Tuesday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer Tennis Classic; UGA, Georgia Southern's Kennedy; Georgia State; college sports, MLB/playoffs, NFL, NASCAR, NBA opens, more

October 20, 2021 Central Georgia Sports Report

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

In Coverage: Scoreboard, with HS playoff action, Monday (Tuesday) Quarterback

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Dodgers 6, Braves 5

Braves go from up 5-2 to a loss, and 2-0 to 2-1 (again)

Box score

Bellinger comes up huge on a good ball-three pitch

Five outs away

Morton overcomes shaky start

Column: Winner or lose, applause for the Braves

Freeman de-funks in loss

Column: Epic comeback shows by Dodgers will win series

Around/About Central Georgia

First night match highlights day at Mercer Tennis Classic

It wasn’t as cold as it has been the past few nights, which was good for the first under-the-lights match at the Mercer Tennis Classic taking over the John Drew Smith Tennis Center.

Mercer duo Mary Courville (player) and Andrea Garcia Fernandez (grad assistant) had the honors as doubles play began. The Bear pair won the first game, but the experience of Jia-Jing Lu and Xiyu Wang of China took over and rolled to a 6-0, 6-1 win.

Singles qualifying wrapped up Tuesday, with qualifying draw top seed Robin Anderson and seventh seed Hanna Chang advancing to the main draw in straight sets. Fourth seed Whitney Osuigwe won a second-match tiebreaker 10-7 to advance, and fifth seed Allie Kiick needed an 11-9 tiebreaker to make it.

Unseeded Alana Smith knocked out second seed Conny Perrin in straight sets, and No. 3 Alycia Parks was knocked out by No. 15 Louisiana Chirico.

Action in the main draw gets going Wednesday morning, with top overall seed Madison Brengle hitting the court in the second set of matches. Smith and Osuigew face each other in a notable battle of qualifiers.

Cost is $5 daily and $20 for the week for the tournament with $80,000 in prize money.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

UGA injury update a positive

The yearly ‘what does Kirby think about playing in Jacksonville’ story

Cochran is back with UGA, in different role

Georgia Southern’s Kennedy is found

Why Georgia State will stick with the Sun Belt

College Football/South

Column: So, maybe Barnhart is right on no beer sales?

South Carolina’s Doty done for the season

Pitt ready for a stay in polls, while unranked Clemson beckons

Coastal looks to break streak at App State

Column: Malzahn won’t forget thumping by Cincinnati

College Football

Attorney: ‘Hit by a golf ball? Call me!”

Washington State staff now works on supporting players

Column: Rolovich’s exit leaves program in disarray

Playoffs schedule
Wednesday: Astros at Red Sox, Game 5, FS1, 5 p.m.; Braves at Dodgers, Game 4, TBS, 8 p.m.
Thursday: Braves at Dodgers, Game 5, TBS, 8 p.m.
Friday: Red Sox at Astros, Game 6, FS1, 8 p.m.
Saturday: Dodgers at Braves, Game 6, TBS, 5 p.m.; Red Sox at Astros, Game 7, FOX, 8 p.m.

Baseball

It was 2-2 entering the ninth, and then the Astros went boooom

Baker: ‘Too late for me to change the world’

Yankees sign Boone for three more years, but …

Column: Schumaker is perfect for St. Louis

Beane, Sterns out of Mets top job running

NFL

Column: Derrick Henry’s legend grows

Tomlin gets explanation, no real clarity

Rodgers have fun sharing his success with Chicago fans

Really, a lot of fun

Browns are black and blue