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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

Hawks stumble again

 

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-Clemson holds off Wofford

M-Princeton surprises South Carolina

 

NFL

COVID knocks Chubb out of Patriots game

Saints without Kamara, others

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

College football scores/games

NFL scores/games

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

Men’s college basketball

Women’s college basketball