The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Monday's Report: HS FB schedule, Peach County's Robinson, Taylor County's Dixon, WACO's Gray, Stratford's Henley; Braves, UGA, Falcons; MLB, colleges, NFL, NASCAR, golf, WNBA

Sunday'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.

 

In Coverage: This week’s HS football schedule
Coming Monday: GIAA previews, Monday Morning Quarterback/polls

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College

WSOC: Mercer 3, Charleston Southern 1

Pro

MLB

Houston 5, Atlanta 4

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Alumni Update

Robinson (Peach County) to sign with Baltimore

Taylor County’s Dixon on the move yet again

Gray (Washington County) has big game in playoff win

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Henley can’t regain sharpness, season ends

          Through 13 holes, Russell Henley was even for the day, but pretty much need more birdies than pars the rest of the way to have one more weekend of golf.

          But three straight bogeys ended Henley’s season, the Maconite shooting a 1-over 72 and finishing well outside the top 30 in FedEx Cup rankings.

          The top 30 in those rankings advanced to the playoff finale, the Tour Championship in Atlanta.

          Henley started the week 43rd, moved up into the low 30s, but couldn’t sustain that, with a pair of consecutive 72s.

          A bogey on 3 interrupted a steady round of pars that lasted until birdie on 10. Three pars later, when he needed birdies, Henley hit bogeys.

          Henley can now return to full-time daddy duties with newborn Jane as well as children Robert and Ruth.

          He followed two above-average weeks at the Rocket Mortgage and Wyndham to close the regular season with a missed cut last week at the FedEx St. Jude.

          In Delaware, he was unable to match the impressive performances of those two weeks, when he went 46 and 47 bogey-free holes to start each event.

          He had also avoided double bogeys for a long stretch until one on the third hole Saturday. From that point on, he had five bogeys and five birdies.

          Henley finishes the season with 18 made cuts in 21 events, 10 top-25 finishes, and 15 under-par tournaments.

  

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Morton like fine wine, bullpen struggles in loss

Fans boo Ozuna thoroughly

Georgia’s second scrimmage a little better

UGA RB depth takes a hit

Atlanta rookies/cousins Malone and Shaffer playing for a lot

Jets and Falcons go Monday

Atlanta’s McGary is cutting it loose

Did you see this funky HS football play?

 

Baseball/MLB

Little Leaguers and date with MLB stars

Orioles beat Boston in Little League Classic

Pujols: ‘I’m still going to retire’

Notebook: Suspension better be Tatis’ wakeup call

Ex-MLBer Lee ‘wasn’t breathing’ after collapse

Obit: Longtime Detroit C Wockenfuss

College Football/South

Bama’s Gibbs, ex of Tech, showing some stuff

College Football

Five Power 5 sleeper teams

Elite players on non-elite teams

Football/NFL/USFL

UFC’s White claims he almost had Gronk and Brady in LA

Packers All-Pro LT Bakhtiari ready after activation

Auto Racing

Larson wins rain-delayed Watkins Glen

Golf

Cantlay wins another thriller at BMW

Why Lowry’s caddie wore sandals

Reports of Woods’ players-only meeting emerge

Obit: Weiskopf won 16 PGA Tour titles

Are seven more making the LIV move?

Basketball/NBA/WNBA

W-Stewart, Bird help Storm to series sweep

School Sports

Transgender girls in Utah to have a chance to play

Around the nation/world

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games

NFL scores/games