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

 

High school playoffs getting underway

          The GHSA tennis postseason has started, and is joined this week by baseball and soccer.

          The GHSA made official on Monday the Class A, and little affected Central Georgia teams. Tattnall did drop to No. 3 and Stratford to N0. 9, a move of one spot each, in private. Taylor County, GMC, and Hawkinsville each fell a spot, to 12, 16, and 18.

          The full pairings for all three sports and some scheduling is up in This Week's Coverage. Teams should email playoff information to centralgasports@gmail.com as soon as it's finalized.

 

Prep baseball and soccer polls up

          Two polls each for baseball and soccer from last week are up, with Tattnall baseball and Putnam County boys soccer No. 1s.

          Veterans, East Laurens, and FPD girls soccer No. 2 in their classes.

          Look for a new set of polls Wednesday, also in This Week's Coverage.

 

Smith takes another honor at UGA

          Former Macon County standout and future first-round NFL draft pick Roquan Smith was named Georgia's Vince Dooley male student-athlete of the year.

          The announcement came at annual awards banquet Monday night.

 

 

Braves drops series opener in Cincinnati

          Mike Foltynewics and Sam Freeman didn't have it, and the Reds pitchers did as Cincinnati topped Atlanta 10-4.

          It was the first game as Reds manager for Jim Riggleman, who watched Atlanta strike out 11 batters but walk 8.

 

 

College Golf: Mercer picks up a spot at SoCon tournament

          Two players are in the top 15 and Mercer improved to fifth after two rounds of the Southern Conference men's golf tournament at Pinehurst.

          Stanton Schorr is 13th with a 149, one spot and a stroke ahead of Lino Galdin.

          Mercer's 613 is 18 strokes back of fourth-place Furman and 31 behind first-place UNCG in the eight-team field.

 

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