Tuesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Houston County eyes state title; Mayhem, Mercer honors; Signings: Dublin, Upson-Lee; GMC softball; Falcons, Braves, more

May 26, 2021 Central Georgia Sports Report

Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

Scoreboard

College

Baseball:

SEC: Georgia 4, LSU 1

Sun Belt: Georgia State 9, ULM 6

Southern Conference tournament

SEC baseball tournament

ACC baseball tournament

Sun Belt baseball tournament

Softball

Salt Lake CC 6, GMC 0, NJCAA Tournament

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 3, Boston 1

WNBA

Atlanta 90, Chicago 83

Honor Roll

Mayhem’s Kerr SPHL COTY

Seven Bears – Delano twice – earn All-SoCon honors

Signings

At Dublin: Brianna McRae is the first Irish female athlete to sign a dual scholarship, heading to Reinhardt for women’s basketball and women’s track. She averaged more than 22 points a game in her four-year basketball career, and is second all-time in scoring, and won the 2019 Class AA state title in the 110 hurdles.

At Upson-Lee: Jakhia Parker has signed with Albany Tech.

Around/About Central Georgia

GMC falls in national tournament opener

The top-ranked team in the NJCAA showed why, Salt Lake Community College starting off hot and finishing off a 6-0 win over GMC JC Tuesday in the NJCAA national tournament in Yuma, Ariz.

Salt Lake pitching gave up only three hits, with nine strikeouts against two walks. Jane Shellhorse turned in a nice outing in the circle for GMC, with six strikeouts and walk, with six hits in six innings.

The Bulldogs play Chattanooga State at 1 p.m. on Wednesday in an elimination game. CSU lost 1-0 to San Jacinto-South.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Smith says little about Julio Jones’ future

Post-JJ plans aren’t so hot

NYC mayor chimes in on Trae Young

Knicks have to stop Young

Can Atlanta slow down Randle again?

Morton sharp in win at Boston

Houston County’s Woods clutch in Georgia SEC win over LSU

And Woods talked about it

SEC: Auburn popped by Ole Miss

ACC: Louisville bombs Clemson with seven dingers