The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Wednesday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Braves roll; Perry-Rutland; UGA. WLOCP booze at St. Simons; Falcons, Tech, Hawks, MLB, CFB, golf, NASCAR

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: The Sports Report’s predictions

 

Scoreboard
High School
Softball
ACE 4, Glascock County
          Pitching dominated until ACE scored three in the sixth on a double, grounder error, walk, and two-run error. Dixiana Sims struck out 14 with three walks in the 118-pitch complete game. Lizzy Mitchell had two of ACE’s three hits with a pair of doubles.

Bleckley County 11, Schley County 0

Jones County 6, Veterans 0

Perry 18, Baldwin 1; Perry 17, Baldwin 0

Volleyball

Peach County 3, Crisp County 2 (23-25, 25-18, 23-25, 25-12, 15-11)
          The Trojans improved to 11-4 with the tough road win. They play in the Area 2-AAA play-in No. 2 Saturday at Upson-Lee against Sumter County, Crisp County, and Jackson.

Veterans 3, FPD 0

College
Golf
W-Mercedes Benz Collegiate, first round, Mercer, 15th

Pro
MLB
Atlanta 9, Arizona 2

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Rutland welcomes third-ranked Perry in Thursday action

            Region play begins in 4-4A on Thursday, and does so at the Ed DeFore Sports Complex.

            Third-ranked Perry comes to town to take on Rutland and first-year head coach Jarmarcus Johnson.

            The Hurricanes are off their first win, 41-14 over ACE, last week.

            Perry was off, having dumped 5A Veterans 34-14 a week earlier. The Panthers are showing no nerves with their second-highest ranking in program history, which dates back to 1954.

            Perry was ranked No. 2 by the AJC and state’s sportswriters back in October of 1982. The Panthers beat Crisp County, and moved up to No. 1 by the writers but state at No. 2 in the AJC.

            The Panthers have dispensed of three unranked teams in 6A, 3A, and 5A, all of whom have a losing record. The latter finally changes next week when they host upstart Spalding, 3-1.

            Rutland will have plenty to deal with. Quarterback Armar Gordon Jr. is 136 yards from 1,000 passing after just three games, and he has only one interception in 85 attempts. Dakarai Anderson, Daequan Wright, and Curtis Head give him three serious targets.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Braves strong early, middle, end to thump Arizona

Column: Braves could still blow this, but …

ACL victim Daniels has advice for ACL victim Pickens

St. Simons bans booze on the beach the weekend of Georgia-Florida

Line of scrimmage pretty different for Vandy and Georgia

Bulldogs’ depth being tested

UNC Yates is proud of Tech Yates

Matt Ryan=Lamar Jackson? Well …

Atlanta can right the ship some against the Giants

Falcons injury update

Hawks announce camp roster

 

Baseball

Kiermaier shocked by reaction to Scouting Cardgate

Mets are about done

Reds give Bell two more years

Philly minor-leaguers scolded for speaking out, groups not happy

 

College Football/South

SEC refs on heels after high-profile mistakes

ACC a mix of old players – old – and youngsters, can cause issues

Chattanooga seems to have successful formula

Harsin wants loss to Penn State to leave lessons learned

Column: UCF fans have to chill after loss

Bad news for USM: Bama not complete yet

New QBs for Miami for a bit

 

College Football

Playoff expansion talks slow as commissioner vet the process more

A first: Canadian female scores in NCAA football game

 

Sports and COVID-19/football

 

College Sports

NCAA to remain in case on athletes being declared employees

 

NFL

Ex-Patriot Law: we were in Manning’s head

Broncos prepping for sale of team

Brady says NFL is softer than it used to be

Fields to get first start

Giants trying to keep Jones even

Peyton Manning has his own bourbon

 

NBA/WNBA

Jones, Miller top AP’s WNBA awards

 

Auto Racing

Allmendinger and Cindric ready for Xfinity fight

DeChambeau standing out among team efforts

 

Golf/Tennis

Stricker happy that Spieth is on team, no matter how

Osaka withdraws from Indian Wells

 

Around the nation/world

College football scores/games

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College Football TV schedule