Saturday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Stratford moving on minus Farriba, Westside's Reeves, Mercer/Georgia College ⚾; Hawks, UGA/G-Day, Georgia Southern; NBA, MLB, NASCAR, colleges, more

Saturday's News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Stratford moving on minus Farriba, Westside's Reeves, Mercer/Georgia College ⚾; Hawks, UGA/G-Day, Georgia Southern; NBA, MLB, NASCAR, colleges, more

Saturday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.

 

In Coverage: The latest carousel is spinning at Stratford, with Farriba out as AD, and Jones County’s Veal in as AD

Scoreboard

High School

⚾ ⚾ ⚾Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

FPD 9, Stratford 5

                      The Vikings took control with four in the fourth. Gavin Spillers and B.J. Hughes each had three and two RBI hits for FPD, Garrett Veal with two hits and Jackson Moore with two RBI. Cooper Baskette and Mekhi Lyder combined for four of Stratford’s four hits. The Vikings clinched the region regular-season title and playoff top seed with the win.

Gatewood 8, Augusta Prep 0

GMC 17, Twiggs County 0

                      The Bulldogs put up 15 in the first of the three-inning game. A dozen Cobra errors led to 14 unearned runs, GMC needing only six hits. One was a grand slam from Bryce Smith.

Thomas Jefferson 10, John Hancock 0

Westfield 11, John Milledge 10

                      Will Johnson’s double to right brought in Hardy Hudson with the tie run, and R Powers’ 2-1 single to right scored Johnson with the walk-off game-winner in the bottom of the seventh. Ryan Powers drove in six runs on four hits, and Cole Miller four on two. Hudson, Johnson, and Grey Brannen had two hits each for the Hornets.

College

⚾ ⚾ ⚾Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Georgia College 8, Claflin 5

Georgia Southern 10, Georgia State 8

Mercer 20, UNCG 10

Texas A&M 23, Georgia 9

North Carolina 10, Georgia Tech 5

Golf

M-Peach Belt Championship, second round, Georgia College

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Flagler 6, Georgia College 5

Georgia 3, Missouri 1

Georgia Tech 5, NC State 1

Texas-Arlington 9, Georgia Southern 5; UTA 6, GSU 0

Western Carolina 5, Mercer 3 

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 5, San Diego 2


                      📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰

Alumni Update

Westside alum Reeves changes mind about the transfer portal

 

Around/about Central Georgia

BSB: Mercer doubles up UNCG for 12th straigh

BSB: Georgia College comes through on senior day

 

Around/About Georgia

Hawks in the way of the Heat’s quest

Falcons draft look: OL Charles Cross

FB: Smart talks about Saturday’s G-Day action

FB: UGA quotes

FB: APB on Gilbert? Answered

FB: And about the QB

FB: Who knows he has to improve

FB: Smart on the portal

FB: Searels is mic’d up

FB: Georgia Southern holds second scrimmage

Anderson finds his groove in Braves’ win

BSB: A&M hammers Georgia

BSB: UNC thumps Tech

BSB: Southern sweeps State

 

Sports and Ukraine

For Ukrainian competitors, Invictus Games a respite 

Sports and social/racial awareness

Temple, Rutgers the rarity: Black president, AD, head FB coach 

Basketball/NBA/WNBA

Doncic-free Jazz win opener

Sixers’ Maxey drops 38 on Raptors

Edwards leads Timberwolves in opener

Curry back, but it’s Poole’s 30-point game that keys Warriors

Injuries and impact in the playoffs 

MLB/Baseball

Ohtani keeps warming up with another bomb

Gil Hodges’ family relieved that 50-year HOF wait is over 

Golf/Tennis

Mickelson’s seclusion already taking toll on his future

Swiatek powers Poland to finals of Billie Jean King Cup

Auto Racing

Bryon steps out of comfort zone at Larson’s dirt event 

College Football/South

Alabama honors Tide’s first Black players

‘Don’t think you can even calibrate the importance of what they did’

Gibbs shines in Tide’s ‘dress rehearsal’

Tennessee getting defensive leaders

Eddie George enjoying life at Tennessee State 

College Football

Ohio State pays tribute to Haskins

Michigan State tries to replace RB Walker 

College Sports

Oklahoma rallies to claim fifth gymnastics title, by a hair

Football/NFL/USFL

USFL debut has plenty in Birmingham win

Deal reached to void sale of Brady’s ‘last’ TD pass

Samuel has received death threats, racial messages from fans

Arrests made in shooting from SUV with Dallas’ Joseph inside

Soccer

Ronaldo hat trick boosts Man U’s hopes

Around the nation/world

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB games/scores