Wednesdays' Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Signing Day; Mercer-GSU; Lamar County FB; CFB, NFL, COVID, more

Wednesdays' Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Signing Day; Mercer-GSU; Lamar County FB;  CFB, NFL, COVID, more

Wednesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

Signing Day, in Coverage: Where the Central Georgia’s are headed, and who did the state’s Division I programs get? The area’s only complete coverage

 

Coming Thursday: More on Jones County and Warner Robins and that epic semifinal that awaits

 

Scoreboard

High School

Basketball

B-Bleckley County 41, Dodge County 37

G-Dodge County 60, Bleckley County 42

 

College

Basketball

M-Georgia State 88, Mercer 81

 

Honor Roll

          Former Mary Persons football standout Antoine Davis was one of several Garden City CC players who recorded a 3.0 or better for the fall semester. …

          And former teammate Desmond Williams of East Central (Miss.) Community College earned second-team all-conference honors in the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference.

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Help wanted: Lamar County

            Jeff Sloan has resigned as head football coach at Lamar County for a different headac, er, job: assistant principal.

            Sloan will remain as athletics director, and key the search for a new head football coach. He was 10-10 in two seasons, 4-8 in region play. His successor will be the Trojans’ ninth head coach this century. Mark Wilson (2000-02), Calvin Scandrett (2003-07), and Jason Strickland (2008-2011) are the only coaches in that span to stay more than two seasons.

            Since 2000, the Trojans have had 13 winning and seven losing seasons.

            Sloan was the Trojans’ defensive coordinator before being promoted to succeed John Flath (5-15 in two seasons). He started at Lamar County in 2014, went to Jones County as head wrestling and assistant football coach in 2016-17 before returning to Lamar County.

Georgia State gets revenge on Mercer

 

Around/About Georgia

The best pitching seasons in Braves’ history?

  

Sports and COVID 19

Virginia Tech bowl streak ends with decision

Kansas State to skip bowl

 

College Football

Money, money, money: If you’re not the HFBC, the O-Line bosses make buck

Money, money, money: A list of assistant salaries

QBs on stage in ACC showdown

Big turnaround for Northwestern

Notre Dame preps for Clemson with outgoing DC

Coastal, Chadwell agree to long extension

Matt Campbell: Iowa State’s miracle worker

Azusa Pacific football done after 55 years

 

NFL

No word on 17-game season yet

Indy’s Sanchez back after cancer surgery

Geno Atkins put on injured reserve

Brees to leave injured reserve

‘Heroes’ to help push vaccines at Super Bowl

Tannehill no 1-year wonder

 

Around the nation/world

Report: LSU has been covering up assault allegations against athletes

Major League Baseball adds Negro Leagues to Major League Baseball

Normal spring training start for MLB?

College football scoreboard

NFL Roundup/Scoreboard

Men’s college basketball scoreboard

Women’s college basketball scoreboard