Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard: Mercer, Georgia College honors; Stratford's Avant picked; Valdosta and Propst; Hawks in playoffs; Falcons schedule
Wednesday'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’ Wachtel leads the list of top seeds in the GHSA track meets. List of the area’s top-8 seeds and preview.
In Coverage: GMC and ACE highlight the tweaked GHSA soccer state championship weekend
In Coverage: the only place to find out who’s doing what in the state high school playoffs
Alumni Update
Stratford’s Avant named to SEC Community Service team
Honor Roll
Five Mercer softball players earn all-conference
Georgia College sophomore makes All-PBC softball
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Valdosta to consider reinstating Propst? Tis true
Young’s 33 and Collins’ shot puts Hawks into the playoffs
Bullpen lets another one get away from the Braves
Soroka needs an exploratory on Achilles
Thursday-nighter with Pats a Falcons schedule highlight
Georgia bumping Foley Field capacity up to 100 percent
Tech plans on full capacity and tailgating for football
Georgia takes team, individual titles at NCAA women’s golf regional
Baseball
Cole fans 12 Rays in eight innings
NFL
Amazon Cloud helped in the process
NBA/WNBA
League sets record for 3s per game
Column: On Kobe, and the women in this Hall of Fame class
College Football
Walter Payton finalists highlight AP FCS All-America team
Is Fisher the one to unseat Saban?
College Sports
New Northwestern AD is now former, amid criticism of his promotion
Obit: Ford Stuen, 29, played basketball at Oklahoma State
Around the nation/world
Why is Baffert’s horse allowed in Preakness?
MLB scores/games