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

Summer Baseball

Coastal

Lexington 6, Macon 1

Pro

MLB

Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 3, 10 inn.

 

📰 COVERAGE 📰

Around/About Central Georgia

Bacon fall back into losing column

          Lexington County took a 3-0 lead after two and kept rolling to a 6-1 win over Macon in Coastal Plain action at Luther Williams Field.

          Trippe Moore (Mary Persons) had two of Macon’s five hits, as well as one of the Bacon’s four errors.

          Macon pitchers struck out nine with three walks to 11 and six for Lexington County.

          Macon visits Savannah on Friday and hosts the Bananas on Saturday.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Embiid healthy, but Hawks still confident

Julio has something to prove

‘I’m a team guy, not a stat guy’

Vrabel checked with Saban before trade

Another walk-off loss for Atlanta, this time in 10

Georgia’s Crean adds assistants

 

NBA/WNBA

Milwaukee blows huge lead, has to rally to beat Nets

Jazz outbattle Clippers, go up 2-0

 

NFL

Tampa Bay’s Arians: You want normal? Get vaccinated

Newton sitting, but hand is fine

KC’s Long hurt in voluntary workout

 

College Baseball

2021 Vandy very different than 2019 Vandy

LSU-Tennessee should be super

A breakdown of the Super Regionals

 

College Sports

Juarez pitches Oklahoma to Women’s College World Series title

 

College Football

Playoff committee looks much harder at 12-team playoff

Column: About time, but it’s complicated

What it would have looked like last year

Iowa to start beer, wine sales at football stadium

Virginia Tech LB accused of murder released on bail

 

Golf/Tennis

A battle of the unseeded in French women’s final

Dojo and Nadal highlight men’s French semis

Around the nation/world

Organizers apologize for Confederate flag in car

MLB scores/games

NBA scores/games

NHL roundup/scoreboard