Saturday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes
Saturday'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 and daily scoreboard are up.
SCOREBOARD
Saturday
Scores
College
Golf
M-Mercer, tied third, David Toms Intercollegiate, second round halted
Soccer
W-Georgia College 0, Flagler 0
Volleyball
Chattanooga def. Mercer 25-17, 25-19, 25-20
Georgia College def. Lander 25-19, 11-25, 25-16, 16-25, 15-8
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 VMI.
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.
United nips Revs
Atlanta edged New England 2-1 in MLS action.
Tech’s Johnson got want he wanted: VanGorder’s, um, attention(?)
There was perception that Brian VanGorder dismissed the option offense when he took over at Georgia Southern, and Paul Johnson was not happy. Then came Friday night.
Column: All Tech did was run and score, run and score
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