Wednesday's News 'n Notes: Stratford mourns; Allisha Gray celebrates gold; Signing: Baldwin; Honor Roll: FVSU, Georgia College, Mercer; Northside's Jones retires; Braves; Olympics, MLB, NFL, CFB, more
Wednesday'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: Stratford mourns death of runner Bethune
In Coverage: Gold for Golden Hawk legend Allisha Gray (with reactions and interview)
Scoreboard
Little League
Southeast Region Softball
Virginia 3, Georgia 0
Weather stopped the game Tuesday night, and Virginia added an insurance run in the bottom of the fourth to win the small-ball battle. Georgia had one more hit, but also four errors en route to allowing all unearned runs. Dudley’s Cheyann Phillips fanned nine with two walks, as did Virginia’s two pitchers. Georgia was eliminated, and Virginia went on to beat North Carolina to win the region title and advance.
Summer Baseball
The Bacon led 2-1 after one, gave up four in the second, trailed 8-2 after seven and scored five in the eight only to fall short. Ashton Roy and Dondrae Bremner had three hits each for Macon, and Tattnall grad Logan Fink drove in two runs.had three hits for Macon,
Pro
MLB
Signings
Will Freeman, a huge factor in Baldwin’s run to GHSA Class 4A boys state championship in 2020-21, is headed up I-75 to play at Life, an NAIA program in Marietta. Freeman’s game-winner with 3.8 seconds left gave the Braves a 54-53 win over Fayette County at the Macon Coliseum.
Alumni Update
Northside grad Abry Jones (probably) retires from the NFL
Honor Roll
FVSU puts four on SIAC All-Academic, more on another list
Four Georgia College hoopers on NABC Honors Court
Mercer men put three on the court
Around/About Central Georgia
FVSU working on brand new track in stadium
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Mets get just enough O to nip Fried and Braves
Julio Jones and Roddy White in cannabis/fraud lawsuit
Olympics
Biles got the ‘twisties’, and a miscalculation can be …
Analysis: Peace for Biles comes with a price - gold
From vacation to a gold in less than two weeks
U.S. pole vaulter tests positive
Rahm stunned to be watching from home
Dressel emotional after record in 100
Baseball
A dozen players and staffers are positive, Nats-Phils ppd.
College Football
Amato gets chance to say goodbye to Bowden
Iowa approves renaming stadium for trailblazing Black player
Bush wants penalties fixed, NCAA says ‘nope’
Sports and COVID-19/football
Ravens’ Jackson tests positive
College Sports
Big 12 charges ESPN with meddling, sends cease-and-desist letter
Analysis: What’s next for the ‘other’ Power 5s?
NIL: Stanford’s Shaw calls out Saban
NFL
Rodgers works out, and then talks – for awhile
Rodgers puts added pressure on Rodgers
Hebert thrilled – a little too much – to see fans
Burrow ready, Bengals cautious
NBA/WNBA
Cunningham tops the NBA draft list
Around the nation/world
US in World Cup qualifier in Cincy