Saturday's Report: Scoreboard (John Milledge, Gatewood, colleges); GHSA track/ACE, Georgia College/Mercer ⚾; Falcons, Braves; NBA, MLB, Golf, NASCAR, NHL, colleges
News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
High School
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GISA Finals
Class AAA
John Milledge 4, Pinewood Christian 3, 8 innings
A single, double, and fielder’s choice and throw gave John Milledge two runs in the top of the eighth, and starting pitcher Keaton Prior stranded the tie run on first to give the Trojans the win. Game 2 is Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
Class AA
Terrell 12, Gatewood 0
Game 2 is Saturday at 4 p.m.
College
⚾ ⚾ ⚾Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾
Georgia College 6, Georgia Southwestern 5, Peach Belt Tournament
Georgia Southern 13, Little Rock 2
Georgia State 10, Arkansas State 2
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
Central Arkansas 5, Kennesaw State 1, ASUN Tournament
GMC 6, ABAC 3, GCAA championship
Pro
MLB
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Signings
Kryssi Maddox of Crawford County signed to play softball at Fort Valley State.
Around/About Central Georgia
BSB-Brown’s bomb lifts Georgia College in 10th
BSB-Mercer loses fourth straight conference game
Around/About Georgia
Attorneys question Georgia deputies stop, search of college lacrosse team’s bus
London embraces health, contact at Falcons minicamp
Might prepare for a long Falcons season
Sports and social/racial awareness
NBA/WNBA
Golden State finally puts away Memphis
Tatum drops 46 to lead Celtics, force seventh
Embiid: Harden isn’t the Houston Harden anymore
Judge denies Griner’s bid for home detention
MLB/Baseball
Phils’ Harper out at least a month
Stanton goes yard for third straight game
Astros rout Nationals for 11th win in a row
Kershaw put on IL with inflammation
Former Chicago trainer sues over termination
Golf/Tennis
Palmer joins lead at Byron Nelson
‘Time to stand up’ and boycott Saudi series
Thomas to rebels: ‘if you want to go, then go’
Mickelson pulls out of PGA Championship
Auto Racing
Is this Byron’s big weekend?
Larson favored to back-to-back in Kansas
College Basketball
No news here: good teams leaning on portal
Football/NFL/USFL
Pederson talks about Walker vs. Hutchinson
Willis shrugs off Tannehill’s mentoring philosophy
College Football
College Sports
NIL disrupts everything we thought we knew about college sports
Hockey
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