Tigers add another recruit Brenau University added another player to its fall roster with the signing of high school standout Tori Futtrell on Thursday. Futtrell was the team captain and MVP for Jenkins High in Savannah and holds the school record 34 goals in a season. She was also named to the Region 3-AAAAA team. Along with soccer, Futtrell was also MVP of her school softball team, member of the National Honor Society and Key Club and was dual enrolled at Armstrong Atlantic State University where she made the dean’s list. |
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Local golf: Cronmiller records her first hole-in-one Local golfer Sue Cronmiller shot a hole-in-one on Sunday, April 27 at Chattahoochee Golf Course. Cronmiller shot the hole-in-one on hole No. 17 from 110 yards using six iron. Eric Cronmiller witnessed the shot. It is her first hole-in-one. |
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Canadian Canoe/Kayak Olympic Trials: Hopefuls one step closer to Olympics The team of Angus Mortimer, Ryhe Hill, Brady Reardon and Chris Pellani finished the men’s K-4 1,000-meter event in 3 minutes, 10.384 seconds on Sunday, putting the team one step closer to the Summer Olympics in Beijing and concluding the Canadian Olympic Trials at Lanier Canoe and Kayak Center. The day started with the women’s K-4 500-meter race, which was won by the team of Emilie Fournel, Karen Furneaux, Genevieve Beauchesne-Sevigny and Kristin Gauthier with a time of 1:35.941. Adam Vanhoeverden finished first in the men’s K-1 500-meter with a time of ... |
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Georgia Force: Griesen leads team to win FLOWERY BRANCH — Chris Griesen completed 23 of 31 passses for 296 yards and six touchdowns to lead the Georgia Force to a 66-39 win over the New Orleans VooDoo on Saturday night. Troy Bergeon had nine catches for 137 yards and four touchdowns for Georgia (4-5). Danny Wimprine was 22-of-44 with five scoring passes for New Orleans (7-3). DeAndrew Rubin had seven catches for 107 yards and two TDs. |
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