Sunwuarnne ienorrat Section B Friday, August 3, 2007 CDC A mission trip to Haiti - Pages 8-9B SwampDogs go 3-2 in Alabama Submitted ' veto the right The Suwannee County SwampDogs, state way to be eli champs in 10-&-under babe Ruth baseball, traveled to Huntsville, Ala. to compete in re- gional play last week. Here's a day-by-day ac- count of their progress. Tuesday The Southeast Regional Tournament run came to an end Tuesday night as a scrappy Virginia team, the number 3 seed, defeated Suwannee 12 - 1. The 'Dogs didn't show up to play from the beginning.. Pitchers struggled the entire game, falling behind batters and go- ing deep into the count and then the Virginia offense capitalized with 10 hits and untimely errors by the Suwannee defense to put two big innings together. The tournament committee named Suwannee's Brandon Furry Defen- sive Player of the Game. Furry had a diving catch in rightfield. Offensive Player of the Game Wyatt Jackson was 1-2 with a line dri- The SwampD( SUMMER SWIM MEET it centerfield gap. It was a tough minated and the team is proud of its 3-2 record, yet disappointed in Tuesday's performance. )gs celebrate their state championship recently in Monday In their last game of pool play, Su%\ annee ( 2-1) met Tennessee, which came in \% ith a record of 0-2. Kyle Reed pitched a two-hit game through four innings and gave up onlh 1 run. The highlight of the game was Wyatt: Jackson, who hit a two-run home run in the top half of the sixth for Suwannee to take the wind out of the Tennessee sails. The Defen- sive Player of the Game for Suwannee was Jarrod Beegle for his steady play in center- field. The Offensive Player of the Game was Brandon Furry, who went 1-2 A ith a ground rule double and scored 4 runs. Suwannee fin- ishes pool play with a record of 3 - 1 and will enter the single elimination playoffs as the #2 seed. Suwannee will, most likely face Win- chester, Virginia ( 2-2 ), in the first round of the playoffs Tuesday night. A victory here will SEE SWAMPDOGS, PAGE 3B Kids from all over the area got together Saturday for a summer rec swim meet at the Billy Jernigan Pool . .in Live Oak. Here are some scenes. See more photos, Page 2B. - Photos: Paul Buchanan - SuwanneeSports.com The five greatest Daytona 500 finishes I.vised broadcast 01 tfle50 0ay- Submitted As the 50thf running of the Daytona 500 approacheson" Feb. 17, 2008, it's a daunting task to try to select the top- five greatest finished of "The Great American Race." Fronmthe inaugural Day- tona 500 back in 1959 with the three-wide photo finish between Lee Petty, Johnny Beauchamp and the lapped car of Joe Weatherly to the 2007 Daytona 500 where Kevin Harvick nipped Mark Martin, the list of memorable moments are endless., In no particular order,, here's a quick look at the top- five greatest finishes in Day- tona 500 history: 1959: The inaugural Day- * tona 500 could go down as the longest race ever. Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp were the only contenders for the victory as the race approached its con- clusion. As Petty and Beauchamp exchanged the lead in the fi- nal laps of the race, Joe Weatherly, whose car was two laps down, was able to latch on to the leaders' draft. On the final lap, when the leaders and Weatherly came off of Turn 4 to take the checkered flag, they were.. three wide with the lap car of Weatherly on the high side, Petty in the middle and Beauchamp at the bottom. Both Petty and Beauchamp drove to Victory Lane and Beauchamp was declared the unofficial winner. .But Petty believed he won the Daytona 500 and evi- dence was building to support his case. While Beauchamp was able to celebrate the win in Victo- ry Lane after the race. Petty would actually be declared the winner 61 hours later af- ter offi- cials re- viewed the still photos and newsreel f( 1976: In Pearson-Ri the 1976 D duced one of the most incred- ible finishes in NASCAR his- tory. The showdown had been building for about 100 miles when Pearson, on the final lap, passed Petty on the Su- perstretch. Exiting Turn 4, Petty had ducked low and passed Pear- son but his car slightly drifted up the track and the two dri- ish line. Petty's radiator was pushed back into the fan on the front of the engine and the car wouldn't restart. But Pearson dumped the clutch and kept the car in neutral keeping it from stalling. Pearson straightened out his damaged machine and slowly crossed the start/finish line to capture the only Day- tona 500 . ]ofrhis I career. The finm- ish was footage. vers touched and crashed. the slowest under green flag a classic David When both cars came to rest conditions in Daytona 500 ichard Petty duel, in the tri-oval grass, they still history. laytona 500 pro- had not crossed the start/fin- 1979: In the first live tele- vised broadcast ot he Day- tona 500, Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison were bat- tling side-by-side for victory on the final lap of the Day- tona 500. But neither Yarbrough nor Allison ever made it to the checkered flag. The two drivers were beat- ing and banging on each oth- er all the way down the Su- perstretch and crashed enter- ing Turn 3. A.J. Foyt, Richard Petty and Darrell Waltrip were about a half lap behind the two embattled leaders. Foyt checked up once he saw the caution light while Petty and SEE GREATEST, PAGE 3B - �� �. - � I - - --II�� �-� ��-