Monday's Report: Mercer soccer champs, Macon TD POTW/Mullen visits, HS & college ๐Ÿ€; Falcons, UGA, United, Tech; NFL Sunday, MLB, NBA, colleges, golf

Monday's Report: Mercer soccer champs, Macon TD POTW/Mullen visits, HS & college ๐Ÿ€; Falcons, UGA, United, Tech; NFL Sunday, MLB, NBA, colleges, golf

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High School

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Saturday

G-Baldwin 64, Campbell 36
          Kassidy Neal led Baldwin with 15 points and 7 rebounds, Madison Ruff adding 12 and 7, and Janay Walker 11 and 10.

B-Baldwin 76, Morrow 57
B-Greenbrier 71, Veterans 58

B-Houston County 71, Augusta Christian 52
          Malachi Jackson went off for 26 points to lead Houston County, which got 18 from Malik Gillespie, and 10 each from Devan Robinson and Antwun Zeigler, Robinson grabbing 12 boards.

B-New Hampstead 59, Jones County 57
G-Veterans 44, Jones County 33

College

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M-Mercer 2, Furman 0, SoCon championship 

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W-Clemson 90, Mercer 66
M-Georgia 64, N.C. Central 54
M-Georgia College 69, North Greenville 66 

Pro

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Arizona 25, Atlanta 22

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Around/About Central Georgia

MSOC-Mercer wins fifth SoCon championships, awaits NCAA opponent

WBKB-Clemson pulls away in fourth quarter to top Mercer

WBKB-Wesleyanโ€™s latest new head coach among new faces

MBKB-Georgia College finishes comeback in win

Macon Touchdown Club taps Greyhounds
         
Back of the week: Junior quarter back Devin Edmonds of Jones County completed 15 of 18 โ€“ 83 percent - for 302 yards and five touchdowns in the 42-21 first-round Class 5A playoff win over Northside-Columbus

          Lineman: Senior linebacker Ched Smith of Jones County racked up six tackles, a QB hurry and a sack, and a tackle for loss in the Greyhoundsโ€™ playoff win.

          There were no special teams nominations.

 

Ex-Gator head coach and current ESPN voice Miullen to visit Macon Touchdown Club
          Former Mississippi State and Florida head coach and current ESPN college football analyst Dan Mullen is Mondayโ€™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.

          Armyโ€™s Jeff Monken is next weekโ€™s speaker, followed by SEC/ESPN host Dari Nowkhah in the final week of the regular season.

          The 51-year-old Mullen is a graduate of Ursinus College and Wagner College in Pa., Mullen playing tight end and earning all-conference honors.

          His coaching career started at Wagner, and went to Column for two seasons after that. Then he was a grad assistant at Syracuse and Notre Dame.

          Two-year stints at Bowling Green and Utah followed, then four at Florida as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach before his head coaching debut at Mississippi State.

          After going 69-46 in nine seasons with the Bulldogs, and a 6-2 bowl record, he took over for Jim McElwain at Florida. He was let go after four seasons, going 5-6 in 2021 after a 29-9 start.

          He was a consultant for a short period of time at Lake Oconee Academy in 2022, and then joined ESPN and ABC. The married father of three had a career record of 103-61.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Murray leads game-winning drive in return from ACL injury, Cardinals beat Falcons

Falcons unable to answer lingering quarterback questions in loss to Cardinals

Atlanta struggles to adjust defensively in loss

Defense helps give Murray a nice return

Columbus advance to Eastern Conference semifinals with win over Atlanta United

AP poll: Lather, rinse, repeat

UGA grades

What the Dawgs said

Georgia game balls

Jacketsโ€™ King: โ€˜It sucksโ€™

Tech-Clemson numbers

MBKB-Georgia wins 2nd straight, defeats North Carolina Central

 

Football/NFL/USFL/CFL/XFL

5 NFL games end on game-winning field goals, most ever in one day

Jaguars embarrassed and humbled in a streak-ending rout by 49ers

Stroud leads another game-winning drive, Texans edge Bengals on last-second field goal

Levis looks like a rookie, struggles against pass rush in Titansโ€™ loss to Buccaneers

Ravens squander big lead and lose cushion in AFC North with loss to Browns

Roundup

MLB/Baseball

Astros will promote bench coach Espada to be manager, replacing Baker, AP source says

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Maxey scores career-high 50 points, leads 76ers to 8th straight win

Roundup

College Basketball

W-No. 2 UConn stunned by unranked N.C. State

W- No. 16 North Carolina survives a late scare from Davidson

M- Weber State rallies in 2nd half to upset No. 23 Saint Maryโ€™s

W-Rivers goes for a career-best 33 points as NC State stuns No. 2 UConn 92-81

W- Vonleh scores 18, No. 20 Colorado women beat Oklahoma St. 86-75 despite Cowgirlsโ€™ 15 made 3s

W- Utah sets school record for 3s in 108-48 win over South Carolina State

College football

A&M pulls stunner, pulls the plug on its $75 million man

Aggies AD explains decision

Boise State fires Avalos 10 games into 3rd season of at least 4 losses

Penn State fires OC Yurcich after another punchless big-game performance

AP Top 25: Georgiaโ€™s No. 1 streak hits 22, second-best ever. Louisville, Oregon State enter top 10

Former Auburn QB Nick Marshall arrested on gun possession charge

Why a meeting with Freeze led Auburn to play its best offense of the year

Column-Saban drops the mic on his critics

Allar bears brunt of No. 9 Penn Stateโ€™s offensive struggles in loss to No. 2 Michigan

The sign-stealing allegations are a (mostly) harmless, fun CFB scandal. Michigan - and their haters - should embrace it

Golf

Camilo Villegas wins in Bermuda. Lilia Vu tops LPGA event to return to No. 1 in world

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores, FBS

College football scores, FCS

NBA scores/games