Friday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer baseball; Henley rallies; Braves, state baseball; Tebow signs, MLB; more

May 22, 2021 Central Georgia Sports Report

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: Day one of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame weekend is in the books (see the jacket ceremony) with a full day Saturday, capped by the induction ceremony

SCOREBOARD

High school coaches should send box scores and/or game information to centralgasports@gmail.com within 30 minutes of completion for expanded coverage. The more info provided, the more info to give people.

Scores are from Twitter, email, and MaxPreps. Wake up to the information update with details and links.

High School

GISA playoffs

Baseball

AA Championship

Piedmont 1, Gatewood 0; Saturday, 10 a.m., Mercer’s OrthoGeorgia Park

College
Baseball
Georgia Southern 3, UT-Arlington 2

Georgia State 5, Little Rock 0

Georgia Tech 10, North Carolina 9

Kennesaw State 14, Lipscomb 1, A-Sun quarterfinal

Mississippi 8, Georgia 5, 11 inn.

Wofford 10, Mercer 3; Wofford 6, Mercer 0

Softball
Georgia 11, Western Kentucky 3, NCAA Regional

Pro
MLB

Atlanta 20, Pittsburgh 1

Alumni Update

Houston County’s Dawson, Jones key Georgia State win

Stratford’s Avant gets the W in Georgia softball regional

Around/About Central Georgia

Wofford takes DH from Mercer for top SoCon seed

Henley rallies, makes cut at PGA

Basic solid golf and a cutline that rose has kept Russell Henley in the PGA Championship.

After sloshing through a first-round 78, Henley kept himself in the hunt to keep playing with a solid 2-under 70 on Friday. For awhile, he was on the outside looking in with a cut line at 3 over. After he was done, it bumped up to 4 and then 5, allowing him to easily qualify for two more days.

He sits in a tie for 50th with Daniel Berger, Jordan Spieth, and Matt Jones, among others, one stroke behind Stewart Cink and Rory McIlroy.

Even after a rugged first round, Henley is only nine strokes behind leader Phil Mickelson and Louis Oosthuizen.

Henley tees off at 10:20 a.m. Saturday with Berger.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Braves bats are exhausted

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Mississippi bops Georgia in 11

Tech walks it off over North Carolina

Houston County’s Dawson, Jones key Georgia State win

McWhorter sets record as GSouthern’s Hennon wins 750th

Stratford’s Avant gets the W in Georgia softball regional

NBA/WNBA