Saturday's News ' Notes: Scoreboard; Little League softball/Dudley; Washington County's Allisha Gray, Gatewood's Vincent Hancock, Wilkinson County's Bud Dupree; Braves; Olympics, more
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
Little League
Southeast Region Softball
Georgia 3, South Carolina 0
Cheyann Phillips struck out 13 to lead the group from Dudley to a tournament-opening win. Dudley plays Virginia, an 8-0 winner over Florida, at 3 p.m. Sunday at the complex in Warner Robins.
North Carolina 7, West Virginia 1; Virginia 8, Florida 0; Sunday: 12 p.m., Tennessee vs. North Carolina; 3 p.m., Virginia vs. Georgia; 6 p.m., Florida vs. South Carolina
Summer Baseball
Pro
MLB
MLS
Columbus 1, Atlanta 0
Early Olympic efforts solid for Central Georgians
Two Olympians with Central Georgia connections are off to good starts in Tokyo.
Washington County grad Allisha Gray is part of the U.S. women’s basketball 3-on-3 team, a sport in its debut in the Olympics, and Olympic veteran skeet shooter Vincent Hancock of Putnam County is back.
The U.S. beat France 17-10 in its first pool-round 3-on-3 matchup.
Gray had three points and five rebounds in almost eight minutes. All four players played between 7:13 and 7:50.
The former Golden Hawk led the Americans with nine points in less than six minutes of a 21-9 rout of Mongolia.
The U.S. and Romania tipped off at 4:30 a.m. Sunday, with a game about four hours later against ROC.
Hancock is one of a decreasing list of competitors off to a good start in skeet shooting qualifying.
As of 3 a.m. Sunday, he is one of two with a perfect score after the third round of five. There were 13 perfect scores after the first round.
The next round of qualification is Sunday at 9 p.m. at the Asaka Shooting Range in Tokyo.
Hancock is in his fourth Olympic Games. He won gold in 2008 (Beijing) and 2012 (London) – becoming the first Olympic skeet shooter to win consecutive golds - and finished 15th in 2016 (Rio). He also has the silver in men’s skeet and gold in mixed team last month in Italy at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup
The 32-year-old graduate of Gatewood has moved his family – wife Rebekah and daughters Bailey and Brenlyn – to Fort Worth, Texas.
He is a favorite over Tammaro Cassandro Italy and Azmy Mehelba of Egypt. Gabriele Rossetti of Italy won gold in 2016, and he hit 48 of 50 targets after two rounds.
Alumni Update
Wilkinson County’s Dupree on NFL PUP list
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Atlanta breaks out the lumber at Philly
Dream interim head coach steps down for health reasons
Atlanta falls to Columbus at home
Olympics
DeChambeau tests positive, replaced by Patrick Reed
Women’s soccer bounces back big
Eighth-inning single keeps softball perfect
The Latest: Osaka rolls, Barty loses, Murray withdraw, and more
Baseball
Sandoval no-hitter dies in ninth
Combo no-hitter done in eighth, Astros win
NFL
Texans’ Greenard loses grandfather to COVID, has message for colleagues
Auto Racing
Hendrick penalized for engine infractions
Golf/Tennis
Tech golf alum Tringale atop 3M Open
Sports and COVID-19
Texans’ Greenard loses grandfather to COVID, has message for colleagues
Around the nation/world