Wednesday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Sports Report predictions; Mercer opener; Jake Fromm, GMC softball, GMC golf/Guyer; Braves, Falcons, Tech, Auburn, Bama; MLB, NFL, colleges, more

Wednesday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Sports Report predictions; Mercer opener; Jake Fromm, GMC softball, GMC golf/Guyer; Braves, Falcons, Tech, Auburn, Bama; MLB, NFL, colleges, 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: Drew Cronic gets a normal season-opener at Mercer, on a Thursday night; The Sports Report’s predictions for the area high school football slate

 

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Scoreboard

High School

Softball

Crisp County 15, Central 0

Dodge County 3, Bleckley County 1

East Laurens 17, Putnam County 14

GMC 3, West Laurens 2

Stratford 8, Savannah Christian 3

Volleyball

Peach County 2, Sumter County 0 (25-12, 25-14); Peach County 2, Chattahoochee County 0 (25-22, 25-12)

          The Trojans became the school’s first varsity team to win on the school’s new campus, improving to 2-1 after missing nearly two weeks of competition due to COVID. Peach County visits Taylor County on Tuesday.

College
Soccer
W-Middle Georgia State 3, Point 0
Pro
MLB
Los Angeles 4, Atlanta 3

 

Alumni Update

Bills sign Fromm to practice squad

Honor Roll

GMC softballers make national scholar-athlete list

Around/About Central Georgia

Perry visits Crisp County on Thursday

            Perry had two games taken by COVID situations with the opponents, and picked up pretty good competition this week, visiting Cordele.

          The two haven’t played since 2009. Perry is on its fifth head coach head coach since then, Crisp County its sixth.

          Perry’s Armar Gordon Jr. is off to a great one-game start, with 302 yards on 20-of-28 passing in the win over Houston County, but a week off might lead to a sluggish start for Perry.

GMC hires former Mercer coach Guyer for both golf teams

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Another tight heartbreaker for Atlanta 

Good news on Albies

UGA trainer Courson has COVID

Bulldogs offense has elite potential

Pollack has some thoughts on some Dawgs

Hawks re-sign Capela for two years

Atlanta signs 15 to practice squad

Falcons practice update

Guard Andrews to IR with broken hand

Northern Illinois not releasing starters yet

Tech to go deeper in playbook

Falcons mailbag

ACC hopes high vax rates reduce setbacks

Harsin talks about Auburn, Akron

Saban not surprised with QBs NFL success

 

Baseball

Unvaccinated Smoltz and Leiter banned from MLB Network studios

National’s VP Boone to resign because of vaccine mandate

 

College Football

College Football TV schedule
Temple at Rutgers | 6:30 p.m. | Big Ten Network
Long Island University at FIU | 7 p.m. | ESPN3
Boise State at UCF | 7 p.m. | ESPN
Western Illinois at Ball State | 7 p.m. | ESPN+
Wagner at Buffalo | 7 p.m. | ESPN3
The Citadel at No. 22 Coastal Carolina | 7 p.m. | ESPN+
Weber State at No. 24 Utah | 7:30 p.m. | Pac-12 Network
South Florida at NC State | 7:30 p.m. | ACC Network
East Carolina vs. Appalachian State (Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte N.C.)| 7:30 p.m. | ESPNU
UC Davis at Tulsa | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN+
Houston Baptist at New Mexico | 8 p.m. | MW Network
Bowling Green at Tennessee | 8 p.m. | SEC Network
UT Martin at Western Kentucky | 8 p.m. | ESPN+
No. 4 Ohio State at Minnesota | 8 p.m. | FOX
Eastern Washington at UNLV | 10 p.m. | Stadium
Southern Utah at No. 25 Arizona State | 10:30 p.m. | Pac-12 Network