The Central Georgia Sports Report

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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

Coming Monday: Monday Morning Quarterback

 

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College

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

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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

Gators-Bulldogs takeaways

Florida finds ‘turning point’ with comeback

Carter’s return big for Georgia

 

Baseball/MLB

Series moves to Philadelphia

WS notebook l

WS notebook 2

Righty McCullers’ tattoo ode to Houston

Manfred: Athletics likely to leave, ghost runner to stay

A stat look at each MLB franchise’s biggest play

Postseason playoff glance

College Football/South

Did Lane take a – clever – shot at Jimbo?

NC State working on SEC opponent in Charlotte  in ‘24

Unpacking Sanders and SWAC-ness, and its state of mind

Auburn can’t take advantage of QB’s good start

Homecoming stinker for Gamecocks

McCollough returned for Vols vs. Kentucky

Beamer address issues, criticisms of the O

College Football

AP Top 25: Vols and Buckeyes tied for second

The poll

Ex-Utah State player sues Blake Anderson for retaliation

Meyer favors CFP expansion, will affect opt-outs

Tuimoloau breaks out for Buckeyes

Michigan State president calls melee ‘unacceptable’

Tucker suspends four

College Sports

Big 12 gets 6-year extension with ESPN, Fox

Football/NFL/USFL

Buffalo muddles through second half, tops Green Bay

New Orleans rides Kamara’s 3 TDs, D in shutout

Belichick passes Halas in win over Jets

McCaffrey does it all for 49ers

Hurts, Brown power Eagles past faltering Steelers

Vikings hang on for fifth straight

Tagovailoa aids Dolphins turnaround

Fields’ lapse on fumble costs Bears

Lawrence mistakes cost Jags in London

Roundup

Auto Racing

Bell wins, Chastain rids wall to earn title race spots

Keselowski fails inspection, falls to last

Golf

Power hangs on in Bermuda

Johnson caps $35 million year, leads team to LIV win

Basketball/NBA/WNBA

Zion returns with a double-double

Roundup

Nets owner disappointed in Irving anti-Semitic backing

Irvin claims to embrace all, defends right

Spurs waive Primo after exposure allegation

Soccer

Smith, Portland beat KC for NWSL title

Thorns, Current were ready for NWSL championship regardless

Philadelphia heads to MLS Cup final

And is joined by LAFC

Around the nation/world

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games