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Monday, October 8, 2007
Your pitch: Fast vs. Slow
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fast-pitch softball now rules in Georgia high schools with 387 teams. Slow-pitch, once the dominant prep game, is offered at only 14 schools and is no longer a GHSA championship sport. Fast- or slow-pitch? Which is your favorite and why? And can’t these sports - and their proponents - just get along?
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NWR among state’s all-time greats?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I saw Northside-Warner Robins play for the first time this season last week and wrote a story about the team’s fans and their high opinion of their undefeated, nationally ranked, reigning Class AAAA champions.
Funny thing was that the first two guys I spoke with had seen perhaps the two greatest Georgia teams ever — 1976 Warner Robins and 1971 Valdosta.
One was a Northside grad who played against the ‘76 WR team with James Brooks and Ron Simmons, and the other was a Northside fan who grew up in Valdosta and was a student at Valdosta High in 1971. He reminisced about Stan Bounds and Stan Rome.
The former Northside player thought the current Eagles team was better than ‘76 Warner Robins, but the Valdosta alumnus still favored the ‘71 Wildcats. All that leads up to this:
If Northside goes 15-0 again, can this team be considered one of the 5 or 10 best teams in Georgia history?
Or will Northside have played a schedule that’s tough enough to justify those comparisons?
For me to put them in my Top 10 all-time, I think they’d need to win every game by 10 points or better. That’s not asking for much. Thomson did it in AAAA in 2002.
I don’t think that AAAA is as deep as it was last season, although Tucker and Thomas County Central are dropping hints that they’re better than any non-Northside team from 2006 in AAAA. (Marist people don’t visit my blog much, so I can say that.)
Here’s my off-the-top-of-my-head Top 10 teams in Georgia of the last 40 years (integration era):
1971 Valdosta
1976 Warner Robins
1986 Valdosta
2002 Parkview
2005 Lowndes
1975 Americus
1973 Thomasville
2003 Camden County
1973 Southwest Atlanta
1993 Dunwoody
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