Friday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Georgia College wins; Braves no O; UGA and Tech win, Mercer ppd.; Avant leads UGA softball; UGA hoops, and more
Friday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Georgia College stays alive with solid win
Wingate went through seven pitchers with little luck as Georgia College stayed alive in the NCAA Southeast Regional with a 13-3 win.
The second-seeded Bobcats try to stay alive again at 11 a.m. Saturday against top seed and host North Georgia, which lost 4-3 to Columbus State.
Braves bats take day off in home loss
Matt Wisler came in from Triple A earlier in the day and pitched well, but the Braves had no offense in a 2-0 home loss to Miami before nearly 28,000 at SunTrust.
Nick Markakis had three hits for Atlanta.
College Baseball Roundup: Mercer rained out, UGA and Tech win
Mercer will honor its seniors before Saturday's 2 p.m. game with The Citadel, Friday's game being pushed back because of weather.
Georgia got a walk-off run-scoring single from LJ Talley for an 8-7 win over Arkansas, giving the Bulldogs the fourth seed in the SEC Tournament.
Georgia Tech scored a season-high in dumping No. 10 Duke 20-7, the first 20-run game since beating Savannah state 21-3 in 2016. It was the first time this season Duke has given up more than 10 runs.
College Softball: Georgia, Avant open NCAAs with win
Stratford alum Mary Wilson Avant went five innings and struck out eight to lead Georgia to a 6-2 win over Harvard in the NCAA Athens Regional.
Avant went five innings and improve to 10-3.
The Bulldogs play Northwestern at noon Saturday.
Georgia's Crean finalizes staff
As outlets reported recently, Tom Crean added Amir Abdur-Rahim to the Georgia basketball staff.
He is the brother of former NBA first-round pick Shareef Abdur-Rahim, and has been at Georgia Tech and College of Charleston, coming to Athens from Texas A&M.
The daily scoreboard, back to including high schools, is posted, and the daily schedule, including high school, is updated
This Week's Signings
Zoe Jordan, center.
Zoe Jordan, who won two state triple jump titles at Westside and scored points last weekend at the state meet for Howard, will keep in running and jump at Georgia Southern, with whom she signed Friday morning. ...
Add two more Bleckley County athletes to sign letters for the college level.
Girls soccer player Jasia Taylor and football player Andrew Butler signed on Thursday, Taylor with Brewton-Parker and Butler at LaGrange. ...
Three Northside football players signed on Thursday: Marcus Jolly with Albany State, Greg Coger with Iowa Wesleyan, and Eric Fleming with Huntingdon.
The ceremony included girls basketball player Tamia Sapp, who signed with Georgia Southwestern. ...
Veterans pitcher Daniel Hawthorn signed Thursday with Emmanuel College, a member of Division II Conference Carolinas.
Schoolmate Max Wilkins will continue his soccer career at Georgia State ...
A pair of East Laurens boys soccer players will take their skills about 35 miles away.
Bryce Robinson and Jon Eric Senn signed with Brewton-Parker. ...
Jones County girls sprinter Jazmyne Hambrick has signed with Life University in Marietta. ...
Central Georgia Tech has added a nearby former high schooler.
Alexis Cainion started her college career after graduating from Warner Robins at Andrew College, but is transferring to CGTC. She averaged 7.3 points and 2.9 rebounds in 22 games as a freshman.
She'll rejoin Demon teammate Victoria Brown, who will be in her second season with the Titans. ...
Multi-sport athlete Jaydon Norman of Warner Robins signed Wednesday to play football at Fort Valley State, alma mater of his basketball coach Jamaal Garman.
The school held a ceremony Wednesday that included Nelson Phillips, who signed before the season with Georgia State for basketball. ...
Another athlete from Houston County is headed to Limestone. This time, it's Houston County track athlete Javaris Michael.
Former Demon quarterback Ivan Corbin will be a junior on the football team, and D'Angelo Whitehead committed to Limestone in February for track. ...
It was a good Tuesday at Jones County for some football players.
Christian Veal signed with New Mexico Military Institute, a junior college that went 3-6 last year. Dayton Hunt is headed to Mount St. Joseph, a Division III program in Cincinnati that went 6-4 last year. ...
Warner Robins' Janiya Bryant has signed to run track with Brenau, an NAIA program in Gainesville. ...
Multi-sport athlete Aaron Kirkland at GMC has picked soccer, and has signed to play at Brewton-Parker. ...
Northside's Hoy Thurman IV has signed with Truett-McConnell for track and field. ...
It was a good Monday at Bleckley County, where a pair of girls basketball standout signed letters of intent.
Jahnaria Brown is headed to Georgia Highlands, a junior college in metro Atlanta that finished 19-13 last season.
Chania McRae signed with Brewton-Parker, which went 6-19. Former Northside standout Alexia Galloway was a freshman last season.