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

 

Central Georgians – including tourney MVP – help Gulf Coast to title

          Coaches from Gulf Coast are likely to work on a pipeline to Central Georgia soon.

          Alums from Mary Persons, FPD, and Warner Robins helped the Commodores to their first state junior college men’s basketball title since 1972 over the weekend.

          Gulf Coast beat No. 1 Florida Southwestern and No. 19 Central Florida to reach Florida College System Activities Association Athletics championship, where it beat rival Tallahassee 71-63 Saturday night in Niceville, Fla.

          Mary Persons grad Cam Holden was the tournament MVP, putting up 11 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals in the championship.

          Warner Robins’ Jacolbey Owens had 23 points in the final, 14 in the second half, and FPD’s Maurice Gordon chipped in eight points and seven boards.

          Gordon hit a half-court buzzer-beater to qualify Gulf Coast for the tournament in the first place in the regular-season finale. Now, the Commodores are 24-7 and headed to the NJCAA Division I national tournament in Hutchinson, Kan., which starts on March 16.

          Central Georgia Tech qualified for the tournament on Saturday with a win on its home court. So the national tournament could pit a meeting between former Demons Owens and Champ Dawson, both of whom led Warner Robins to the 2018 Class 5A state championship.

          Adding to the memories for the local trio is the fact they’ve been without their head coach, who suffered a heart attack in mid-January.

          The tournament selection show is Monday at 1 p.m. Joining 16 automatic qualifiers are eight at-large picks.

 

Around/About Central Georgia

WVU pulls it out in the 11th over Mercer

Georgia College misses full sweep vs. USC Aiken

Georgia bats awaken against Ochs, USC

 

College basketball tournament update

Southern Conference

Peach Belt

SIAC women / men

SEC women / men

ACC women / men

Sun Belt women / men

SSAC women / men

GCAA

 

Alumni Update

Houston County’s Jones, Upson-Lee’s Pucket lead Georgia State

 

Braves Report

Decision time nearing

Matzek on the comeback trail

 

Around/About Georgia

Georgia finishes sweep of UMass

Jackets fall in extra innings

United pay tribute to Martinez in win

United are banged up

 

Sunday Scoreboard

High school coaches should send box scores and/or game information to centralgasports@gmail.com within 30 minutes of completion for expanded coverage. The more info provided, the more info to give people.

 

Colleges

Baseball

Georgia 6, UMass 0

Georgia Southern 12, Valpo 0

Georgia State 3, North Alabama 1

USC Aiken 7, Georgia College 4

Virginia Tech 7, Georgia Tech 6, 10 inn.

West Virginia 2, Mercer 1, 11 inn.

 

Golf

M-Southeastern Collegiate, first round, Georgia College

M-Tiger Invitational, first round, Mercer

 

Softball

FVSU 4, Clark Atlanta 3; FVSU 3, CAU 1

Georgia 11, South Carolina 3

Georgia College 11, Shaw 1; GC 8, Shaw 0

Georgia Tech 3, Boston College 1

Louisiana-Monroe 6, Georgia Southern 3

Mercer 5, Murray State 3