Friday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; FPD, Stratford eye state titles; updated pairings; Mayhem, Mercer; Russell Henley

May 8, 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: Stratford and FPD go for GHSA Class A Private state tennis titles on Saturday in Rome

In Coverage: The only area place to get updated pairings for baseball and soccer.

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

AAA-John Milledge 7 Westfield 3; Westfield 4, John Milledge 2; at JMA, Saturday, 3 p.m.

AA-Brentwood 11, SW Georgia 6; Brentwood 7, SW Georgia 1

College
Baseball
Arkansas 3, Georgia 0

Arkansas State 6, Georgia Southern 1

Georgia Tech 6, Clemson 1

Liberty 4, Kennesaw State 0

Mercer 11, Western Carolina 9; Mercer 8, Western Carolina 7, 11 inn.

Middle Georgia State 11, Blue Mountain 8, 12 inn., SSAC Tournament

Softball
Kennesaw State 2, North Alabama, 1, A-Sun Tournament

Mississippi State 4, Georgia 2

Pro
MLB

Philadelphia 12, Atlanta 2

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Honor Roll

GMC’s Owens the GCAA softball POY; joined by six others on team

Around/About Central Georgia

Mayhem eye finishing off Huntsville on Saturday

The transition from the regular season to postseason turned out to be nonexistent on Thursday for Macon, the Mayhem rolling into Huntsville for their SPHL playoff series opener and rolling out with a 4-1 win.

Game time is 6:30 p.m., with the Coliseum opening the doors at 5:30 p.m. If a third game is needed, it’ll be at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Coliseum.

The first 1,000 fans get a team poster, and a chuck-a-puck contest winner gets a team-signed warmup jersey.

Macon has won five straight over Huntsville, last losing 4-1 in Macon on March 20, a night after falling 5-4 at home. Since then, the Mayhem have won 2-1, 3-1, 4-3, 2-1, and 4-1.

Tickets remain available at 803-1592 and here. The Coliseum is open to 100 percent capacity, with socially-distanced seating available.

Pensacola won 5-2 at Knoxville on Wednesday to open the other series, and then took the series with a 4-2 win in Pensacola.

The Ice Flyers finished third in the SPHL with 42 points, three better than Huntsville and 10 behind Knoxville, all trailing Macon’s 68 points.

Mayhem warmup jerseys to be auctioned off, proceeds to Beverly Olson Children’s Hospital

A look at the Mayhem-Havoc series

Henley gets sharper, barely makes the cut at Charlotte

After an A-to-Z first round, with a clean second nine after a sloppy first nine put him 3 over, Russell Henley returned to form in the second round of the Wells Fargo in Charlotte on Friday.

He had another clean front nine, birdeying No. 8 and parring everything else. Henley couldn’t get out of the back nine without a bogey, but matched that with a birdie, and seven pars.

Henley’s 1-under 70 bumped him up 47 spots into a tie for 64th, and he made the cut.

Barely.

The projected cut line moved from even to plus-2, which is where Henley sat for awhile tied for 63rd. Fortunately for him, nothing much changed, and the group tied for 64th was the last group.

Henley is only six shots back of the threesome tied for first: Matt Wallace, Gary Woodland, and Patrick Rodgers.

Mercer women’s lacrosse upsets way to SoCon championship

And they’ll host Furman on Saturday

Mercer takes two at WCU

Georgia College golf moves up a spot in NCAA Regional

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Brutal first by Morton puts Braves in big hole

Edwards joins Atlanta bullpen

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Top-ranked Arkansas holds off Georgia

Hurter on point on the mound in Tech’s romp over Clemson

Urban takes a friendly shot at UGA, with a Yellow Jacket