Friday's News 'n Notes: Scorebaord; Braves' Fried rocks; Falcons; MLB, colleges, NFL, Ryder Cup, tennis, more

Friday's News 'n Notes: Scorebaord; Braves' Fried rocks; Falcons; MLB, colleges, NFL, Ryder Cup, tennis, more

Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

SCOREBOARD
High School
Softball

Brentwood 8, John Milledge 0
Crisp County 3, Mary Persons 0
Grayson 13, Dodge County 3
Johnson County 6, Hawkinsville 2
Lee County 13, Northside 0; Lee County 12, Northside 2

          Heidi Sapp managed two hits for the eagles in the opener, Lee County taking an 8-0 lead after two. The Trojans survived five errors in the nightcap, breaking open a 2-2 game with four in the third and three in the fifth. Casey Ruffin had two of Northside’s five hits.

Mount de Sales 11, Savannah Christian 3
          Sawyer Stuart went off for three hits, three runs, and four RBI for MdS, which led 7-0 after two. Ava dellaDonna drove in four runs on two hits, while Taylor Jones added a two-hit game. Eva Crader was solid in the circle with 12 strikouts in the five-inning three-hitter.

Walnut Grove 7, Jones County 3

College
Soccer
W-Mercer 3, Western Carolina 0

Volleyball
Augusta 3, Georgia College 1
Mercer 3, The Citadel 0 (25-15, 26-16, 25-17)

Pro
MLB
San Diego 6, Atlanta 5
Atlanta 4, San Diego 0

 

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Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Fried goes the distance, gets a stunning 98-pitch shutout

Tatis homers Padres past Braves in suspended game

Ryan: 17 games changes pain of 0-2 starts

Falcons now have a race at punter

 

Baseball

Phillies pull closer to Braves

Giants reach 100th W, stay in first

Cleveland set to bid farewell to Indians

All-time All-Latino team

 

College Football/South

Can Beamer turn around USCE? Ex-players say yes

NFL

NFL adds Monday night to Wild Card weekend

Dalton set to meet old team

Carolina lineman still feeling effects of COVID

Tebow confident in Meyer and Lawrence

Texans need improvements as Mills settles in

Ravens put four on COVID list

 

Golf/Tennis

Cantlay and Schauffele help US dominate

Europe facing historic deficit in Ryder

DeChambeau brings the power

Raducanu splits from coach who helped with US Open win

 

NBA/WNBA

NBA denies Wiggins vax exemption request

 

Around the nation/world        

So much for Joshua slimming down

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games

 

State College Football

Coming around lunchtime