Saturday’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: Russell Henley hasn’t had much success in majors. You’d never know it from his three-round performance at the U.S. Open.

SCOREBOARD

Summer

Baseball

Macon at Lexington County (late)

Pro

MLB

St. Louis at Atlanta, ppd.

 

Honor Roll

Houston County trio earns baseball All-America honors

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Young Philly vs. young Atlanta

But the young Hawks are confident

Favored Sixers still have questions

Column: UGA has all in place to win national title

 

NBA

KD’s 48 not enough, Bucks survive in overtime

Paul and Leonard out for Game 1

Clippers dispense of monkey

Bitter taste for Jazz

Utah legend Stockton in anti-vaccine video questioning COVID

L.A. leads comeback craze

 

NCAA Baseball

N.C. State thumps Stanford

Vanderbilt needs 12 innings to walk-off Arizona

The cha-ching of the CWS head coaches

 

Baseball

Guerrero belts 23rd homer, go-ahead double

Tatis’ replacement beats Reds with homer

Votto, Bell, fan ejected

 

College Sports

Women’s sports growing in attention, coverage

N.C. State supports assistant through family crisis

 

Around the nation/world

Simone Biles: gymnast, model

Kyle Busch takes 100th Xfinity win

Hendrick has good practice day at Nashville

NHL semifinals kind of testy so far

Carolina’s Slavin wins Lady Byng Memorial

MLB scores/games

NBA scoreboard

NHL roundup/scoreboard