Central Georgia Sports ReportJuly 15, 2022Comment

Friday's Report: Georgia College soccer, Middle Georgia State's Ligon, Bacon, Shrine Bowl watch list; Braves, UGA, MLB draft/state; British Open, MLB, NFL, colleges, track, soccer

Central Georgia Sports ReportJuly 15, 2022Comment

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

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Coastal Plain League

Florence 2, Macon 0

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MLB

Atlanta 5, Washington 4

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College Realignment

Column: To save itself, college football must look at the NFL

South Carolina AD with the obvious: “It’s all about money’

Big 12 commish: ‘I always look for a win-win scenario’

Fresno State eyes improvements/upgrades amid alignment talk

Around/About Central Georgia

Georgia College introduces new soccer head coach

The fifth head soccer coach in Georgia College history brings a hefty resume to Milledgeville.

Jack Marchant takes over the Bobcats after three seasons at Georgia State, all three in which the Panthers reached the Sun Belt Conference semifinals. He helped the program have 10 all-conference players in three years.

He talked to players and supporters on Thursday.

Marchant coached at The Citadel for two years and Division II Anderson (S.C.) for one. He coaches the Georgia Revolution in the National Premier Soccer League, and worked with the Clemson Anderson Soccer Alliance development program.

He played at the University of Rio Grande, an NAIA program, and then got his first coaching job at his alma mater.

The Leeds, England native moved to the U.S. in 2008.

He succeeds Tinna Gallagher, who resigned in early June as part of a family move to Nashville, Tenn. She is married to David Gallagher, who was John Milledge’s boys basketball coach until he got a position at a high school just outside of Nashville in April.

Georgia College went 6-10-2, 4-6, and 8-9 in her three seasons.

Marchant inherits a young team. It had only two redshirt seniors on last year’s squad.

A sitdown with Middle Georgia State women’s hoops coach Ligon

Mercer’s Harper named to East-West Shrine Bowl watch list

Also on the list: FVSU’s Emanuel Boone of Westside, Georgia’s Kearis Jackson of Peach County, Memphis’ Davion Ross of Perry, West Virginia’s Lyn-J Dixon of Taylor County.

Florence holds on to early lead at Macon

Visiting Florence scored two runs in the second and made them hold up in beating Macon 2-0.

Macon outhit Florence by one and stranded 12 runners, one more than the Flamingos.

Cameron Crosby, Mason Minzey, and Jarrod Belbin each had two hits for the Bacon, who host Catawba Valley on Friday and Lexington County on Saturday.

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Wright tied for majors in Ws as Braves hold on

UGA’s Mitchell ready to explode

WBKB: UGA’s Coombs an NCAA Woman of the Year nominee

Peach Staters – HS and college – among top MLB draft prospects

Baseball/MLB

Former Freddie agent suing Doug Gottlieb

KC issues: new stadium, grumpy fans, and 10 unvaxxed players staying home