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November 3, 2022 Central Georgia Sports Report

Wednesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

In Coverage: The Sports Report’s predictions

Coming Thursday: High school football notebook, including standings/playoffs look

Friday: Maxwell predictions, and how Central Georgia teams stand in state rankings, and the area’s only every-game scouting reports

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High School

Flag football

Mount de Sales 13, St. Andrew’s 6

Piedmont 27, St. Andrew’s 6

Piedmont 31, Mount de Sales 14

Rutland 8, Howard 0

Ciara Passmore caught Adrianna Kaidan’s pass for the lone touchdown to improve the Hurricanes to 3-1.
Veterans 12, Northside 6

College

Basketball

M-CGTC 73, SW Tennessee 66

Volleyball

Benedict 3, FVSU 1

Pro

NBA

Atlanta 112, New York 99

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Honor Roll/All-Conference

WBKB: FVSU puts two on All-SIAC team, picked 6th in East

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

Around/About Central Georgia

Trinity Christian shares GIAA cross country championship

The Trinity Christian girls put five runners in the top 25 and tied Augusta Prep – which had the top two finishers – atop the GIAA Class AA girls cross country state meet results last week.

Nine schools and 68 runners competed in the class.

Maddie George, Laney Ray, Leah Yoder, Sadie Toler and Emileigh Collier made up a fifth of the top 25 for the Crusaders.

FPD took third in AAA girls with 127 points, behind St. Anne Pacelli (29) and Brookstone (64). Westfield was fifth, Stratford eighth, and John Milledge 12th, among 16 teams.

Stratford was second in AAA boys with 73 points, behind Deerfield-Windsor’s 59. Mount de Sales was fifth, Westfield seventh, and FPD ninth among 23 teams.

Trinity Christian finished fourth in AA boys, Central Fellowship 11th and Brentwood 12th in the 14-team field.

Top 10 individual finishes in each group:

Class AAA girls
None

Class AAA boys
3. Jude Burgess, Stratford, 17:34.93; 10. Wes Flournoy, Stratford, 18:13.81

Class AA girls
5. Abbie Forbus, Central Fellowship, 21:34.08; 9. Maddie George, Trinity Christian, 23:31.19; 10 Laney Ray, TCS, 23:31.42; 12. Leah Yoder, TCS, 23:58.62; 13. Sadie Toler, TCS, 24:03.86; 25. Emileigh Collier

Class AA boys
2. Nolan Lane, Trinity Christian, 16:52.16; 5. Jack Miller, TCS, 17:10.55

CGTC gets win in OT in Fitch debut

Central Georgia Tech’s defense clamped down in overtime to give the Titans a 73-66 win over Southwest Tennessee Community College in the season opener.

It was the first game as head coach for Westside grad Gerald Fitch, promoted in late September from his assistant spot.

STCC led by three in overtime after two minutes, scored first in overtime, Rafael Rubel tying it with 2:14 left on a free throw. Kasai Fontanez’ layup put CGTC in front for good 35 seconds later, and the Titans finished by holding the visitors scoreless the final 3:05.

Returnee Christopher Stone led CGTC with 20 points and eight rebounds, Rubel adding 13 and six, and Jones County grad Bryson Wooten 11 points off the bench.

Mercer’s Harper sets program all-purpose yards record

Bears back up to 11th in latest poll

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Ex-UGA assistant has UT’s D-line tough and physical

Smith has message for Bulldog teammates

UGA injury update

How will Smart, Heupel handle the rankings?

Jones, Walker await opportunities

Tech’s Fusile a Burlsworth Trophy nominee

Ridley trade was in the works awhile

Jags confident in ‘due diligence’ before Ridley trade

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