Sunday's Report: Bacon split; Contreras Day/Braves/Cubs, Falcons, Hawks, United; College World Series, NBA, MLB, golf, tennis, football, NHL, more

Sunday's Report: Bacon split; Contreras Day/Braves/Cubs, Falcons, Hawks, United; College World Series, NBA, MLB, golf, tennis, football, NHL, more

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.

 

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Coastal Plain

Florence 7, Macon 4; Macon 3, Florence 2

Pro

MLB

Chicago 6, Atlanta 3

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Around/about Central Georgia

Macon splits with Florence

          Newcomer Cory Bivins, a GMC grad and part of North Greenville’s NCAA Division II national title team, drove in Andy Blake with the winning run in Macon’s 3-2 seven-inning win over Florence in the nightcap of their Coastal Plain doubleheader.

          Florence took the first game, a nine-inning outing, 7-4.

          Bivins had two hits and two RBI in the nightcap, to go with a hit in the opener. In that game, Florence put together five runs in two late innings. Holden Breeze had two of Macon’s six hits.

          Macon hosts Lexington County on Sunday night.

Bacon alum in College World Series

          Three years ago, Jared Miller spent his summer playing some infield for the Macon Bacon, playing in a team-high 44 games and batting .337 with 38 RBI.

          Fast forward to Friday. In his College World Series debut, he went yard, sending a 3-1 pitch in the opposite direction over the right-field wall to help spark Notre Dame to a 7-3 win over No. 9 Texas and get into the winners’ bracket.

          Miller went 2 for 3 for the Irish, who play Oklahoma at 7 p.m. Sunday night.

          He’s hitting .278 this year with five homers, 24 RBI, nine steals, and fielding .977 at second base. Miller hit .257 in 2021 for the 34-13 Irish.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Cubs, Contreras start Braves on a losing streak

How much impact have the Braves, Battery had on Cobb?

A lot

Emotional day for Contreras brothers

Takeaways from Falcons’ offseason

Hawks lose assistant Jent to Lakers

Atlanta hosts Inter Miami CF

 

College World Series

DeLucia huge on mound in Rebels win over Auburn

‘Upstart’ Arkansas dominates second-seeded Stanford

Razorbacks stepped on the gas

And now, Texas vs. Texas A&M in elimination game

Notre Dame puts Texas on its heels

Column: In love with Omaha, and Oscar’s Wings

Pregame: Rebels might want to be cautious with Thompson’s pitching

Pregame: Rebels vs. Tigers

Auburn brought ‘Bad News Bears’ to Omaha

A Vol in Omaha: Manning

And the CWS has some fun with it

Scores/Schedule

Basketball/NBA/WNBA

‘Petty King’ and Warriors came for all the haters

Morant claps back at Thompson, praises Curry

Wiggins on-target with answer on Curry/MVP

Davidson to retire Curry’s jersey

Inevitable: Wiggins gets traded, gets title

Durant on ‘dying’ legacy: ‘been dead since 2016, but congrats’

Baseball/MLB/Baseball

Betts out with rib injury after collision

Freeman, Turner power Dodgers

Phils win in 10th, 15th W in 17 games

Koufax gets Dodger Stadium statue next to Jackie

Nationals retire Zimmerman’s jersey

Golf/Tennis

Zalatoris, Fitzpatrick survive beast to share lead

Frustration for Thomas

‘That was brutal’: about everybody

Mickelson’s misery sums up LIV Golf week at Open

Achilles leads Osaka to withdraw from Wimbledon

College Baseball

Road to Clemson for Bakich include promise to dying mentor

Football/NFL/USFL/CFL

Urlacher joins Smith in HOF voting beef

Ravens sign former Falcon Means

USFL changes rules to avoid tanking

College Football/South

Harsin’s back against the wall early in tenure

College Football

Did Arizona State, Edwards deserve anonymous shots?

Hockey

Colorado sharp in all phases, routs Tampa Bay 7-0

Avs’ fortunes aren’t all on MacKinnon

Former Tenn. gov buying majority share of Predators

Around the nation/world

Skip vs. Stephen A., and Durant is watching

Iowa mayor resigns after golf course incident

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB games/scores

WNBA scores/games