Thursday's Report: Scoreboard; Braves, UGA/SEC, United; MLB, college FB South/National, NFL, WNBA, boxing, 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.
Coming Thursday: The Sports Report’s Predictions
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High School
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
ACE 8, Mary Persons 0
Dixiana Sims struck out nine in the complete-game win. Lacey Bridges had three hits, and Karsyn Yates and Destiny Lucas two each.
Howard 15, Central 7
Jasper County 16, Putnam County 4
Jones County 16, Dutchtown 0
Montgomery County 15, Washington County 0
Piedmont 9, Gatewood 3
Rutland 14, Warner Robins 3
Taylor County 10, Manchester 3
West Laurens 14, GMC 1
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Dutchtown 3, Veterans 2
Mary Persons 3, Northside 2
Tattnall 3, Stratford 2 (22-25, 25-9, 25-23, 25-22, 15-11)
West Laurens 2, Toombs County 1
College
Soccer
M-Florida International 2, Middle Georgia State 0
Pro
MLB
MLS
Atlanta 1, Orlando City 0
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Honor Roll/Players of the Week
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Giants get to Morton to take series
SEC forces schedule changes with UGA, Tennessee
Depleted SC defense gets healthy UGA offense
Beamer’s task: Finding a UGA weakness
Atlanta slides past Orlando FC in the rain
Baseball/MLB
Wainwright and Molina get historic win
MLB’s All-Breakthrough Team, includes Atlanta’s Strider
College Football
Texas-Nebraska usually crazy, but now?
College Football/South
Column: A year ago, Southern Cal dumped Helton, and both are better off
Marshall basks in glory of the stunner
Sanders Show fuels No. 10 Arkansas
UK fans shouldn’t worry about Stoops to Nebraska
Saban’s weekly message to players through media
Youngstown State not normal opponent for Kentucky
Um, Jimbo, what you were saying …
College Sports
Mountain West boss stepping down after 24 years
NFL/USFL/Football
Did Favre try to shaft Mississippi’s poor people?
Mayfield has ‘friendships for life’ in Cleveland
Jags’ learning curve: make one more play
Navigating NFL without agent a trick proposition
O or D? Some assistants benefit from doing both
Jets’ Reed plays with heavy heart, dedicates season to dad
Buster Posey is why Josh Allen always signs autographs
Auto Racing
About Busch’s move to Richard Childress
New schedule is mostly unchanged
NBA/WNBA
Column: Hammon’s success in Vegans shows NBA teams what they missed
Boxing/MMA/UFC
Joshua accepts terms for fight with Fury
Around the nation/world