Thursday's Report: Peach County's Campbell done; Falcons/Pitts, Hawks, UGA/LSU, death settlement; CFP, all-conferences, NFL/Watson/Owens, World Cup, NBA, college hoops

Thursday's Report: Peach County's Campbell done; Falcons/Pitts, Hawks, UGA/LSU, death settlement; CFP, all-conferences, NFL/Watson/Owens, World Cup, NBA, college hoops

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

 

Coming Thursday: GIAA Class AAA championship preview and prediction

Coming every day: The only place in Central Georgia with daily high school scores in flag football, basketball (and wrestling when scores are offered)

 

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High School

🏀🏀🏀Basketball🏀🏀🏀

Girls

Bleckley County 65, Wheeler County 15

Central 54, Howard 39

          Alaya Grane went off for 22 points to lead Central, Taye Davis chipping in six rebounds and Kayla Pryor four steals.

Westside 40, Southwest 29

Boys

Bleckley County 54, Wheeler County 45

Westside 70, Southwest 29

          Daveon Henderson and Rashim Rondo teamed for 33 points to outscore the Patriots, Shannon Fountain adding 13.

 

College

🏀🏀🏀Basketball🏀🏀🏀

 

W-Alabama 88, Mercer 52

M-FGCU 70, Georgia Southern 53

M-Georgia 73, Hampton 54 

Pro

🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀

Atlanta 125, Orlando 108

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

WBKB-Good start lifts Alabama over Mercer

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Pitts out for the year after surgery

Steelers’ Harris misses practice with ab injury

Young, Hawks break 3-game skid

Key lets three assistants go

UGA paying no attention to CFP stuff

Kelly and Monken go way back

LSU’s Perkins can wreck an offense

Ojulari is a focus of Georgia’s LB room, too

$10 mil settlement for death of HS basketball player

MBKB-FGSU handles Georgia Southern

Albany State loses head coach to Charleston Southern

 

College Football

Will the Rose Bowl soon be out of the CFP rotation?

No, it agrees to clear the way

OSU’s Stroud heads All-Big Ten picks

Tulane tops AAC honors

TCU, Kansas State lead Big 12 selections

Nebraska interim coach arrested in domestic case

New AD on board, WVU keeping Brown, for now

Big 12 title RBs different, similar

College Football/Southeast

Florida backup QB arrested on child porn charges

UAB hires Dilfer as head coach

Learned and not learned from Freeze presser

Freeze unaware of backlash

 

NFL/USFL/Football

Broncos come to Wilson’s defense

Watson practices, no meeting with the media

Ravens OC looks at Stanford

Owens says he punched man who was threatening

White made it look easy, bad news for Wilson

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Booker goes for 51 in rout of Bulls

Edwards sparks Towns-less T-wolves

Celtics ride Tatum’s 49

Roundup

Soccer

US hopes to build interest after Iran win

Pulisic day to day

Germany needs a win to stay in

Spain eyes last-16 spot

College Basketball

M-Indiana continues North Carolina’s fall

M-Gardner-Webb pops Western Carolina

M-Stephens leads Chattanooga over Tenn. Tech

M-No. 5 Purdue wins at FSU

M-ETSU cruises past Mars Hill

Baseball/MLB

Blue Jays hire Mattingly as bench coach

Scoreboard

NFL games/scores

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games