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‘I don’t have the money to pay you’ Probate judge recording captures concerns over finishing first term, affair By Michelle Kim
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Salem High School’s Thespian Troupe 5120 kept its head in the game and pumped up the school spirit with Disney’s “High School Musical,” staged April 23-26 at Salem High School. More photos at http:// ezellsstudios.com (Photos courtesy of Ezell’s Studios)
A tape released online of a conversation between Probate Judge Charles K. Mays Sr. and Freya Pearson, the woman who is suing Mays for more than $20,000 in alleged backpay, reveals that Mays acknowledged her services but said he didn’t have enough money to pay her and expressed concerns he might not be able to finish his first term. The secretly recorded conversation also referenced an affair between the two. The conversation was allegedly taped on August 8, 2014, before Pearson filed a warrant application in October seeking an arrest for alleged theft of services of more than $24,000 for hours worked from February to June in Probate Court setting up a veteran’s or mental health accountability court. Mays had reportedly been told earlier in the year that such a court was not technically feasible within Probate Court. Pearson did receive about $2,000 through a temp agency for her court work and a one-time $2,500 payment from the county. In the conversation, Mays outright tells Pearson, “I don’t have the money or the wherewithal to pay you for your services. That’s what causes me to step back. That’s it in a nutshell.” Pearson said she didn’t agree with that assessment. “In my mind, if you have money to hire another person, you can pay me,” she said, referencing a Probate Court job offer to Deborah Anderson. “Just that simple. If you’re willing to argue with Roselyn (Miller, the county Finance Director) over money to hire somebody, you should be willing to do the same battle for me for work I’ve already done.” Mays replied, “But see, the thing is, other people haven’t had the background that you have. So they’re not going to come after me, so to speak… the way that you have spoken and said things.” He also said, “It’s not that I’m battling for them. It’s just that they’re working into whatever plan I’m in at that time.” Mays later said, “The monies that you were paid and the invoices, I did have to battle for that… And
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After seven years, Rockdale County now has a full board for its ethics commission. The Rockdale County Coalition of Homeowners Association (RCHA) officially selected Franklin Beauford to the Rockdale
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Rockdale deputy fired for steroid use, four others resign By Michelle Kim
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One Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office deputy was terminated and four others resigned during a months-long investigation into allegations of the use of anabolic steroids. The same deputy who was fired had also previously resigned from the Conyers Police Department after a 2011 bar fight. During the RCSO’s internal investigation, Deputy Jason Heyman tested positive for anabolic steroids, a substance used illegally by bodybuilders and athletes. He was terminated April 21. Four other deputies resigned while the investigation was underway: Jason Payne, Sgt. Larry Reed, Sgt. Bob Cooley and jail Deputy Chris Speyrer. They resigned before they were able to be drug tested. Speyer was reportedly also arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations for providing false statements. Heyman, a K-9 deputy with the Criminal Interdiction Unit, had been with the RCSO for two years. Cooley had been with the RCSO for 14 years, and Reed for 10 years. Payne had been with the RCSO for 15 years, resigned in good standing in 2011, and was rehired in October 2013. The investigation began when a complainant brought the allegations to Sheriff Eric Levett in September 2014. Levett said he then asked the OPS to investigate the matter and report to him. When it was substantianted that illegal substances might have been involved, Levett said he contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigations. The GBI provided a criminal case update to the RCSO OPS during the first week of April 2015. The OPS continued the administrative investigation at this point. During the administrative investigation, Deputy Jason Heyman was terminated on April 21. Heyman was terminated for six substantiated complaints: Violation of Oath of Office, Code of Conduct - Duty to abide by all laws and orders, Code of Conduct - Duty to refrain from disclosing any information relating to law enforcement activities, Code of Conduct - Manner of Conduct, Code of Conduct - Insubordination and Code of Conduct - Possession/Purchasing/Us-
ing/Selling Controlled Substances. On April 21, four additional deputies with the RCSO were placed on paid administrative leave stemming from alleged policy violations relating to this same administrative investigation. Administrative interviews were scheduled for these four employees within two days of being placed on paid administrative leave. When the deputies arrived for their scheduled individual administrative interview, each of the four deputies submitted a written notice to resign from employment before any questioning could take place. The resignations for these four deputies were submitted to Georgia POST as “resigned while under investigation,” which automatically results in a POST investigation. On April 23, Deputy Christopher Speyrer, one of the four dep-
uties who resigned while under internal investigation, was arrested by the GBI for providing false statements as part of their criminal investigation. Speyrer is a Council Certified Officer through Georgia P.O.S.T. and was assigned to the Jail Bureau of the RCSO. Heyman had been previously involved in a January 2011 fiasco in another law enforcement agency, the Conyers Police Department, where a bar brawl ended with him resigning from the CPD. That fight at the Pointe bar in Olde Town began as a retirement celebration among off-duty law enforcement personnel for a RCSO captain. The captain reportedly wanted the bar to admit a 19-yearold, against bar policy. Later that night, a verbal fight later ensued between the celebrating group
and a bar patron and a punch was thrown, striking an off-duty officer. During the internal investigation, Heyman resigned before administrative action could be taken. Two other officers were reprimanded and demoted. Heyman recently applied for a landscape position with the Conyers
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‘Chipmunks’ Mardi Gras in Olde Town By Sandra Brands
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Alvin and his cohorts will bring Mardi Gras to Conyers next week. The city has given permits to the fourth Alvin and the Chipmunks movie, “Road Chip,” to film in Olde Town Conyers, May 4-8. Casting calls for extras went out and can be found on line at Southern Casting Call, Project Casting and other free casting sites. The production company is looking for extras who look like New Orleans jazz musicians, partying college students, and 18-to-70 year-old extras. Those who know how to dance or who have their own Mardi Gras costumes are encouraged to apply by emailing photos and information such as age, weight, sizes and contact information to alvin4mardigras@ gmail.com. In particular, the casting director is looking for African-American extras who can play the trombone and are available May 4-7, including night calls on May 6 and 7. Location managers for the film spent last week meeting with mer-
chants, property owners and others to discuss compensation for inconveniences encountered during filming on Center Street. Production crew members try to accommodate local businesses during filming, said Andrew Galbraith, assistant location manager for the production. “We try to patronize the local businesses in every way possible while we’re filming. We’re just happy to be in Conyers for this project,” he said, adding that so far, the meetings have gone very well. Details on the shoot times and locations will be released later, according to an email sent by Gina Hartsell, camera ready film liaison for Conyers Rockdale Economic Development Council Inc. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip” is scheduled to open in theaters on Dec. 23. The first of the Chipmunks animation and live action films, “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” grossed more than $361 million. Two sequels followed, “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” in 2009 and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” in 2011.
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Our Thoughts School Increase It looks like Rockdale County Public Schools will be receiving $10.9 million more dollars from state tax funds; this is a welcome sight for our local school children and their teachers. There are plans to give all employees an across the board 3 percent raise; we support this action, also class size is going to be lowered; we also support this action. For more details on what plans are being made to use extra monies, go to last week’s edition or go to rockdalenews.com We support any action that is taken by the school board and administration to improve the quality of education provided our children. The RCPS Finance Director said that all these positive changes should be done without raising the millage rate again this year; that is positive news in itself. We take Davis at his word, and we do not support raising the millage rate to pay for any of these changes. We trust the school board will work to insure that a millage rate hike does not happen this year.
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Baltimore mother could save the nation Three cheers for the Baltimore mommy I regret every spanking I gave my two who was slapping and whipping the heck out sons. I wish I could go back and undo evof her son. ery swat I ever gave them on the rear end. Mommy Toya Graham saw her 16-yearI never enjoyed that. However, they both old son Michael in the rioting crowd with a finished school, never have been arrested hoodie and a mask this past week and imand both are serving our country today in mediately went to him and took him off the the military. We had some tough times like street. She should be America’s poster momall families do, but God by his grace gave my this Mother’s Day for parenting. me enough strength and wherewithal to Kids in this country are starving for a stay with my family and stay with my boys. mommy and a daddy to step up to the plate Looking back I know they needed even Columnist more than what I gave but I am so glad I and be real parents. As much as ever before the youth of America need to be loved, mengave everything I did. tored, tutored through school, time with loving parDuring her childhood our youngest daughter ents and then a good kick to the backside every now would occasionally threaten that she was calling social and then. services on us. This was usually due to our insistence My mother slapped my face once. She slapped me that she do some homework, clean her room a little or hard enough that I honestly don’t remember what I just go to bed. It was amusing but we encouraged her sassed her about. She took me out to the peach tree to go ahead if she thought she could find a better deal. and whipped me with a peach tree limb (switch) on She backtracked on that threat. more than one occasion. My daddy gave me the belt Like Toya Graham moms and dads are the answer more than once. Honestly, these are not my fond fam- to many of America’s problems. We must step up to ily memories. the plate and be adults. Take responsibility for our However, they were on the scene. They weren’t families welfare, education and what they are doing. missing in action. They were at home being parents. And when necessary go to the warzone like Mommy They cared enough about me to try to drive me in the Graham and take action in order to save our children right direction. and this nation.
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Never stop searching, part 2 The F-4 Phantom jet carrying flight surgeon Maj. Bobby Jones and pilot Capt. Jack Harvey disappeared into the Bach Ma Mountain in Vietnam on November 28, 1972. Jones’ sister, Jo Anne Shirley, lives with a broken heart yet continues a frustrating journey in search of the truth from an uncaring bureaucracy, red tape, and indifferent politicians. This is her story… and her brother’s. Jo Anne has visited Vietnam three times. “It’s been an amazing experience. I never thought a girl from Georgia would meet so many different people. Government officials from each country meet with us: Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and we start in Thailand. Our embassy, civilian and military, work out issues with other governments, get details on the next excavation, and iron out diplomatic issues. I meet with our ambassador every day in the planning stage.” She’s also met the King of Thailand. “On one trip we were escorted by Dick Childress, at that time the number two guy on the National Security Council. Dick knew everybody in every government. When we met the King of Thailand, the King came out saying, ‘Dickie, Dickie, Dickie,’ he had a great connection with Dick Childress. But the King looked at me as if saying, ‘Who is that and why is she here?’ Same thing happened in Laos. I got the same stare when we met with the Laotian Defense Minister, sort of like, ‘Who is she, and why is she here?’ Then we took a chopper into southern Laos, smack dab in the middle of the jungle, in the middle of nowhere, a tiny spot called Ta Oy. We spent two nights in tents. The excavation team works out of Ta Oy.” The only way in or out of Ta Oy
is by chopper. “The Laotian Defense Minister and I finally hit it off,” Jo Anne stated. “Back at the Capital of Vientiane he hosted us to a nice restaurant, complete with Laotian dancers in their traditional garb. So, the guy asked me to dance. I laughed, but we danced, as did another female in our group with the Laotian Ambassador, and the Laotian dancers grabbed some kids and danced with them. It was a fun day.” Fun, in Laos, is rare. Jo Anne recalled, “The next day we flew from Laos to Cambodia but while we were at the airport at Vientiane we saw 3 caskets covered with the American flag being readied for loading onto another plane. I thought to myself, ‘this is why we do this, for all the MIAs still waiting to go home.’ As we watched the caskets load, the Defense Ministry must have seen the expression on my face. He gently touched me and said, ‘you will always be my sister.’” Time is running out for proper identification of Southeast Asia MIAs. Jo Anne explains, “The MIA families were notified about a year ago that the Asian soil is so acidic we only have about a six year window before bones of the missing completely erode. We’ve already seen that at certain sites; sometimes the bones have DNA, others do not. We’ll not give up after six years, but a positive ID will become more difficult.” Astonishingly, some families refuse to offer DNA to help identify MIAs. “We have a multitude of problems,” Jo Anne said. “Families refusing to volunteer DNA, sequestration has cut funds, now the government has a totally new big organization. The school is still out on the new organization, but we’ve never had good leadership in
the defense POW/MIA office at the Pentagon. The guys that work the cases are awesome, but the leadership is lacking. JPAC (Joint POW/ MIA Accounting Command) at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii has had horrible leadership in past years. Those people only cared about playing golf and their stepping stone to a promotion. One I did admire was General Kelly McKeague. He attended every meeting, even in D.C., and we knew he was dedicated. I told him once there was only one thing wrong with him, but there was no way he could correct it. He pleaded with me to tell him his fault, promising he would correct it, but I insisted that change was impossible. He begged and begged, so I finally told him, ‘You graduated from Georgia Tech.’ The general’s wife burst out laughing.” Jo Anne receives strong family support. “My husband and other brother said, ‘you go anywhere, do what you need to do.’ Over the years we’ve spent about two hundred thousand dollars. I’ve also been blessed with friends like the dynamo Tommy Clack and Georgia Department of Veterans Service Commissioner Pete Wheeler. Those two have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help me.” Jo Anne has never visited her brother’s crash site. “Board members are not allowed to do that; we do not go to our own crash sites in order to avoid complaints of neglecting other sites. Once when I was in Vietnam the chopper we were on flew near Bach Ma Mountain. An embassy official on the chopper pointed out the mountain but was covered in clouds. Same thing on the return trip, the mountain was surrounded by clouds. That made me realize how Bobby’s F-4 could have so easily dis-
appeared into Bach Ma Mountain.” Resolve equates to results: Jo Anne stated, “It pays to have a big mouth and ask questions. I asked for the dialog from air traffic control at Da Nang. By doing so I found out 2 aircraft were in the area when Bobby disappeared. One landed, then someone asked, ‘where is Hunter 11?’ (Bobby’s F-4). They thought both planes had landed then realized Hunter 11 was missing and finally sent out the search party. Another incident, a friend came home from Vietnam a few weeks after my brother’s plane disappeared and told my parents another plane had taken photos of Bobby’s crash site. So I started asking questions.… ‘Where are these photos?’…Well, the military people looked at me like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I told them photos existed, I knew that for a fact.” The military researched. Lo and behold, they found the missing photos. Jo Anne read the riot act to the military hierarchy, “I told them, ‘here’s the deal, when you get the photos I want my own copies because obviously you can’t keep up with your own stuff. And chances are you’ll probably need my copies again!’ I got my copies. I’ve loaned those copies back to the military….twice.” Excavation of lower Bach Ma Mountain began in 1997. “That’s about 25 years after the crash. The idea of excavating below the crash site was that debris had probably been washed down the many ravines and gorges by a dozen mountain streams. They found nothing. In 2006 they went back for another dig. I demanded photos be taken. So, they’re walking around in the jungle and right there, lodged in the root of a tree, was a blood chit.” (Blood
chits are pieces of fabric about a foot square with survival or friendly messages in about 6 different languages. Numbers are on the bottom of the fabric. When an airman is issued a flight vest these numbers are entered into a data base). Jo Anne continued, “The numbers on the chit correlated with Bobby’s numbers. They’ve found pieces of the F-4 but no human remains. My family received the blood chit 36 years to the day of Bobby’s crash. It was a very emotional time.” Connecting pieces of the puzzle, the military believes Bobby went down with the aircraft. Jo Anne wants to know, “Then where are the remains? I believe someone discovered the bodies and buried them, but that individual or people have either moved from the area or they are dead by now. The odds are not good for us to recover any remains.” Her final thoughts: “We are in a race against time; soil acidity, lack of funding, the local populace moving into and building in areas that were once battlefields. The military wants to bring our boys home, but military morale has deteriorated in our armed forces due to politics. Our military is in a fight for its own life. When our soldiers are sent into harm’s way they need to know they will be brought home, one way or the other. Yes, I would like Bobby to come home, but my concern is for the people serving today….not in the past.” Approximate number of the unrecovered: World War II – 73,800. Korea – 7,800. Vietnam – 1,600. The Cold War – 126. Pete Mecca is a Vietnam veteran, columnist and freelance writer. You can reach him at aveteransstory@ gmail.com or aveteransstory.us
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HHS mourns loss of freshman actor The Heritage High School performing arts community mourned the sudden loss of Academy for Performing and Visual Arts freshman Michael Jared RollinsJones, who had sickle cell anemia and passed away the evening of April 20. He was 14. According to his biography in the program for Heritage’s spring musical “Chicago,” where he was part of the company, Rollins-Jones began acting when he was 6 in a theater camp at Tarrytown, N.Y. He was invited to perform at the Lincoln Center in 2010 and performed around the state with Antonia Arts in 2011. In his time at Heritage, he played Pugsley Adams in “The Addams Family, The Musical” last fall and was in the company for “Once On This Island.” A memorial for RollinsJones was held April 25, at Lexington on the Green in Lithonia where “Chicago” cast members sang a tribute song for Crystal Rollins, Jared’s mother. Funeral services will be held in New York, where RollinsJones reportedly has family. The cast and crew of “Chicago” paid tribute to Rollins-Jones on Friday and collected donations to aid the family; a GoFundMe site has been set up for donations to help with Jared Rollins-Jones’ funeral expenses: http://www.gofundme.com/jaredsangels
am battling now. That’s why I don’t want any more invoices or anything to go down because of what I’ve already paid out. And other folks are aware of it.” He went on to reference “the $2,500,” the one-time check cut from the county to Pearson. He admitted he had not turned in an invoice Pearson had given to him for the hours she had worked. “So you’re scared to send it,” she teased. “I’m not scared of them,” he said. “I want to make sure I at least finish this term.” Mays was elected in 2012 and this is his first term as Probate Judge and in elected office. “Why wouldn’t you finish a term? Everybody and their momma know about it,” said Pearson, referencing her work in Probate Court. “They were talking about it. So clearly they know I’m working,” she replied. “Well, just avoiding any sort of … anything that might come up. I’m sure with the way things have been talked about, it might bring an issue I’m just trying to avoid,” he said. “You talking about me and you?” she asked.
“Well, that as well,” he replied. “They need to get out of my sex life, that’s what the hell they need to do,” she said. Mays also said he went to bat for Pearson against his family. Pearson, her teenage daughter, and 5-year-old granddaughter all lived in the Mays’ rented McCalla Street home with Mays’ wife and children. “I do it all the time with my family,” he said. “I said outside of your household… There’s nothing to lose there. Your wife ain’t going nowhere,” she said. “No, she ain’t going nowhere. But that’s stress on the family in general,” he replied. “I get that,” Pearson said. “But that’s temporary and that’s private.” Pearson asked if the fact he might have ramifications from paying her hours should affect her, and asked what he’d like her to do. “To just drop it,” he said. “How does that help me?” she asked. “It doesn’t help you,” he said. “So you want me to drop it because I care,” she said. “Not just because of that, but because of the care that I show you. Show the same for me,” he asked. She replied, “I show you as much love as you show me.” For a link to the tape online, go to rockdalenews.com
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Mays told the News on Friday he was not aware of the recording, as of Friday afternoon, and to contact his attorney Gary Washington. He said he would have to hear the tape first before commenting, but that he stood by his previous statements on Pearson’s allegations against him. “None of the allegations she’s making are true,” he had told the News previously. Pearson said in a statement sent Friday regarding the recording, “Judge Mays is around town telling lies about me being a volunteer. I was never a volunteer. But since he’s telling everyone that lie anyway, I think being a volunteer is a good idea. So I thought I’d volunteer his voice to the public.” The warrant hearing on April 15 was deferred after Mays’ attorney Gary Washington proposed a city of Conyers traffic ticket to Pearson caused a conflict of interest for Pearson’s attorney, Mike Waldrop, who also serves as the city solicitor and city attorney. DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Linda Hunter, who was hearing the case since Rockdale judges recused themselves from hearing the case of a judge in the same circuit, gave the parties until mid-May to file and respond regarding this matter before she would issue a written ruling. Neither side had filed in Rockdale County courts on the conflict of interest issue as of Friday 4 p.m.
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Screams of victory and more than a few tears erupted as adaptive athlete Michael Mills successfully pulled a 4,300-plus pound Honda Pilot SUV across a parking lot the length of a football field in a wheelchair for a Guinness world record attempt on Saturday. The event, a fundraiser for the Bert’s Big Adventure charity for children with terminal illnesses that raised $3,200, was held at the Etowah Crossfit’s Festivus Games in Woodstock, Ga. Mills’ team of family, friends, fellow adaptive athletes and supporters, identified as “Team Dirtbags,” also carried the flag for non-profits such as More Heart than Scars, for adaptive athletes, and 22 Too Many, for veterans suffering PTSD who die of suicide at a rate of 22 a day. To see video of Mills’ amazing feat of strength, go to rockdalenews.com (photos by Michelle Kim)
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Rotary honors Top Seniors The Rotary Clubs of Conyers and Rockdale honored the top seniors in various subject areas at all three Rockdale County Public Schools high schools on April 23. RCPS Superintendent Richard Autry, Rockdale Rotary President Alan Bouzoubaa and Cheryl Cooper and Conyers Rotary President Thua Barlay and Diane Adoma were present to recognize the seniors. The RCHS seniors pictured and their subject areas are (left to right): First row - Lyshawndria Harris (CTAE), Lanaya Jackson (Foreign Language), Nuzat Momin (Math), Lilith South (RMSST Science), Michael Mason (PE), Kendra Williams (Art), Dakota Lewis (JROTC). Back row (Left to right) - Shivon Gray (English), Kaegan Gregory(Performing Arts), Brandon Ware (Science), R.J. Summers (Music), Jeff Bang (RMSST Math). NP: Brionna Johnigan (Vocational Ed), Sean Keeler (Social Studies). The HHS seniors pictured are (left to right): Front row - Tyler Potts (Math), GraceAnne Dukes(Social Studies), Joy Polite (Foreign Language), Nejmah Winters (Vocational Ed), Sean Kim (JROTC), Tatianna Thompson (Performing Arts), Sorayia Mene (CTAE); Back Row - Kevin C. Jones (English), Lauren Girod (art), Joseph Kim (Music), Jesse Wang (Science), George Moll (PE). NP: Lauren Girod (Art). The SHS seniors picture are (left to right): Erin L. White (Science), Kenneth Davis (Art), Clarke Slade (English), Avery James (Social Studies), Eileen Swetnam (Performing Arts), Jixin Zheng (Math), Jacob Drasher (Music), Narcisse Wheeler (Foreign Language), Tia Champagnie (Vocational Ed), Marquis Knox (PE), Stephon Carty (JROTC), Juwan Smith (CTAE).
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Changing lanes Salem soccer head coach speaks on laying foundation for new culture By Shakeem Holloway
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The Salem boys soccer season ended in a 1-1 tie with Alcovy at home. The team didn’t meet its goal of making the playoffs despite managing to win three of its final four region games, but first-year head coach Anani Amaizo has built a foundation for great things on the pitch at Salem. Born and raised in France, Amaizo – whose parents are from West Africa – went to college in the U.S, but at the time it was much to his surprise and chagrin. “I came to Boston. I didn’t know I was coming to go to school,” Amaizo said. “For me, I was just coming here to visit. Before I realized that, my brother told me, ‘You’re going to go to school here and stay here in the U.S.’ I was really upset about it because I was going to sign a contract to play pro. I was really upset with my dad, but now I realize that what he did for me was good because I have my education. I can use the soccer right now
by coaching and developing other players.” Amaizo played soccer in college and he eventually made his way to Atlanta in 2004. He has coached club soccer at RYSA, SSA and U12 girls in Lithonia. Amaizo was an assistant coach with Rockdale’s varsity girls last year before getting the job at Salem. When he got here, Amaizo says he didn’t like the culture of Salem soccer, so he changed it. “When I was in school, we had alumni, senior night and all kinds of stuff,” Amaizo said. “I didn’t see that here, so I wanted to bring that here [because] we need the alumni to support the program as well because they already played the game and they’re former students of the school. We need support from them so that the new kids can see what they have done when they were here. That will also motivate them to perform better.” Amaizo says there was no organization or accountability when he started the job. He wanted his players to have a passion for the game
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In an almost-quiet Evans Memorial Stadium, Akil Williams lined up to take the last PK of the night with the shots currently tied 3-3 needing a goal to earn a victory for Heritage and send them to the next round. Williams calmly took his spot, slightly jogged toward the ball and fired a goal in the back of the net to give the Patriots a 3-2 (4-3 PKs) win over Sequoyah to advance to the second round of the playoffs. “We work on penalties all year long. A little bit more this last week so you put them in that mindset. You can’t replicate a game, but you try to replicate the scenarios and circumstances as best you can with
pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure. Hard to do that on the training field, but our guys did good,” Brandon Stewart, Heritage head coach, said. “I’m proud of the boys. I’m proud to live to fight another day,” Stewart added. Without their star player Andre Deas – who was forced to sit because he was red carded – Heritage was had to make some lineup changes in its opening playoff game against Sequoyah. Adam North and Austin McMillan each scored a goal in regulation and stepped up in a big way for Heritage in the absence of Deas, who has 20 goals and eight assists on the season if that gives
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and to compete like they could play at the next level. He’s seen them grow “At the beginning of the season the kids were kind of like, ‘Yeah, we’re just going to go through the season.’ And I just had a meeting with them I said, ‘Listen, we have an objective. This game is not just go play and go home. If you have any ambition or any future you want to play the next level with this game, everything starts here from the high school,’” Amaizo said.
Amaizo met with the seniors and discovered that Salem hadn’t been to the playoffs in eight years. He told them that it was up to them to write a new history by working hard so they could qualify for the playoffs. At the beginning of the seasons the players were coming late to practice and playing around. Amaizo, whose coaching philosophy is hard work on the field, told them it had to stop. As the season progressed they played well and
their mindset changed. They started to work hard on and off the field. The Seminoles missed the playoffs by just one game. Had they beaten Lanier at home in a game they lost 3-1, Salem would have accomplished its goal of qualifying for the playoffs. Still, Amaizo has seen the growth in his players and he believes its just the beginning. “If we play as a team and we work as a team, it’s going to be very, very
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you any idea of just how talented he is. “He’s the one that unlocks the defense,” Stewart said. “He made a bad decision, he knows it. He’s been fantastic in training. He’s picked them up (the team) all game. He coached, he’s been one of the assistant coaches tonight. You know what, we live to fight another day for him,” he added. Granted Heritage was without its star player, the Patriots still didn’t play as well as they could have. Stewart says the team was strong physically, but struggled mentally. “It’s a little typical of not playing a match in a week. [We were] a little bit rusty, a little bit off game speed. When you’re a little off like that it’s a mental and psychological adjustment,” Stewart said. “I thought that we were physically – I mean you could see at the end of the game, we were running past them at will. Our physical ability was good, but that mental and psychological aspect that’s what
Saturday, May 2, 2015 • 13 we’ll really have to combat for next week to wait another week until the second round. We’ll work on that a whole lot during training this week.” Stewart says despite his team’s flaws and mistakes he liked their fortitude. Nigel Brown, Conner Domaleski, McMillan and North were the big contributors for Heritage. Domaleski was great in-goal and Brown was stellar defending and clearing the ball when the backs got in trouble. The team as a whole played well, but missed some opportunities to score. “We gave them too much space. Without our normal lineup we had to do some adjusting. I thought it was better in the second half, and you could see the game with the ebbs and flows. We got forward we just didn’t get that final ball,” Stewart said. “Their keeper kept them in the match, [he] played fantastic. We have to do a better job of creating. A lot of that takes care of itself when we have Andre back so that will be a big help.” Deas will suit up next time when Heritage hosts Richmond Academy on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
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