Tuesday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Tobias Oliver, Hawkinsville FB coach, Mercer tennis honorees, and football
Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
The full Scoreboard is coming in The Latest Coverage, along with a master playoff schedule, but game details will be in the main scoreboard.
Another Honor Roll/Signings update is coming.
Tech giving Tobias Oliver a look at CB
The Northside grad has gotten some snaps in the secondary, just to check things out.
Braves Report
Max Fried wasn’t going to pitch forever Tuesday night. Unfortunately. He left after six innings and a 5-2 lead, but Arizona put up four in the seventh en route to a 9-6 win at SunTrust.
Next: Wednesday; vs. Arizona, 7:20 p.m., FSSE; Thursday, vs. Arizona, 12:10 p.m., FSSE; Friday, at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m., FSSO; Saturday, at Cleveland, 4 p.m., FSSO.
More to come.
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Hawkinsville names Williamson
The Pulaski County Board of Education approved Shane Williamson Tuesday night as the newest head football coach at Hawkinsville.
He replaces Will Conner, out after three years and a 12-20 record.
Williamson comes from Lumpkin County, where he went 8-22 in three seasons. That followed three years and a 12-18 record at Forsyth Central. He led Forsyth Central to its first winning season in 13 years in 2014 when the Bulldogs, then in 5A, went 6-4.
Williamson went 24-29 in five seasons at Toombs County after starting his head coaching career at Swainsboro, going 42-24-2 from 2002-2007.
He has also been an assistant at Tift County, Appling County, and Montgomery County, with experience as a wrestling coach and assistant principal.
Williamson becomes the Red Devils’ fifth head coach since 2007, following Lee Campbell, Cam Black, David Daniell, and Conner.
Hawkinsville won the 2014 GHSA Class A public state title, but has struggled with consistency since taking the 2004 Class A title under Campbell.
The Red Devils are 59-50 the past decade, 46-49 when excluding the 13-1 season in 2014.
Mercer’s Stuart takes top SoCon tennis honor; Sidor picked
Junior Oliver Stuart was picked as the Southern Conference men’s tennis player of the year on Tuesday.
Nicolas Guillon joined Stuart on the first team, and they teamed to make first team in doubles.
David Georgadze made the All-Freshman team.
Senior Katie Sidor made the women’s first team.
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