Saturday's Report: Scoreboard (GISA ⚾, college ⚾&🥎); Georgia College, Russell Henley, MGSU, Mercer; Braves, Hawks, Tech/Teixeira, UGA; NBA, MLB, NASCAR, more

May 7, 2022 Central Georgia Sports Report

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 semifinals

Class AAA

John Milledge 7, Tiftarea 1; JMA 13, Tiftarea 1

Jackson Thomas’ two-run single sparked JMA’s six-run fifth to clinch the opener, and the Trojans got going early for a five-inning win to advance to the championship round. The Trojans won the opener with small-ball, on six hits and four walks while striking out seven times. Briggs Eady had a steal and scored twice. Thomas went the distance for the win. Caleb Haines went 3 for 4 with two RBI and two runs in the nightcap, while Bud Veal added two hits – including a triple – and three RBI and three runs. Keaton Prior and Cooper Wilburn had two-hit games, with Banks Easdy, Wilburn, and Justin England scoring twice. Prior fanned five with a walk and two hits in five innings.

Westfield at Pinewood Christian

Weather pushed the doubleheader to Saturday at 1 p.m.

College
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Brewton-Parker 10, Middle Georgia State 9

Georgia State 12, App State 1

Clemson 9, Georgia Tech 3

Vanderbilt 11, Georgia 9

Western Carolina 9, Mercer 2

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Georgia 9, Mississippi 1

Mercer 9, FGCU 4; Florida 8, Mercer 3

Pro

MLB

Milwaukee 6, Atlanta 3

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Honor Roll

Georgia College puts two on All-PBC softball team

Around/About Central Georgia

Henley squeezes into cut at Wells Fargo

The cut line figure wasn’t forgiving at Wells Fargo, and Russell Henley barely made it.

The Stratford grad was 2 over for the day and even after two rounds to make it, tying for 50th with 15 others, including Matt Kuchar, Russell Knox, Rory McIlroy, and Corey Conners.

Henley’s start was rough, with a bogey on No. 1. He swapped bogeys and birdies at the end of the front nine, and had two more bogeys to only one birdie on the back nine.

Still, that group is only 10 shots behind leader Jason Day.

Henley tees off on No. 10 at 12:07 p.m. Saturday with Knox and Michael Gligic.

BSB-Middle Georgia State eliminated from SSAC tourney

Brewton-Parker scored one in the top of the ninth, aided by an error, and survived a leadoff walk in the bottom half to nip Middle Georgia State in an elimination game of the Southern States Athletic Conference baseball tournament in Columbus.

MGSU, which dropped to 30-19-1, got three-RBI games from Ryan Wilson and Brian Herrera, the pair teaming for five hits and a homer each.

Three Brewton-Parker runs were unearned, two for MGSU, both teams with three errors.

Six MGSU pitchers struck out 13 against seven walks, to 10 and six for the Barons.

BSB-WCU gets closer to .500 with win over Mercer

BSB-Georgia College opens PBC tournament at home vs. USC Aiken

Around/About Georgia

Acuna HR a bright spot in Atlanta loss

Teixeria returns to classes, gets degree

Media: favorite Falcons’ draft pick

What should Hawks do?

Some snipping and sniping about Georgia football?

BSB-Georgia State hammers App State