Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.

The Scoreboard is in The Latest Coverage.

Honor Roll/Signings update to be posted Friday morning.

Only in The Sports Report: Upson-Lee’s Lockhart talks about leaving
          The thoughts began before this season started for Darrell Lockhart, even during the two undefeated seasons and state titles. Conflicted yet clear, Lockhart talked about a move that surprised many, in Upson County and elsewhere.
          In The Latest Coverage.

Henley home for the Masters
          Area media actually at the Masters with scores of national media doing the same things may finally notice that Maconite Russell Henley wasn’t in the field. But The Sports Report did before folks teed off.
          In the Latest Coverage.

Braves, Albies come to terms on debated contract
          The contract, as with Ronald Acuna, is very favorable for the Braves, leading to plenty of criticism that Albies’ agent deserves a second look.

Braves Report: Mets take opener
          The Mets got to Kevin Gausman for three in the second, and couldn’t do much with baserunners the rest of the way in a 6-3 loss, despite outhitting the Mets 9-7.

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Braves had chances

Snit got tossed: video

Around/About Central Georgia

Updating Region 1-6A’s spring
          Houston County goes for regular-season titles in girls and boys soccer on Friday, when the girls host Valdosta and the boys Lee County.
          The Bears’ tennis teams finished fourth, Coffee winning the region.
          The Houston County-Northside baseball doubleheader Friday is big. The Bears can clinch the top tournament seed with a split, but a Northside sweep pushes clarifying things into next week.

Around/About Georgia

Jake Fromm is ready for summer workouts with the newbies

Tennessee pitching hands Georgia a rare shutout