The Central Georgia signings continued Thursday.

          FPD golfer Jay Spivey will be able to get some fresh laundry and home-cooked meals while in college, signing Thursday morning with Mercer, while Mary Persons softball standout Destiny Middleton will be on her own after signing with North Carolina.

          Spivey helped the Vikings to the Class A title in 2016 and runner-up finishes in 2015 and 2017. He won the Junior Peach Blossom and qualified for the Southeast Junior tour, was sixth at the GHSA tournament in May, and third last summer in the Idle Hour Championship behind former Duke player Steve Welsh and ex-pro Coleman Tidwell.

          He picked Mercer over UAB, Elon, and South Florida.

          Middleton helped Mary Persons to a 17-11 record and second-place finish in Region 2-4A and a first-round playoff win over Cross Creek.

          Former Dodge County standout Hannah Coulter is headed to Georgia after a year at Gordon State in Barnesville.

          She hit .312 last season with three homers and 23 RBI and will be in Athens this spring.

          Coulter joins Mary Wilson Avant of Stratford and Kylie Bass of Jones County with the Bulldogs.

          GMC’s Jordan Waller signed to continue her softball career at Albany State. She helped the Bulldogs to a 16-8 record and spot in the GHSA Class A Public playoffs.

           Lamar County Aishja Wilcher signed Thursday with Alabama State of the SWAC.

          Houston County’s Chandler Dawson and Cameron Jones are the latest to sign with Georgia State for baseball.

           Veterans’ Shaianne Sipsey followed up a recent commitment and signed a track scholarship at South Carolina.

College signing

          Central Georgia Tech’s Anyeuri Castillo has signed with the Appalachian State men’s basketball program.

          The Meadowcreek grad averaged 11.9 points last year and shot 55.6 percent, helping the Titans to the NJCAA tournament.

          Stratford grad O’Showen Williams is a junior with the Mountaineers.

Earlier this week

          From Stratford to Starkville and the SEC.

          That’s the journey for Devin Butts, who signed a national letter intent to play basketball at Mississippi State Wednesday morning.

Butts was joined by two classmates at a signing ceremony.

          Will Chambless will play golf at Georgia State and Autumn Land softball at GMC.

          Butts has scored 627 points entering his senior season, with 105 assists and 179 rebounds, all in two years of varsity play. He was the 7-A Player of the year as a junior, and is in the top 10 at Stratford in single-season 3-pointers tried (sixth), single-season free-throw percentage (first), 3-pointers made (10th) and career 3-points tried (fifth).

          Chambless had a 74.5-stroke average last year. Land has a .315 career average with 110 hits, 50 RBI, 122 runs, and a .904 fielding percentage.

          Tattnall baseball player Trey Ham is headed to Lipscomb of the Atlantic Sun conference, a former league rival of Mercer.

          Ham helped the Trojans to last year’s GHSA Class A Private state title.

          Lipscomb, in Nashville, finished 24-30 last year but reached the A-Sun tournament championship.

          Westfield softball standout Riley Hickok signed with Mercer.

          She went 11-1 for the Hornets, including a perfect game in August, and helped Westfield to two GISA state titles.