The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Wednesday's Report: Carousel-Hiller to Peach County, Georgia College honor; Braves, UGA unis, Falcons, Dream; Regionals/WCWS, golf drama, Watson/NFL, NBA, NHL

Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

In Coverage: Another Coaching Carousel eyebrow-raiser: Amped-up Hiller takes over Peach County baseball (plus Mount de Sales, basketball moves, around the area, Central Georgia connections)

 

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Pro

MLB

Atlanta 3, Oakland 2

WNBA

Seattle 72, Atlanta 60

 

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 Honor Roll

Georgia College’s Richter a tennis All-American

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Heredia’s go-ahead HR backs Acuna’s two, leads Braves

Atlanta brings back Webb

Love UGA’s white unis? Sorry, not for games

Smart likes the offense’s potential

Bo Nix awaiting Bulldogs

Falcons’ mailbag

Loyd, Stewart lead Seattle over Atlanta

 

NCAA Baseball/WCWS

Super Regional matchups set

SEC puts five in Super Regionals, but …

Auburn ready for Oregon State

Storm was calm in helping Southern Miss past LSU

UNC AD calls two-game suspension excessive

W-Coaches think DHs in WCWS semis threatens safety

 

NBA/WNBA

Road Warriors draw on experience

Boston hopes to protect ball, and home court

Silver likes ‘parity of opportunity’ for teams

W-Sparks fire coach, GM Fisher

W-Ionescu nearly perfect, barely misses triple-double

Baseball/MLB/College

Angels fire Maddon amid 12-game losing streak

And they lose 13th straight, Trout hurt

Mets’ Alonso leaves after getting plunked on hand

Golf/Tennis

LIV press conference went off the rails

Golfers put aside ‘reprehensible’ Saudi moves

Johnson quits PGA for Saudi league

Column: Saudi money could put college stars in tough spot

US Open accepting all eligible players

Mickelson opens up about gambling problems

Woods again not back yet, out of US Open

Raducanu leaves Wimby warmup with injury

Football/NFL/USFL

Could latest allegation allow Cleveland to void Watson’s contract?

Samuel reports to 49ers mincamp

Carr would welcome Kaepernick as ‘great addition’

Walmart heir gets Broncos for staggering $4.7 billion

UGA alum Davis shedding pounds in Philly

College Football/South

South Carolina goes ‘Full House’ for video

College Football

Spurrier OK with NILs, but it needs work

College Sports

Salary gap shows people’s priority of sports over academics

Hockey

Tampa Bay evens East series

Around the nation/world

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB games/scores

WNBA scores/games