Sunday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard, honor roll, Tech FB, and a hunk of Braves
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 Scoreboard is here.
FYI
NFC: L.A. Rams 26, New Orleans 23, OT
AFC: New England 37, Kansas City 31, OT
Super Bowl 531: Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m., in Atlanta, Los Angeles Rams vs. New England
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College
Basketball
W-Georgia Tech 65, No. 12 Syracuse 55
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High School
Wrestling
Smiths Station, Ala. Invitational
9th. Houston County, 93 points (20-team field)
Champ: Bryan Hernandez, 138; Reed Vincent, 160
Third: Thomas Swart, 195
Hernandez won one match with a pin in seven seconds, and went 5-0, four pins, and won 9-1 in the final. Vincent won with two pins and a 9-1 win. Swart had three falls, the loss 10-6 to the runner-up, and went 5-1. The Bears also got points from Alexander Payan (138), Caden McIver (120), Conner McElroy (220), and Bernardo Barboza (285)
Honor Roll
FPD grad Wilson Andress is the Georgia Southern golf program's first Dr. Richard Rogers Award for excellence in the classroom and on the course.
Named in honor of Dr. Richard Rogers, a huge program supporter and former facult rep and chair of the Psychology Department, the award will go each semester to the Eagle who best exemplifies the term "student-athlete."
Andress was second with a 70.86 scoring average in the fall and posted two top-10 and four top-20 finishes. The freshman shot 68-70-69=207 to tie for fourth at the AutoTrader Collegiate Classic for the best finish of his young career. The civil engineering major had a 4.0 in the fall semester. ...
Mercer placed 45 on the Southern Conference fall All-Academic team, including cross country's Marina Van Sickle, one of 19 overall conference athletes to earn a 4.0.
ETSU led all schools with 51 members on the academic all-conference team, while Mercer was second with 45 and Western Carolina was third with 41. …
Fort Valley State's Jaylon McMillan is the SIAC men's basketball player of the week.
The senior shooting guard led FVSU to its first 2-0 week with a 105-97 road win over Spring Hill and a 61-57 home win over rival Albany State (61-57).
McMillan averaged 30.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists, playing every minute in both games. He shot55.3 percent from the floor and 63.6 from 3.
He had 27 points in the first half at Spring Hill, and ended up hitting 9 of 11 3-pointers to go with four steals. That 40-point night pushed McMillan over the 1,000 career point plateau as well.
His 12 first-half points helped the Wildcats top Albany State, and he finished with 21 points, five 3-pointers and five rebounds. McMillan leads the Wildcats with 17.7 points, and adds 3.5 rebounds a game. ...
Mercer's Ross Cummings is the Southern Conference men’s basketball player of the week.
Cummings poured in a career-high 36 points and added four rebounds and two assists as the Bears picked up their first SoCon win, snapping a three-game losing streak with an 84-80 win over Western Carolina last Thursday.
Cummings was 12 for 19 from the floor (63.2 percent), including 7 for 11 (63.6 percent) from 3/
The Dickson, Tennessee, native followed that with a game-high 22 points in a 72-68 overtime loss to ETSU on Saturday, doing damage in the second half with 17 points. Cummings also had four rebounds. ...
Jeremy King’s senior year at Valdosta State remains a very good one.
About a month after helping the Blazers to the NCAA Division II national title, the Westside grad added D2Football.com and Associated Press All-American and Don Hansen All-Super Region II teams to his resume.
Late in the season, he finished second in the Gene Upshaw Division II Lineman of the Year Award.
He started every game in 2018 at center for the 14-0 Blazers, helping them rewrite pages in the record book on offense, and played in nearly 50 games in his career.
King was joined on the Hansen regional team by
Northside’s Quentin Stanford, Westside’s Jeremy King, Peach County’s Omar Cervantes, and Dodge County’s Cam Young.
West Georgia’s Stanford and Valdosta State’s King made the first team on offense, and West Georgia’s Cervantes the second team at placekicker and Fort Valley State’s Young on the third-team defense.
Stanford was a three-year starter at West Georgia, earning multiple all-conference and region honors. Cervantes was 15 of 18 on field goals and 28 of 29 on PATs, leading West Georgia with 73 points
Young is one of 18 players from the SIAC on the teams.
Young, a two-time first-team All-SIAC pick, was an anchor last year, with 8.5 tackles a game, 5.4 solos, along with 2.5 tackles for loss of six yards, a forced and recovered fumble, two pass breakups, and a blocked kick.
The safety had 20 tackles, 14 solo, against regionally-ranked Lenoir Rhyne, and had 14 tackles against Tuskegee. ...
Fredricka Sheats of CGTC is the Central Georgia Technical College has been selected as the GCAA Division I women's Player of the Week. Sheats averaged 22 points, nine rebounds, two steals and 3.5 assists in two games.
Around/About Georgia
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