Thursday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: The Braves Report is here; Honor Roll (FVSU, Ga. College)
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.
Midnight edition
THURSDAY’S SCOREBOARD
High School
Football
Bleckley County 33, Southwest 12
College
Basketball
M-Georgia 98, West Georgia 59, exhibition
M-Georgia State 78, Georgia College 58, exhibition
Pro
NBA
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.
A Central Georgia preview of the GHSA state cross country meet was posted Thursday. Bleckley County and GMC among the teams to watch.
Re-visitables: Warner Robins has to forfeit a win; the state h.s. football polls and a roundup on the Central Georgia teams (where do our area’s top teams rank among the state’s top teams regardless of class). 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.
Head back to the Monday Afternoon Quarterback for a read, including how Central Georgia’s top 20 teams rank statewide in the Maxwell computer rankings, and region playoff projections.
Ready for breakfast: a breakdown of the prime region playoff races - other than straight up region championships - and preview capsules on the top games of the week.
The Braves Report
Braves’ Inciarte give United’s Martinez something
Should the Braves go for Realmuto?
Acuna picks up a few more top-rookie awards
Little reason to make qualifying offer to Markakis?
Catcher Lopez joins the Braves
Around Central Georgia
Mercer is hosting the Southern Conference women’s soccer semifinals and final this weekend.
Top-seeded Samford pays No. 5 Furman at 4 p.m. Friday with No. 2 UNCG and No. 3 ETSU to follow. The final is Sunday at 2 p.m.
ETSU eliminated No. 6 Mercer 1-on Sunday.
Honor Roll
Ashlee Graham, Unnbjorg Omarsdottier, and Amanda Bartholomew were named to the Peach Belt's all-conference women's soccer teams.
Graham, a senior goalkeeper, was a first-team pick while Omarsdottier and Bartholomew were second-team choices.
Graham is first in the PBC in minutes and shutouts, second in saves, third in saves percentage, and fourth in goals-against average in making her second all-conference team.
Omarsdottier is a leader on a defensive line that helped get 10 shutouts, but also played offense and scored four goals with three assists.
Georgia College’s Ashlee Graham, Unnbjorg Omarsdottier, and Amanda Bartholomew
Bartholomew missed time with an injury, but still finished 10th in goals and 13th in points. She was an All American last year as well as PBC player of the year.
The Bobcats face Young Harris at 3 p.m. on Friday in the conference tournament semifinals in Evans. ...
Fort Valley State's Nia Bell is the SIAC's volleyball Newcomer of the Week.
With four double-figure kill matches and two double-doubles, Bell had 71 kills (3.74 kills/set), 46 digs (2.42 digs/set), 11 blocks and five service aces in 19 sets covering four matches. She put the exclamation point in a road win over Benedict with 28 kills, 22 digs and three aces to lead the way.
In a doubleheader, she had 16 kills and 11 digs followed by 12 kills and nine digs. ...
The Georgia College volleyball team swept the Peach Belt Conference weekly award.
Senior Kayla Brockway is the specialist and Libby Bochniak the player of the Week.
Brockway had a record-setting week, becoming the first player in program history to post 4,000 assists, pushing her to third on the PBC’s all-time career assist list. She led the Bobcats to three wins, averaging 12.10 assists and 2.70 digs per set. Brockway is ranked second in assists per set and fourth in total assists in the PBC.
Bochniak had her fourth straight match of double-digit kills, to go with only nine attack errors in 102 attempts, and four assists, five blocks and three aces. She averaged 4.30 kills in three games.
Football updates
Georgia
Players: There's criticism of Chaney? Don't care
Work on and off the field paying off for Holloman
SEC race runs through ... Lexington? In football?
Georgia Tech
Tech defense has some focal points on UNC offense
A look at the Jackets and Heels
FVSU
The jockeying for tailgating spots shall soon begin as Fort Valley State and Albany State get ready for the 29th Fountain City Classic in Columbus.
ESPN3 will stream the game, with undefeated-in-conference Albany State and FVSU, off an upset of Morehouse. The Rams are No. 7 in the latest Super Region Two rankings, and are the third such regionally ranked team the Wildcats will face.
Georgia Southern
The option and the nightmares for ULM
Georgia State
Kennesaw State
The Owls are sixth in the first FCS playoff committee poll.
Falcons
Deion Jones gives the foot a try
Quinn's dance: on Jones, on the playoffs