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.
The Braves Report is in.
The Scoreboard is up, with softball playoffs and some Mercer and Georgia College.
GHSA sets dates and locations for basketball semifinals
Two Central Georgia locations will again host GHSA basketball semifinals in March.
The Class AA will be at Georgia College and Class 5A at Fort Valley State, both on Saturday, March 2.
The only semi not on that date is Class 4A at Columbus State on Friday, March 1.
Others: A Public at Valdosta State; A Private at Columbus State; AAA at Georgia Southern/Armstrong; 6A at West Georgia; 7A at Buford City Arena.
All finals will be at the Macon Coliseum from March 6-9.
UGA baseball dismisses Sasser after racial comments toward Fields
A few days after it became news that a Georgia baseball player continually directed racial comments toward Georgia quarterback Justin Fields, Adam Sasser was cut from the Bulldog baseball team.
Sasser was an all-SEC second team pick last year and would’ve been Georgia’s top returning hitter.
He was exposed to have said several racial things regarding Fields during Saturday’s win over Tennessee, surrounded by friends who reportedly just laughed, and ignored those who challenged them to stop.
Sasser also posted an apology on Twitter.
Around Central Georgia
Former pitcher Kane Keith is back in the Georgia College baseball dugout as pitching coordinator.
Keith pitched for two years for the Bobcats, then spent 2018 as a student assistant, helping the Bobcats to a 44-12 record, the Peach Belt regular-season and tournament titles, and a 4.22 team ERA.
Honor Roll
Georgia Southern's Logan Hunt, a senior from Washington County, is the latest Sun Belt Conference defensive player of the week.
He had a career-high nine total tackles as the Eagles D was clutch against the Arkansas State offense. He also had a career high 3.5 tackles for loss and 3 sacks as the Eagles came up with six sacks in the game.
Hunt leads the Sun Belt and is 16th nationally in sacks per game. ...
Mercer forward Trevor Martineau is the Southern Conference men’s soccer player of the week.
The Bears beat Presbyterian and Georgia Southern, and Martineau had an assist and then the game-winner against PC. He had one of the Bears' two goals in the win over GSU. ...
Mercer's Tee Mitchell is the Southern Conference Student-Athlete of the Week.
Mitchell had career-highs of 25 carries and three rushing touchdowns along with 129 yards in Mercer's 48-38 win over The Jacksonville, Fla. native leads the conference with 416 rushing yards, and is second with five rushing TDs.
The marketing major has a GPA above the 3.3 needed for the honor. He earned CoSIDA academic All-American honors in 2015.
Football updates
Georgia
More talking about this funky QB non-plan
Georgia Tech
Falcons