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June 4, 2014 | forsythherald.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 17, No. 23
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By MIKE BLUM news@forsythherald.com
ALDO NAHED/Staff
Above: Col. Raymond Bossert Jr. gives the keynote speech. Right: During the flag dedication, members of Ivan Lamar Orr’s family honor his service to the Navy during the Memorial Day Ceremony in Cumming.
Remembering those who served CUMMING, Ga. – The city of Cumming honored those who gave their all. With flags, salutes and releasing of doves, the Memorial Day remembrance ceremony added 11 more veterans to those honored at the May 23 event. The event was held on the Friday before Memorial Day to allow families to spend time together, Mayor H. Ford Gravitt said.
The Forsyth County Fire and Sheriff’s Office Honor Guards presented the colors and a rifle salute. The solemn event’s Avenue of Flags displayed more than 200 flags representing veterans from the Forsyth County community. The keynote speaker was Col. Raymond Bossert Jr. The 11 deceased veterans were:
Air Force • Gene Amber Bagwell • John Lawrence Merritt Army • William Everett Bennett • Billy Charles Cowart • Johnny Clay Cowart • Elmer Jewell Dodd • Charles L. Gravitt • Landrum Thomas Martin Navy • George Winton Bagwell • Benjamin Franklin Heald • Ivan Lamar Orr
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – The Lambert Longhorns defeated defending state champs Milton for the Class AAAAAA state baseball title. Lambert, ranked No. 1 nationally in one poll, won the best-of-three series two games to one, both wins coming by scores of 2-1. The high-scoring Longhorns (36-2) managed just five runs in the series. But thanks to two game-winning bloop singles and Milton’s series-long struggle to deliver a hit in a key situation, Lambert came away with s state title, Memorial Day, May 26, while the Eagles ended the season wondering what could have been. Lambert won the first and third games of the series, with the Eagles taking the second game 5-1. After last Saturday’s doubleheader split, the teams returned to the Milton field Monday to decide a series that had lots of tense moments but very
few runs. Milton (28-9) managed just two hits in 24 at bats with runners in scoring position in the three games. Lambert wasn’t much better, but the Longhorns had the only two hits that mattered. Lambert’s Tucker Maxwell looped a soft single just over second base in the top of seventh inning of the series opener to snap a 1-1 tie. Teammate Kyle McCann dropped an even softer single over third base to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the fifth in the decisive third game to again break a 1-1 deadlock. Most of the Milton players on the 2014 team were part of the 2013 state championship squad, but that did not take away any of the sting from the loss to the Longhorns. “When you lose the state championship, it’s not fun,” Milton ace pitcher Alex Schnell said. “It could have gone either way. We could have had the bloop hits, but that’s the game of baseball.”
Lambert’s Tucker Max, (1), went 2-for-3 Monday May 26 during the Longhorn’s 2-1 win over Milton.