Johnson runs Boston Marathon

Published 5:49 pm Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Colquitt County’s Steve Johnson ran Monday’s Boston Marathon in 3 hours, 9 minutes and 43 seconds.

It was Johnson’s third appearance in the world’s most challenging and well-known 26.2-mile race.

Two other Colquitt County runners — Jimmy Allegood and Amy Sharon — and ran at Boston and turned in identical times of 3 hours, 29 minutes and 53 seconds.

Johnson and Allegood have already qualified to run the Boston Marathon in 2007.

This year’s Boston Marathon drew 22,517 runners.

Of this and that:

• Chad Eunice had 12 birdies and shot a Sunset Country Club course-record 60 on Friday.

Eunice was playing with Grady Clements and Jon Ladson.

• Also at Sunset Country Club, Frank Morgan had a hole in one on the 167-yard No. 2 hold on March 30.

Morgan, who was playing with Jimmy Taylor and Bill Pifer, used a 7 iron.

• Former Colquitt County baseball star Jake Mobley, now starting for Georgia Southwestern, took a .317 batting into the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament that opened Wednesday in Americus.

The senior infielder leads the Hurricanes with 12 doubles. He also has a triple and a home run and has driven in 17 runs.

The Hurricanes took a 30-21 overall record and a 20-10 conference record into the tournament.

Georgia Southwestern met Berry College at 1 p.m. Wednesday in one of the four tournament-opening games.

Auburn-Birmingham, with a 42-12 overall record and 22-8 conference record, was the top seed.

• Will Southwell is hitting .250 with a double, three home runs and eight runs batted in for the Georgia Southern baseball team.

Former Colquitt County teammate Aaron Eubanks is 2-2 with a 7.78 earned run average for the Eagles. Eubanks has nine walks and 15 strikeouts.

The Eagles are 20-19 overall and 7-5 in the Southern Conference.

• John Michael Hall averaged 7.4 points as a freshman for the Abraham Baldwin College men’s basketball team this season. The former Packer expects to return to the Stallions lineup next season.

The Stallions went 18-13 overall and had a 7-5 conference record this season.

• And for die-hard high school football fans, there is now a website that is full of information about Georgia teams. It is the Georgia High School Football Historians Association site, located at www.ghsfha.org.

On it, visitors can find scores for all Georgia high school teams dating back to 1970, region standings back to 1954, region champions back to 1948, all-state teams dating back to 1950, weekly state rankings back to 1952, a list of every NFL player who went to a Georgia high school and about 90 percent of all Georgia coaches and their win-loss records back to 1970.

The non-profit site is not associated with the Georgia High School Association.

• The South Effingham High baseball team defeated Burke County 8-7 in eight innings on Tuesday to raise its record to 15-4 this season.

The Mustangs are coached by former Colquitt County High assistant coach Tony Kirkland.

• The Colquitt County boys soccer team fell to Houston County 3-0 on Tuesday in Warner Robins.

The loss drops the Packers to 6-10 overall and 3-6 in Region 1-AAAAA. The Bears are 14-1-1 overall and 9-0 in Region 1-AAAAA.