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
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
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
Guard Andrews to IR with broken hand
Northern Illinois not releasing starters yet
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
Former player sues Washington State’s anti-vaccine Rolovich
NIL: Ohio State true freshman signs big deal
A dream schedule of weekly road trips
Nebraska keeps sellout streak alive, with help
NFL
New Orleans and Green Bay in Jacksonville
Jags try to backpedal on Meyer’s vaccine/cuts comments
Golf/Tennis
Stephens overpowers Gauff, Osaka opponent withdraws
Cantlay, McIlroy have some sympathy for DeChambeau
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