Thursday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Signings: Tattnall, Mount de Sales, Washington Co., FPD; Honor Roll: Putnam Co., Mercer, Ga. College, MGSU; Mayhem W; Mercer women's BKB; Russell Henley

May 7, 2021 Central Georgia Sports Report

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

Scoreboard
High Schools
Playoffs
GHSA Baseball
3A-Harlem 3, Mary Persons 1; Mary Persons eliminated
GISA Soccer
G-Augusta Prep 11, John Milledge 1; John Milledge eliminated
College
Baseball
Brewton-Parker 4, Middle Georgia State 3, SSAC tournament

Pro
SPHL Playoffs
Macon 4, Huntsville 1
MLB
Atlanta 3, Washington 2
NBA
Indiana 133, Atlanta 126

Signings

At Tattnall: Madyson Atwater to Thomas University for softball, and Carter Fink to Snead State for baseball.

At Mount de Sales: Kathleen Carpenter to Covenant College for softball.

At Washington County: Jarius Brown, Bobby Freeman, and Mckale Hayes to Methodist University (Division III, Fayetteville, N.C.) for football.

At FPD: Noah Johnson to Tuskegee for tennis, Kennedi Jones to Jacksonville State for tennis, and Thomas Johnson to The Citadel for tennis.

Alumni Update

Honor Roll

Putnam County grad Jashanti Simmons made the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division I women’s basketball All-America first team. The freshman at Georgia Highlands averaged 18.4 points and 6.1 rebounds a game in 25.6 minutes.

Georgia College pair earns all-district academic honors

Middle Georgia State women’s soccer trio on All-America team

MGSU puts two on SSAC women’s tennis scholar-athlete team

And three on the men’s

Two from MGSU on all-SSAC baseball team, others honored

Mercer’s Titus, Garner snag academic all-district selections

Around/About Central Georgia

Mayhem thump Huntsville in playoff opener

Georgia College eighth in NCAA regional

Kayden out as Mercer’s men’s golf head coach

Tulsa women’s basketball becoming Mercer West?

Former Mercer women’s basketball assistant coach Angie Nelp was named head coach at Tulsa last month, after two seasons as an assistant at Rice and five at Arizona State.

She’s added a Bear, a big one, to the staff.

Sydni Means, who has been a major part of the best run in Mercer women’s basketball history in two roles, was announced last week as a new assistant with the Golden Hurricane.

Means followed her stellar playing career as Mercer’s point guard by joining head coach Susie Gardner’s staff.

She is second in career assists and steals, and led the NCAA in assist-turnover ratio as a senior.

With Means at Mercer, the Bears went 151-72, winning 68 percent of the time and reaching the NCAA Tournament three times.

Nelp was on Mercer’s staff from 2011-2015, leaving for Rice after the Bears went 20-15, losing in the Southern Conference tournament but going 2-1 in the Women’s Basketball Invitational. Mercer’s first Southern Conference regular-season title came a year later.

Her husband Jake was on the Mercer men’s staff under Bob Hoffman, who is now about 90 miles away at Central Oklahoma.

Tulsa has some juice on the bench. Joining Nelp and Means is Jackie Stiles, who was one of the top players in the game at Missouri State in the early 2000s. She still ranks third all-time with 3,393 points, and was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.

Henley’s slump continues at Wells Fargo

A solid second nine followed by a brutal first nine by Russell Henley, who has a lot of work to do to make the cut at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte.

The Stratford grad had four bogeys in a seven-hole span on the first nine, and managed pars and a birdie on the second nine to finish the first round with a 3-over 74, tying him for 111th. Fifty three players were even or better, including leader Phil Mickelson (7-under 64).

Henley will try to avoid missing a second straight cut. He shot 74 and 72 last week at the Valspar, for 4 over, tying his worst outings of the season (Mayakoa and Players Championship). In 36 holes, he had six birdies, eight bogeys, and a double bogey.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Smyly sharp as Braves nip Nationals

Hawks almost dig out of big hole against Indiana

Kemp signs NIL bill for state at Sanford

UGA looks to knock off No. 1 on the road again

Georgia hoops turnover continues

Bobo to bring power football to Auburn?

New football staff gets Barkley’s endorsement for taking on ‘King Kong’

Sports and racial/social awareness

Youth hoops players fire anti-Asian slurs, some violence

College Football

Brother of Sam Ehlinger found dead near Texas campus