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
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
Things got frisky at the end in Martinsville
NBA/WNBA
Harden ties Bird with 59th triple-double
Doncic’s bomb 3 helps down Kings
Around the nation/world