Saturday's Report: Savannah-Macon, Mercer football/soccer, GHSA sportsmanship; Hawks, Braves, Dream, Falcons, UGA; NBA/WNBA, MLB, golf, tennis, NASCAR, college 🏈, more
News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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College Sports
Are we nearing two superconferences?
Penn State’s Franklin positive
Column: Pac-12, ACC botched chance to save themselves
Predicting the new CFB landscape
How much did Lincoln Riley know? Very little/nothing
Eyes on Notre Dame, Washington, Oregon
Around/About Central Georgia
FB: Mercer ranked 16th in College FB Network poll
Central Georgia high schools earn GHSA sportsmanship honor
The GHSA and Georgia’s Electric Membership Cooperatives have teamed to sponsor the Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship Awards for a high school in each GHSA region.
The awards started in 2006.
Centeral Georgia winners: Northside, Region 1-6A; Warner Robins, Region 1-5A; West Laurens, Region 4-4A; East Laurens, Region 2-AA; Taylor County, Region 5-A Public; Twiggs County, Region 7-A.
Fan Appreciation Day at Mercer set
Savannah visited Macon, and …
A 2-1 lead after one lasted until the fifth when Savannah tied it, and the Bananas won it with two in the ninth for a 4-2 win over Macon at Luther Williams Field.
West Laurens grad Nolan Daniel got the win over Veterans alum Hunter Varnadoe. Nolan was the third of four pitchers, going 1.2 innings with two strikeouts and two hits, no walks. Varnadoe went the final two innings for Macon, which got two-hit games from Jack Malone and Holden Breeze in falling to 1-11 against Savannah this season.
MSOC: Mercer adds four in-state players
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Hawks sending Huerter to Sacramento for two players, draft pick
Fried is Fried, Swanson blasts out of slump to lead Braves’ romp
Dream rookie Howard living up to expectations
What’s Patterson’s summer like?
MBKB: UGA’s Horn enters portal
Chattanooga eyes new baseball stadium, part of major project
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Griner goes to trial, detention extended to Dec.
Phoenix locks in Booker with nifty deal
Towns, Timberwolves agree to big extension
Looney returning to Warriors, Payton gone
Is an epic era in Miami sports – Pat Riley – counting down?
League says take-foul penalty will change at summer leagues
MLB/Baseball
Homers lead Phillies past Cards
Hot Marlins need 10 to beat Nats
Scherzer buys postgame spread for minor-leaguers after rehab start
Soccer
US men qualify for first Olympics since 2008
Golf
‘We are all complicit in some way’
European chief Pelley fires back at legal threats
Tennis
Wild-card entry now gets Djokovic
Inspired Venus goes doubles with Jamie Murray, wins
UGA alum Isner sets world record for aces in London
Auto Racing
Chastain threading line of aggression, patience
Football/NFL/USFL
Fentanyl and cocaine led to Ferguson’s death
College Baseball
Why was Ole Miss the last team in the tournament?
College Football/South
Is Napier’s honeymoon already over?
Column: Calm down, Gator fans, yeesh
Vols aggressive in NIL, portal world
Hockey
Around the nation/world