The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Saturday’s News ‘n Notes: Scoreboard; FVSU vs. UCLA, Mayhem; Augusta/title game, Freddie, Georgia State, Falcons, Tech, ; NCAA Tournaments, NFL, MLB, more

High School

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Doral Academy 6, Houston County 5

                      Two walks to open the bottom of the seventh followed by a fly out, hit batter, and RBI single gave Doral the walk-off in Florida. Gage Harrelson had two hits and two runs for Houston County, while tourney MVP Drew Burress and Andrew Dunford had two RBI each.

Mary Persons 15, Jenkins 0; Mary Persons 19, Islands 4

                      Ian Lewis and Thomas Brooks each had two hits and four RBI for the Bulldogs, who got a two-hit/three-run game from Eric Snow in the three-inning win. Mary Persons lead 10-0 after two in the five-inning nightcap. Snow went 4 for 5 with five RBI and three runs at leadoff while Jake Gore went 4 for 4 with six RBI and two runs at No. 7. Aric Mock added three hits, with Ryan Jenkins and Gage Hopper adding two each. Lewis struck out eight with no walks in four innings. 

College
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Georgia Southern 12, Arkansas State 2

Kentucky 10, Georgia 8

Louisiana-Monroe 5, Georgia State 2

N.C. State 6, Georgia Tech 5

North Georgia 11, Georgia College 10; NG 2, GC 1

Utah 25, Mercer 8

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Middle Georgia State 15, Stillman 2; MGSU 10, Stillman 2

UNCG 15, Mercer 4; UNCG 12, Mercer 4

Savannah State 5, FVSU 2; Savannah State 19, FVSU 7

 

🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐

M-UCLA 3, Fort Valley State 0

Pro

SPHL
Vermilion County 3,Macon 2


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Around/about Central Georgia

Area hoopers participate in all-star games

          The basketball chapter of the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association held a day of all-star games at Gateway Arena (basketball capacity of 3,500) in College Park, the home to the Atlanta Dream and G-League College Park Skyhawks in the shadow of Hartsfield-Atlanta International Airport.

          There were games for girls and boys for juniors and for seniors, starting at 11 a.m.

          Central Georgia’s girls selections: Laniya Richardson and Jakia Little, Northeast; Jada Morgan, Warner Robins; Tamya Blasingame, Lamar County;

          Central Georgia’s boys selections: Deonte Lowe, Hancock Central.

          No scored or stats were posted by the GACA.

 

Things get chippy in Mayhem loss

VB: Fort Valley State battles volleyball power respectably

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Georgia has a new head women’s basketball coach

MBKB: Augusta can’t get over the hump in title-game comeback

Freddie talks, and clarifies, and is still getting over things

MBKB: Georgia State near losing head coach Lanier

Mariota wants to carve his own path in Atlanta

Falcons mailbag

Tech plucks assistant from Florida State

May is the target return for Acuna

Atlanta lefty Lee far removed from Series spotlight

Sunday
Women
7 p.m., ESPN, Stanford vs. Texas
9 p.m., ESPN, South Carolina vs. Creighton
Men
2:20 p.m., CBS, Kansas vs. Miami
After, CBS, North Carolina vs. St. Peter’s
Monday
Women
7 p.m., ESPN, N.C. State vs. UConn
9 p.m., ESPN, Louisville vs. Michigan

NCAA Tournaments

Men’s scores and boxes and schedules

Women’s scores and boxes and schedules

(Note: annoying video at the start)

M-Duke takes over, pulls away from Arkansas

M-Villanova the better of bad-shooting teams, survives

M-Column: Villanova is the game’s best program, showed it again

W-Michigan survies upstart South Dakota State

W-N.C. State storms back to stun Notre Dame with late bucket

W-UConn pulls away late

W-Louisville dispatches Tennessee for fourth straight Elite Eight

A look at Sunday

More

M-St. Peter’s the poster child for March Madness

M-‘The smile couldn’t leave my face’

M-The top 10 Cinderellas of all time

W-Column: Stanford is better than last year, and can improve

Are the Peacocks a miracle or a nod to a trend of parity?

M-No Big Ten in the Elite Eight

M-St. Peter’s Holloway is ‘made for this’

M-NCAA is the elephant in the Kansas room

College Basketball

M-Memphis charged with multiple Level I violations

NBA/WNBA

Raptors-Pacers game faces fire, evacuation

A good night for former Heat Dragic

NFL

Carolina battling unsettled QB situation

Column: Watson trade can trigger the past for sexual assault victims, like the author 

College Football/South

Kiffin trolls Tennessee at baseball game

Harsin getting to know his players

MLB/Baseball

Column: Baseball and Oscars fight for relevancy

Golf/Tennis

Kisner back in final

Soccer

Messi now ponders future

Column: This isn’t like 2018 for USMNT

Moore rushes from Tenerife to US for qualifier

Around the nation/world

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

Men’s college basketball

Women’s college basketball