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BRANTLEY COUNTY HIGHSCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM
"HERONS" TAKES SECOND IN STATE!!
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| Copied from Brantley Enterprise. WISH THAT SOME "GOOD SOUL" WOULD SEND
US AN "ORIGINAL PICTURE" |
| TEAM ROSTER 2002: Paul Able, Jared Carter, Jamie Carter, Josh
Carter, Scott Brooker, Brandon Bowers, Justin Coffey, Ernest Kemp, Chris
Coger, Aaron Thomas, Aaron Johns, Derek Johns, Marshall Grantham, Zac
Anderson Wesley Simpson. |
| Story from Brantley Enterprise (June 5, 2002): HERONS MAKE
HISTORY WITH THE FIRST EVER CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN ANY TEAM SPORT.
The Brantley County High School Herons baseball team returned from
Cartersville this week with the second place trophy for their play in
Region AA, which took them almost to the state championship title.
The Herons vanquished all playoff foes on the way to the big game, most
of them quite handily and with two straight victories. But the
mighty Purple Hurricanes proved a tough opponent Friday afternoon in
that north Georgia city, handing the dirty birds two straight defeats in
what felt like at least 100-degree heat. Cartersville downed
Brantley 8 - 1 and 8 - 2 as it continued its run through all opponents
to its second state championship. Prior to last week's game, the
'Canes were perfect 8 - 0 in the playoffs, outscoring opponents by 87
runs to 12, and pounded out 77 home runs in the regular season.
Next year Cartersville moves to AAA, which won't bring many tears to the
eyes of others in AA. And next year Brantley will put all but one
of this year's team back on the diamond if all goes well. |
| ENTERPRISE: Brantley County's only senior baseball player has become
tghe school's sixth baseball player to get the change to play the game
at the next level since the team was taken over by coach Mike Simmons,
who said Brandon Bowers last week signed up to play for Lake Sumpter
Community College in Florida. Lake Sumpter is a two-year community
college with a solid background in baseball, having finished third last
year among the 12 teams in their division, just one game away from the
stagte trournament, Simmons said. Simmons said coach Mike Matillo
told him that Bowers is the only out of state recruit to be signed to
play at the school this year. While Bowers will startg at college
with no scholarship, he has the chance to prove himself at the college
level and could be awarded a scholarship within three to six months, the
coach said. |
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