Central Georgia Sports ReportMarch 27, 2021Comment

Friday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer BKB, BSB, & FB; Hawks; UGA; NCAA Tournament; and more

Central Georgia Sports ReportMarch 27, 2021Comment

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: Central Georgia’s only Scoreboard, and your daily NCAA Tournament HQs, updated daily with scores and box scores and select stories

Around/About Central Georgia

Milledgeville to honor state hoops champs with parade

The streets of downtown Milledge will be covered by champions for awhile Saturday afternoon.

GHSA Class AAAA boys state champ Baldwin and GISA Class AAA boys state champ John Milledge will be celebrated with a parade through downtown Milledge.

The festivities include members of the 1981 Baldwin title team.

The parade will stop on East Hancock Street in front of City Hall and an administrator, coach, and team captain from both teams will meet with Mayor Mary Parham-Copelan who will present each one with a proclamation.

After the parade, Baldwin is hosting a fund-raiser at Lunsford Gymnasium at the high school, where both the boys and girls teams will be feted. It includes som eplaeyrs speaking, and a cutting down of the nets. Bands and cheerleaders will be on hand.

Funds raised will go toward expenses and to purchase championship rings for the boys team.

Tickets are $5 and will be sold on the Baldwin High School GoFan page at the following link: https://gofan.co/app/school/GA19127

Late start, late finish works for Mercer baseball

Mercer started great, and Wofford ended pretty good, but the Bears’ three runs in the bottom of the eighth were the difference in a 6-4 win in a game that lasted within a few minutes of midnight.

Mercer improved to 12-9 and 2-1 with its seventh straight win, and Wofford fell to 13-8 and 0-1. They’ll play a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m.

Collin Price’s 10-game hitting streak came to an ended but Bill Knight went 3 for 3 atop the lineup and starting pitcher Garett Delano had two hits – including a homer - and three RBI. Delano went 7.1 innings for the win, Luke Sutko getting his third save.

Delano helped Mercer to a 3-0 first-inning lead with a two-run homer. The Bears added on in the fifth, and then the action started a few innings later.

Wofford got a pair of runs on groundouts in the eighth to pull within 3-2. The Bears answered the rally with three runs in the bottom half, Colby Thomas bringing in two of the inning’s three runs with a double.

Wofford wasn’t done, scoring two in the top of the ninth, taking advantage of an error and scoring both with two outs, and stranding the bases loaded when Sutko finished it with a strikeout.

Mayhem edge Pensacola to stay in first

Mercer’s Cummings in NCAA 3-point contest at Final Four

Mercer heads to No. 9 Chattanooga

The Mocs are now allowing fans

Senior day and Wofford at Mercer men’s soccer

Around/About Georgia

Hawks thump Curry-less Warriors

Hawks notes

UGA has some battles in the offensive line

Stricklin out for UGA-A&M series

Sports and COVID-19

Sports and social/racial awareness