Saturday's Central Georgia Scoreboard: CGTC wins title again; nearly 40 scores
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SATURDAY
High School
Baseball
Islands 7, Mary Persons 3
The Bulldogs couldn’t turn a four-hit advantage into enough runs. Nate Howard, Conner Watson, and Eric Snow had two hits each, and Alex Kite drove in three runs.
Jones County 18, Perry 6; Perry 4, Jones County 1
The Greyhounds went from down 5-3 to up 10-5 with seven in the third in the opener. Logan McCoy went 4-for-5, and Chase Wright had three hits for the Greyhounds, who got two from Dominic Bass, Seth Daniels, Chandler Wooten, Dalton Chapman, and Chase Green en route to 21 hits. Andrew Newhouse, Wade Gordon, and Cam Mashburn had two hits for Perry. In the nightcap, things flipped as Jones County took a 1-0 lead after one on walk, sacrifice, grounder and wild pitch but proceeded to be no-hit by Jayden Chance, who struck out 10 with four walks. Chance, Tanner Knowles, and Colby McClease had two hits apiece for the Panthers.
Mount de Sales 12, Aquinas 1; Mount de Sales 11, Richmond Academy 1
The Cavs were in control with a 5-1 lead before a 7-run seventh. Jackson Taylor went 4-for-4 with three RBI, and Rossman Diaz added three hits and Andrew Craddock two. Taylor gave up six hits in six innings for the opener win. ARC took a 1-0 lead, and that was it, the Cavs getting more than enough with four in the second. Diaz drove in four runs on two hits, with Craddock getting two hits, two of the 10 Cavs getting a hit. Clay Murphy, Kobe Butts, and Drew Senn teamed for 11 strikeouts and two walks in the one-hitter.
North Broward Prep 12, Houston County 0
Tattnall 4, Stratford 3
Trey Ham drove in three runs, but the last was most important, a single to left to bring in Miles Morris from second with the two-out winning run in the bottom of the seventh. Morris reached on a one-out single and moved to second on an error. Ham and Carter Fink had two hits for Tattnall, matched by Stratford’s Waldon Davis and John Morgan Manley.
Tennis
G-Bleckley County 4, Tift County 1; Bleckley County 4, Brantley County 1
B-Beckley County 4, Tift County 1; Brantley County 3, Bleckley County 2
G-FPD 5, North Hall 0
B-FPD 3, North Hall 2
College
Baseball
ETSU 8, Georgia State 2; ETSU 5, Georgia State 1
Francis Marion 4, Georgia College 3; GC 6, FM 4
Georgia 7, Presbyterian 6; Georgia 8, Presbyterian 1
Basketball
M-CGTC 75, Georgia Highlands 65
CGTC wins the GCAA championship for the second straight year.
M-Furman 84, Mercer 75, Southern Conference Tournament
W-Georgia State 73, Georgia Southern 66
M-Georgia State 90, Georgia Southern 85
The Panthers win the regular-season Sun Belt title with the road win, their first at Hanner since 1996.
M-South Carolina 66, Georgia 46
Softball
Georgia 10, Bowling Green 2; Elon 5, Georgia 4
Kylie Bass (Jones County) whiffed nine in six innings in the opener for the win, and Mary Wilson Avant (Stratf0rd) struck out five in three innings of relief in the second game.
App State 6, Georgia Southern 5, 8 inn.
Georgia Southwestern 4, Georgia College 2; GC 5, GSW 2
MGSU 3, Blue Mountain 0, MGSU 10, Blue Mountain 1
Pro
Hockey
Fayetteville 4, Macon 1
NBA