The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Tuesday's Report: Scoreboard; Players of the week: Mercer, Middle Georgia State, GMC; Bleckley County’s Mims, Mercer; Braves, Heat, UGA, Tech; MLB, NFL, NBA

Monday'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

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ACE 12 Covenant 2

                     The Gryphons broke a 2-2 tie after one with five, and rolled in 4.5 innings, helped by five Covenant errors. Trevor Derrick and Owen Cannon teamed for a shortened no-hitter, striking out six with a walk. Ashton Donaldson had two hits and four RBI for ACE.

Calvary Christian 25, CFCA 6

Deerfield-Windsor 8, Stratford 1

Gatewood 10, Briarwood 2

Glenwood 12, Piedmont 2

GMC 14, Glascock County 2

                     Christian Black drove in four runs on two hits, with two and two from JJ Hines, and two hits and two runs from Tyler Saunders, plus two hits and three runs from Bryce Smith. Trey Woods belted a homer and had three RBI and three runs.

Perry 11, Howard 1

                     Two early four-run innings led the Panthers, who got two hits from Alex Scarborough and Price Massey, the pair teaming for five RBI.

Andrew Garnett had two hits and a homer for the Huskies.

Rutland 18, Westside 14

Thomas Jefferson 11, Brentwood 3

Westwood 6, Windsor 0

West Laurens 12, Spalding 0

                     The Raiders combined 10 hits with six walks. William Kellam, Kaden Baggett, and Camden Thomas had two hits each for West Laurens, with two RBI from Matthew Thigpen, Gunnar Jeffers, and Jace Thompson, plus three from Baggett. 

Lacrosse

G-Stratford 17, Dutchtown 1 

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Girls

GHSA Playoffs, second round
5A-Decatur 8, Veterans 1

3A-Mary Persons 6, Monroe Area 2

Stratford 8, Mount Vernon 2

A Public- Screven County 7, GMC 1

Metter 5, Crawford County 1

ACE 2, McIntosh County Academy 0

A Private-Stratford 8, Mt. Vernon 2

Pro

MLB

Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Atlanta 4

 

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Alumni Update

Bleckley County’s Mims changes mind, leaves portal

 

Players of the Week

Southern Conference baseball: Mercer’s DiSpigna

Southern States softball: Middle Georgia State’s Back and Eddins

GCAA softball: GMC’s Griffith and Shellhorse

 

Around/About Central Georgia

BSB: Mercer takes 12-game win streak to Tech

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Braves comeback falls short in LA

Freddie’s first bomb as a Dodger? Yeah

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 Miami still wary of Young despite slowing him down

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FB: Dawgs in love with those championship rings

FB: Georgia’s next test

GLF: UGA’s Haack, ex-Dogs explain PGA Tour (‘UGA Tour’) success

Atlanta GK needs surgery

BSB: Tech hosts Mercer after second straight ACC series win

BSB: Southern ranked for first time since 2013 

Baseball/MLB/College

Reds’ Greene brings plenty of 100+ heat

College notes: Southern Miss hot, polls, LSU quiet

Half dozen Oakland players on COVID list

Arrieta announces retirement 

NBA/WNBA

Boston’s Smart is defensive POTY

Embiid leads Sixers with 31

Dallas hot from 3 to beat Jazz

Curry drops 34 off the bench for Warriors

Irving flips off, then sounds off 

Football/NFL/USFL

No indication Snyder will give up Washington voluntarily

Washington sends later to FTC denying improprieties

Kaepernick: Give me a shot, and cut me if I earn cutting

Cleveland confident in tanking investigation

Cut for picking pizza over chicken salad?

Butler puts SB 52 benching behind him in rejoining Pats 

Auto Racing

Column: Bristol was messy, unusual, and predictable 

College Football/South

Clemson still atop the ACC, but the gap is closing

College Basketball/South

Vandy’s Pippen heading to NBA

Around the nation/world

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB games/scores