Saturday's Report: Jones County's Gore, Houston County's Woods, Savannah-Macon; Braves, Falcons, Dream, Georgia Southern; NCAA ball, NBA, MLB, golf, NASCAR, more

Saturday's Report: Jones County's Gore, Houston County's Woods, Savannah-Macon; Braves, Falcons, Dream, Georgia Southern; NCAA ball, NBA, MLB, golf, NASCAR, more

News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

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Coastal Plain

Savannah 9, Macon 7, 13 inn.

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 2

WNBA

Phoenix 90, Atlanta 88

 

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Alumni Update

Mets sign Jones County good-luck charm Gore

Houston County’s Woods earns USA Baseball invite

Around/About Central Georgia

Savannah breaks Macon’s heart in 13

          It was tied after nine, and then in the 11th, and then in the 12, but Savannah’s put two across in the 13th and Macon couldn’t answer in a 9-7 loss to the visiting Bananas.

          Savannah scored two on two hits and an error in the top of the 13th, and Macon stranded two runners in the bottom half.

          Grant Smith, Holden Breeze, and Mason Minzey each had two hits for Macon.

          Macon hosts Catawba Valley on Saturday night.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Braves have NL’s best streak at nine

Falcons give Franks a look at hybrid tight end role

Taurasi, Charles help doom Dream in close game

Georgia Southern notebook: Helton, baseball, golf

UGA fifth in NCAA track

Tennessee wins SEC all-sports championship

 

Women’s College World Series

Underrated defense helped Sooners to sixth title

Is OU the best ever?

Coleman’s first-inning HR robbery a game-changer

Is the SEC ready for Oklahoma and Texas?

Will Oklahoma abortion law push WCWS away from OKC?

NCAA Super Regional Baseball

Super Regional FYIs

Notre Dame stuns Tennessee with four homers

UT’s Gilbert, Anderson ejected in frisky game

Big eighth lifts East Carolina over Texas

Pirates have a big – and raucous - home-field edge

Oklahoma holds off homestanding Virginia Tech

Texas A&M wins in two-out walk-off

Oregon State’s challenge is Auburn’s offense

Super Regional notebook

Super Regional schedule/scores

College Baseball

Florida State fires Martin Jr., ends legacy

Monday’s Stillwater Regional final drew great ratings

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Curry healthy, goes for 43 as Warriors even series

Boston fans give Green another earful

ABA pioneer Smith died dirt poor, awaiting pension payments

MLB/Baseball

Phillies stay hot

Nats go deep to bounce Brewers

Hot seats galore for managers, notes

Standings

Golf/Tennis

Will Nadal be ready for Wimbledon?

Clark on top at RBC

Schwartzel leads LIV event

Why DeChambeau’s jump is significant

McIlroy and Thomas nailed the responses to LIV moves

Auto Racing

Sonoma primed for the weekend

Weekend schedule at Sonoma

Football/NFL/USFL

Column: Time for Browns’ owners to share burden with Stefanski

Del Rio fined $100K for Capitol riots comments

Virginia abandons Commanders stadium bill

Optimism in Detroit irrelevant until there are wins

What was Sean McVay’s wedding cake shaped like?

Editorial: Please, Tepper, stop making Charlotte cringe

College Football/South

Rivalries the SEC must keep at all costs

Ex-Bama QB Barker enters plea in domestic violence case

College Sports

AAC deal lets UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston join Big 12 in ‘23

Hockey

Tampa Bay knows clinching won’t be easy

Around the nation/world

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games