Tuesday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Justin Fields, the Pro Bowl, and some football
Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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The first football signing period is Wednesday, and The Sports Report will have your coverage, albeit not breathless minute-by-minute accounts. Check around lunch, and mid-afternoon. All should be done by dinnertime.
Fields has one foot out the door in Athens
Georgia quarterback Justin Fields is in the NCAA Transfer Portal, allowing other programs to contact him. And the early frontrunner is Urban Meyer’s soon-to-be-former employer.
Honor Roll
Warner Robins senior quarterback Dylan Fromm was named the Atlanta Touchdown Club's Mr. Georgia Award as the top senior football player in Georgia.
Fromm passed for 4,375 yards and 46 touchdowns for the state runners-up, and finished his career with 7,899 yards, unoffically good for 18th all-time in Georgia.
Last week, Demon wideout Marcayll Jones was named co-winner of the club's Little Peach Award to the state's top underclassmen. He set the state single-season receiving yardage mark a few weeks ago and passed 2,000 yards in the GHSA 5A state title game, in which he had a whopping 14 catches for 179 yards and a touchdown. ...
Veterans baseball alum Gabe Holt has been named a preseason All-American by Collegeiate Baseball.
The Texas Tech sophomore made the second team after earning Freshman All-American honors last year with a .348 average, six homers and 44 RBI to go with 29 steals.
Mercer's Le Bassett was named to the third team. The sophomore shortstop hit 17 homers and drove in 60 runs, batting .282. ...
Former Peach County standout Darrell White of Middle Georgia State is the latest SSAC men's player of the week.
The senior guard averaged 24 points, 4 assists, 3.5 steals, and 3 rebounds in two games, going 43 percent from the floor and 92 percent from the line. ...
Mercer forward Amanda Thompson has been named the Southern Conference women’s basketball player of the week for games played Dec. 4-10 after averaging 14.0 points and 7.5 rebounds as the Bears went 1-1 on the week.
She made a career-high nine field goals and scored 18 points, tying a career high, in a 57-56 loss to ACC foe Florida State on Dec. 5. Thompson added eight rebounds, three assists and two steals in the one-bucket home loss.
She then scored 14 points and had seven rebounds in a 57-40 win over Charlotte.
The preseason all-conference selection is third in the Southern with 7.4 rebounds, fourth with 2.3 steals, and 10th in scoring with 9.9 points. ...
Bleckley County grad and Georgia softball signee Hannah Coulter recently graduated from Gordon State Magna Cum Laude.
Around Georgia
Making the Pro Bowl …
Atlanta’s Julio Jones and Alex Mack were named Tuesday to the Pro Bowl. New Orleans, Chicago, and Dallas led the NFC with five picks each, and the L.A. Rams topped the AFC with seven.
