The Clayton State women's soccer team will face a difficult schedule in 2016, playing four NCAA Tournament teams, including the national runner-up Columbus State. The men's soccer team will also face a challenging schedule, with matches against five NCAA Tournament teams from last season, including No. 4 Palm Beach Atlantic. Both Clayton State soccer teams aim to qualify for the Peach Belt Conference Championships and NCAA Tournaments.

1. MORROW — Here are
the latest news and notes
from the athletic department
at Clayton State University.
Four NCAA
Tournament Teams on the
docket for Clayton State
women’s soccer in 2016
The 2016 Clayton State
women’s soccer team will
play four NCAA Tourna-
ment teams and the national
runner-up when the season
begins in September.
The Lady Lakers will
open the campaign with a
four-game non-conference
schedule. Beginning with
West Georgia (9-8-1) on
Sept. 1, Clayton State will
take on Christian Brothers
(10-7-1), Valdosta State
(4-10-3) and Limestone.
Of those contests, only the
home opener against Valdo-
sta State will be played at
Clayton State.
Clayton State will begin
PBC play against Lander
(7-8-1) on Sept. 17 before
a two-game road trip to
UNC Pembroke (8-9-1) and
Georgia College (10-8-2).
Home matches against
Montevallo (2-13-2) on and
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Section B • Saturday/sunday, June 18/19, 2016
Luella
working on
improving
physicality
LOCUST GROVE — The Luella High
football program has begun its summer
football program with several storylines
taking shape.
The Lions are planning to enter the 2016
season with a “no excuses” philosophy with
a focus on the smaller details and doing
them right the first time.
“I’ll ask the players is that your best,”
said assistant coach James Roberts. “Most
of the time, the answer is no.As soon as
we change that mentality, great things will
start changing at Luella and I expect that to
happen this season.”
Luella hired Neil Bell as the running
backs coach and Michael Tinley as the
inside linebackers coach. Ben Parnell is the
lone departure from the Luella coaching
staff.
“Neil Bell comes from Clayton County
and we’re very excited to have him,” Rob-
erts said. “He’s hit the ground running and
is very passionate about coaching. Tinley’s
a great guy. The players have already
responded to him.”
One of Luella’s key players this season
will be linebacker Keiston Lowery, who
has picked up his eight Division I offers
during the offseason. The Lions will also
rely on linebacker Carl Fisher, quarterback
Dwayne Thomas, defensive end Kailen
Parham, running back Latrell Murray, de-
fensive end KurtVoltaire and kicker Ethan
Duncan this season.
Luella has placed an emphasis on im-
proving its physicality before the upcoming
campaign, beginning with improvement in
By Darius Goodman
dgoodman@henryherald.com
Luella’s Keiston Lowery has emerged as
one of the county’s top defenders head-
ing into his senior season. (Special Pho-
to)
Men’s, women’s soccer schedules released
Clayton State women’s
soccer head coach
Fergal Forde must navi-
gate through a difficult
schedule in 2016. (Spe-
cial Photo: Clayton State
Athletics)
CLAYTON STATE university
By Luke Strickland
lstrickland@news-daily.com
See soccer, Page 2B
See luella, Page 2B
NASCAR driver David Ragan sits in his Legends car before his return to Thursday Thunder. (Special Photos: Atlanta Motor
Speedway)
HAMPTON — Thursday
Thunder alum and current
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
driver David Ragan high-
lighted the entry list in the
Racing Radios Pro Division on
Wednesday and Thursday night
in Week 3 ofAtlanta Motor
Speedway’s Thursday Thunder
series.
Wednesday
Bandits Division
1. Clay Thompson (Bowers-
ville, Ga.) 2. Nathan Jackson
(McDonough, Ga.) 3. Michael
Gannon (Canton, Ga.)
Atlanta HeartAssociates
Semi-Pro Division
Jensen Jorgensen of Stock-
bridge used a front-row start
and a strong finish to post his
first victory of 2016 in the
Atlanta HeartAssociates Semi-
Pro Division.
1. Jensen Jorgensen (Stock-
bridge, Ga.) 2. Nolan Pope
(Harrisonville, Mo.) 3. Hudson
Halder (Cumming, Ga.)
Live Oak Plantation
Outlaws Division
DJ Canipe of Fallston, North
Carolina put on another clinic
in the Live Oak Plantation Out-
laws Division feature for this
third win to open the season.
1. DJ Canipe (Fallston, N.C.)
2. ConnorYounginer (Stock-
bridge, Ga.) 3. Blaise Maddox
(Locust Grove, Ga.)
Plemons Investments
Masters Division
In the Plemons Invest-
ments Masters Division,
McDonough’s Scott Moseley
led all 20 laps from the pole
position for his second win of
the season.
1. Scott Moseley (Mc-
Donough, Ga.) 2. Tina Johnson,
(Senoia, Ga.) 3. Bill Plemons
Jr. (Locust Grove, Ga.)
Wallace Electric
Rookie Bandolero Division
Grant Thompson of Mobile,
Alabama passed pole-winner
Ashton Whitener of Monticello
on the first lap of the Wallace
Electric Rookie Bandolero
Division feature and went on
to lead the whole way to punch
his first ticket to Victory Lane
this year.
1. Grant Thompson (Mo-
bile,Ala.) 2.Ashton Whitener
(Monticello, Ga.) 3. Keaton
Hendrix (Homerville, Ga.)
Plemons InvestmentsYoung
Lions Division
A consistent race for Connor
Younginer of Stockbridge paid
off, as he bounced back from
a Week 2 disqualification to
post his first win of 2016 in the
Plemons InvestmentsYoung
Lions Division feature.
1. ConnorYounginer (Stock-
bridge, Ga.) 2. Canon Cochran
(Ringgold, Ga.) 3. Sammy
Smith (DeMoines, Iowa)
Racing Radios Pro Division
1. Connor Pyle (Concord,
N.C.) 2. Kaden Honeycutt
(Bridge City, Texas) 3. Currie
Pierce (Griffin, Ga.)
Ragan finished fifth in his
return to the Thunder Ring.
Thursday
Bandits Division
The Bandits Division was
the Clay Thompson show.
He led every lap and cruised
comfortably to his fourth
straight win to open the season.
Jackson finished second while
RyanYounginer of Stockbridge
placed third.
Atlanta HeartAssociates
Semi-Pro Division
In theAtlanta HeartAssoci-
ates Semi-Pro Division, Nolan
Pope prevailed over Wednesday
night’s winner, Jensen Jor-
gensen. It was Pope’s second
By Darius Goodman
dgoodman@henryherald.com
Return of Ragan
thursday thunder
NASCAR star headlines Week 3 action
Young Lions Drivers wait patiently before the start of their
heat race on Wednesday.
See thunder, Page 2B
Lindsey Stevens,
left, head coach
John Kovzel and
Clayton Scott
brought a bass
fishing state
championship
back to Ola High
School at the
Georgia Bass
Fishing High
School State
Championship
held at Lake
Seminole in Bain-
bridge. (Special
Photo)
Ola fishing team battles issues
to claim state championship
MCDONOUGH — Ola
High School is home to a state
championship bass fishing team,
as the tandem of Lindsey Stevens
and Clayton Scott brought home
the Georgia Bass Fishing High
School State Championship held
at Lake Seminole in Bainbridge
last week.
Over the two-day event, Ola’s
team totaled the most combined
weight of any team in the field.
Ola’s final weight of 31.42 bested
second-place Bremen High
School by nearly a pound.
Despite the victory, the
Mustangs had to battle adversity
throughout the event. Roger
Stubbs, a Henry County police
officer, volunteered his boat to
coach John Kovzel for the Mus-
tangs to use.
When Stubbs’ boat was un-
able to be used due to mechani-
cal issues, Ola was penalized 5
pounds for being five minutes
late to the first day of the tourna-
ment. Instead of sitting in second
place heading into the final day,
Stevens and Scott fell to fourth
place because of the boating
issue.
Stubbs called Jeff Character, a
friend who lived near Lake Semi-
nole, and exchanged boats so the
Mustangs could focus on closing
the weight gap on the second
By Luke Strickland
lstrickland@news-daily.com
See fishing, Page 2B

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Luella
the weight room this sum-
mer.
“In the weight room, we
are executing the pace of the
reps on the whistle,” Roberts
said. “It makes it more
physical, high paced and
demanding. Everyone gets
their repetitions, account-
ability and competition. The
players are holding each
other accountable and push-
ing the pace. The physicality
is beginning to emerge.”
Lowery,Voltaite and
Reggie Temple are among
several Lions excelling in the
weight room.
When asked if the Lions
were where they wanted
to be at this point in the
summer, Roberts said that
the team just started practic-
ing last week. He said the
coaching staff is identify-
ing players who need more
work, as well as those who
are working off of previous
experience.
“The players are begin-
ning to buy into the phi-
losophy,” Roberts said. “We
can’t get lazy and have to
lead by example as coaches.”
•From Page 1B
Soccer
Francis Marion (4-15) will
follow.
In October, the Lady
Lakers will face No. 3
and national runner-up
Columbus State (22-3-1).
The Cougars are also the
defending PBC regular
season and tournament
champions. Later in the
month, Clayton State will
take on an NCAA Tourna-
ment team in Armstrong
State (13-5-3). The Lady
Lakers will also travel to
play No. 16 North Georgia
(16-4-1), a first round win-
ner in the NCAA Tourna-
ment a year ago, later in
the month.
The 2016 Peach Belt
Conference Champion-
ships are scheduled to
begin Nov. 1 at the site of
the higher seeds. The Final
Four site will be in Evans
on Nov. 4-6.
The tournament cham-
pion will then earn the
league’s automatic berth
into the 2016 NCAA Divi-
sion II Women’s Soccer
Tournament that will kick
off the following week.
Teams advancing out of
regional play will then
move on to the NCAA Di-
vision II Final Four, which
will be held at the Swope
Soccer Village in Kansas
City, Mo., from Dec. 1-3.
For full details on the
Clayton State women’s
soccer schedule, visit
www.ClaytonStateSports.
com.
Clayton State
men’s soccer to Face
Five NCAA Tournament
Teams in 2016
Not to be outdone by its
female counterparts, Clay-
ton State’s men’s soccer
team will face five NCAA
Tournament teams from
last season in 2016.
The Lakers host No. 4
Palm Beach Atlantic (17-
2-1) early on in the season
on Sept. 1. Palm Beach At-
lantic reached the national
quarterfinals a year ago.
Clayton State’s next
five games will be against
programs that won at least
eight games last season.
Beginning with Barry (8-
4-3) at home on Septem-
ber 3, the Lakers will then
travel to face Tampa (9-7)
and Eckerd (8-6-1) before
finishing the road trip at
Auburn-Montgomery (9-
8-3).
Returning home in mid-
September, the Lakers will
host No. 22 Lander (14-3-
2). The Bearcats reached
the NCAA Tournament
last season and were the
PBC Tournament runner-
up. Clayton State will face
No. 11 Wingate (14-3-4)
Oct. 10 and Limestone
(16-5) Oct. 15. Both
programs made the NCAA
Tournament last season.
To finish off that road
trip, Clayton State will
visit Young Harris (17-4)
where they will face the
defending PBC regular
season and tournament
champions Oct. 19. The
Lakers will end the regular
season with matches
against USC Aiken (8-5-
3), North Georgia (4-12-2)
and Flagler (9-6-1).
The 2016 Peach Belt
Conference Champion-
ships are scheduled to
begin Nov. 1 at the site of
the higher seeds. The Final
Four site will be in Evans
on Nov. 4-6.
The winner of that
tournament will earn an
automatic berth into the
2016 NCAA Division II
Men’s Soccer Tourna-
ment that will kick off the
following week. Teams
advancing out of regional
play will then move on
to the NCAA Division II
Final Four, which will be
held at the Swope Soccer
Village in Kansas City,
Mo., from Dec. 1-3.
For full details on the
Clayton State men’s soc-
cer schedule, visit www.
ClaytonStateSports.com.
•From Page 1B
Thunder
win of the season and his
first since Week 1. Hudson
Halder placed third, while
Clanton and Jason Treschl
of Lagrange finished fourth
and fifth, respectively.
Live Oak Plantation
Outlaws Division
DJ Canipe led flag-to-
flag to extend his winning
streak to four races, while
ConnorYounginer of Stock-
bridge finished second for
the third time in a row.
Plemons Investments
Masters Division
Points leader Scott
Moseley used a fourth-lap
pass and a fast car to lead
the final 17 laps and earn
his second win in two
nights and his third in the
season’s first four races.
Bill Plemons, Jr. of Locust
Grove finished second.
Wallace Electric Rookie
Bandolero Division
Grant Thompson led
from start to finish, driving
away in the last half of the
race to finish 8.5 seconds
ahead of second-placeAsh-
ton Whitener of Monticello.
Racing Radios
Pro Division
Yellow flags flew a
plenty and some tempers
flared on track between
Kaden Honeycutt, David
Ragan and Mike Weed.
Honeycutt started bump-
ing and being aggressive
on the track against Ragan,
who was running fifth.
Honeycutt was attempt-
ing to pass Ragan and
used his bumper to get
past. Ragan’s incident was
mirrored with Weed, who
saw payback under caution
as Honeycutt expressed
displeasure during a cau-
tion period.
Douglasville’s William
Martin wheeled his way
into Victory Lane, as the
fourth different Pro Divi-
sion winner through the
season’s first four races.
“I’m just so happy that
we were able to come out
here tonight and get the
job done,” Martin said. “It
definitely wasn’t easy. That
race felt like it was about
five hours long.”
“I’m chasing the cham-
pionship this year, so this
is definitely a good start to
get there,” Martin added.
Young Lions
Brody Pope finished
off a Pope-family sweep
with his second victory in
the Plemons Investments
Young Lions Division,
complementing his older
brother’s earlier perfor-
mance in the Semi-Pro
class.
Pope led the final 18 laps
to prevail over pole-sitter
and Wednesday-night win-
ner, ConnorYounginer of
Stockbridge.
The Thursday Thunder
Legends Racing Series pre-
sented by Papa John’s Pizza
continues with Week 4 of
the eight-week summer
series on Thursday, June 23.
•From Page 1B
Fishing
day. Stevens and Scott made
the most of their opportunity,
catching enough fish to pull in
front to claim the champion-
ship.
“People don’t understand
how hard it was for these kids
to get where they got,” said
Kovzel. “You have to qualify
and be in the top percentage.
They don’t just take every-
body.”
Kovzel, who coaches fish-
ing at Ola in his spare time,
said the state championship
was the result of the tireless
preparation and resolve of
both Scott and Stevens.
“In other sports you get
to practice plays, but when
you’re trying to catch fish
under water you can’t see
them,” he said. “You have to
be patient and methodical.
There is a lot of preparation
that goes into it.”
Stevens was one of only
two females who participated
in the event. Due to her per-
formance at the state cham-
pionships, she was offered
a fishing scholarship by the
Savannah College ofArt and
Design at the event.
“It was really, really cool,”
he said. “We have a female
on the team and that makes
it special as well. There were
only two girls that competed
in Georgia on the high school
trail.”
Considering what Ola’s
fine fishermen had to go
through in order to claim a
state championship, it’s easy
to understand why Kovzel
was so proud of his team.
“It’s just really special for
these two kids,” he said.
•From Page 1B
Connor
Younginer
from Stock-
bridge stands
in victory
lane after a
hard-fought
win. (Special
Photo:Tom
Francisco)
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