Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer, Georgia College, FVSU; state colleges; Hawks, Braves; NASCAR, Tiger, more

Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer, Georgia College, FVSU; state colleges; Hawks, Braves; NASCAR, Tiger, more

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: Updated Central Georgia state high school basketball pairings

 

Scoreboard

College

Basketball

W-Georgia 95, Florida 80

 

Baseball

East Carolina 9, Georgia Southern 2

Georgia 17, Gardner-Webb 3

Georgia College 16, North Georgia 15

Georgia Tech 8, N.C. State 4

Southern Illinois 5, Mercer 2

Vanderbilt 12, Georgia State 2; Vanderbilt 17, Georgia State 6

 

Golf

W-Florida State Matchup, Mercer, final round

 

Soccer

W-Troy 1, Mercer 0, OT

M-UAB 1, Mercer 0

 

Softball

Catawba 1, Georgia College 2; Catawba 7, GC 5

Georgia 11, Georgia Tech 0

Toledo 2, Mercer 1, 8 innings

Wesleyan 6, Fort Valley State 1

 

Volleyball

Mercer 3, Chattanooga 1

 

Pro

NBA

Miami 109, Atlanta 99

 

 

Honor Roll/Alumni Update

Middle Georgia State pair – including Putnam County grad - on all-tournament team

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Walk-off bomb wins whopper game for Georgia College

Mercer suffers rare non-conference home sweep

Southern Conference women’s brackets

Southern Conference men’s brackets

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Georgia dug the long ball in Sunday romp

Tech finishes off road sweep of No. 13 N.C. State

UGA women sweep Florida

Georgia skunks Tech in softball

Wright struggles as Braves fall to Rays

Collins’ double-double not enough for Hawks at Miami

Hawks’ Bogdanovic progressing well from knee surgery

SEC women’s brackets

ACC women’s brackets

Sun Belt women’s brackets

Sun Belt men’s brackets

Atlantic Sun men’s brackets

Some questions for the Braves

The year Alabama is SEC champ in basketball and football

Chattanooga knocked off No. 11 Wofford Saturday

 

College Basketball

Iowa impressive in humbling Ohio State

ESPN’s Dakich in trouble again

 

NBA/WNBA

Freak goes for 36 in Bucks rally to win

 

Baseball

Optimism and fans return to baseball fields

 

NFL

Fox Sports, “racist propaganda”, and DesShaun Watson

 

College Football

Sooooo many seniors should have huge impact in 2021

Scholarship fund honors killed Indiana player

Al-ACC CB no longer at Clemson

 

Sports and social & racial awareness

Column: More facilities need to honor African Americans’ accomplishments

Fox Sports, “racist propaganda”, and DesShaun Watson

Sorenstam defends accepting medal a day after Capitol riots

Tomlin frustrated at little action regarding hiring of Black coaches

 

Sports and COVID-19

Raptors have issues, game called off

 

Around the nation/world

Morikawa steady in winning Workday, emotional in tribute to Woods

Tiger touched by tributes

Could Tiger have been asleep?

Obit: Irv Cross was a star player before pioneer broadcaster

Byron another surprise winner at Homestead

Men’s college basketball scoreboard

Women’s college basketball scoreboard

NBA scores/games

NHL roundup/scoreboard

College football scoreboard