uuwannee remorrat
Section B
Friday, July 21, 2006


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 Brad Fiene
 places second in
 Street Stock at
 Columbia
 Motorsports Park
 OFFICIAL RESULTS-
 COLUMBIA MOTORSPORTS
 PARK- JULY 15

 SUPER LATE MODEL 50

 1. #92 Wayne Anderson
 2. #17 Kevin Durden
 3. # 6 Mac Johnson
 4. #57 Doyle Boatwright
 5. #29 Don Hale
 6. #83 Trevor McKinley
 7. # 5 Mario Hernandez
 8. #01 J.F. McClellan
 9. # 3 John Coffman

 OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED

 1. #27 Jason Garver
 2. #56 Dave Barber
 3. # 2 John Mitchell
 4. #14 Michael Carr-

 STREET STOCK

 1. #71 Ray Wheeler
. 2.'#77 Brad Fiene
 3. #07 Jeff Prescott

 HORNETS

 1. # 7 Jason Floyd
 2. #33 Donald Baker
 3. #33 Chuck Perego
 4. # 9 Mike Marcellino
 5. #16 Brian Hull
 6. #27 James Cook.
 7..#10 Paul Sirard
 8. # 6 Ronald Kilts
 9.:#01 Robert Petty
 10.#90 Allen Dougherm
1. #7 3 Kit Tappen, .:, I,
 12.#25 -Tuesday Heiderman
 13.#2 Dennis Huffman


 14.#14 Brian Meek
 15.#36 Johnny Morton

 SOUTHERN
 WELTERWEIGHTS

 1. #28 Terry Dugger
 2. #33 Doug Mikesell
 3. #38 Tony Smith
 4. #23 Jerry Heflin
 5. #20 Kenny Clark
 6. #27 John Parsons
 7. #17 Kenny Cook
 8. #34 Ken Mikesell

Jeff Gordon

ready to drive

for five


Summer

 CNSA 106


 Summer baseball is
 over. Football practice
 starts July 31. i






Dogs finish


 "J0 tLlU I. I J- U
According to Summer Dog coach Vernon Wiggens
 the format of summer baseball stretches out
 and stresses out the pitching staff.


 Janet Schrader
 Democrat Reporter
 Summer Dog baseball ended its season on
the road at the summer baseball district tourna-
ment. The Dogs traveled to Godby High in Tal-
lahassee Thursday, July 6 but got rained out
and had to play twice Friday. Suwannee
opened up against Wakulla. Wakulla beat
Suwannee 6-3. The Summer Dogs had to turn
around and play again against Madison. The
Dogs \ on this one 6-3.
 SThe loss to Wakulla put the Dogs in the
losers' bracket. Suwannee had to play Wakulla
again to move up. they played \akulla Satur-
day and lost 1-15.
 According to Summer Dog coach Vernon
W\ggens the format of summer baseball
stretches out and stresses out the pitching staff.
Summer baseball schedules either t\ o fi\ e-in-
nirig games for each outing or one 10-inning -
game. Either \vaN. pitchers get tired, sore and


 worked a lot.
 Suwannee started Ty Smith against Wakulla
 and tried to put in Sean Ryan as relief.But
 Ryan is suffering from a sore shoulder and
 could barely pitch one inning. Derrick Warren
 came in and finished the game.
 Daniel Tillman pitched the winning game
 against Madison. Tillman picked up the win
 and Warreri came in as relief in the final in-
 nings.
 Wiggens said they tried to start Ryan Satur-
 day against Wakulla again but had to take him
 out dud to his injury. Austin Brewster came in
 to relieve Ryan.
 "Austin pitched well for three innings and
 then it fell apart." Wiggens said.
 The summer baseball season is over for
 Suwvannee. Wiggens said he will be helping
 Head Baseball Coach Ronnie Gray in the
 spring of 2007 for the Suwannee High baseball
 season. "The team \\ill be young and inexperi-
 enced, but the 'll be tine," Wiggens said about
 Bulldog baseball ,007.


Americans win World Cup of Softball

 SUSA back on top of the world
 IOsterman went the distance, giving up two
 Jeff Johncox runs, one eared, on two hits while striking out


 CNHI News Service
Cat Osterman was on her game, and Yukiko
Ueno wasn't.
 That's what Monday night's World Cup of
Softball championship game came down to.
 Two of the world's s best pitchers went at itin_
a rematch of last )ear's final, but the United
States came away with its.first World Cup tro-
phy thanks to a 5-2 victory over the defending
champs at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium.


 "We worked our game plan and we were
able to do everything correctly in order to
win," Osterman said. "I wasn't going to allow
these guys to hang around. The runs they got

they kind of scratched together late in the-
-gam e. ,.. .v ., ,. .. ..,,, .,... .
 The Uriited ifiesd flohme' from
 Stacey Nuveman, Andrea Duran and


r2i'.: '.


SEE AMERICANS, PAGE 7B


Tallahassee takes 13


under state Babe Ruth


championshi:p-


 Janet Schrader
 Democrat Reporter
 Live Oak hosted this year's 9
and under, 10 and under and 13
and under state championships.
The 13 and under were held last
weekend, July 13-15: Suwan-
nee's 13 and under All-Stars
went two and out in their state
championship run. Suwannee
lost a squeaker Thursday, July
13 against MSA. The game went
into extra innings, but the
Suwannee All-Stars lost 1-3 and


dropped into the losers' bracket.
 Suwannee played again on Fri-
day against Northside on Friday.
Suwannee lost that game 2-5
and dropped out of the tourna-
ment.
 Tallahassee dominated play
ending the tournament undefeat-
ed. Tallahassee beat Wakulla
Saturday, sending the Wakulla
All-Stars into the losers' brack-
et. Northside beat Wakulla in a
close 3-2 game to advance to the
finals. Tallahassee beat North-
side 5-1 to take the 13 and under
Babe Ruth State Championship.


John Patak pitched for the 13 and under Suwannee All-Stars
in the state tournament. Photo: Janet Schrader


wnile rain Ilmiled JeT tioroon
to one day of testing, the four-
time.Brickyard champion feels
plenty confident about his
chances on Aug. 6.

 Brent Glasgow
 CNHI News Service-
 INDIANAPOLIS, By the
time the Allstate 400 at the
Brickyard rolls around on
Aug. 6, the fight to get into
the NEXTEL Chase for the
Cup will be reaching its final
stages, and Jeff Gordon has
no intention of being on the
outside poking in during the
series' final 10 races. A drive
into Victory Lane on Brick-
yard Sunday could go a long
way in assuring the No. 24

 SEE JEFF, PAGE 4B


"Too Soon to Celebrate

Success" for Manatees:

New Executive Director Cautions Public


 The state of Florida re-
cently bowed to political
pressures to redefine the
World Conservation Union's
(IUCN) criteria for endan-
gered species, calling them
"Threatened" instead of"En-
dangered." Patrick Rose, re-
cently appointed as Execu-
tive Director of Save the
Manatee Club, advises the
public not to be misled into
thinking the endangered
manatees' future is secure.
 "Although the manatee is
still listed as Endangered at
the federal level and is rec-


,ommended for Endangered
status at the international
level, the state's plan to
downlist manatees prema-
turely could have grave fu-
.ture consequences for the
manatee population since
most protections for mana-
tees are implemented at the
state level," Rose said.
"Even though the Florida
Fish & Wildlife Conserva-
tion Commission (FWC) in-
sists protection for Florida's
official state marine mammal


SEE TOO, PAGE 4B


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