Friday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; state basketball; Macon TD Club local honors; Mercer, Mayhem, FVSU; Braves, Hawks, Falcons, and more
Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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Around/About Central Georgia
Mercer opens the second part of the football season
Early-season fall football weather in the late winter is expected when football returns to Macon on Saturday when Mercer hosts The Citadel.
Kickoff is 3:30 p.m. at Five Star Stadium.
Both teams are 0-4 in the split season. This is The Citadel’s first game this spring, the Bulldogs losing to South Florida (27-6), Clemson (49-0), Eastern Kentucky (37-14) and Army (14-9).
Mercer opened the spring season last week with a 31-14 loss to Wofford. The Bears lost in the fall to Jacksonville State (34-28), Army (49-3) and Abilene Christian (20-17).
Tattnall grad Destin Mack is a starting junior cornerback back for the Bulldogs. He is seventh on the team with 11 tackles, and shares the team lead with two pass breakups and two passes defended.
The Bears listed a few Central Georgians on the two-deep: snapper Zach Lassiter of Bleckley County, punt returner Landon Miller of Rutland. Other area players on the roster: QB Dylan Fromm of Warner Robins, DB Brandon Mays of Wilkinson County, DL Kashawn Baker of Crawford County, WR Isaia Harris of Houston County, and DL Nathan Seiy of Jones County. The latter two are true freshman.
The Bears are back home on March 20 against Western Carolina, April 3 against Furman and April 10 against ETSU.
Macon TD Club announces local winners
The Macon Touchdown Club won’t hold its annual year-end jamboree because of COVID-19 concerns, but it will have an abbreviated ceremony to honor its local award winners.
The TD Club encompasses Bibb County high schools as well as Jones County and Mary Persons.
It will host the athletes and invite guests on March 6 at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame.
This year’s local winners:
Ortho Georgia Back of the Year: Travion Solomon, Northeast
Ortho Georgia/Bill Turner Lineman of the Year: Matt Adams, Jones County
Ortho Georgia Special Teams Player of the Year: Evan West, Jones County
Marvin Davis Coach of the Year: Jeremy Wiggins, Northeast
Bobby Pope State Coach of the Year: Marquis Westbrook, Warner Robins
Bobby Gene Sanders Memorial Scholarship Awards: Sean Langan, Mount De Sales; Anders J. Stevenson, Stratford; Andrew Correa, FPD; Camden Ford, Tattnall
Recognition of Appointment to United States Military Academy at West Point: Walter Hawthorne, Central
Mayhem roll past Huntsville for seventh straight win
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Atlanta extends Snitker through 2023
Former Dream guard Montgomery part of Dream’s new ownership group
Georgia State stuns SEC powerhouse Vanderbilt
Good news from NCAA about Tech basketball penalties
Hawks, Thunder suffer a wardrobe malfunction
Falcons’ Fontenot increasing opportunities for women
But he and coworker have roster and cap work to do
And about Tech’s spring practice and game
Pache intent on earning starting spot after last postseason
Silver discusses the All-Star game and economic impact
Boselli getting HOF break that Tommy Nobis didn’t
Sports and COVID-19
Jeremy Lin is being called “Coronovirus”on the court
Bucknell women, undefeated, back after a month pause
Three MLB players positive the last week
Sports and social/racial awareness
Cleveland teams, police unite to work with area youth
NFL minority hiring rate overall improved
College Basketball
Florida needs work on turnovers down the stretch
Undefeated Florida Gulf Coast a welcome home for Ohio State transfer
Bucknell women, undefeated, back after a month pause
NBA
Silver defends having an All-Star game
Baseball
Harper ready to break Phillies playoff drought
NFL
Hopkins pokes fun at the Texans
Around the nation/world
‘Black box’ in SUV may hold clues in Woods’ wreck
Woods moved to different hospital
Cities where road is may be liable
Hamlin, Logano get the top spots for Homestead
Men’s college basketball scoreboard
Women’s college basketball scoreboard