Wednesday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes

Wednesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

Time to play ball in Atlanta

          For a look at all sorts of stuff surrounding opening day in Atlanta, check out the post elsewhere in This Week's Coverage

Georgia Tech men's hoops assistant takes over at Loyola-Md.

          Tavaras Hardy spent two seasons at Georgia Tech, and is now runnng his own program, not far from a previous job, as an assistant at Georgetown.

Poll watch

          Georgia College is alllll over the Division II baseball polls.

Signings/commitments update

          Bleckley County's Ellie Wortham has signed to play volleyball at Andrew College.

Honor Roll (covering the week)

          Mercer pitcher Stella Preston is the Southern Conference student-athlete of the week. She has a 3.91 GPA, and went 2-0 last week with 11 innings, allowing just 5 hits for the Bears.

Earlier

          Franziska Nobis of Middle Georgia State is the Southern States Athletic Conference women's tennis player of the week. She helped the 13th-ranked Knights beat No. 24 Reinhardt 6-3, winnng 6-0 and 7-6 in singles and 9-7 at No. 1 doubles.

          She is the fifth MGSU tennis player honored this season. ...

          Middle Georgia State's Darrell White, a former standout at Peach County, was named NAIA All-American honorable mention recently. White averaged 16.3 points a game, shooting 48.1 percent from the foor and 80.3 from the line. He was also a first-team all-conference pick. ...

          Haley Tierce, a junior from Houston County, is the latest Peach Belt Conference softball player of the week. The infielder got hits in all eight of Georgia Southwestern's games, batting .429 with 5 homers and 13 RBI. She fanned only once in 28 at-bats. Tierce is tied for the league lead with 12 homers. ...

          Middle Georgia State's Madison Staniloiu is the Southern States Athletc Conference softball player of the week after batting .529 with 3 homers and 8 RBI.