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

SCOREBOARD

Wednesday

High School Basketball

Girls
Perry 59, Dooly County 47
Westside 63, Jackson 42

Boys

Dooly County 55, Perry 54
Westside 86, Jackson 71

College Basketball
M-Kennesaw State 81, North Florida 64

Pro

NBA
Sacramento 135, Atlanta 113

Around/About Central Georgia

GHSA reclassification committee to meet with a full plate

In The Latest Coverage.

Former Macon County standout Lane has transferred

          K’Hari Lane, who helped Macon County to the GHSA Class A public state title in 2015 has transferred from Arizona to Hutchinson Community College in Kansas.
          The Blue Dragons went 9-3 last year and beat Navarro College in the Salt City Bowl. They had 24 Georgians on the roster last season, including Jones County’s Drake Bolus, who will be a sophomore.

Georgia College baseball in a pair of national preseason polls

Samford locks up Hatcher for five more years

Honor Roll

          FVSU's Ashley Simmons-Blair and Shakerra Geter were voted to the SIAC preseason second team in softball.
          The Wildcats went 16-17 last year and open the season on Feb. 9 against Grambling and Claflin.
          Simmons-Blair of Aiken, S.C., is one of the three outfielders, while Geter is the catcher.
          Defending champion Albany State, Kentucky State and Tuskegee topped the preseason teams with four players each on two teams.
          Simmons-Blair boosted her average by 110 points last season to .284. She led the Wildcats by stealing 11 bases on 11 tries, and tied for the team lead with 24 runs.
          Geter returns to anchor the Wildcats battery where she fielded .973 with six errors in 221 chances. She batted .304, her second .300 season with the Wildcats. Geter was second on the team with 10 doubles and 17 walks, plus 18 RBI and a .435 slugging percentage. ...
          Sarah Middleton of GMC is the GCAA pitcher of the week. Middleton was 2-0 with 14 innings, two earned runs, nine strikeouts and two walks, with a 1.00 ERA.
          Mercer guard Shannon Titus is the Southern Conference women’s hoops player of the week for Jan. 22-28.
          She helped Mercer to a 2-0 week - with wins over Chattanooga and ETSU - by averaging a double-double with 20.5 points and 10.5 rebounds.
          Against Chattanooga, the sophomore had a game-high 24 points on 9-of-17 shooting, and tied a career high with nine rebounds. She was perfect on six free throws in 34 minutes.
          Two days later, the Johns Creek, Georgia, native was again the game's  top scorer, and  got the double-double with 17 points and a career-high 12 rebounds, adding three assists, three steals and three blocks.

Around/About Georgia

UGA impact in NFL, Super Bowl not new

Braves are ready

Rams’ Everett could’ve given up at Columbia High