Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 09, 2023Comment

Monday's Report: Scoreboard: Macon TD Club/Jones County POTW/Tech speaker; Braves-Phillies, Falcons, Tech/Miami, UGA; NFL, MLB playoffs, Simone Biles, college news/football, golf, WNBA

Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 09, 2023Comment

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In Coverage: Monday Morning Quarterback

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College

⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

W-Western Carolina 2, Mercer 1

⛳⛳⛳ Golf ⛳⛳⛳

M-Carolina Cup, first round, Mercer

Pro

🏈🏈🏈NFL🏈🏈🏈

Atlanta 21, Houston 19

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Jones County tops Macon TD Club players of the week

Back of the week: Jones County junior quarterback Devin Edmonds completed 26 of 32 passes – 81 percent - for 361 yards and six touchdowns. He also rushed three times for 21 yards in the Greyhounds 48-17 romp over Ola.

Lineman: Senior offensive lineman Austin Hanks of Jones County graded out at 95 percent with 10 pancake blocks in helping Jones County to more than 550 yards in total offense in the win over Ola.

Georgia Tech staffer, ex-player Joe visiting Macon Touchdown Club

First-year Georgia Tech general manager Errin Joe is Monday night’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.

The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Admission for non-members is $30. Membership for the year is $250.

Kennesaw State head coach Brian Bohannon is next week’s speaker, followed by UGA radio announcer Jeff Dantzler and then Chris Hatcher on Oct. 30.

A three-star offensive lineman at Lake Gibson High in Lakeland, Fla., signing with the Yellow Jackets and Paul Johnson in Feb. 2011. He started 16 games in his final two seasons, 2014-15, on the offensive line.

After graduating in less than four years, his first post-playing college job was as a quality control assistant at Florida International.

He was on the staff at Tech from 2018-21, returning as a grad assistant before moving to associate director of player personnel. Joe spent 2022 as an assistant director of player personnel at Alabama after two months at UConn as director of recruiting.

Philadelphia vs. Atlanta

A story of Ronald Acuña Jr.'s love of fatherhood and his MVP season

Column- Not again! The Phillies steal Game 1 at the home of the Braves

Column-Harper was once again the best kind of maniac. Time to get the man his ring

Thomson’s interesting psychology pays off

Phillies swiped five bases

Column: The Braves aren't dead yet, but here are three good reasons to think the Phillies have them close.

Map: Here's what states are cheering on the Braves in the playoffs

Wright likely to miss all of 2024 season after setback from shoulder issues

Orion Kerkering rising for the Phillies in NLDS after amazing climb through minors

Phillies' $300 million men shine in multiple ways to beat Braves

This week’s state college football schedule (All Saturday, all on ESPN+ unless noted)

Thursday, 7:30 p.m.: Fort Valley State at Benedict, ESPN 2
12 p.m.: Georgia at Vanderbilt, CBS; Georgia Southern at James Madison, ESPN2
4 p.m.: Chattanooga at Mercer
7 p.m.: Marshall at Georgia State, ESPN2

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Ridder answers critics, Koo kicks last-second FG to lift Falcons

Stroud breaks record for passes without a pick to start career in Texans’ loss to Falcons

Column-Ridder's response to adversity brings out his best

What did Smith say?

Tech and baffling, devastated Miami

Column-Decision not to kneel as dumb as it gets

Grading UGA vs. Kentucky

Three UK takeaways

Smart doesn’t know everything, like who Miley Cyrus is

UGA stays No. 1, by a little more again

Football/NFL/USFL/CFL/XFL

Kamara becomes Saints’ career TD leader, Carr throws 2 TDs in rout over Patriots

Purdy throws 4 TD passes to lead the 49ers past the Cowboys

Etienne runs for 2 TDs, Jags top Bills for back-to-back London wins

Mahomes, Chiefs outlast Vikings

Goff throws 3 TD passes, runs for score, NFC North-leading Lions beat winless Panthers

Moss upstages Taylor’s return in Colts’ win

Jets rally past Broncos with long TD, scoop-and-score

Jones benched again while Patriots suffer worst home shutout in franchise history

Panthers rookie Chandler Zavala able to move extremities after going to hospital with neck injury

Burrow connects with Chase for 3 TDs; Bengals roll past the Cardinals 34-20

Jalen Hurts and a tough defense carry the Eagles to a 23-14 victory over the Rams

MLB Playoffs
Monday: 6:07 p.m., Philadelphia at Atlanta, TBS; 9:07 p.m., Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, TBS
Tuesday: 4:07 p.m., Houston at Minnesota, 4:07 p.m., FOX; 8:03 p.m.: Baltimore at Texas, FOX

MLB/Baseball

Bochy 1 victory from another LCS appearance after Rangers beat Orioles, go up 2-0

Correa stars against former team as Twins beat Astros, tie ALDS

Twins failed to capitalize in Game 1

Column-But fans showed up on big football weekend

Column-Kershaw’s dream start another playoff nightmare

Olympic sports

Biles can't stop winning gold medals at World Championships, places 1st in beam and floor

Auto Racing

‘Dinger wins again at The Roval in NASCAR playoffs spoiler. Busch, Chastain, Keselowski, Wallace out

College Sports

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