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.
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The Scoreboard, with high school and college hoops, is up in The Latest Coverage.
The United finish off the Red Bulls to reach the MLS Cup
In just its second season, the Atlanta United will play for the MLS Cup, thanks to a 1-0 win over the New York Red Bulls and an aggregate 3-1 win.
And disrupt the GHSA football finals
As expected, the United won, so the GHSA state championships will be held on a Tuesday and Wednesday simply to play at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Georgia Tech’s Paul Johnson holds his resignation press conference
The outgoing coach sat with athletics director Todd Stansbury a day after announcing his resignation. With stories and social media posts, in The Latest Coverage.
The voices of the Braves are changing
A former Braves favorite picks up a bigger role in the broadcast booth as the team makes changes.
Thursday’s high school buffet has variety of flavors
Re-visitables: A Hump Day Monday Afternoon Quarterback (always worth a visit); Rutland’s Daniel resigns.
Coming Friday morning, previews on Northside, Warner Robins, and Peach County, with the Sports Report’s predictions.
Honor Roll
John Milledge alum Harrison Bryant has added to the resume by being named to the Conference USA All-Academic football team.
The Florida Atlantic tight end has a 3.676 GPA in health administration. The junior was listed on the 2018 Mackey Award watch list, an honor that recognizes the nation’s best tight end. Bryant has scored four times this season while passing 1,000 career receiving yards. ...
Ty'lik Evans has traveled around a bit since his days at Rutland, but he's still a standout, as evidenced by his latest honor, Peach Belt men's hoops player of the week.
The USC Aiken senior had a double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds in a win over Elizabeth City State, hitting half of his 3s and adding three ssists and three steals. ...
The trio of Amanda Bartholomew, Unnbjorg Omarsdottir, and Kai Jeffries of Georgia College were named to U.S. Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region teams.
Bartholomew earned a second-team spot scored eight goals and had four assists in 13 games this season, before a career-ending injury.
Omarsdottir and Jeffries made the third team. Omarsdottir and Jeffries made the second team. Omarsdottir, earlier a D2CCA All-Region pick, had four goals and three assists in 21 games played this season. Jeffries had two assists this season and started 20 of 21 games played. ...
Former Peach County standout Nausia Woolfolk was named the MVP of the Junkanoo Jam Tournament in the Bahamas after scoring 25 points in the championship game.
The junior led Florida State to the tourney title win over No. 12/14 Iowa 71-67. She went 8 for 11 at the line and grabbed five rebounds to go with two steals.
She had eight points and eight rebounds in a 62-45 win over Eastern Kentucky.
Woolfolk will be back in familiar environments on Dec. 5 when the 6-1 Seminoles visit Mercer.
This Week's Signings
Houston County wrestling standout Reed Vincent signed Wednesday with Emmanuel College. He finished sixth last spring at 152 in the GHSA wrestling Class 6A tournament.
Bear baseball players Chandler Dawson and Cam Jones followed up commitments by signing with Georgia State.
Jones was a first-team Georgia Dugout all-stater last spring while Dawson made the second team. Jones pitched 59 innings and Jones 43.2 on the 2016 state title team. Last year, Dawson was 4-2 with a 1.68 ERA and Jones went 11-3 with a 1.59 ERA.
Jones was the Region 1-6A pitcher of the year last year, and Dawson made the first team.
Football updates
Georgia
Georgia Southern
Eagles all over the Sun Belt team (except at coach?)
Kennesaw State
The battle of the options, with Wofford
Falcons