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Billy Byler
Eight former Augusta minor league ball players earned a spot on the 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star ballot. Do the Augusta GreenJackets have the best logo in all of minor league baseball? The results of a voter-driven, 64-team tournament at www.darrenrovell.com have proven Augusta's local team belongs in the top four. You can help them reach the finals. Minor league sports teams are, by definition, inferior to their major league counterparts in almost every way, but there is one exception to the rule - team names. There’s the Lansing Lugnuts (Class A, Toronto Blue Jays), Montgomery Biscuits (Class AA, Tampa Bay Rays) and Modesto Nuts (Class A, Colorado Rockies).
The creativity is in full swing in the Aiken-Augusta area with both the Augusta GreenJackets and Aiken Foxhounds. Starting today, those names are being put to the test. Have you decided on a presidential candidate? Better hurry. The Republican and Democrat primaries will hit the state of Georgia on Tuesday. Will you chose Hillary or Obama? Perhaps McCain, Romney, Huckabee or Paul is more your style. I wouldn’t normally come right out and endorse a specific candidate in a situation like this, but allow me to throw one more name into the mix: Auggie. It was no ordinary night at James Brown Arena, but it was a long one.The Augusta Lynx wrapped up their third home game in three nights with a 4-1 win over the Mississippi Sea Wolves on Saturday. Louis Goulet, Aaron Slattengren, Geoff Peters and Matt Auffrey all scored for the Lynx. But all of that fine hockey will be nothing more than an afterthought for most of the reported 2,824 fans who showed up at James Brown Arena for a game originally scheduled for a 7:05 p.m. start. Thanks to a pesky problem with the ice, the game didn't actually begin until 9:13 p.m. Six teams are gone, and six teams remain alive on day four of the 2007 Dixie Boys Baseball World Series at Citizens Park in Aiken, S.C. Columbia County's All-Stars, representing the state of Georgia, are the only local boys left in the tournament. They're facing elimination once again tonight in a game against the defending Junior Dixie Boys World Series Champions from Florida. The boys from Columbia County, representing the state of Georgia, take on Tennessee in an elimination game on day three of competition at the 2007 Dixie Boys Baseball World Series at Citizens Park in Aiken, S.C. The Aiken All-Stars enter day three of the 2007 Dixie Boys Baseball World Series facing a must-win situation. A win over Texas on Saturday and a loss to South Carolina on Sunday has the host team in the losers' bracket facing Alabama tonight for a chance to move on in this double-elimination tournament. Day two action at the 2007 Dixie Boys Baseball World Series at Citizens Park in Aiken, S.C. More live action from the 2007 Dixie Boys Baseball World Series at Aiken's Citizens Park. Game No. 6- Aiken vs. Texas Technical difficulties in the Citizens Park press box have made it a tough task to reach the Internet for the opening round of the 2007 Dixie Boys Baseball World Series. Those problems have been overcome now, but the Columbia County squad, representing the state of Georgia, is running into some technical difficulties of its own against first-round opponent Alabama. FINAL SCORES: Mississippi 12, Arkansas 4 Tennessee 3, Florida 2 in eight innings  |
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