Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Ohhh, the Falcons; TD Club honors trio, to welcome Lamb as speaker; college football on UGA, Tech, GSU Atlanta, GSU Statesboro, and Kennesaw State
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 Braves Report is up, and the Daily Scoreboard appears here today.
SUNDAY
Scores
College
Soccer
MONDAY
Schedule
High school
Softball
Region 7-A tournament: resuming at 3 p.m., at GMC, Tattnall-GMC tied in bottom of the sixth, next at 4 or 6 p.m.; at Mount de Sales, Stratford-MdS restart game
Volleyball
5 p.m.
Central vs. Peach, at Westside; Howard at Westside
Northeast at Southwest; Rutland at Southwest; Rutland vs. Northeast, at Southwest
Softball and volleyball coaches should send region/area tournament schedules to centralgasports@gmail.com as soon as possible.
Dalton, Green break Falcons hearts in final seconds
Andy Dalton found a surprisingly open A.J. Green with a 13-yard touchdown pass with seven seconds left to give Cincinnati a 37-36 win over the Falcons.
Dalton moved the Bengals 75 yards in 16 plays for the winning drive, eating up about four minutes.
Green got behind and away from unusually soft coverage to make the game-winning catch. He caught four for 78 yards.
Cincinnati improved to 3-1, and the Falcons fell to 1-3 after losing for the second straight week despite scoring 30 points for the third straight week.
“Like taking your heart and ripping it out”
Column: Now, they’re in trouble
GHSA Class A softball ranking stays interesting
Region 7-A is almost like the SEC West in private school softball, with four of the top six teams in the latest GHSA rankings.
Now it’s FPD’s turn to be No. 1, taking over for Wesleyan, which had been there awhile.
Mount de Sales is third, Tattnall fourth, and Stratford fell to No. 6, George Walton squeezing in at fifth.
GMC and Hawkinsville have moved up to Nos. 4 and 5 in the public ranking, with ACE at No. 18 and Crawford County at No. 24.
Region tournament play has started. Teams should send schedules and postgame information to centralgasports@gmail.com as soon as possible
Macon TD Club honors pair from Mary Persons and Howard
Two schools are represented by this week’s Macon Touchdown Club players of the week.
Mary Persons’ Quen Wilson is the back of the week after rushing 21 times for 161 yards and a touchdown, plus 92 receiving yards, in the 21-0 region win over Spalding, improving the second-ranked Bulldogs to 6-0.
Howard’s DeAndre Shelton is the lineman of the week, the linebacker recording nine tackles, two for loss, five QB pressures, and a recovery for a touchdown in the 16-10 win over West Laurens.
There were no special teams nominations.
Bobby Lamb is the Macon Touchdown Club speaker
Mercer head coach Bobby Lamb is the featured speaker Monday night at the Macon Touchdown Club.
Mary Persons is the featured high school.
Lamb has been Mercer’s only head coach since the program was revived, and his record with the Bears improved to 35-27 with Saturday’s 48-38 win at VMI. He recently cracked the 100-win mark for his career, and is 102-67, his other wins and losses coming while at Furman, his alma mater.
Taking the Mercer job was the first time Lamb had been anywhere since he signed with Furman as a high school standout out of Commerce, where he played for his dad, Georgia high school coaching legend Ray Lamb.
In his years as a coach, starting in 1986 as a student assistant with quarterback at Furman, Lamb has been a part of only five losing seasons.
The Lamb family has football blood running through the veins. Bobby’s brother Hal is head coach at Calhoun, his nephew Tre is the offensive coordinator at alma mater Tennessee Tech after coaching quarterbacks at Mercer, and his son Taylor was a record-setting quarterback at Appalachian State and is now an offensive graduate assistant at South Carolina.
Bobby, Tre, and Taylor were all quarterbacks, and Hal a wide receiver.
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.
United flat in road loss
The Atlanta United didn’t have much juice and were beaten 2-0 by the New York Red Bulls in a hyped game that didn’t live up to it.
(High school teams: Send schedules and results – with game details, first and last names, and records – to centralgasports@gmail.com)
Football updates
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Georgia Southern
Straying from the option temporarily worked
Georgia State
Kennesaw State