Thursday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes
Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.
The Braves Report’s first edition is up, postgame to come
The Scoreboard is being updated, final edition around 11 p.m.
Thursday’s high school menu is fuller than anywhere else
As always, you can find more results and info here than anywhere else, scores and details, in the Scoreboard.
There are the state h.s. football polls and a roundup on the Central Georgia teams. There is the list of predictions by the Maxwell Ratings. And The Sports Report’s weekly predictions – don’t get testy, we’re doing pretty good – are up.
More softball information is available in The Scoreboard, including the current playoff edition, updated throughout the night.
Coming Friday morning, preview capsules on the top games of the week and the full schedule, now separated by classification.
Go back and revisit prep stuff for the week, including an early look at some region races and some notes in the Monday Afternoon Quarterback, the top 20 Central Georgia teams and their statewide ranking, as per the Maxwell ratings.
Georgia State falls at Troy
Troy jumped out to a 14-0 lead and was never threatened in improving to 5-1 overall and 3-0 in the Sun Belt while GSU fell to 2-4 and 1-1.
The Trojans gave up five more first downs, but outgained GSU 337-139 on the ground and 554-431 in total offense. The Panthers were only 3 for 12 on third down to 10 for 15 for the Trojans.
Honor Roll
Mercer's softball team is among the top 25 teams on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association academic team list, and the men’s soccer team earned a Team Academic Award by the United Soccer Coaches for the 10th straight year.
The Bears are No. 25 with a 3.516 GPA, as the top Southern Conference team. Grand Canyon was first with a 3.790.
The soccer team is one of 289 to be recognized, and one of four Southern Conference teams. Teams must have a 3.0 GPA for the entire year. ...
Abigail Zoeller of Mercer is the SoCon women’s soccer player of the month.
She leads the conference with 24 points and 58 shots, and is tied for first with nine goals and six assists. …
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
Trying to get the O going earlier
Georgia Tech
Petrino says Tech jerseys pose a problem
Is a Friday night home game a possibility?
Kennesaw State
Owls to face son of USC-East hall of famer
Falcons