Thursday's Report: Signing Day, Scoreboard; Mercer 🏀&⚽; Hawks/Schlenk, Falcons/Pees, UGA/Tech hoops; college 🏈, NFL, NBA, college 🏀, MLB/Correa, soccer

Thursday's Report: Signing Day, Scoreboard; Mercer 🏀&⚽; Hawks/Schlenk, Falcons/Pees, UGA/Tech hoops; college 🏈, NFL, NBA, college 🏀,  MLB/Correa, soccer

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: Signing Day; bowl schedule/results/Central Georgians

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

 

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High School

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Girls

FPD 63, Frederica 42

Jones County 74, Northeast 42

Lake Oconee 60, Mount de Sales 12

Mary Persons 50, Upson-Lee 49

Peach County 52, Perry 32

          Aamori Daniels led the 5-4 Trojans with 15 points, Atiana Gilcrist adding 11 and Brea Batts 10 in the game at Jones County.

Stratford 45, RTCA 21

Boys 

Dooly County 58, Turner County 53

Frederica 49, Mount de Sales 48

Glynn Academy 63, Taylor County 28

Jones County 64, Grovetown 61

          The hosts of the Morris Bank Holiday Classic came up big with a win over the defending 6A champs, overcoming a nine-point deficit entering the fourth quarter. Jaylen Sanford led the way with 24 points while Daethan Harris added 17.

Lee County 59, Baldwin 38

Lovejoy 77, Mary Persons 61

Macon County 67, Crisp County 62

New Creation 61, Jasper County 34

New Hampstead 73, Perry 56

Stratford 81, RTCA 53

Ware County 74, Northeast 62

College

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M-Ball State 58, Georgia Southern 54

M-Clemson 79, Georgia Tech 66

W-Florida Gulf Coast 91, Mercer 81

W-Georgia 63, San Diego State 44

M-Georgia 72, Chattanooga 65

M-Mercer 82, Troy 79

Pro

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Chicago 110, Atlanta 108

 

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Players of the week

SoCon WBKB-Mercer’s Neal-Tysor

 

Around/About Central Georgia

MSOC- Mercer’s Ousman picked 75th in MLS draft

WBKB-Doughtery’s career high not enough vs. FGCU

MBKB-Mercer holds off Troy for road win

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Schlenk steps down as Hawks president, Fields takes over

Players didn’t see it coming

Airball, putback at horn, and Hawks blow game

Lindstrom named to first Pro Bowl

Falcons injury update

Pees, Bush recount Sunday’s ‘scary situation’

Pees: ‘What the hell just happened?’

MBKB-Georgia rallies past Chattanooga

MBKB-Tech falls at home to Clemson

College Football

Minnesota’s Fleck accuses Wisconsin of negative recruiting

Column: Sanders didn’t win the big game, again, but won for legacy

Black head coaches in FBS drop slightly heading into 2023

College Football/Southeast

Bama’s Gibbs never thought of skipping Sugar Bowl

How two Black women helped build South Carolina solid recruiting class

Column: Imagine if Tennessee hired Leach over Pruitt
NFL/USFL/Football

An NFL and Pa. icon, Franco Harris suddenly passes away

Legacy forged in humility and empathy

Remembering Franco

50 years later, ‘Immaculate Reception’ still lifts a region

Eagles put 8 in Pro Bowl games

Travon Walker ruled on for Thursday game

Ryan benched again in Indy, Foles to start

Suspicious package causes lockdown at Bears’ facility

Jags got going after low overseas

Baltimore takes another hit at WR

Minnesota has mother of all comebacks in comebacks era

Charges dropped against ex-receiver Antonio Brown

Predictions

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Nets score 91 in a half

Popovich, Parker, Nowitzki, Wade among Hall of Fame nominees

Soccer

More than 25 million watched World Cup final in U.S.

Pele’s cancer worsens, kidneys and heart affected

College Basketball

W-Iowa’s Clark hits 2,000 points, quickest ever

M-Tennessee rolls Austin Peay

M-Auburn pulls away from Washington

M-North Carolina holds off Michigan in frisky battle

Baseball/MLB

Wait, wha? Correa from Giants to Mets

A coup of A-Rod proportions

Swanson emotional in Cubs introduction

With Jeter at side, Judge named a Yankee captain

Auto Racing

F1 drivers can’t make political statements without approval

Scoreboard

NFL games/scores

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games