Thursday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Signing: Southwest; UGA/Crean/successor, Falcons/Ridley, Braves: MLB lockout over, conference tournaments, college BKB, NBA, NASCAR, NFL

Thursday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Signing: Southwest; UGA/Crean/successor, Falcons/Ridley, Braves: MLB lockout over, conference tournaments, college BKB, NBA, NASCAR, NFL

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

 

High school coaches should send box scores and/or game information to centralgasports@gmail.com within 30 minutes of completion for expanded coverage. The more info provided, the more info to give people.

Score sources: Twitter, Facebook, email, Gamechanger, MaxPreps, Eurosport. Wake up to the information update with details and links. 

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High School
Baseball

Bleckley County 11, Dodge County 0

          The Royals rolled, with two hits from Dawson Chapman, Matthew Bland (both doubles), and James Fordham, and two RBI from Eli Mullis and Jacob Grant. Mullis threw a five-inning one-hitter.

FPD 11, Mount de Sales 0

          Colton McDonald went for three hits and three RBI for the Vikings, Hayes Bryant adding two hits and Gavin Spillers two RBI. Willis Handberry threw a five-inning, 48-pitch one-hitter. The Golden Hawks tied it in the sixth, and stranded two in the top of the eighth.

Hawkinsville 3, Montgomery County 0; Hawkinsville 6, Montgomery County 0

          Braden Simmons had a homer and two hits in the opener, Randal Holder throwing the complete-game shutout. Brenden Varnadoe and Tanner Meeks teamed for the nightcap shutout.

Lamar County 5, Washington County 4, 8 inn.

          Kale Bryan drew a no-out bases-loaded walk to push in Johnny Stone with the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning. Talon Dender, Hutson Trayler, and Brayden Pines had two hits each for the Trojans. Jonathan Mobley and Justin Brett had two hits apiece for the Golden Hawks.

Mary Persons 15, Howard 0

          An eight-run third made it a four-inning game. Eric Snow drove in six runs on four hits, missing the cycle by a single and belting two homers, with four runs. Ryan Jenkins, Ryan Causey, and Tristan Hunt added two hits each. Ian Lewis fanned eight and allowed one hit in four innings.

Soccer
Girls
FPD 8, Strong Rock 0

          Madelyn Davis had four goals and Sophie Chan two, with goals from Emmie DeZoort, Sarah Grace Strickland, and assists from DeZoort, Laura Chan, Davis, and Strickland.

Jeff Davis 2, East Laurens 1

Boys
FPD 5, Strong Rock 1

          Gunner Heath went off with five goals, Ty Pettigrew adding two assists and Carter Hayes one.

Jeff Davis 7, East Laurens 2

Tennis
Girls
Bleckley County 5, Lamar County 0

Mary Persons 5, Pike County 0

Boys
Bleckley County 5, Lamar County 0

Pike County 3, Mary Persons 2

Track

G-Mary Persons 110, FPD 88, Northeast 51

B-Mary Persons 121.50; FPD 61; Northeast 49.5; CFCA 33

(Wed.) G-Stratford 183; Trinity Christian 106; Mount de Sales 80; John Milledge 76; Dominion Christian 11; Crawford County 10

(Wed.) B-Stratford 180; Trinity Christian 90; John Milledge 78; Dominion Christian 74; Mount de Sales 56; Tattnall 51; Crawford County 6


College
Softball
Miles 5, FVSU 4; Spring Hill 8 ,FVSU 0

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Owners, players agree on more than the day of the week, lockout lifted

Frenzy, Part II: What to expect when roster freeze lifts

About the season, I

About the season, II

 

Signing

          Southwest’s Travion Searcy signed with Central State for football. Central State, in Ohio, and is coached by Warner Robins grad and former Fort Valley State head coach Kevin Porter

Around/About Georgia

As expected, Georgia fires Crean

Sportsline has odds on successor

Column: What was Ridley thinking”

Former UGA player makes case for former UGA player

Column: As does a veteran writer

Remember J.T. Daniels?

There’s another Niekro in Braves camp

Former GMC assistant promoted at Georgia State

College basketball conference tournaments

National conference schedules, scores

W&M-Southern

W-Peach Belt

M-Peach Belt

W&M-SIAC

W-SEC

M-SEC

W-ACC

M-ACC

W-Sun Belt

M-Sun Belt

W-ASUN

M-ASUN

W-Gulf South

M-Gulf South

M-Boeheims see ruling on a Boeheim differently

M-Duke holds off Syracuse

M-Mississippi State handles South Carolina

M-Big 31-9 run lifts Indiana over Michigan

M-Strong start pushes LSU

M-Iowa has record night

M-Miami buzzer-beater bops BC

M-Vandy rallies from 15 to beat Bama 

College Basketball

W-How Iowa’s Clark became the women’s game’s most exciting player

M-Mississippi attendance hit all-time low

M-Weber resigns at Kansas State

M-The Citadel fires Baucom after seventh season 

Sports and Ukraine

Explainer: What sanctions for Abramovich, Chelsea mean 

Sports and social/racial awareness

Buford grad, Ohio State G: ‘I told Coach Day of my intention to kill myself’

Gauff speaks out against Florida’s anti-LGBTQ bill

Column: Griner case another example of male-female gap in sports 

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

The descent of Westbrook

Philly welcomes back Ben Simmons 

Auto Racing

This week at Phoenix 

Golf/Tennis

Gauff speaks out against Florida’s anti-LGBTQ bill

Storm interrupts first day of Players Championship 

College Football/South

Column: LSU can’t escape frat house environment after latest charge 

College Football

Key players gone from Cincy, but ‘run is not over’ 

NFL

Wilson: ‘Seattle, I love you’

Reich reportedly apologized for getting Wentz

Murray selling $60K chain to raise $ for healthcare workers

Packers’ stock offering raises more than $65 million

Chargers get Mack from Bears 

Sports and social/racial awareness

Analytics crowd turns to data to tackle diversity

Around the nation/world

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

Men’s college basketball

Women’s college basketball