Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

Saturday, the scoreboard, schedule and The Braves Report are here, in Daily News ‘n Notes

 

The Peach State college football preview will be posted around noon.

 

Friday

Scores

High School

Softball

GMC 9, East Jackson 0

Rutland 9, ACE 0

 

College

Soccer

W-Georgia College 1, Montevallo 0

W-Austin Peay 1, Mercer 0

M-Mercer 1, Missouri State 1

 

Volleyball

FVSU def. Columbia International 25-18, 222-25, 25-23, 26-24

Columbia International def. FVSU 15-25, 23-25, 29-27, 28-26, 15-11

Georgia College def. Lincoln Memorial 19-25, 25-20, 26-24, 25-17

 

Mercer def. Alabama A&M 25-17, 2520, 25-11

Mercer def. Tenn.-Martin 2-21, 21-25, 25-19, 25-22

 

The Braves Report

Arizona takes another one from Atlanta, Gausman rare off night

Youngsters to chip in on mound

 

Football update

Falcons

Atlanta adjusts to news about Neal

Julio and the red-zone woes

Matt Ryan speaks

Julio Jones speaks

Regaining some swagger on O

Paging Mr. Ridley

It was the dead zone

Pregame: a look at Xs and Os and RPOs