The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Thursday's Report: Scoreboard; Mercer hoops; Falcons, Hawks, Braves, UGA 🏀; College🏈 playoffs, college 🏈, NFL, NBA, college 🏀

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 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

Alcovy 65, Westside 32

Brentwood 66, Edmund Burke 23

Crawford County 54, Marion County 42

Lamar County 48, Locust Grove 36

Ola 45, Northside 32

Peach County 43, Washington County 37

Piedmont 47, RTCA 30

Southwest 43, Greenville 23

Veterans 80, Perry 43

Boys

Brentwood 69, Edmund Burke 32

Jackson 71, Lamar County 57

Jasper County 58, Commerce 39

          Kemarion Thomas put up 26 points for Jasper County, while Randy Williams Jr. added 14.

Jefferson County 61, Washington County 60, 2 OT

          Marquavion Cooper led the Golden Hawks with 18 points, Kamonta Durden adding 17 and Khalil Ivey 15. Brashod Heggs grabbed nine rebounds.

McDonough 80, Upson-Lee 63

Mitchell County 61, Central 45

Northside 76, Ola 74

Peach County 57, Fox Creek 49

Perry 71, Veterans 64

          Aaron Jones led 8-3 Veterans with 20, while Chandler Thomas and Kaleb Jackson added 11 each.

RTCA 57, Piedmont 41 

College

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M-Georgia 78, Rider 72

M-Samford 78, Mercer 69

Pro

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Brooklyn 108, Atlanta 107

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

MBKB-Mercer falls at Samford in SoCon opener

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Atlanta’s focus on the final two games should be …

Falcons injury update

Nets nip Hawks, thanks to odd ending, win 10th straight

Braves add LHP Luetge

MBKB-Abdur-Rahim shoots UGA past Rider

 

College Football Playoffs

Bennett two wins from rare back to back titles

Power vs. speed, Michigan vs. TCU

Pollack on UGA’s D vs. nation’s best QB

UGA injury update

What could doom Michigan against the Horned Frogs

Georgia built RB depth for this run

From Duggan to ‘Knuckle Up’, meet TCU

Muschamp, Herbstreit trade funny shots about 1993meeting

Buckeyes still dogged by loss to that school

 

College Football

Liberty-Arkansas blows big lead, wins in 3 OTs

Military-Duke contains Plumlee, UCF

Holiday-Nix rallies Ducks past Tar Heels

Texas-Shough leads Texas Tech over Mississippi

Kiffin: TTech player spit, maybe used racial slur

NIL $ for good: the unnoticed boy, the life-changing player with a huge heart

Ohio State alum George lost a bet, sang ‘Victors’

Gundy gets snippy after bowl loss

UNC-Oregon may battle again soon

 

College Football/Southeast

Alabama’s signing day secret? It’s right there

South Carolina’s 1984 win at ND part of Black Magic year

Wake QB Hartman headed to Notre Dame?

 

NFL/USFL/Football

Predictions

Analysis-Some teams won’t reap rewards for poor seasons

Impatient new owner in charge of head coaching search

Purdy’s ascension no longer a surprise

Raiders bench Carr, who separates from the team

Another QB change for Colts produces futile results

 

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Suns lose Booker for at least four weeks

Williamson scores career-high 43

Three ejected from Pistons-Magic

Analysis-In wide-open NBA, uncertainty is only certainty

Roundup

College Basketball

M-Auburn hangs on against Florida

W-Short-handed UConn rolls No. 21 Creighton

M-LSU gets late plays, nips No. 9 Arkansas

M-Missouri blows out Kentucky

W-Top 25 roundup

Scoreboard

NFL games/scores

College football scores/games

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games