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; GHSA softball playoff Elite Eight pairings

Coming: Hump (Monday Morning) Day Quarterback

 

Scoreboard
College
Golf
M-Southern Tide Intercollegiate, final round, Georgia College

 

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Five Central Georgia teams in Columbus, sights set on titles

          Four ranked teams and an upset-minded upstart are the Central Georgia representatives in the GHSA state softball championship rounds in Columbus.

          Action starts at 9 a.m. Thursday.

          Undefeated ACE is the highest-ranked area team, as per ScoreAtlanta’s rankings, at No. 1 in Class A Public. Tattnall is No. 3 in Class A Private, defending champ Jones County No. 5 in 5A, and West Laurens is No. 7 in 4A.

          Crawford County in Class A Public is a four seed that’s reached the Elite Eight round. The Eagles join Mill Creek (7A), Cambridge (6A), Flowery Branch and Cedartown (4A), Dawson County (3A), Screven County (A Public) as No. 4 seeds making Columbus, while ELCA is the only Class A Private school at No. 10 seeded lower than eight in that class’s 24-team field.

          Jones County went through Starr’s Mill 2-0, Whitewater 3-2, and Starr’s Mill again 10-0 in the final last year, the 2020 tournament with smaller six-team, single-elimination fields because of COVID-19.

          A year earlier, with the normal eight-team double-elimination format, the Greyhounds went 1-2.

          West Laurens went 1-2 last year, being eliminated by champ Heritage-Chattooga.

          Crawford County, ACE, and Tattnall didn’t make last year’s Columbus field.

          Two years ago, Tattnall went 2-2, while ACE and Crawford County failed to make it.

          Mount de Sales won the A Private title in 2019 and FPD in 2016. GMC won it in A Public in 2014-15.

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UGA notes

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College Football/South

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College Football

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College Basketball

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Baseball

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NFL

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Tomlin: college candidacies a joke

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Texans chairman uses anti-Asian slur at charity event

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NBA/WNBA

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Sports and social & racial awareness

Texans chairman uses anti-Asian slur at charity event

 

Sports and COVID-19

 

Around the nation/world

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MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games