Thursday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer honorees; FVSU/SIAC football; Hawks/NBA draft; SEC expansion, Braves, Olympics, MLB, colleges, NFL

Thursday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Mercer honorees; FVSU/SIAC football; Hawks/NBA draft; SEC expansion, Braves, Olympics, MLB, colleges, NFL

Thursday'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 12, Macon 4

          Once again, an early led meant nothing for Macon, Savannah overcoming a 3-1 first-inning deficit with five in the third and five more in the seventh at Luther Williams to improve to 35-7 and drop Macon to 14-25.

          Logan Fink (Tattnall) and Dondrae Bremner had two hits each for Macon, Le Bassett (Mercer) driving in two runs. Bill Knight (Mercer) had three hits and three RBI for the Bananas.

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 6, NY Mets 3

 

Honor Roll

Mercer baseballers take academic All-America honors

As does a Bear softballer

 

Around/About Central Georgia

FVSU picked third in East, six make preseason all-SIAC

Full voting, and complete teams

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Riley keeps rockin’, Braves beat Mets to take series

Hawks take Duke’s Johnson with the first pick …

And Auburn’s Cooper with the second

Johnson was jazzed by Hawks in playoffs

Atlanta, Collins getting close to a deal?

Former Bulldog helping Austria golf

 

Olympics

Lee dazzles in taking all-around title

Column: Praising Biles is not dealing with mental health

Sponsors back Biles

Former Bulldog helping Austria golf

Coach didn’t want Djokovic in mixed doubles

For teens, this is quite a balancing act

Defending volleyball champ China loses again

COVID cases pile up

 

Baseball

Cleveland’s Francona stepping down for health reasons

Dodgers finalizing Scherzer, Turner trade

 

College Football

Spurrier still firing away: ‘(Texas) can’t win the Big 12 anyway’

 

College Sports

SEC vote is unanimous: Welcome, OU and UT

ESPN: Nothing to cease and desist

A Big 12 superconference?

 

NBA

Boom: Lakers grab Westbrook

Does that make LA better?

As expected, Detroit snags Cunningham

Draft list

League honors deceased Kentucky prospect

 

NFL

Rodgers wanted Cobb back, Rodgers got Cobb back

NFLPA president critical of vaccine wristbands

Around the nation/world

Nunes tests positive, UFC 265 title defense scrapped

MLB scores/games