Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 31, 2022Comment

Monday's Report: Scoreboard; Macon Touchdown Club; Falcons whopper, UGA/Tenn., Dooley services, UGA/UF racist statement reaction; MLB/WS; colleges, NASCAR, golf, NBA, soccer

Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 31, 2022Comment

Coming Monday: Monday Morning Quarterback

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College

⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

W-Samford 1, Mercer, 0, Southern Conference tournament

🏐🏐🏐Volleyball🏐🏐🏐

Flagler 3, Georgia College 2

Pro

NFL

Atlanta 37, Carolina 34, OT

Coming Up
Saturday
12:30 p.m., Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech, Bally’s/ESPN3
1 p.m., Kennesaw State at UT-Martin, ESPN+
3 p.m., Georgia State at Southern Miss, ESPN+
3:30 p.m., Tennessee at Georgia, CBS
4 p.m., South Alabama at Georgia Southern, ESPN +
Sunday
1 p.m., San Diego at Atlanta, Fox

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Around/About Central Georgia

WSOC: Mercer falls in SoCon semifinal

Macon TD Club picks players from Howard, Northeast, ACE

Players from three teams that won big last week – Howard, Northeast, and ACE – are the latest Macon Touchdown Club players of the week.

Co-lineman: Howard’s Zelin Pollard is a repeat pick, the sophomore linebacker racking up18 tackles, one for loss and a sack in the Huskies’ 31-7 win over West Laurens.

Co-lineman: Senior offensive tackle Johnny Williams of Northeast graded out at 93 percent with three pancake blocks in the 66-0 rout of Jordan.

Back: Junior running back Aaron Davis of ACE ran for 179 yards and three touchdowns on 16 carries in the 62-28 romp over Southwest, adding a catch for 19 yards and a score.

Mercer’s Cronic to speak at Macon Touchdown Club

Mercer head football coach Drew Cronic is this week’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.

The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Admission for non-members is $30.

Roddy Jones (ESPN/Georgia Tech) is next week’s speaker followed by Wes Durham (ACC Network, Fox).

Cronic was named in December of 2019 to succeed Bobby Lamb and become Mercer’s second head coach since the program was restarted. He was on the sidelines for the Bears’ first game, when he was an assistant at Reinhardt under his father.

He came to Mercer from Division II Lenoir-Rhyne to a 25-3 record in two seasons, tying a school record with 13 wins in 2019.

Cronic was head coach at Reinhardt, an NAIA program, for two years after serving as an assistant. Before that, he was on the staff at Furman and James Madison. He spent another year, 2017, at Furman.

After playing non-conference games a year ago and Southern Conference games in the spring, Mercer went 7-3 last year and played for the Southern Conference title, losing 38-35 to East Tennessee State.

Mercer has been ranked most of the season, and will move up after Saturday’s 55-14 win over VMI. The Bears are off this week, and host Furman next week in the home finale before traveling to No. 13Samford to close out the regular season.

Around/About Georgia/

Three Chattooga High players die in postgame accident

Atlanta wins, loses, wins, loses, finally wins

Koo shows value, again

Moore, Pineiro blame themselves for loss

‘The goal is to win’

Moore went from hero to …

‘Wild’ is an understatement

Dooley services information set

UGA, UF have joint statement on anti-Semitic messaging at stadium in Jacksonville

Run game came alive for Georgia

UGA game balls