Friday's News 'n Notes: Honor Roll: Mercer, Georgia College; Alumni: Westside; Georgia College, Mercer, Russell Henley; Braves, Hawks, UGA, Ga. State, Falcons; college BKB HQ, NBA, MLB, NBA, more
News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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Honor Roll
Mercer’s Neal-Tysor player of the month
Georgia College’s Thomas earns all-region honor
Alumni Update
Florida wasted explosion by Westside’s Reeves
Warning about Reeves from the corner already came
Around/About Central Georgia
MBKB: Georgia College set for NCAA opener at Augusta
BSB: Off to its best start, Mercer overpowers St. Peter’s
Henley gets to finish first round at Players
Weather disrupted the first round of the Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, but not Russell Henley’s first round.
Then it disrupted the end of the first round again on Friday, likely pushing the final round to Monday, perhaps Tuesday.
The first round was continued on Friday morning and stopped around noon, until further notice. Henley sat in a tie for 18th, only three shots back of leaders Tommy Fleetwood and Tom Hoge.
Henley bogeyed his first hole of the tournaments, but things improved pretty quickly with an eagle on the second hole and two birdies on the front nine. He maintained on the back nine, with a birdie and bogey to finish 3 under with a 69.
It tied his second best round at the tournament, with 2016 when he still missed the cut, after a 76.
He’s set to make the cut for the fourth time in 10 tries at the Players, with a17th-place finish in 2017 – despite a third-round 80 – his best.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Column: Time for Freddie to become a Dodger
Six Hawks in doubles hold off Clippers
Obit: Ex-Brave Perez, after patio fall
New hoops coach tops UGA AD’s list, biggest test
MBKB: Georgia State’s Lanier writing a new chapter for his book
WR now a position of focus for Atlanta
College basketball conference tournaments
National conference schedules, scores
M-A&M stuns Auburn in quarterfinals
M-Virginia Tech handles North Carolina
M-Tennessee thumps Mississippi State
M-Arkansas beats LSU for third time
M-Krzyzewski in ACC championship in final tournament
M-Michigan State suddenly warm
M-Kentucky gets past Vandy again
W-Delaney-Smith’s 40-year run at Harvard over
W-Nine free throws in the final 47 seconds to win
M-Indiana edges top seed Illinois
NBA/WNBA
College Basketball
Column: There’s more to sportsmanship than the handshake line
Ex-Kansas State coach Weber: no haircut until cheaters punished
Column: Bellarmine suffers from a double NCAA whammy
Fired: Dooley at East Carolina
Fired: Rhode Island’s Cox after four seasons
Auto Racing
Larson the favorite at Phoenix
NFL/Football
No indictment for Texans’ Watson
College Football
Army player among those ODing on laced coke during spring break
MLB/Baseball
HR Derby to break All-Star game tie?
Kershaw to re-sign with Dodgers
Unvaccinated players can’t travel to Canada
Golf/Tennis
Players play suspended again, Monday finish likely
Oh eagles final hole for LPGA lead
Around the nation/world