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July 17, 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.

SCOREBOARD

Summer Baseball

Savannah 1, Macon 0

Pro
MLB

Tampa Bay 7, Atlanta 6, 10 inn.

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Honor Roll

CGTC athletes earn All-Academic honors

Alumni Update

Allisha Gray ready to make Washington County proud

Around/About Central Georgia

Henley makes two mistakes, and pays for them

An early bogey and a late bogey forced Russell Henley into a long waiting game Friday. It was a depressing wait.

His 2-over 72 in the second round of the British Open put him on the wrong side of an early plus-1 cutline. Henley teed off in a fairly early group, finishing around 9:30 a.m. EST., and the cutline stayed there, ending Henley’s weekend.

He bogeyed No. 2 and No. 18, with all pars otherwise. The round dropped him almost 30 spots initially.

More than dozen players had yet to tee off and many more were in the early parts of their rounds, so Henley had to wait pretty much most of the day to find out if the work part of the trip would be cut short.

Henley was one of 20 tied at 2 over, the first to miss the cut. Another 13 players snuck in at 1 over.

Henley isn’t entered in next week’s 3M Open in Minnesota. The Barracuda Championship in California is next, starting Aug. 5.

Mercer hires assistants for baseball, men’s soccer

Mercer reached into Texas and into North Carolina to fill vacancies on its baseball and men’s soccer staffs.

Cory Barton in baseball and Tony Falvino in men’s soccer are the latest additions to Mercer.

Mercer fired longtime assistant and pitching coach Brent Shade after 13 years in early June, right after the Southern Conference tournament, but never announced the move.

Brookins left Mercer for Davidson in May after three years helping the Bears to a 30-20-3 record.

Barton has coached at Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, and Rice.

Falvino graduated from and was head coach at Division III Greensboro College, a member of the USA South Conference, which includes Wesleyan, Agnes Scott, Piedmont, and LaGrange.

Georgia College adds softball assistants

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Bullpen letdown spoils second-half Braves start

Braves notes

Former UGA standout joins SEC Network

NBA/WNBA

Confidence boost: A win without Giannis going wild

Lillard refutes trade reports

Wizard set for Unseld Jr.

Baseball

Ohtani ASG jersey goes for some bucks

From suicide attempt to a comeback, now retirement