Friday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Braves Report (a good night), Falcons Report (X 5 stories), GC tennis cited; Bacon game; United fall; UGA FB
Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Updated with the United-LA meeting.
Braves Report
Consecutive four-run innings turned a pitchers battle into a one-sided 9-2 win for Atlanta at Philadelphia.
The Braves scored seven more runs on five fewer hits, Philly giving up three unearned runs and committing two errors. Atlanta stranded only four runs, nine for Philadephia.
Mike Soroka made it through only 4.2 innings, giving up eight hits but only a run, pulled with a four-run lead and after 88 pitches. Sean Newcomb, A.J. Minter, Josh Tomlin, and Jeremy Walker followed, Tomlin giving up the other run. The five struck out eight with one walk.
Ronald Acuna went 2-for-4 with three RBI, with Ozzie Albies, Freddie Freeman adding two RBI each and Brian McCann two hits. Four Phillies had two hits each. Jake Arrieta got the loss.
Next: Saturday, at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m., FSSO; Sunday, at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m., FSSO; Monday, at Washington, 7:05 p.m., ESPN/FSSE; Tuesday, at Washington, 7:05 p.m., FSSE; Wednesday, at Washington, 12:05 p.m., FSSE; Thursday, vs. Cincinnati, 7:20 p.m., FSSE; Friday, 7:20 p.m.,FSSO; Saturday, vs. Cincinnati, 7:20 p.m., FSSO
Donaldson living up to expectations
Fried working on blister prevention
Anderson is quite the trade bait/tease
Falcons Report
Honor Roll
Georgia College tennis cited
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s year-end awards had plenty of Georgia College on them.
The team earned all-academic team honors, while Mount de Sales grad Jordan Bowie, Emilia Richter, and Emma Fleming taking ITA Scholar-Athlete awards.
The Bobcats have earned a team honor at least six years in a row.
Richter, Bowie and Fleming each make their first appearance on the squad.
Around/About Central Georgia
Florence gets the best of the Bacon
A five-run sixth lifted Florence to a 7-3 win over Macon at Luther Williams Field.
Down 1-0, the RedWolves scored five runs on, amazingly, only one hit. The runs came on a two straight walks, a hit batter, two more walks, a two-run single, and a wild pitch, all with one out.
Led by Calvin Estrada, Colton Yeager, and Brandon Ashy, Macon outhit Florence by four.
Macon hosts Lexington County on Saturday (fireworks), before visiting Gastonia on Monday and Savannah on Tuesday. The Bananas visit the Bacon on Wednesday.
Around/About Georgia
United start slow, can’t come back in LA