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

Brentwood, Perry announce new bosses in the dugouts

          Brentwood and Perry have new head baseball coaches, the Eagles announcing a new softball coach, too.

          Jason Hart has the two jobs at Brentwood, while Denny Bryant has been promoted at Perry.

          Hart is a Washington County grad who followed college with two decades at AT&T while also owning a batting facility. He was an assistant in 2019-20 for both teams for the Eagles. He succeeds Ben Wolfe, who was an assistant under Brannon Bonifay before taking over for one season.

          Bryant joined the Perry staff last summer as an assistant baseball and football coach. He had been head baseball coach at FPD from 2014-19, as well as softball coach from 2017-19.

          He succeeds Tim Hutchens, a Perry grad whose freshman- and sophomore-heavy team was 5-6 when the season ended. Hutchens was the Panthers’ assistant for seven years before taking over for Lorne Tucker in the summer of 2017

          Hutchens said in a Facebook post on May 11 that “after MUCH prayer & deliberation”, he decided to resign, and that “my role will be performed at Perry Middle School.”

          The Panthers went 11-22 last year after replacing nine seniors from the 16-13 team in 2018, Hutchens’ first.

Signings

          East Laurens’ Ja’Terry Jones has signed to compete in track at Paine in Augusta.

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