Monday's Report: Mercer soccer champs, Macon TD POTW/Mullen visits, HS & college 🏀; 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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Around/About Central Georgia
MSOC-Mercer wins fifth SoCon championships, awaits NCAA opponent
WBKB-Clemson pulls away in fourth quarter to top Mercer
WBKB-Wesleyan’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 – 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 Greyhounds’ 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 Monday’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.
Army’s Jeff Monken is next week’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
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 Titans’ loss to Buccaneers
Ravens squander big lead and lose cushion in AFC North with loss to Browns
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
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 Mary’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 Cowgirls’ 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
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: Georgia’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 State’s offensive struggles in loss to No. 2 Michigan
Golf
Camilo Villegas wins in Bermuda. Lilia Vu tops LPGA event to return to No. 1 in world
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