Monday's Report: Scoreboard; Mary Persons' Holden, Mayhem, Macon TD Club; Falcons, UGA/Tech, Hawks; college 🏈 (Kiffin, UT, Fickell), college 🏀 (UNC loses), NFL (Saints, Bucs), World Cup, NBA, golf
News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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College
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M-Georgia 62, East Tennessee State 47
W-Texas Tech 78, Mercer 66 (late Saturday)
W-Tusculum 67, Georgia College 46
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Pensacola 6, Macon 5
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Alumni Update
Mary Persons’ Holden battles Mercer
Cam Holden’s current team is located 740 miles from home, and he joined it three hours from home to play the college team located 30 minutes from home.
And had a good night.
Holden hit on 9 of 15 shots and grabbed 10 rebounds to go with 24 points in leading Towson to a 70-60 win over Mercer in the Hostilo Hoops Community Classic at Enmarket Arena in Savannah.
Holden was perfect on five free throws and one 3-pointer in 36 minutes to help the Tigers improve to 7-1.
Holden, who leads the Tigers with 35.5 minutes and is second with 15 points a game.
Holden is a redshirt senior in his second year at the CAA school, earning all-conference and all-district honors last year, as well as helping Towson to the regular-season title and NIT trip.
He graduated from Mary Persons in 2018, spent a season at Gulf Coast State (Fla.) College and led the state junior colleges in scoring as a sophomore. He transferred to Tennessee-Martin of the Ohio Valley Conference for a year, leading the Skyhawks in scoring, rebounding, and steals.
Around/About Central Georgia
Nowkhah of ESPN/SEC Network to speak at Macon Touchdown Club
Dari Nowkhah of ESPN and the SEC Network is Monday’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club in its final regular meeting of the year.
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.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart makes his yearly appearance at the jamboree in March.
Nowkhah grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma. He worked at TV stations in Montana, Nebraska, and Oklahoma before joining ESPN in 2004, and then the SEC Network in 2014.
WBKB: Georgia College finally gets beaten
Around/About Georgia
Inside the nearly-game-winning drive
Bennett handles emotions in finale
Adebayo’s 32 leads Miami over Atlanta
MBKB: Oquendo leads UGA over ETSU
College Football/South
Heupel defends UT locker room, culture
Williams’ grades in the Iron Bowl
TV reporter backtracked on Kiffin before Kiffin’s decision
Beamer, Rattler makes statements in win over Clemson
Saban takes a hit, cut, proclaims toughness
SIAC champ Benedict loses in playoff debut
College Football
Fickell leaving Cincinnati for Wisconsin
Michigan up to No. 2 in AP poll
Most-watched game this year? UM vs. OSU
Stanford loses game, head coach
Shaw is Stanford’s winningest coach
Montgomery livin’ on Tulsa time no more, fired
Texas State moving on after 13 wins in four years
Day: Buckeyes still deserve CFP spot
No. 12 Washington outlasts Washington State in Apple Cup
Video: Oregon player threw punch after loss
QB led Purdue to win after brother’s death
College Basketball
M-Alabama knocks off North Carolina in 4 OTs
W- Coach almost didn’t play Saturday night because of issues
W-Star Boston injured in South Carolina win
W-UConn handling ranked foes and injuries … so far
Football/NFL/USFL
New Orleans shut out for first time in 21 years
Kingsbury’s seat heats up with another loss
McVay takes a helmet – a Rams helmet – to the face on rough day
Chubb’s OT TD lifts Browns over Bucs
Skunk makes appearance at Browns game
Jacksonville stuns Baltimore on conversion, long FG miss
Jackson blasts fan on Twitter after stumble
Soccer
Coach remembers late daughter on special day
And rioting in Belgium, Netherlands follows
‘Normal’ for Japanese fans to tidy up
Basketball/NBA/WNBA
Zubac goes for 31 and 29 in Clippers win
Morant drops triple-double on Knicks
Golf
Smith wins third Australian PGA
High school/youth sports
Column-LA coaching legend – and lightning rod –mum about sudden retirement, perhaps for good reason
Scoreboards