Friday's Daily News 'n Notes and Scoreboard
Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
High schools follow GHSA lead
And pretty much all are shutting down competition – although they can practice – for at least two weeks, until March 27 at the earliest. They have the option to change and begin earlier.
In Coverage.
Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer’s Cummings gets medical hardship, extra year
Signings
Houston County’s Addy Galason signed to play soccer at Truett-McConnell.
Madison Bennett of Jones County signed to play softball at Georgia Highlands. She’s a four-year starter in softball and three-year starter in other sports.
Braves Report
Anthopoulos: Health 'of paramount importance'
Around/About Georgia
NCAA gives spring sports athletes more eligibility
Some self-quarantined Bulldogs, including the head coach
Spring football delayed at UGA
And the Masters is postponed
UGA football legend Lawrence dies
Hawks taking care of part-timers, too
Mercedes-Benz was going to be busy, but …
Rush Propst can coach in Georgia again, so …
SCOREBOARD
All coaches/teams need to send game info – all relevant stats, score by quarter, etc. – to centralgasports@gmail.com after their game. Game information should be sent to centralgasports@gmail.com within 30 minutes after completion
High School
Baseball
East Laurens 8, Northeast 4
Elbert County 8, Putnam County 7; Elbert County 5, Putnam County 2
Jeff Davis 8, West Laurens 1
John Milledge 10, Westminster
An eight-run first put the Trojans in control, toward a five-inning win and no-hitter by Grayson Hopkins, who whiffed 12 with no walks.. Taylor Dixon, Ashton Hopkins, and Dalton Prestridge had two hits each, Dixon driving in two runs from the top spot.
Rutland 16, Central 5
JaMarco Hughes had a day, going 4 for 6 with four RBI and three runs to lead Rutland. Casen Summerday had three hits and three RBI, and Brayden Pollard added two hits with two RBI from Holden Hallman. Gerald Tate and Tyler Gilbert had two hits each for Central.
Tattnall 8, ACE 0
Dawson Brown thew a one-hitter, striking out 12 as Tattnall took a 7-0 lead after two. Carter Fink had three its, with two-hit games from Brooks Gorman, Hunter Alexander, and Bo Hatcher, Alexander with three RBI and Brett McHugh with two.
Westfield 9, Piedmont 3
Soccer
B-Bleckley County 4, Montgomery Count 1
Charlie Williams had two goals for the Royals, Skyler White and Treg Corner with one each.