Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Eddie Ashley services set; Falcons fall to Hill, Saints; Russell Henley; Dabo's charges; and more
Sunday'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.
ICYMI over the weekend: The GHSA and GISA playoff pairings
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Services set for Eddie Ashley
Eddie Ashley had moved to Savannah, but Macon is still home and where he’ll be laid to rest this week.
The longtime Bibb County athletic figure died Thursday of COVID-related issues at 72. Visitation is Wednesday at 11 a.m. with a celebration to follow at 1 p.m. at the Macon Memorial Park Funeral Home on Mercer University Dr.
The full obituary is here.
Macon TD Club welcomes Jeff Monken
Army head coach Jeff Monken is Monday night’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Cost is $30 for non-members.
Westside is this week’s featured high school. Kennesaw State’s Brian Bohannon is next week’s speaker.
Monken is 84-53 overall and 47-38 at Army.
He was 38-16 in four seasons as head coach at Georgia Southern, including a win at Florida. He coached under Paul Johnson at Georgia Southern, Navy and Georgia Tech.
Monken, a Joliet, Illinois native, graduated from Millikin and was a grad assistant at Hawaii and Arizona State before starting his career at Buffalo. He followed with two seasons in high school and then joined Johnson at Georgia Southern in 2007.
Alumni Update
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Henley gets top-3o finish at RSM
Russell Henley continued a tournament of improvement with a final-round 66 to finished tied for 30th at the RSM Classic in Sea Island.
Henley shot a 70,69, 67,and 66 for a 272, with seven Sunday birdies to counter three bogeys.
Robert Streb topped Kevin Kisner in a playoff.
Henley has made five straight cuts, and has only two rounds of 20 above 70.
Up next on the tour schedule is the Mayakoha Golf Classic in Mexico.
Around/About Georgia
Saints top Falcons for seventh straight win
Hopes for a late-surge take a hit
Daniels gets the win and is a revelation, for now
Sports and COVID-19
Alabama high school coach takes stand on COVID-19
New Mexico college teams relocate for a bit
No Washington-Washington State game
NFL
Mahomes pulls Chiefs through in last minute
Broncos send game ball hospice-bound legend Little
Tua gets pulled for Fitzpatrick
Dalton leads Cowboys with three TDs
College Football
Swinney calls out FSU for late test as excuse
Around the nation/world
Auburn self-imposes men’s basketball ban