The Columbus Ledger from Columbus, Georgia • 17

Kids at Jeff Davis Pay Price for Error of Their Elders your move Jeff Davis The Georgia High School Association the ruling body of high school sports and other extracurricular activities in the Peach State has officially suspended Jeff Davis County High School from the association for a period of 12 months The Hazlehurst school which raised the needed money to bring members of the executive board together for a special meeting was informed Monday that the orig inal decision to suspend the school made by GHSA execu tive director Bill ordham last month had been upheld The suspension in a nutshell means that Jeff Davis can not compete against other schools in any extracurricular activity until next December When ordham made his decision after being notified that Jeff Davis had allegedly broken GHSA rules by play ing two brothers that the association had already ruled ineligible the Jeff Davis school board considered filing suit against the GHSA That suit however was temporar ily postponed until the county learned if the executive I waDsGo'erJ board would uphold decision It did but so far no word as to whether or not the school board will now go ahead with plans to take the decision to court The facts suggest that perhaps the school did err in playing the boys although they knew them to be ineligible in the eyes The school could have withheld the boys from the Nov 9 playoff game against Claxton and avoided all of the problems to come But the school and the head coach chose to play Reggie and Kenny Jones in that game and eft Davis was immediately suspended awaiting decisions by the Appeals Board and executive committee was a lot of feeling both ways" commented executive committee member Don Hendrix of Hogans ville been on the committee for a number of years and this is the most sympathetic group seen The suspension is terrible of course really a shame a bunch of kids in every activity in the school have to suffer for what some grown people did we investigated the situation thoroughly and no doubt that this was a case of openly and bla tantly trying to circumvent the Again we must point out the penalty Kids in every extracurricular activity have been hurt by the actions of the football team A gifted basketball or baseball player without the benefit of a competitive schedule in his or her senior year could very easily be deprived of a scholar ship very' difficult to'justify this kind of penalty In an era in which school administrators are trying every trick in the book to get their students involved in more school related activities the rug is pulled from beneath them Now ith nothing to do after school the kids in Hazle hurst will be forced to the streets The GHSA if convinced that the football team was wrong should have penalized the wrong doers and the buck should have stopped at the coach But it simply not fair to penalize the majority for the actions of a few and exactly what the GHSA has done Hopefully Jeff Davis will take this matter to court And hopefully the court will find that the GHSAs penalty was much too severe a shame this must be han dled in the courts but if the only fair hearing the kids will get so be it Bill ordham seem to avoid the spotlight these days Last weekend the controversial one which was designed to prevent high school basketball teams from utilizing the was invoked during a game involving ayette and Henry County high schools More about that issue tomorrow Kvl'irwk'kBKbl ss swsssww AP Wirephoto Terry air Plays Keep Away As Derrick Hord Plays Defense Dogs March to Respect Turned Into Parade ATLANTA (AP) Coach Hugh Durham of Georgia calls Kyle Macy a surgeon and the two time All Southeastern Conference guard cut the previously unbeaten Bulldogs to pieces Monday night Macy a senior poured in 28 points as the third ranked Wildcats opened their SEC campaign by burying Georgia 95 69 for their eighth con secutive triumph since a season opening overtime loss to top ranked Duke like a surgeon out said Durham comes down the floor and does open heart on you and moves to the other side and does something over there Macy really adds another my said Coach Joe Half of Kentucky is the best basketball player in America I trade him for Macy tallied eight points and soph omore Dwight Anderson added six when the Wildcats went on a 22 3 scoring binge in the final six mi nutes of the half to erase a 25 23 defi cit and take a 45 28 halftime lead Georgia 5 1 overall and 1 1 in the SEC never got closer in the second half as Kentucky stretched its lead to 26 points with 11 minutes to play and equalled that spread when freshman Dirk Minniefield hit a jumper from the comer in the clos ing seconds Macy hit 12 of 18 shots from the floor and directed the Wildcat at tack throughout the game against varying defenses brought out a weak ness we have been concerned about and that is the defensive play of our Durham said have to keep things in perspective though In Macy we may have been going against the No 1 floor leader in the Anderson added 20 points for the Wildcats and 7 foot freshman Sam Bowie had 10 before fouling out Dominique Wilkins highly touted freshman led the Bull dogs with 21 points and senior LaVon Mercer added 17 depth and fresh players blew it said Hall who substituted freely throughout the game teams are playing at 60 percent efi ciency now and definitely not playing as well as we KENTUCKY (95) Williams 3 0 1 6 Cowan 3 1 2 7 Bowie 5 0 0 10 Macy 12 4 4 28 Anderson 9 2 2 20 Minniefield 2 0 0 4 Shidler 2 0 0 4 Hord 3 0 0 6 Heitz 0 0 0 0 Verderber 2 2 3 6 Hurt 2 0 0 4 Totals 43 9 12 95 GEORGIA (69) air 1 7 8 9 Wilkins 9 3 4 21 Mercer 5 7 8 17 Daughtry 1 0 1 2 lovd 3 1 3 7 Heatd 1 2 2 4 Marbury 3 3 5 9 Morris 0 0 0 0 Thomas 0 0 0 0 Totals 23 23 31 69 Halftime: Kentucky 45 Georgia 28 ouled Daughtry Bowie Total Ken tucky 26 Georgia 12 Technical fouls Bowie Ken tucky bench 15700 Point Guard Major Problem Cagers Behind Schedule By Larry Gierer Ledger staff Writer Auburn basketball ceach Sonny Smith says his team made as much progress as he thought it would have by this pojnt in the sea son way he said 1 stopped the good post people which means been getting beat under the boards and still I unsettled at the important point guard position We just got much production out of anyone tried Auburn 3 3 faces Austin Peay University 3 3 tonight in Birming ham and Smith expects a tough bat tle not a very big he said they are very quick the quickest faced and they shoot very well No way will it be an easy game for Auburn started out the season with wins over Texas Wesleyan and Ole Miss but then the Tigers fell to Ar kansas State George Washington and Tennessee Saturday they broke their losing string beating South 1 lorida 74 56 played a little better Satur Smith said still not any where like we should have I thought we played well in our first two games but then the Show Me Classic really set this program back We were inconsistent and so were the officials We really playing winning basketball but we get any help either for sure played a steady game against Tennessee and lost at the buzzer We won that game It was very The players who have been provid ing the punch for Auburn are senior forward Rich Valavicius with a 132 points per game average senior guard Bubba Price averaging 123 and junior forward Bobby Cattage averaging 11 and Bubba have been doing the job for said Smith glad to see Bobby start to come around Early in the season he helping us much But it looks like ready to start playing The Tigers are averaging 70 points per game to 635 for their oppo nents The Governors whom they Tigers play tonight have no standouts but everyone contributes Roosevelt Sanders 6 6 is the Aus tin Peay center and averages 116 points per game Averaging the same total is Curtis Webster a 6 5 forward Jimmy Blansord a 6 3 forward is averaging 11 points and Andy Burton a 6 3 guard is averag ing 108 The other guard Mike Shunick is 5 10 and averages 87 points per game Austin Peay whose last game was a 92 83 win over Nicholls State is an experienced group with two seniors and three juniors starting The Governors average 842 points per game and their opponents aver age 753 Early in the season Smith was playing a lot of players in each game substituting freely He says that be the case from now on got to start letting our better people get more playing he said still use about 10 players a game to keep everyone fresh Luckily still got three games left before we really get into our conference schedule (Kentucky on Jan 2 in Lexington) so we can still do some And the search for a point guard continues played them all and no one seems to want the Smith said Henson a fresh man has started the last couple of games for us and will start tonight done okay but he by no means has a lock on the starting job handled himself well not making many mistakes but we need our point guard to take control and make things happen None of ours have done that THE COLUMBUS LEDGER Tuesday December 18 1979 Joiner Bounces off Mat To Spur Charger Victory SAN DIEGO (AP) Like a proud old prize fighter San Diego wide receiver Charlie Joiner kept coming off the mat And in the end he delivered the knockout punch took such a beat said Chargers' Coach Don Coryell he kept coming back and Joiner 32 capped his fin est National ootball League season with a 32 yard touchdown reception from Dan outs that put the Chargers ahead perman ently in Monday 17 7 victory over the Denver Broncos By dethroning Denver as AC West champs San Diego 12 4 ended a 14 year title drought and gained the home field advantage throughout the playoffs Denver 10 6 must travel to Houston Sunday for a battle of wild card clubs Afterwards nursing 12 stitches over his right eye and a painful hip bruise Joiner called it biggest touchdown of my career championship is spe cial You know how hard we worked for said the 11 year veteran who ironically was drafted by Houston 10 years ago as a defensive back AP Wirephoto Wf A 2 I II 1 lb i Jr "fl tSKl mi Owner Gene Klein Charlie Joiner Lead Cheers With John Jefferson San most dangerous re ciever sidelined with a rib injury Joiner became a marked man the key in the aerial circus His third quarter touch down which broke a 7 7 tie came after he was knocked out of the game with the hip injury Shortly after the touchdown he was kayoed again suffering a cut over the eye but returned after a second trip for medical care cheap said Joiner was just the victim of circum stances I got a headache but I love Cougars Continue Their Crusade By David King Ledger Staff Writer probably come down here with fire in their eyes to try to avenge that loss on their home So predicts Columbus Cougar head man Sonny Clements concerning his meeting tonight with Tennessee Temple Cougars will take a 5 0 tally sheet into the game against the 7 5 Tennessee boys Tipoff is set for 8 at Woodruff Gymnasium The that Clements says Tennessee will be breath ing was kindled in the initial meeting Columbus notched a 87 86 double overtime victory in own backyard a feat which no team accomplished last season In fact Ron Crusaders rarely tasted defeat in 1978 79 whether at home or on the road en route to the national Christian college Bishop in his fifth season says he know what KING EDWARD CIGARS the gift Edward Cigars are the largest selling cigar brand in the world so naturally more men prefer them over any other cigar sure to pe3se him 10 ive Packs KI I 3 la 111 to expect the last game before the holiday break and nobody expects us to come down here and said Bishop at the same time I think Columbus College respects us pretty Clements agree more about the as pect a fine team as far as team play They play well on defense and are as good as any team play this Clements also had high praise for Tennessee Tem 6 8 forward James Rainsburg one of the See COUGARS Page 2 WESTERN AUTO Services eveileblt ami litres At Western Auto HEADLIGHT INSTALLED We'll install brake 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