The Central Georgia Sports Report

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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

Five questions

Five things to watch

Bucs impressed with Mariota’s management

Tampa Bay’s run game is rough

Atlanta-Tampa Bay capsule

 

Football/NFL/USFL/CFL

Goodell says concussion protocol tweaks coming

Which the union is pushing

Saints eye cleaner game

Saints-Seahawks capsule

Not a good fit yet in Denver with Hackett, Wilson

Rams facing D-Line issues

Raiders post obit of still-alive Davis

Haden announces retirement before Florida Hall induction

 

Baseball/MLB/Baseball

Mets get good deGrom to even series

Mets (pregame) notebook

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

Verlander to open for Houston 

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

MLB games/scores

NFL scores/games

College football scores/games