Thursday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Georgia College fills up honor roll; Beer with the Bears; full Braves Report, including All-Stars;
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 sets record with conference presidential honor roll
Georgia College passed by eight its record for members of the Peach Belt Conference Presidential Honor, putting 144 athletes on the list for 2018-19.
It’s the seventh time more than 100 Bobcats were honored.
The PBC breaks the honor roll into four groups: students between 3.0-3.24 are Presidential Scholars, 3.25-3.49 are Bronze Scholars, 3.50-3.74 are Silver Scholars, 3.75-4.00 are Gold Scholars.
Georgia College’s baseball team led the program with 31 honorees, followed by soccer with 21 and softball with 18.
Georgia College had 50 Gold Scholars, 31 Silver Scholars, 31 Bronze Scholars and 32 Presidential Scholars.
Visit the list of all Georgia College honorees.
Also, Georgia College’s Sarah Wilder earned Google Cloud Academic All-America honors for Division II women’s track & field. She was the valedictorian last month, graduating with a degree in chemistry and minor in math.
Wilder was a PBC Elite 15 Award recipient this year, given to the student-athlete with the top GPA among those at the PBC Championships.
Beer with the Bears this fall
Macon Beer Company will host a Bear (beer) Garden this fall at Mercer home football games. In The Latest Coverage.
Footballs flying at Northside
The Eagles hosted a 7-on-7 camp for the 15th straight year, with teams from Ware County and Lithia Springs, and those in between.
Braves Report
Atlanta led 4-1 through three, and that was it.
Chicago scored three in the fourth and four in the fifth to take the lead and hold it – yes, Craig Kimbrel got the save – as the Cubs won 9-7 in afternoon action.
The Cubs had to blow past Bryce Wilson and Josh Tomlin first and get the lead on an offensive day to set up Kimbrel’s season debut.
Tomlin got the loss.
Kimbrel gave up a hit and a walk to go with a strikeout. After a two-out Ronald Acuna double and walk to Dansby Swanson, Kimbrel got Freddie Freeman on a first-pitch groundout to first.
Swanson, Nick Markakis, and Ozzie Albies had two hits each for Atlanta, Swanson with three RBI and Albies and Freeman with two each.
Next: Friday, at NY Mets, 7:10 p.m., MLB/FSSO; Saturday, at NY Mets, 4:10 p.m., FSSO; Sunday, at NY Mets, 7:05 p.m., ESPN
Kimbrel had some help to finish
Braves remain among NL’s elite
Tweeting with a writer before a start?
Around/About Central Georgia
Macon hammers Forest City
Macon turned 13 hits into 13 runs to, aided by three errors pop Forest City 13-1 in road Coastal Plain League action.
Jared Miller, Calvin Estrada, Roury Glanton, and Alex Canty each had two hits, with Estrada nad Daniel Harris driving in three runs each, and Miller two. M.J. Rookard, Estrada, and Canty scored twice, Miller three times.
Chace Harris improved to 3-1 after going five innings, throwing a one-hitter with four Ks and two BBs.
Macon hosts Lexington County on Friday (Bark in the Park), and is at Florence on Saturday and at Lexington County on Tuesday.
Around/About Georgia
UGA hoops rookie looking good, so far
Pondering Devonte Freeman’s future