Thursday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Ga. College's Moller honored; MGSU signs nine in men's BKB; Bacon win; Hawks draft; The Braves Report; Savannah State/NCAA; state college roundup; more
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.
Georgia College’s Möller take big academic honor
The resume of Georgia College tennis standout Robin Möller continues to grow with academic honors.
He was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America third team by the College Sports Information Directors Association Thursday.
The first Academic All-American in program history has a 3.94 in exercise science. No. 18 nationally in singles, he went 15-2 last season, with wins over four nationally ranked players.
e teamed with Matt Rogel for a 16-3 doubles record, good for No. 3 in the nation.
Möller also earned special designation in the National Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship award.
The Google academic program recognizes athletes in four divisions: NCAA Division I, II, and III, and College Division (NAIA, Canadian, two-year schools and other affiliations).
Middle Georgia State men’s hoops add nine, including Central Georgians
Experience is not an issue with most of the nine-player class signed by Middle Georgia State head men’s basketball coach Scott Moe.
The Knights added five juniors, two sophomores, and two freshmen.
Warner Robins’ Trevon Williams is one of the freshmen. The 5-10 guard helped the Demons to a 23-7 record and Sweet 16 appearance last year.
Dodge County grad Nick Cummings joins MGSU by way of a year at South Georgia Tech. The 6-2 versatile athlete averaged 7.5 points and 5.3 rebounds last year at SGT.
Quen Murray is a post from East Georgia State who graduated from Washington County. The 6-6 forward averaged 4.8 points and 4.2 rebounds last season while shooting 56 percent from the floor.
The other signees, and their previous schools/hometowns:
F Josue Passius, Marion (Ala.) Military Institute, Lake Worth, Fla.; G Jordan Willis, Albany Tech, Thomasville; G Ijon Owens, Central Georgia Tech, Crisp County; G Eugene Lamont Ballard, East Georgia State, Statesboro; W Daniel Cooper, Georgia Southern, Statesboro; and G Jahwan Smith, Middle Georgia Prep, Kell High.
The Knights went 19-13 last season, 11-11 in the SSAC.
Good start propels Macon to home win
A touchdown lead after two innings was more than enough for Macon to roll past Florence 10-5 Thursday in Coastal Plain League action at Luther Williams Field.
Florence made it interesting with three in the ninth.
Roury Glanton led Macon with a 2-for-4 night and four RBI. Jared Miller and Alec Cargin each had two hits and two RBI, while M.J. Rookard (MGSU) and Clavin Estrada each scored twice.
Cort Roedig struck out six with a walk and two hits in five innings to get his first win.
Glanton’s three-run double keyed a four-run first, and Macon pieced together three singles, a walk, and fielder’s choice to put up three runs in the second.
Macon improved to 12-6, and leads the South Division, a half-game up on Savannah. The Bacon have the best record in the league.
Savannah visits Macon on Friday, and Macon is at Savannah for two straight then Gastonia, which comes to Macon on Tuesday.
Hawks get two in abbreviated draft night
Atlanta did some wheeling and dealing, and ended up with a pair of ACC guards/wings from Virginia and Duke.
So odd are the NBA rules that Atlanta can’t talk about its first pick, De’Andre Hunter, the result of a draft-day trade.
Atlanta took Marcos Louzada Silva, a strong forward from Brazil, with the fifth pick of the second round, but he was sent to the Pelicans in a proposed trade. They traded up to 34th and picked Bruno Fernando, another trade after the pick, sort of.
Reddish to sit out summer league
It was an odd night, but a pretty good night
Braves Report
Next: Friday, at Washington, 7:05 p.m., FSSO; Saturday, at Washington, 7:15 p.m., FOX; Sunday, at Washington, 1:35 p.m., FSSO; Monday, at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m., FSSE; Tuesday, at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m., FSSE
Around/About Georgia
NCAA pops Savannah State for years of violations
State college roundup (from sports information depts.)
Georgia golfers Trent Phillips, Spencer Ralston, and Davis Thompson have been chosen as All-Americans, according to an announcement Thursday by PING and the Golf Coaches Association of America.
Phillips earned second-team designation, while Ralston and Thompson garnered honorable mention status. Thirty-one Georgia golfers have been picked as All-Americans 65 times during head coach Chris Haack’s 23 seasons.
Georgia Tech’s Andy Ogletree and Luke Schniederjans were named to the team.
Ogletree was named to the GCAA second team, while Schniederjans was named to the third team.
The rising Yellow Jacket seniors, who both made the All-ACC team and the GCAA All-East Region team earlier this spring, earned All-America honors for the first time in their careers.
Ogletree, from Little Rock, Miss., finished the year as Tech’s highest ranked player at No. 19 by Golfstat and No. 23 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index. Schniederjans, from Powder Springs, finished No. 30 by Golfstat and No. 22 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index. …
Georgia Southern football player Lane Ecton and Georgia State track athlete Nuria Ramirez earned Sun Belt Conference post-graduate scholarships as the top male and female winners in the conference.
That duo had each earned a $6,500 scholarship toward graduate work, while five others will get $3,000 toward their graduate degree.
Ramirez graduated summa cum laude in December with a Bachelor's degree in biology with a 3.84 grade point average. Ecton graduated magna cum laude this fall with a Bachelor's degree in sport management, boasting a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Georgia State’s Gabe Mobley also earned a scholarship, the owner of a 3.77 GPA in history.
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