Friday's Report: Dooley honorees (FPD), GISA All-State, Macon Bacon, Mercer 🏀; Braves, UGA money, state college ⚾&⛳; national

Friday's Report: Dooley honorees (FPD), GISA All-State, Macon Bacon, Mercer 🏀; Braves, UGA money, state college ⚾&⛳; national

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Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

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College
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Georgia Tech 9, Louisville 4, ACC Tournament

Kennesaw State 7, FGSU 6, ASUN Tournament

Coastal Plain League

Macon 4, Lexington County 2

Pro

MLB

Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 1

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Sports and Texas school shooting

Yankees, Rays use social media to spread gun violence facts

 

Honor Roll

FPD pair tops area Dooley Award recipients

          Two athletes from FPD were finalists for scholarships as part of the 15th annual Vincent J. Dooley Awards and Scholarships.

          Claire Harrison and Camden Smith were among the 20 finalists – 10 girls and 10 boys – for the scholarships, which went to a girl from St. Vincent’s and boy from Wesleyan.

The ceremony was last Saturday at the College Football Hall of Fame.

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Central Georgians earn GISA All-State soccer honors

          Three girls from Central Georgia made the team: Brooke Meyer of Westfield, and the Trinity Christian duo of Kardyn George and Jenny Yoder.

          Three boys made the team: Tommy Collier and Caleb Todd of John Milledge, and Henry Williams of Trinity Christian.

 

And baseball honors

          Chad Starley of John Milledge earned GISA Class AAA coach of the year honors to lead the Central Georgians making GISA baseball All-State:

          Class AAA: Westfield-James Hayes, Jake Canterbury, Grey Brannen; John Milledge-Keaton Prior, Jackson Thomas, Bud Veal, Banks Eady; Trinity Christian-Dalton Price

          Class AA: Piedmont-Gavin Mask, David Bishop, Brody Anderson; Gatewood-Wilson Moore, Caleb Riser, Walker Roberts; Brentwood-Robert Jackson.

          Class A: Carson Godfrey, P/3B, Fullington.

 

Bacon open season with a win

          Macon beat Lexington County 4-2 in the Coastal Plain League opener, but neither the league website nor Bacon website had any box score information as of midnight. The CPL didn’t list the game on the schedule.

          Macon hosts Florence in the home opener at 7 p.m. Friday, with fireworks to follow.

 

Around/About Georgia

No O again for Braves

UGA’s spring meetings: smiles, and contracts, and money

Improvements, upgrades planned

Monken’s pay gets monster bump

BSB-Tech tops Louisville at ACC

MGLF- UGA opens NCAA play

MGLF-As does Georgia Tech

FB-Georgia Southern and Jacksonville State agree to series

 

College baseball postseason

Southern Conference Tournament

SEC Tournament

ACC Tournament

Sun Belt Tournament

ASUN Tournament

 

Baseball/MLB

Donaldson apologizes to Jackie Robinson’s family

MLB criticizes teams over facilities for female employees

Teams can carry 14 pitchers through June 19

Reds have highest scoring day in 23 years

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Warriors close out Mavs, back in conference finals

Boston hopes to finish Miami off at home

Williamson is now restriction-free

All-NBA team

Football/NFL/USFL

Column: Workout for Kaepernick long overdue

Sources: a good workout; Raiders: Shhhh

Auto Racing

Busch: MJ is taking NASCAR business very seriously

Golf/Tennis

Latest on the French Open

Defending women’s champ has COVID

Halep experiences panic attack during French

Wie starting to fully transition away from LPGA

College Football/South

Kiffin has thoughts on Saban retirement timetable

A plea for the SEC to keep divisions

College Football

What might Nick’s voicemail to Jimbo sound like?

How ‘direct dollars’ have changed recruiting

Sugar Bowl moved, bowl schedule released

College Sports

Eyeing gambling money amid safeguard returns

Hockey

Hurricanes push Rangers to the brink

Around the nation/world

Will darts be the next big thing?

 NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB games/scores

WNBA scores/games