The Central Georgia Sports Report

View Original

Thursday's Report: Honor Roll-Middle Georgia State, Georgia College, Mercer; UGA/Bauerle, Braves, Falcons, Tech, Southern; NCAA baseball/WCWS, NBA, MLB, golf, more

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

 

⚽🎾🥎⚽⚽⚽📰S📰C📰O📰R📰E📰B📰O📰A📰R📰D📰

Coastal Plain

Savannah 6, Macon 3

Pro

MLB

Atlanta 13, Oakland 2

📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰

 Honor Roll

Middle Georgia State’s Back second-team All-American

WBKB: Georgia College puts three on PBC academic team

MBKB: And two Bobcat men make team

BSB: Mercer’s Kelley finalist for stopper award

  

Around/About Central Georgia

Savannah vs. Macon: same story

          A six-run third was all Savannah needed in beating Macon 6-3 at Luther Williams Field.

          Bryce Matthews and James Bell each had two of Macon’s five hits as the Bacon fell to 0-3 this season against the Bananas.

          Macon (5-6) visits Savannah on Thursday

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

UGA swimming legend Bauerle is retiring

Big seventh inning lifts Braves to romp of Oakland

Harris showing he belongs

Swanson fourth Braves at arbitration hearing

‘DeAngelo, line up and sic ‘em’

BSB-Tech’s Parada a Golden Spikes finalist

BSB: Georgia Southern has momentum from milestone season

 

NCAA Baseball/WCWS

S-Ola adds to legend with two HRs in finals-opening rout

S-‘It was like an avalanche’

Re-seeding with the final 16 teams

Auburn’s regional title is ‘surreal’

College Baseball

Hotel says Missouri State players broke into rooms for pictures, evidence

NBA/WNBA

Boston beats back third quarter to handle Warriors

Baskets were too high for Golden State in pregame

Curry comes up limping

GM: Still defending Curry is absurd

Baseball/MLB                                                                           

Nats’ Strasburg to make season debut Thursday

Philly belts four bombs in sixth straight win

Strategy: Nickelback as walk-up song to break a streak

College Football

Five San Diego State players accused of rape

Golf/Tennis

So, who’s in this first LIV London field after all?

An explainer on the LIV Golf Invitational Series

DeChambeau, Reed join Saudi league

Column: Teeing off on golfers ignores realities of complex world

Scrutiny still strong on Mickelson

Column: ‘It’s called having honor and integrity’

Murray gets a dig at Na, then agrees

Football/NFL/USFL

Column: Watson’s clear agenda is despicable

Browns excuse Mayfield as Watson situation grows

Kupp gets extension from Rams

Andrew Whitworth shares a retirement story from store run

Newton claims ‘there’s not 32 guys better than me’

Del Rio backpedals on bizarre Jan.6 riot comments

College Sports

Tennessee’s Summit first coach into US Olympic and Paralympic HOF

Soccer

Blatter avoids testifying at start of fraud trial 

Hockey

Rangers in familiar spot

Around the nation/world

Dozens of gymnasts sue FBI for more than a billion

NBA scores/games

NHL scores/games

MLB games/scores

WNBA scores/games