Sunday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard: Braves-Astros; Macon TD Club has Cronic; Falcons falter; UGA; MLB, colleges; NFL, NASCAR, NBA

Sunday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard: Braves-Astros; Macon TD Club has Cronic; Falcons falter; UGA; MLB, colleges; NFL, NASCAR, NBA

Sunday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.

 

In Coverage: Braves-Astros and Game 5

Coming Monday: This week’s HS football schedule; Macon TD Club winners; Monday Morning Quarterback

 

Scoreboard                 
College
Soccer
W-Samford 1, Mercer 0, Southern Conference semifinal

Pro
NFL
Atlanta 30, Miami 28

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Around/About Central Georgia
Macon TD Club welcomes Mercer’s Cronic

          Mercer head football coach Drew Cronic is this week’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.

          The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Admission for non-members is $30.

          Stratford and Central Fellowship are the featured high school. Georgia Tech assistant and former running back Tashard Choice next week’s speaker, followed by Georgia Southern broadcasting administrator Terry Harvin, ex-Falcon and Brave Brian Jordan, and talk-show host J. Scott Moore.

          Cronic was named in December of 2019  to succeed Bobby Lamb and become Mercer’s second head coach since the program was restarted. He was on the sidelines for the Bears’ first game, when he was an assistant at Reinhardt under his father.

            He came to Mercer from Division II Lenoir-Rhyne to a 25-3 record in two seasons, tying a school record with 13 wins in 2019.

            Cronic was head coach at Reinhardt, an NAIA program,  for two years after serving as an assistant. Before that, he was on the staff at Furman and James Madison. He spent another year, 2017, at Furman.

            After playing non-conference games a year ago and Southern Conference games in the spring, Mercer is 6-2 this season and 11-8 under Cronic. The Bears lead the Southern Conference with a 5-1 record, a half-game up on East Tennessee State, which hosts Mercer on Nov. 20.

            Mercer is off this Saturday and hosts Chattanooga – in a three-way tie for second with ETSU and VMI – on Nov. 13.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Offense falls short in Falcons’ loss

Atlanta let a good chance slip away

One of Ryan’s least productive games

Ridley out to deal with mental health issues

How will Atlanta adjust?

Carolina notes

UGA grades

Mistakes and good UGA D=rough day for Mullen

 

Baseball

Column: Girardi did a ‘miracle’ job with the Phillies

Obit: Beloved Boston player, broadcaster Remy

College Football

Stunner: Patterson out at TCU, now

K-State not apologizing for post-TCU game skirmish

Texas-San Antonio’s Traylor signs long extension

How many of the 82 – 82! – bowl slots are filled?

Observations: Iron Bowl relevant again?

AP Poll: Spartans jump, Houston enters

 

College Basketball

W-Expectations high, again, for South Carolina

 

College Sports

Hartford players tough it out while dropping to Division III

 

NFL

Browns offense sputters in low-scoring loss to Pittsburgh

Cleveland’s Landry haunted by mistakes

Saints overcome Winston injury to top Tampa Bay

White steps in to lead Jets over Cincy

Lions hit new low with rare rout, by Philly

Column: And the possibility of 0-17 grows

Bills wake up to down Dolphins

Cooper Rush – yes, Cooper Rush – QBs Dallas to win

Wetnz has brutal fourth quarter in OT loss to Tennessee

Pick-6 lifts Patriots over Chargers

Jags go backward in big loss to Seattle

Bears struggle without Mack, Nagy

 

Auto Racing

Bowman wins as tension builds

Things got frisky at the end in Martinsville

Hamlin was not happy

 

NBA/WNBA

Harden ties Bird with 59th triple-double

Doncic’s bomb 3 helps down Kings

Around the nation/world

MLB scores/games

College football scores/games

NFL scores/games

NBA scores/games