Saturday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard, Dodgers-Braves, college FB, Falcons, Hawks, UGA; NBA, MLB, NASCAR, golf, tennis more

Saturday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard, Dodgers-Braves, college FB, Falcons, Hawks, UGA; NBA, MLB, NASCAR, golf, tennis more

Saturday’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 (state titles for Westfield and Piedmont); college football, and full Braves-Dodgers coverage

Around/about Central Georgia

Top seeds battle in final at Mercer Tennis Classic

          Madison Brengle had two three-setters on the way, while Zarina Diyas had one.

          The top two seeds beat two more seeds Saturday to reach the finals of the $80,000 Mercer Tennis Classic at John Drew Smith Tennis Center.

          They’ll close out the week of tennis at 1 p.m. on Sunday when they play for the championship.

          Brengle got past No. 7 Xiyu Wang 6-3, 6-4, Wang having three 6-0 wins along the way to the semis while Brengle lost two sets and blanked nobody.

          Diyas was efficient in her 6-4, 6-1 win over fourth seed Beatriz Haddad Maia, whose quarterfinal win came when her opponent had to retire.

          The second-seeded team of Quinn Gleason and Catherine Harrison took the doubles championship, handling Alycia Parks and Alana Smith 6-2, 6-2. It was Gleason’s 12th ITF doubles title and the ninth for Harrison.

Mayhem stopped again

         

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Ressler: ‘We expect to be contenders

A look at Atlanta’s offense so far

Falcons put Fowler on injured reserve

Five things to watch with Atlanta and Miami

Progress of young, emerging core a key for Falcons

Spotlight on Mullen dims or grows against Georgia

UGA report card

 

Baseball

Alvarez goes from double knee surgery to ALCS MVP

Houston owner: ‘We took the penalty … past that’

Phillies’ Harper, Wheeler on baseball award lists

Solidarity leads to MLB-provided housing for underpaid minor-leaguers

 

College Football

Miami’s Diaz on notice?

Oklahoma State’s Gundy gets perpetual 5-year deal

 

College Basketball

Oklahoma State moving on without Cunningham

WVU’s Huggins starts season with 900 wins

Oklahoma begins the Porter Moser Era

 

College Sports

Southern Miss to Sun Belt

 

NFL

Miami’s Flores again downplays Tua, Watson talk

Some teams are in trouble early

Drake is multiple for Raiders

Steelers hobby: collecting former first-rounders

 

Auto Racing

Gibbs takes fourth Xfinity race

Hey, move over!

 

NBA/WNBA

Suns being investigated for workplace culture?

Some big-name Lakers got testy with each other

Bryant’s wife was told crash site secure

 

Sports and social/racial awareness

 

Golf/Tennis

Matsuyama takes Zozo championship

Barty is done for the season

 

Around the nation/world

Seattle celebrates NHL home debut

FBI looking for those victimized by Connecticut AAU coach

Olympic sprinter Quinonez fatally shot

Stevenson jabs way to 10th-round TKO

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games