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February 28, 2021 Central Georgia Sports Report

Saturday’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: Central Georgia’s only no-days-off all-sports Scoreboard, filled with relevance and names and stats and information. Plus, the area state tournament master.

Coming Sunday: Central Georgia’s GHSA basketball playoff pairings

Alumni Update

Stratford’s Avant part of a combined no-hitter

Dodge County’s Glover helps Kennesaw State roll Shorter in spring football opener

Around/About Central Georgia

Mercer holds off The Citadel for Cronic’s first win

Dougherty steal, Titus FTs lift Mercer women at ETSU

Mercer men flat in all areas in surprise rout by Western Carolina

Georgia College splits baseball runsfest

Southern Illinois takes down Mercer again

Bad first quarter dooms GC women

Middle Georgia State women topped on tourney championship

Southern Conference tournament is set

Mercer’s women are seeded second and the men seventh when the Southern Conference basketball tournament gets going.

The tournament begins Friday at the Cherokee Center Asheville in Asheville, N.C. No general public tickets will be available.

The 16-6 women take on No. 7 Western Carolina at 5 p.m. on Thursday in the eight-team tournament. The winner then faces either Chattanooga or Furman on Friday in a semifinal.

Mercer grinded to a 69-62 overtime win in Cullowhee, and then dominated two days later 71-47 in Macon.

The 15-10 men are in a “play-in” game in the 10-team men’s event, facing No. 10 Samford Friday at 8 p.m., the winner advancing to face No. 2 Wofford on Saturday at 5:30 p.m.

Mercer swept Samford earlier this month, winning 89-82 in overtime at h ome and 77-70 in overtime two days later in Birmingham.

Peach Belt tournament set, SIAC not holding a tournament

Georgia College’s men are in the Peach Belt Tournament, which takes the top four teams.

The Bobcats are the second seed at 10-2, behind Flagler (11-1) and ahead of Georgia Southwestern.

The conference’s schedule on the website is somewhat disorganized, and has no clear pairings as of Saturday night. It stated that pairings will be released Monday.

Teams must have played 11 conference games to be in the tournament. Based on that, Based on percentage, USC Aiken is fourth at 8-6, just behind Georgia Southwestern at 8-4. Thus, GC would host GSW.

The SIAC announced last week that it was canceling “conference scheduling and championship events for winter and spring sports. Impacted sports include men's and women's basketball, tennis, golf, track and field, baseball, and softball.”

It didn’t say anything about participation in the NCAA Tournament.

FVSU’s women are third in the East at 9-8, 13-14 overall. The men are sixth at 5-14 and 7-22.

The SIAC hasn’t updated a lot of information on its website. It still lists the 2018 basketball media day, last year’s tournament info, the 2019-20 master calendar, among other outdated things.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Tech gets big games from Wright, Devoe, and Usher

Georgia puts up no fight in home rout by South Carolina

Georgia State men clinch SBC East title

Jackets clinch series at N.C. State

UGA baseball sweeps DH for six straight Ws

Georgia softball wins two, gets combined no-hitter

Fix on D too late for Atlanta at OKC

Hawks notes and observations

Riley planning to keep momentum going

What might Ynoa do?

Dodge County’s Glover helps Kennesaw State roll Shorter in spring football opener