Saturday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mary Persons mourns; Henley regroups, Mercer; Falcons, Braves, Hawks; college FB/BKB, NFL, NASCAR
Friday’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: Mary Persons again in mourning; Central Georgia’s most complete HS football coverage Saturday’s Central Georgia scouting reports
Coming: Peach State college football preview (and South and national)
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College
Basketball
W-Barton 81, Georgia College 49
M-Georgia College 91, Coker 69
M-Georgia Tech 77, Stetson 52
M-West Florida 69, FVSU 64
Hockey
Veterans Cup, Macon Coliseum: Auburn 6, Georgia Tech 2; Georgia 13, Florida State 0
Saturday’s schedule: 1 p.m., Auburn vs. Florida State; 3:30 p.m., Georgia Tech vs. Georgia; 7:30 p.m., Macon Mayhem vs. Knoxville Ice Bears
Volleyball
Mercer 3, Furman 0
Pro
NBA
Denver 105, Atlanta 96
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Around/About Central Georgia
VB: Mercer blanks Furman for another regular-season title
MBKB: Georgia College rolls in opener
WBKB: First quarter dooms Georgia College
MBKB: FVSU loses close one in opener
Henley regroups in round
Russell Henley’s start to Friday, after starting the day sharing the lead, was mighty brutal.
He bogeyed five of his first eight holes, with a birdie and two pars, and dropped dozens of spots on the leaderboard at the Houston Open.
Henley settled down for the rest of the abbreviated round – the tournament was stopped for the second straight day for darkness – as some of the field came back to him, and he is two under for the tournament and three over for the day with two holes left in his second round.
That puts him in a tie for 20th with most of the field waiting to finish the second round.
Martin Trainer was five under for the day and is at 10 under with sole possession of the lead, by a stroke over Kevin Tway.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Quinn can show growth since head coach gig
What Cam’s signing means for Atlanta
Anthopoulos beaming as WS champ
And watching it while in quarantine
Matzek’s WS journey began as a batboy-for-a-day in Asheville
About the Braves and this offseason
Newcomb reflects with hometown paper on title, parade
MBKB: Devoe gets hot, leads Tech over Stetson
WBKB: Georgia rolls past Gardner-Webb
College Football
Column: ESPN’s playoff ratings show and analysis damages so very much
Column: Seven coaches on thrones or very warm seats to watch this week
College Basketball
M-Kansas finally starts pulling away from Tarleton
Column: UC-Riverside, from brink of elimination to beating Arizona State
M-Kentucky pops Robert Morris in home opener
M-Alabama gets past South Dakota State
M-Furman stuns Louisville in OT
M-Princeton surprises South Carolina
NFL
COVID knocks Chubb out of Patriots game
Column: Adding underproductive, divisive Beckham a mistake
Column: Schefter can’t stop embarrassing himself
Auto Racing
Jimmie Johnson: NASCAR season is too long
Around the nation/world
Daughter of former NBAer slugs girl in club game