Monday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Honor Roll/Signings, MLB draft, Braves Report (and draft)
Monday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Honor Roll/Signings updated, with MGSU, Stratford, Georgia College (multiple), Perry, Mercer, and CGTC
Georgia’s Schunk picked in the second round
Versatile junior Aaron Schunk was picked Monday in the MLB first-year player draft in the second round to Colorado.
Slow first day coming for state in draft?
Schunk went 92nd overall as the first college player from Georgia taken.
He earned the team’s triple crown, leading Georgia in average (.339), homers (15), and RBI (58), the first Bulldog to do that since Zach Cone in 2010.
Schunk was also Georgia’s closer, with 12 saves and a 2.49 ERA, plus a 1-2 record. He is a finalist for the second straight year for the John Olerud Award to the nation’s top two-way player.
Other players from Georgia picked on the first day: Blessed Trinity shortstop C.J. Abrams, sixth, to San Diego; Georgia Prep Academy pitcher Daniel Espino, 23rd to Cleveland; and Collins Hill shortstop Nasim Nunez, 51st to Miami.
Rounds 3-10 are Tuesday starting at 1 p .m., and rounds 11-40 starting at noon on Wednesday.
Braves Report
Austin Riley is the NL rookie of the month
He hit .355 with seven homers in 15 games.
Next: Tuesday, at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m., FSSE; Wednesday, at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m., FSSE; Thursday, at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m., FSSE; Friday, at Miami, 7:10 p.m., FSSO; Saturday, at Miami, 4:10 p.m., FSSO
Draft: Baylor catcher Shea Langeliers
Draft: Texas A&M shortstop Braden Shewmake
Draft: Remember the 1990 pick?
Around/About Georgia
Calvin Johnson to Lions: “reimbursement, please”
United to face Charleston Battery for US Open Cup
What former UGA QB just got hitched?
Tech golfers qualify for U.S. Open
Rising junior Noah Norton leads a contingent of four Georgia Tech golfers who qualified Monday for the 119th U.S. Open Championship.
That makes six current or former Yellow Jackets in next week’s tournament at Pebble Beach, Calif.: third-year PGA Tour pro Ollie Schniederjans, seventh-year Tour pro Roberto Castro ; All-American Chesson Hadley, a sixth-year PGA Tour pro who currently ranks 70th in FedEx Cup points; Matt Kuchar; Stewart Cink.
There are more qualifying tournaments, so the Tech group is likely to grow.