Friday's Report: Dooley honorees (FPD), GISA All-State, Macon Bacon, Mercer 🏀; Braves, UGA money, state college ⚾&⛳; national
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
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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
UGA’s spring meetings: smiles, and contracts, and money
Improvements, upgrades planned
Monken’s pay gets monster bump
BSB-Tech tops Louisville at ACC
FB-Georgia Southern and Jacksonville State agree to series
College baseball postseason
Southern Conference 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
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
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