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May 8, 2022 Central Georgia Sports Report

Saturday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.

In Coverage:

Scoreboard

High School

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GISA Playoffs

Semifinals

Class AAA

Pinewood 4, Westfield 3; Westfield 4, Pinewood 2; Game 3, Monday, TBA

Pinewood won the opener on a two-out walk-off error after opening the bottom of the seventh with a double. James Hayes had three hits, and Ryan Powers and Neal O’Brien two hits each for Westfield, which outhit Pinewood 10-7, and the lone unearned run was the game-winner. The Hornets put up four in the third inning after trailing 2-0 after one in the nightcap. Hayes had two doubles for Westfield, which got RBI from four batters and hits from six. Two Westfield pitchers teamed for 13 strikeouts and a walk. The winner faces John Milledge, with the final series currently scheduled for May 13-14 at Grayson Stadium in Savannah.

Class AA

Piedmont 5, Gatewood 1; Gatewood 5, Piedmont 4; Game 3, Monday, TBA

⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

GISA Semifinals

Girls
Holy Spirit Prep 1, Trinity Christian 0

Boys

Holy Spirit Prep 5, John Milledge 1

College
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Clemson 12, Georgia Tech 9

Georgia 13, Vanderbilt 7

Georgia Southern 24, Troy 1; GSU 8, Troy 4

Georgia State 4, App State 2

Kennesaw State 8, FGCU 4; FGSU 14, KSU 3

USC Aiken 4, Georgia College 1, PBC Tournament

Western Carolina 15, Mercer 5

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

FGCU 6, Mercer 4; Florida 2, Mercer 0

Georgia Southern 8, Georgia State 3; Georgia Southern 4, Georgia State 3

Mississippi 10, Georgia 8

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 3, Milwaukee 2

MLS

Atlanta 4, Chicago 1

WNBA

Atlanta 66, Dallas 59

📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰

Longshot Rich Strike stuns at Kentucky Derby

Around/about Central Georgia

BSB: Mercer loses series at .500 Western Carolina

BSB: USC Aiken tops Georgia College in PBC opener (after graduation)

Wesleyan reaches conference softball final, falls

One of Wesleyan’s best seasons in any sport in a few years came to an end Saturday with the Wolves’ loss in the USA South Conference softball tournament championship.

Fifth-seeded Wesleyan lost 4-2 and 3-0 to West Division top seed Piedmont in the championship series in Demorest.

Wesleyan led 2-1 after two in the opener, thanks to a Marilynn Nesmith triple and an error. Piedmont took a 3-2 lead in the fifth and added one in the sixth.

The Wolves’ bats were quieted in the nightcap, held to three hits.

Central Fellowship grad Nesmith, Jasmine Staley, Kimmy Dick, and Tihana Zupanic made the all-tournament team.

Wesleyan beat Pfeiffer 6-4 and Huntington 4-3, lost 7-3 to Pfeiffer, and topped Pfeiffer 2-1 to reach the championship.

The Wolves finished 24-16, a jump from 5-5 in an abbreviated 2020 season and after no season in 2021.

Henley muddles through third round

For a rough round, Russell Henley actually gained ground in the weather-hammered Wells Fargo.

He was 4 over for the day Saturday, and picked up six spots, into a tie for 44th. That was a decent round for the day, 23 golfers going 5 over or worse, including second-round leader Jason Day, 9 over. Michael Thompson went from even, and in the same tied-for-50th group with Henley, to 65th with a 12-over afternoon.

Henley had only one birdie to counter five bogeys, falling 12 strokes out of the lead.

The Stratford grad is not in the field for next week’s Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas.

Around/About Georgia

Acuna, Fried lead Braves in tight one

SB-UGA breaks program single-season HR record

BSB: Bulldogs power past Commodores

Atlanta tops Dallas, WACO’s Gray

Cisneros hat trick leads United over Chicago

UGA’s Garland sets NCAA track record

Basketball/NBA/WNBA

Antetokounmpo gets hot in time to lift Bucks

Giannis quiet about officials, has diapers to pay for