Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: United win; GHSA football finals to (probably) change dates; Scoreboard; state college football
Sunday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
The college football follow-ups are here today, as is the Scoreboard.
ICYMI: Complete GHSA semifinals are up.
High School basketball and wrestling coaches: You should have received an email from The Sports Report through your AD on season info. Please check with your AD. Regardless, all should send their schedule to centralgasports@gmail.com for Central Georgia’s only schedule, and sent postgame results and information as soon as possible to centralgasports@gmail.com.
SUNDAY SCOREBOARD
College
Basketball
W-Mercer 76, Bowling Green 63, Coastal Carolina Thanksgiving Classic
Pro
NBA
Soccer
Atlanta turns in complete performance in win over New York
The United moved closer to the MLS Cup with a solid performance to counter a poor New York Red Bulls effort for a 3-0 win.
United success likely to play havoc with GHSA finals
A contingency plan was announced in July moving the football championships if Mercedes-Benz Stadium was to host the United in the championship. In The Latest Coverage.
ESPN’s Mark Schlabach the Macon Touchdown Club speaker
Longtime ESPN college reporter Mark Schlabach is Monday night’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club’s final regular meeting of the season.
Northeast is the featured high school. Georgia’s Kirby Smart is the jamboree speaker, preliminarily scheduled for February.
Schlabach is a Norcross and Georgia graduate, whose journalism career began at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution where his beats included UGA, the SEC, then the NFL and then NASCAR. He moved on to the Washington Post and covered college football and basketball, and boxing.
He joined ESPN in July 2006. In the past decade, he has authored or co-authored books on Bobby Bowden, John Heisman, and several on the Duck Dynasty family, with a number of titles making the New York Times best-seller list.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Cost is $30 for non-members, who needn't be accompanied by a member.
(High school teams: Send schedules and results – with game details, first and last names, and records – to centralgasports@gmail.com)
Football updates
Georgia
Column: the next step for the program awaits
Breaking news: Nick likes Fromm and Fields
Georgia Tech
The good news from Saturday: no turnovers
There was a bright spot or two
Georgia Southern
Column: losing hurts more than winning feels good for Eagles