Wednesday’s Report: Scoreboard (HS VB, SB), Bacon/CPL team, Mayhem; Braves, UGA, Tech, Falcons; MLB, college🏈, WNBA, NASCAR, tennis, golf
Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
In Coverage: Who kicks off the Macon Touchdown Club season Monday? Get the schedule, and weeks worth of players of the week
Coming Wednesday: High school notebook
📰S📰C📰O📰R📰E📰B📰O📰A📰R📰D📰
High School
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
Bleckley County 6, Swainsboro 2
Jones County 3, Mary Persons 2
Jordan 27, Central 13
Perry 8, Griffin 0
Ella Dowd fanned nine and gave up two hits, while getting two hits. Chloey Davey and Mackenzie Crumley had three hits each for the Panthers, who stole seven bases.
Stratford 3, Brookstone 1
West Laurens 8, Howard 0
Allysa Jones struck out six for the Raiders, who got a 2-for-2 game from Makayla Register, who had two RBI. Howard (2-4/0-1) hosts Spalding on Thursday and West Laurens (7-3/4-0) visits Perry on Thursday.
🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐
ACE 2, Central 0 (25-19, 25-10); ACE 2, Southwest 0 (25-13, 25-11)
Stuart McCurry had a streak of seven service aces while Taylor Wilson had five kills in the win over Central, Olivia Deese adding five assists. Deese had eight aces and six assists against Southwest, with six kills from Wilson.
Peach County 3, Sumter County 1
Stratford 3, Mount de Sales 1 (19-25, 25-15, 26-24, 26-24)
Tattnall 3, FPD 1 (25-23, 26-24, 24-26, 25-17)
College
🏐🏐Volleyball🏐🏐🏐
Emmanuel 3, Georgia College 1 (25-16, 25-8, 21-25, 25-21)
Pro
MLB
📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰
Honor Roll/Players of the Week
Around/About Central Georgia
Macon puts two on All-Coastal team, Central Georgian picked
The Macon Bacon put two players on the 56-member All-Coastal Plain League team.
The first and second team each had 28 players.
Mason Minzey made the second team at designated hitter/utility, and Bryce Matthews was one of seven second-team outfielders
West Laurens grad Nolan Daniel, who pitches at Purdue, was one of eight players from Savannah picked, Daniel a second-team selection.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Braves win, Braves tied for first
Why the Mets have to hold off Atlanta
Georgia up to No. 2 in AP poll
Changes on UGA O-line possible
Peach County’s Kearis Jackson talks
UGA news ‘n notes (including on Bleckley County’s Mims
Yellow Jackets hope to show things have actually changed
Collins discusses the mistakes
Clemson-Georgia Tech takeaways
Georgia State will try to slow Heels
Dalman gets the start at center for Atlanta
Falcons roster is on the rise, even with questions
Baseball/MLB/College
Philadelphia gets gift in ninth
MLB asked to voluntarily accept minor-league union
Giants go bombs away against Dodgers
College Football/South
Tigers’ margin was nice, but …
Are Gators, Noles, Canes back? No, but …
Auburn’s Council has pep in his step
Kentucky OC promises better ground attack
Where does Bama’s run game stand?
Kelly in joking spirits two days after loss
But he’s getting hammered for one loss
Arkansas secondary needs improvement for SC
Saturday proved we need more games like UNC-App State, UNC-ECU
Column: 12-team playoff good for SEC, not for Bama, UGA
Takeaways from Week 1 in the SEC
Obit: Former Kentucky head coach Morris
College Football
Column: Southern Cal feeling relevant again
Big 12 had a special special-teams week
Basketball/NBA/WNBA
Bird’s career comes to an end in Storm’s loss
Auto Racing
Tennis
Gauff can’t overcome slow start
Golf
Get ready for PGA-LIV tension to peak this week
Around the nation/world