Sunday's Report: Scoreboard; United, Braves, Falcons/Bucs; NFL, MLB, college 🏈, tennis, golf, NASCAR, NBA, more
Saturday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.
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High School
Football
Perry 50, Griffin 7
The Panthers led 37-7 at halftime en route to their sixth straight win and fourth game of scoring at least 40 points.
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
East Laurens 5, Bleckley County 4
Volleyball
Davidson Fine Arts 3, Washington County 0; Davidson 3, Putnam County 0
Hardaway 2, Perry 0
Houston County 3, Lee County 0
The Bears took the Region 1-6A title on their home court.
Lee County 2, Veterans 1
Pike County3, Peach County 0
Putnam County 3, Butler 1
Shaw 2, Baldwin 0; Shaw 2, Perry 0
College
⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
W-Columbus State 2, Georgia College 0
M-Mercer 0, Furman 0
🏐🏐🏐Volleyball🏐🏐🏐
The Citadel 3, Mercer 0 (25-21, 25-22, 25-16)
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This weekend
Saturday
1 p.m., Central Arkansas at Kennesaw State, ESPN+
2 p.m., Morehouse at Fort Valley State
3:30 p.m., Vanderbilt at Georgia, SECN
4 p.m., East Tennessee State at Mercer, ESPN+
4 p.m., James Madison at Georgia Southern, ESPN+
Sunday
1 p.m., San Francisco at Atlanta, FOX
Braves schedule
Tuesday, TBD, vs. Philadelphia; Wednesday, TBD, vs. Philadelphia; Friday, TBD, at Philadelphia; Saturday, at Philadelphia, if necessary; Sunday, TBD, at Philadelphia, if necessary
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
United’s Sosa suspended after homophobic slur
Braves’ Harris playing for departed friend
Bucs bring up two WRs from practice squad
Bucs impressed with Mariota’s management
Football/NFL/USFL/CFL
Goodell says concussion protocol tweaks coming
Not a good fit yet in Denver with Hackett, Wilson
Raiders post obit of still-alive Davis
Haden announces retirement before Florida Hall induction
Baseball/MLB/Baseball
Mets get good deGrom to even series
Phillies end Pujols, Molina careers in shutout
Seattle erases 7-run deficit, gets sweep
Homer in 15th lifts Cleveland to clinching win
It was a really long postseason game
After bumpy start, Freeman at home in LA
College Football
Column: On, Wisconsin! On to the bank for coaches, not players
College Sports
No cause determined in surprise death of North Greenville player
Tennis
Roundup: Kyrgios withdraws; Djokovic reaches semis
Golf
Cantlay, Kim atop Shriners Children’s Open
Column: DeChambeau, LIVers missing the point with complaints
Auto Racing
Logano on pole, eight playoff drivers in top 10
NASCAR promises safety changes for 2023
Basketball/NBA/WNBA
Green, Warriors come to mutual decision on punishment
Column: Green deserves harsher suspension
High Schools/Youth sports
Three hurt in shooting outside Ohio high school stadium
Boxing/MMA/UFC
Pena sets sights on title, trilogy
Soccer
Racing Louisville players 'horrified' by abuse allegations against ex-coach Holly
Around the nation/world