Monday's News 'n Notes: Bobby Lamb's new job; MLB draft/state; Braves, Josh Pastner; NBA, MLB, Olympics, Euro, more

July 13, 2021 Central Georgia Sports Report

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

Around/About Central Georgia

Bobby Lamb starting things up again

A decade after he was putting in charge of re-starting the Mercer program from scratch, Bobby Lamb is at it again.

The former Mercer boss will be introduced at a Tuesday afternoon press conference as the new head football coach at Anderson U. in South Carolina.

Of course, everything about football at Anderson is new, since the school doesn’t have it. The school announced in 2019 that it was taking the game on, with plans for the first season in 2024.

Anderson is a Division II school in the South Atlantic Conference. It’s a private Baptist school of about 3,000 campus undergrads, a little bit smaller than Mercer’s Macon undergrad enrollment, and has a similar athletics profile with 18 sports.

The Trojans will join Carson-Newman, Catawba, Lenoir-Rhyne, Limestone, Mars Hill, Newberry, Tusculum, Virginia-Wise, and Wingate in football.

Lenoir-Rhyne is the former employer of Drew Cronic, Lamb’s successor at Mercer.

Lamb, who is 108-789 at Furman and Mercer, spent last season as an analyst and volunteer assistant at Louisiana-Lafayette. ULL head coach Billy Napier played quarterback for Lamb at Furman, where Lamb played and graduated from.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

13 Georgia players drafted so far

The MLB draft has 10 rounds down, and 13 players from Georgia have been picked.

None are from Central Georgia, which is likely to change during rounds 11-20 on Tuesday.

The round, overall pick, player, team, and drafting team:

1/11 Brady House, Winder-Barrow, Washington

1/12 Harry Ford, North Cobb, Seattle

3/72 Bubba Chandler, North Oconee, Pittsburgh

3/100 Ryan Spikes, Parkview, Tampa Bay

4/125 Ryan Webb, Georgia, Cleveland

5/134 Mitch Bratt, Georgia Premier Academy

5/157 Luke Waddell, Georgia Tech, Atlanta