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rank Malloy just thought he was going to dinner to talk shop with Frank Shurling. “Have you ever eaten at Barefoot Tavern?” Shurling asked. “No, let’s try it,” Malloy replied. When the two Franks got there, they happened to run into a few friends. Gay McMichael, Phil Hardin and Rusty Wynn were also there. “I walked in, and they were talking,” Malloy said, “and all of a sudden they said they were honoring ‘Frank Malloy.’ I about fell on the floor. I was surprised, to say the least.” The group had concocted the whole evening. McMichael, Hardin and Wynn just happen to be part of The Honors tournament committee. The Honors, which is played at Healy Point Country Club, has honored someone in Middle Georgia for contributions to golf the past 16 years, and this year Malloy is their man. “You have earned the respect of your peers, and we can assure you, you are held in the highest esteem among local golfers,” the selection committee said in congratulating Malloy on the honor. Last year Bobby Hicks was honored. Past honorees include Roy Jarvis, Jim Hickman, Ray Cutright, Ed Grisamore and Ken Gerdes. Malloy will be honored with a dinner Friday, and during the next weekend, he’ll participate in the two-day amateur four-ball tournament. This award takes Malloy back to his roots. For the past 19 years, Malloy has been the main news anchor at 13 WMAZ. But sports is what brought Malloy to Macon in 1982. A native of Pennsylvania, Malloy came south to study journalism at Georgia. After two-and-a-half years in Columbus, Malloy came to WMAZ as the sports director. And for 11 years, “Biff” Malloy gave us the sports every night at 6 and 11 p.m.. He even still does the sports occasionally, and we still see Malloy on Friday nights during the fall (after that other show in town is on) give us high school football scores. While he’s respected as the dominant news anchor in the market, sports is still a big part of what identifies Frank Malloy. “Golf was kind of the one thing I really missed

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Warner Robins West all-star Leyton Pinckney (11) is congratulated by coach Randy Dempsey after his third home run during the West’s District 5 championship win over the Warner Robins East all-stars on Saturday.

Winner’s day at the park Warner Robins West team wins district tournament behind no-hitter By ANGELA WOOLEN awoolen@macon.com

WARNER ROBINS — Kody Winner pitched a no-hitter for the Warner Robins American Little League West team against Warner Robins East on Saturday in a 19-0 victory in the District 5 championship. Winner recorded five strikeouts and walked one in the four-inning game. Leyton Pinckney keyed the offensive outburst with nine RBI. He was 4-for-4 with a double and three home runs.

Even through the West jumped to a 4-0 lead after the first inning, manager Martin Pinckney didn’t relax. “They scored 20 runs (Friday) night, so we knew they could explode at any moment,” he said. The West scored in the first on two two-run home runs, one by Leyton Pinckney and one by Jackson Will. In the top of the second, the East couldn’t get a desperately needed final out as the West scored 11 runs with two outs.

Leyton Pinckney added his double and a three-run home run in the inning. Winner, Chase Padgett, Justin Jones and Reggie Ling all added RBI. Logan Morris was the starting pitcher for the East, and Darius Clarington came in after Pinckney’s homer. After two innings, the West led 17-0. Trevor Bruno came in to pitch in the third for the East and gave up another homer to Pinckney. Dillon Toms, who was on last year’s Little League Southeastern Cham-

By BRANDON WEBB WARNER ROBINS — Ken Crick was confident standing on the tee at Landings Golf Club’s 12th hole Saturday during the first round of the Houston County Amateur. Crick had steadily cobbled together a 1-under score and led playing partner, and tournament favorite, Shawn Hodge by two strokes. The fickle nature of the game, however, was about to reveal itself to the leader. Hodge, the tournament’s defending champion, bird-

ied the par-3 13th hole. Crick then double-bogeyed No. 14 and limped home to a 3-over 75. Hodge parred his way into the clubhouse to post an even-par 72 and holds a three-stroke advantage entering the final round. Hodge struggled off the tee but scrambled well. “Give him credit,” said Crick, who collected four birdies on the day. “I had him for a while. But he was able to get up and down all day. Even when he chipped it poorly, it seemed like he’d SEE

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pionship team with Morris, came in to pitch after catching the whole game the previous night. Toms gave up two hits but made a diving catch on a Tyler Mayfield pop up to end the top of the fourth. Toms also got the walk in the bottom of the fourth to end Winner’s bid for a perfect game. “The score is not indicative of how good we are,” East manager Jason Ring said. “It’s a tough loss.” West leadoff batter Padgett was

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Atlanta’s Jason Heyward follows through with an RBI single in the eighth inning Saturday.

ATLANTA — Jason Heyward and the Atlanta Braves were patiently waiting to see if the New York Mets’ bullpen would crack. In the eighth inning, the Braves got their wish. “Everybody’s mind was mentally tough,” Heyward said. “Just hanging in there. Not trying to do too much at the plate, just trying to do whatever we could to prolong the inning, prolong SEE

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