Friday's Report: FVSU; Braves/Phillies, UGA, Tech, Falcons; MLB, NBA, college 🏈, college🏀, golf, tennis, NASCAR, NHL
Thursday'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: Maxwell Ratings predictions, state rankings, Scouting reports
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High School
🏈🏈🏈 Flag football 🏈🏈🏈
Westside 21, Rutland 6
The host Seminoles won in the first Bibb County girls flag football game. This is the first season for the sport in the county.
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
ACE 8, Glascock County 2
Dixiana Sims struck out in a complete-game win. Reese Thames had three hits for the Gryphons.
Bleckley County 8, Telfair County 7
Dublin 9, Howard 8
Treasuriauna Gutyon’s two-out triple tied the game in the eighth, and she came in with the game-winner after two walks and Zykeria Johnson’s hit to give Dublin its fourth straight win.
ELCA 8, Mary Persons 4
Hawkinsville 2, Taylor County 1
Jones County 4, Ola 3
College
🏐🏐🏐Volleyball🏐🏐🏐
FVSU 3, Trinity Baptist 0 (25-14, 25-24, 25-15)
Braves schedule
Friday, 4:37 p.m., at Philadelphia, FS1; Saturday, 2:07 p.m., at Philadelphia, if necessary, FS1; Sunday, 4:37 p.m. vs. Philadelphia, if necessary, FS1
MLB Playoffs-Friday
1:07 p.m., Cleveland at New York, TBS; 4:37 p.m., Atlanta at Philadelphia, 4:37 p.m.; 8:37 p.m., Los Angeles at San Diego, FS1
Saturday
2:07 p.m., Atlanta at Philadelphia, FS1; 4:07 p.m., Houston at Seattle, TBS; 7:37 p.m., New York at Cleveland, TBS; 9:37 p.m., Los Angeles at San Diego, FS1
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Around/About Central Georgia
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Is Kennesaw State headed to Conference USA?
The great debate: Atlanta’s Game 3 starter
Phils’ bats go quiet in Game 2
What will the deciding factor be in series?
Freeman’s breakup with Braves could color WS hunt for years
OL key to sparking UGA’s pass game
Brady could be fined for kick at Jarrett
Pees listens to wife, quiet on roughing call
Offensive line leads Atlanta’s improve run game
MBKB: Tech emphasizes team concept for 22-23
College Football/Southeast
Did LSU, Florida make the right calls with Kelly, Napier?
Clemson spending $1.5 mil on money games
Buckeye legends have favorite stories in 100-year-old stadium
Beamer clarifies celebration, praises Stoops
College Football
West Virginia edges Baylor in thriller
Plumlee goes for 7 TDs in UCF rout
Can OSU lose to Michigan and still make playoff?
Nittany Lions’ Clifford healthy, content
NFL keeping eye on HBCU’s rise to national prominence
Southern Cal, UCLA driving resurgence in LA
Former Ohio State star Schlichter busted again
College Basketball
Mills set to lead Seminoles back to prominence
Intra-league transfers could jolt ACC women’s race
ACC’s Phillips: Time to expand the Dance
Memphis finalizes extension with Hardaway
Next wave of Big Ten stars ready to shine
Baseball/MLB
Houston tops Seattle, 2-0 lead
Mets have free-agent pitchers, like deGrom, to address
Dodger Stadium workers get $10/hour raise
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Ex-NBAer Gordon charged with assault son, police
Eastern Conference has questions and contenders
Western Conference loaded with contenders
Football/NFL/USFL
No plan to vote on Washington’s Snyder
Robinson TD, muffed punt lift Washington
Injuries mounting for Chiefs with Bills on the horizon
Can the NFL fix the roughing mess?
Pederson confidence still high on Lawrence
Column: Lions’ Campbell hitting panic button too soon
Fourth string to starter at Carolina
Bros and foes, Allen and Mahomes
Golf
Mickelson: PGA trending down, LIV trending up
Reed rails on OWGR points: ‘I’m getting hammered’
Tennis
Lawyer: Djokovic has good chance at Aussie visa
Auto Racing
High Schools
Indiana volleyball team deals with ‘monkey’ taunts from player
Hockey
Edge of 17: Pens core of Crosby, Letang, Malkin still going
Around the nation/world