Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 26, 2022Comment

Wednesday's Report: Scoreboard: GHSA softball, Peach County alum/Georgia Southern; Georgia/Florida, Tech, Falcons; MLB, colleges, NFL, NBA, NASCAR, more

Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 26, 2022Comment

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

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High School

🏐🏐🏐Volleyball🏐🏐🏐

GHSA Playoffs

Class A

Woodville-Tompkins 3, Taylor County 0

🏈🏈🏈Flag Football🏈🏈🏈

Harlem 20, Washington County 6

Westside 26, Northeast 6

College

⛳⛳⛳Golf⛳⛳⛳

M-Matt Dyas Invite, Georgia College, final round

🏐🏐🏐Volleyball🏐🏐🏐

Augusta 3, Georgia College 0

📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰

Alumni Update

Georgia Southern O cruising under Peach County alum

Macon County’s Smith turns in unique stat line

Players of the week

SIAC VB: FVSU’s Rosario

Around/About Central Georgia

Seven area teams start GHSA softball title hunt

The Super Regionals are over, and the nitty gritty starts Wednesday in Columbus with the GHSA state championship tournament getting underway.

Action starts at 11 a.m., and the championships are scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Seven Central Georgia teams are going after titles. Central Georgia has taken home a state title the past three years (Class A Public ACE last year, Jones County in 5A in 2020, and Mount de Sales in A Private in 2019

Houston County and Veterans are in the 6A field, with defending champ Lassiter.

Records are based on information provided by schools to MaxPreps.

The Bears (27-5) get runner-up River Ridge, and the Warhawks (20-10) face Apalachee (30-3), also new this year.

West Laurens (26-3) faces Heritage-Catoosa (22-6) in a 4A opener. Both were in last year’s tournament, Heritage winning its first two and West Laurens falling right into the loser’s bracket, and then winning two games. Heritage won two, and lost its first loser’s bracket game.

Heritage’s streak of three straight titles was snapped last year by Central-Carroll, which opens with Wayne County.

ACE will try to follow last year’s A Public championship with a title in Class AA. Jeff Davis and Union County are the only returnees from last year’s AA field, Heard County beating Vidalia 10-6 in the championship. Heard County won two straight, but dropped down to A/Division I.

Bleckley County is in the A/Division I field, which is new, with the changing of Class A Public and Private to Division I and II.

Heard County drops down after the three straight AA titles.

Gordon Lee has won six straight state titles, one in AA and five in A Public. The Trojans are in the AAA field, opening the door in Class A for new title blood.

The Royals (21-10) face Mount Vernon, part of the Private field a year ago and winner of two games before being eliminated by Tattnall.

GMC and Hawkinsville are part of the A/II field.

The Red Devils (16-12) are the upstarts, and they face Glascock County (19-5).

GMC (18-4) has a task, taking on undefeated Wilcox County (26-0), which didn’t reach Columbus a year ago.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Woeful D has UF a 3-score ‘dog against the Dawgs

UGA prepped for stretch run

“Here, the big holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving and the Florida-Georgia game.”

Bennett, Smith wouldn’t mine home and home

Kirby talks after practice

Dogs’ DB Jackson out for the year

Georgia ready for Carter’s return