The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Saturday's Report: Scoreboard; Bleckley County/GHSA XC, Mayhem; Falcons; College 🏈/🏀/ news, NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, hockey, tennis

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College

🏀🏀🏀Basketball🏀🏀🏀

Gulf Coast State 83, Central Georgia Tech 54 

⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

M-Mercer 3, UNCG 1, Southern Conference tournament 

🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐

Lander 3, Georgia College 0 (25-20, 25-15, 25-12)

Mercer 3, Furman 2 (25-22, 25-19, 19-25, 22-25, 15-13)

Pro

🏒🏒🏒 SPHL 🏒🏒🏒

Evansville 6, Macon 5, shootout

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Around/About Central Georgia

Bleckley County takes home state cross country hardware

          After a two-year “drought”, Bleckley County’s girls are back on a cross country state championship streak, bringing home Friday their second GHSA trophy in a row.

          The Royals won the Class A/Division II title again, boosted by a first place from Ella Gibbs.

          Caleb Darsey of Bleckley County won the boys title, and Julian Council of GMC Prep was first in Class A/Division II.

          Bleckley County’s boys took fourth with 121 points, Whitefield Academy winning with 62.

          Central Georgia’s state champs:

          Ella Gibbs, Bleckley County girls, A/I, 18;48.25

          Caleb Darsey, Bleckley County, A/I, 16:16.48

          Julian Council, GMC Prep, A/II, 17:15.03

          Council edged Guy Mastrion of Atlanta Classical 17:15.03 to 17:16.84.

          Gibbs’ teammate Lily Farrell took fifth in 20:06.73, Gibbs winning by nearly a half-minute. Ellen Arnold finished ninth (20:45.53) with Jasper County’s Colbie Ramsey 11th (21:11.53), Bleckley County’s Kayslen Armstrong 14th (21:19.93) and Ava Herrington 18th (21:19.93)

          Darsey won by just less than five seconds.

          GMC’s boys took fourth in A/II with 107 points, Atlanta Classical Academy winning with 80 points.

          The Bulldogs girls took fifth with 156 points, behind ACA’s 67.

          Jasper County’s girls finished 15th in A/1, the boys taking 14th, East Laurens 18th.

          Jones County’s Lilly Palmer finished 18th (20:24.69) in Class 5A girls, helping the Greyhounds to a 14th-place finish.

          The other classes compete Saturday morning.

 

Mayhem fall on road, pick up a point

 

Around/About Georgia

How Ryan Nielsen, defensive line can account for loss of Grady Jarrett, LaCale London

Falcons WR Drake London ruled out for Sunday’s game vs. Vikings with groin injury

A tale of two cornerbacks: A.J. Terrell, Jeff Okudah's stories finally connect in Atlanta

 

College football/Friday night

Boston College wins fifth straight by handing Syracuse fifth loss in row

Peasley, Waylee lead Wyoming over Colorado State

College Football

Two more former Northwestern football players say they experienced racist treatment in early 2000s

Column: After a decade of success, Dabo Swinney is suddenly under fire at Clemson

Michigan says Stalions, staffer at center of sign-stealing investigation, resigns

Purdue coach: ‘They aren’t allegations’

Sanders makes duty change on staff

2 teens plead not guilty in fatal shooting of Montana college football player

College Sports

Twin brothers suing NCAA in federal court over eligibility dispute involving NIL compensation

College Basketball

Claims of tampering abound in college basketball. Getting it under control won’t be easy

Profanity. Threats. Ultimatums. Story behind Bob Knight's leaked audio clip from Indiana

Transfer portal changes equation for women’s coaches, who used to build dynasties on prep recruits

Schools are snatching up transfers in college hoops. That means fewer freshmen on D-I rosters, too

Gary Colson, who lobbied to add the 3-point shot during a basketball coaching career, dies at 89

No. 3 Boilermakers using historic NCAA Tournament exit as motivation in 2023-2024

MLB/Baseball

World Series MVP Seager takes swipe at rival as Rangers celebrate 1st title with huge parade

Ohtani, Bellinger, Montgomery, Snell head free agent market. Players can start contract talks Monday

MLB settles lawsuits from minor league teams, avoids possible antitrust challenge at Supreme Court

Jorge Soler opts out of Marlins contract to become free agent, gives up $13 million salary

Storylines to watch this offseason

Mets catcher Omar Narváez exercises $7 million player option

NFL/Football

Bill Belichick heads a list of NFL coaches on the hot seat that includes Brandon Staley, Ron Rivera

Rams dealing with QB uncertainty as they visit Packers in a matchup of slumping teams

Frankfurt finally sees a return of NFL after years of supporting American football

Ending a long skid against Chiefs has Broncos eyeing even bigger drought busters this season

Mahomes feels ‘perfectly fine’ after illness, says he’s set for Europe debut versus Dolphins

Watson to start versus Cardinals after missing most of month with shoulder injury

Auto Racing

NASCAR defends drama-free final four and vows to do a better job promoting its young stars

Ryan Blaney fastest of NASCAR title contenders in lone practice ahead of championship

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

In-season tournament roundup

Long distance! Wrongly measured 3-point line on Nuggets’ court fixed ahead of tipoff with Mavericks

Wembanyama dazzles in 5th NBA game and shows why he’s most-hyped prospect in years

Harden’s Philly days like being ‘on a leash’

NHL/Hockey

Death of a player from a skate to the neck reignites hockey’s stubborn debate over protective gear

Tennis

Djokovic gets his revenge by beating defending champion Rune to reach Paris Masters semifinals

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores, FBS

College football scores, FCS