Saturday’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

Lexington County 3, Macon 2

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 5, Miami 4

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Another smooth round for Henley

          Russell Henley’s second bogey of the John Deere Classic came on his 53rd hole, and that steady play has the Stratford grad in contention.

          Henley is one of 21 players at 11 under or better, and one of seven tied at 15th. Sebastian Munoz is 16 under, one up on Brandon Hagy.

          Henley, who tees off Sunday at 11:20 a.m, had three birdies to go with the bogey on 17. He has 39 pars and 13 birdies.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Crushing: ACL ends Acuna’s season

‘He’s in a lot of pain’

Fans, baseball world bummed

Falcons’ Mingo charged with indecency with child, released

 

NBA

Bucks know about being down 2-0

Suns’ Craig (USC Upstate) questionable for Game 3

 

Baseball

Pepitone suing Hall of Fame

  

Auto Racing

Quaker State 400: what to watch

Kyle Busch on a roll, wins Xfinity again

But he’s not happy with AMS

Ferrucci back to NASCAR

 

Golf/Tennis

Australian Barty takes Wimbledon women’s title

How can Berrettini hang with Djokovic?

Wimbledon

Munoz leads wide-open John Deere

Hataoka leads Marathon LPGA by six

Osaka back in spotlight at ESPYS

 

NFL

Wagner downplays Seahawks/Wilson drama

 

Olympics

Nigeria stuns US men in hoops

Around the nation/world

UFC 264 a bust: McGregor done after one

Fans not happy

Messi, Argentina win Copa America

Taylor and Nichols and ESPN, oh my

MLB scores/games

NBA scoreboard