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Former Cartersville High School and Georgia Southern University southpaw, Sam Howard, continued his 2015 season success against the Rome Braves Monday night in Asheville as he and the Class A Tourists blanked Rome, 2-0. In 21 1/3 innings against Rome this season, Howard is now 1-1 with an 0.84 ERA. The Tourists are now 19-11 in the second-half of the South Atlantic League standings and are the defending champions. Following Monday’s victory, the Colorado Rockies’ prospect told reporters he used a mixture of off-speed pitches and an inside fastball to keep the Braves off balance. He needed only 81 pitches for his complete game shutout. Howard improved to 1-1 with an 0.84 ERA in 21 1/3 innings against Rome this season. The win boosted the Tourists' second-half record to 19-11 in their defense of the South Atlantic League crown. In 18 starts for the full season, Howard is now 6-8 with a 3.55 ERA in 91 and 1/3 innings pitched.

Cartersville Little League’s 12u all star team was eliminated from the double-elimination Georgia State Little League tournament in Athens Monday night by Warner Robins American West. Warner Robins sent 18 men to the plate in the first inning and scored 13 runs in that opening frame on their way to a four-inning, 20-3 victory. Jackson Norris hit a 3-run homer in the top of the third to account for Cartersville’s runs. Warner Robins added five runs in the second inning to take an 18-0 lead and added two more in the bottom of the third to extend the lead to 20-3. Micah Earwood, Matthew Surrett, Nick Bailey, and Ethan Wolfe had the other Cartersville hits in the loss. Warner Robins advanced to another elimination game Tuesday against the host, Athens Little League. The Georgia Little League 11/12 State Tournament continues through Friday, July 31. The Cartersville team roster includes: Tyler Putz, Micah Earwood, Jackson Cline, Trevor Montgomery, Christian Martin, Alex Freeman, Jackson Norris, Charlie Heidmann, Matthew Surrett, Ethan Wolfe, and Nick Bailey. Jimmy Cline is the manager. His coaches are Mark Mathison and Mark Wolfe.

The Georgia High School Association permitted an opening day of preseason conditioning Saturday, but for most schools in Georgia Monday is the first official practice date of the 2015 season. The five day mandatory preseason conditioning period (today through Friday, July 31) includes workouts in helmets, shoulder pads, and shorts. Saturday, August 1 will be the first day teams are allowed to practice in full pads. Since this is a time of year common to high heat and humidity, temperature monitoring and restrictions are required by the GHSA. Wet Bulb Globe Temperature readings are required every hour, beginning 30 minutes before the beginning of practices. Most programs will utilize the mandatory conditioning week to install schemes and go over fundamentals. They will also spend time on special teams installments, alignments, and coverages. Bartow Sports Zone continues to help you prepare for the 2015 high school season with our weekly coaches show on AM1270 WYXC each Friday morning from 7am to 8am. Guests scheduled for Friday, July 31 are Tony Lott (Woodland head coach) and Joey King (Cartersville head coach). Bartow Sports Zone and AM1270 WYXC have also partnered in 2015 to broadcast 13 local high school games live. The broadcast schedule opens Friday, August 21 with Adairsville at Ridgeland. The following week, the broadcast schedule includes Woodland at Adairsville (Thur., Aug. 27) and Cartersville at Cass (Fri., Aug. 28).

Former Cartersville High School football and baseball standout, Hayes Linn, has been listed by the football staff at Air Force as a starter at safety on the depth chart for 2015. Linn (6-0, 185, Junior) has been a regular on the Falcons' kick coverage teams the past two seasons and played in all 13 games last year as the Falcons went 10-3 overall and 5-3 in the Mountain West Conference. Linn is one of our Athletes Beyond Bartow at Bartow Sports Zone. Find out more about his career at Air Force here. For even more, read Jason Greenberg's article 'Linn enters junior season as starter for Air Force,' at The Daily Tribune News. Air Force Falcons 2015 Football Schedule Date Opponent / Event / Location / Time 09/05/15 -- Morgan State USAFA (1:30 p.m. MT) 09/12/15 -- vs. San Jose State * USAFA (8:15 p.m. MT) 09/19/15 -- at Michigan State East Lansing, MI (12:00 p.m. ET) 10/03/15 -- at Navy Annapolis, MD (3:30 p.m. ET) 10/10/15 -- vs. Wyoming * USAFA (TBA) 10/17/15 -- at Colorado State * Fort Collins, CO (1:30 p.m. MT) 10/24/15 -- vs. Fresno State * USAFA (TBA) 10/31/15 -- at Hawai'i * Honolulu, HI (4:30 p.m. HT) 11/07/15 -- vs. Army USAFA (TBA) 11/14/15 -- vs. Utah State * USAFA (TBA) 11/20/15 -- at Boise State * Boise, ID (7:30 p.m. MT) 11/28/15 -- at New Mexico * Albuquerque, NM (TBA) Photos courtesy USAFA Athletic Communications

Each week, Bartow Sports Zone tracks the professional golfers on tour affiliated with Cartersville Country Club's Scott Hamilton Golf Academy. Scott Hamilton is the long time Director of Golf at CCC and is teacher/advisor/instructor to many prominent golf professionals. Final results for July 23-26 for professional golfers affiliated with Cartersville Country Club's Scott Hamilton Golf Academy: RBC Canadian Open -- July 23-26 -- Glen Abbey GC -- Oakville, Ontario, Canada T70 -- Tom Gillis (-2) MC -- Jim Renner (The winner was Jason Day at 17-under-par. He edged Bubba Watson by a shot and Canadian David Hearn by two shots.) ********** ********** The Senior Open Championship presented by Rolex. Sunningdale GC (Old Course). Berkshire, England T34 -- Joe Durant (+1) (The winner was Marco Dawson (-16). He edged Bernhard Langer by one shot and Colin Montgomerie by three.) ********** ********** The web.com Tour had the week off. Next week at Utah Championship in Lehi, Utah

Sam Seaman (Adairsville HS), Carrington Evans (Cartersville HS), Anthony Seigler (Cartersville HS), and Noah Daniel (Cartersville HS) were named Saturday to the 2015 Perfect Game WWBA 16u National Championship All Tournament Team. The tournament was centered July 10-17 at Perfect Game Park South at LakePoint in Emerson. Seaman, playing for the Double Day Rockies, was 10 for 18 (.556) in the tournament with a double, two triples, seven RBI, seven runs scored, and three stolen bases. His on base percentage was .636 and his slugging percentage for the tournament was .833. Evans, playing for TECB Astros 16u, hit .500 in twenty-two plate appearances with three doubles and five RBI. He scored four runs with an OB% of .545 and a SLG% of .667. Seigler, who was recently named MVP of the 15u National Championship, also played for the East Cobb Astros in the 16u event. He was 9-for-20 (.450) in the 16u tournament with six RBI. His OB% was .520 and his SLG% was .450. Seigler pitched in 3 games during the 16u event and picked up a pitching victory. He pitched 10 innings, allowed 8 hits, only 1 earned run (0.70 ERA) with 5 strikeouts. Daniel was 5-for-13 (.385) with a double, two RBI, and six runs scored for Titans Baseball Orange. He swiped three bases and compiled a .462 SLG%.

The National Fastpitch Coaches Association recently announced former Woodland High School standout, Randi Wimpy, the 2015 Diamond Sports Catcher of the Year for NAIA. Wimpy, a NFCA and NAIA first team All-American at Reinhardt University in Waleska, has been a team leader with the Eagles for the past two seasons. Wimpy had a tremendous junior campaign as she was named Appalachian Athletic Conference Player of the Year for the second time. The Cartersville native finished fifth in NAIA with a .912 slugging percentage and 22nd with 57 RBI. She led the Lady Eagles with a .447 batting average to go along with 16 doubles, 11 home runs, 53 runs scored, 42 walks and .575 on base percentage. The Diamond Sports Catcher of the Year award is presented annually to the top catcher from an NFCA member institution in each of the following divisions: NCAA (Divisions I, II and III), NAIA, NJCAA (Divisions I, II and III), Cal JC, NWAC and high school. A committee comprised of head coaches in each of the 10 divisions determined the winner of their respective award. The other winners of the 2015 Diamond Sports Catcher of the Year award include: NCAA Division I LEXIE ELKINS – LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE NCAA Division II MARLA REITER – DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY NCAA Division III KIERIN STEVENS – UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER NJCAA Division I MORGAN OLIVER – JEFFERSON COLLEGE NJCAA Division II BRITTANY PLIMMER - KANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE NJCAA Division III VIVI MARQUEZ – ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE Cal JC LEILANI AKAI — COLLEGE OF SAN MATEO NWAC SIDNEY HAZEN – WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE High School REAGAN HATHAWAY — OLATHE NORTHWEST (KANSAS) HIGH SCHOOL Visit www.nfca.org for more information.

Hart County Little League pounded out 16 hits on their way to an 18-4 opening round victory over Cartersville Little League at the Georgia 11/12 Little League State Tournament. The state tournament is being held at Holland Park Youth Sports Complex in Athens. Hart County, playing as the visitors, used an RBI double and a 2-run homer in the top of the first inning to take a 3-0 lead, but Cartersville responded with a pair of runs of their own. Ethan Wolfe walked to open the inning and Christian Martin drove him in with a 2-run blast over the right field wall. That would be as close as Cartersville would come. Hart County added two runs in both the second and third innings to extend their lead to 7-2. They added four more runs in the fourth and closed out the game with a seven-run top of the fifth. Matthew Surrett hit a solo homerun in the third inning for Cartersville and Nick Bailey singled home Jackson Norris in the fourth for Cartersville’s other runs. Hart County out hit Cartersville 16-5 in the contest and played error free. Norris suffered the pitching loss for Cartersville in two innings of work. He allowed nine hits, no walks, and struck out a pair. Micah Earwood, Bailey, and Martin also spent time on the mound. In other action, Northern Columbus edged Warner Robins American West 3-2; Smyrna held off Elbert County 12-10; and Athens routed Midway Heights 16-1. The tournament continues Sunday. Elbert County plays Warner Robins American West and Peachtree City takes on Northern Columbus. Both games are scheduled for 1pm starts on the two fields at Holland Park. Cartersville returns to action Monday at 8pm in an elimination game against the Elbert/Warner Robins winner. Other games Monday include Athens against the Peachtree City/Northern Columbus winner; Hart County against Smyrna; and the Peachtree City/Northern Columbus loser against Midway Heights in an elimination game. The double-elimination tournament continues through Friday, July 31 with an ‘if needed’ game scheduled for Saturday morning.

Back to school plans may already be taking place locally, but baseball is still in full swing at Perfect Game Park South in the LakePoint Sporting Community in Emerson. The park has played host to many different travel baseball events this summer, including the WWBA National Championships with more than 300 teams in each age category. Even though those larger events have determined their national champs, there are plenty of titles yet to be determined at the park for teams from all over the country. Below is the baseball scheduled through August 3 at LakePoint: Continuing through July 28 — 2015 13u Perfect Game World Series Continuing through July 28 — 2015 14u Perfect Game World Series Continuing through July 29 — 2015 16u Perfect Game World Series July 26-30 — 2015 15u Perfect Game World Series July 29 - August 2 — 2015 Perfect Game Evoshield Classic (13u - 18u tournaments) July 29 - August 3 — 2015 Super 25 for 15u and 16u

Cartersville High School rising sophomore, Anthony Seigler, was named tournament MVP as he led the East Cobb Astros to the 2015 15u World Wood Bat Association National Championship. Seigler, an ambidextrous pitcher, threw four innings in the national semifinals and was the starting pitcher in the championship game. In all, he tossed 14 scoreless innings in the tournament and totaled 11 strikeouts. Seigler finished the tournament with a .414 batting average that included a homerun, nine RBI, and six runs scored. For more details, visit 'East Cobb Astros win 15u title' at Perfect Game USA. Photo credit: www.perfectgame.org

Bartow Sports Zone's weekly radio coaches show launched today (Fri., July 24) with hosts Charles Wilson of BSZ and Jason Greenberg of The Daily Tribune News. The guests for inaugural show were head football coach Bobby Hughes of Cass and head football coach of Adairsville Eric Bishop. The show airs each Friday morning (7AM to 8AM) on AM1270 WYXC in Cartersville. Click on the "play button" at the top of the page at www.bartowsportszone.com or click on the Bartow Sports Zone logo attached to this story (on left) to listen to a replay of the archived show and find our broadcast schedule and more. The coaches show and our game broadcasts will be linked on Bartow Sports Zone. All four of the local high school football coaches will be regularly featured guests on the weekly radio show and the hosts will also preview and review each week's big games. Get your local high school football fix each week with Bartow Sports Zone presented by Johnny's Pizza of Cartersville. Bartow Sports Zone and AM1270 WYXC will also broadcast 13 local high school football games during the 2015 regular season. The broadcast schedule begins with Adairsville at Ridgeland (Friday, August 21, 7pm), followed by Woodland at Adairsville (Thursday, August 27, 7pm); Cartersville at Cass (Friday, August 28, 7pm); and Cass at Coosa (Friday, September 4, 7pm).

The Adairsville Tigers football team has been to the state playoffs each of the past four years. Coach Eric Bishop’s squad was 10-2 last season and compiled a 7-4 mark the year before. With the momentum of four consecutive playoff seasons in hand, the Adairsville head coach is as excited as ever about his 2015 squad. “We actually bring back more starters this year than last and these guys have worked very hard,” the coach remarked. Four of those leaders recently shared comments about their summer workouts and the upcoming season with Bartow Sports Zone. Junior offensive lineman, Jeb Simerly (6-2, 310) and senior receiver Marquel Lane (5-7, 150) represented the Tigers’ offense. “We’ve worked hard,” said Simerly. “We’re going to make some people notice. We’ve gotten better on the field and in the weight room.” added the lineman. Lane agreed, “We’re ready to show folks what we can do. We’ve spent so much time together and pushed each other. We’ve had a good summer.” Football summers are not always fun, however. There are sacrifices. “Getting up early is always tough,” noted Lane. “It’s summer, so you want to stay up or sleep in, but you have football and we know the work will be worth it.” The Tigers will open the 2015 season with a new signal caller. “We lost a 3-year starting quarterback in Marcus Childers,” noted head coach Bishop, “those are obviously some big shoes to fill. But we have Torrey Hale (5-9, 190, Sr.) and Roger Redd (Jr.) competing and working very hard to fill the quarterback position.” Hale will be a two-way player. He will also play defensive back. “Bonding with our teammates is the best part of the off-season and the summer workouts,” said Hale. “The running and conditioning in the sun is tough, but we know it is getting us ready.” Senior free safety, Chris Blackston (5-10, 180) agreed. “Dealing with the heat just makes us better. People will not want to miss this team. We are going to surprise some people this year,” Blackston added. Coach Bishop also pointed out the important role for Sydnee Johnson (5-9, 210, Sr.) this year. “Sydnee was a top rusher for us last year even in limited work in some games. His number of carries will probably go up this time. We hope he can stay healthy and carry this team offensively.” added the coach. Adairsville and all other GHSA member football schools begin a mandatory week of conditioning practices next week (July 27-31) in helmets only. They will then begin work in full pads. The Tigers host Cass in a controlled preseason scrimmage August 14 and then hit the road for their season opener August 21 at Ridgeland. The four leaders that spoke with Bartow Sports Zone stressed the importance of all their games in 2015, but most agreed there is something special about the Calhoun and Sonoraville matchups. “Those two games just have a great atmosphere,” said Blackston. “We know what happened in those games last year, so we’ll be ready,” the senior concluded. After the season opener at Ridgeland, the Tigers host Woodland on Thursday, August 27 before moving into their Region 6-AAA slate. Adairsville has region away games at Riggold (Sept. 11), Sonoraville (Sept. 25), Murray County (Oct. 9), and North Murray (Oct. 23). The Tigers’ home schedule includes games with Calhoun (Oct. 2), Lakeview-Ft. Oglethorpe (Oct. 16), Coahulla Creek (Oct. 30), and Gordon Central (Nov. 6). You can listen to high school football coverage live on your computer, on your mobile device, on your radio this season via Bartow Sports Zone and AM1270 WYXC Cartersville. On this site, just use the menu at the top of the page to select ‘Football Broadcasts.’ Then click the play button on the screen. That will connect you with our radio partner AM1270 WYXC Cartersville. The broadcast schedule includes games involving all four Cartersville and Bartow County football schools — Adairsville, Cartersville, Cass, and Woodland. Bartow Sports Zone and AM1270 WYXC will also broadcast a Friday morning (7am to 8am) coaches show throughout the entire high school season (starting July 24). Coaches from all four local programs are scheduled as regular guests to talk about their teams, upcoming games, and high school football in gneral. Charles Wilson will host the weekly coaches show and perform the play-by-play duties on the games. Coach Eric Bishop will be one of the featured guests on the Bartow Sports Zone radio show Friday, July 24.