Wednesday's Report: GMC Prep's new coach, Dodge County signings, region 🏀, state wrestling starts, Georgia College, Mercer; Bally, UGA 🏈; NFL, NBA, colleges, golf, NASCAR
Wednesday'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: GMC has a new head football coach
In Coverage: Central Georgia’s only region tournament master
Coming every day: The only place in Central Georgia with daily high school scores in basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, and the only place with college – Mercer, FVSU, Georgia College, CGTC, MGSU, GMC, Wesleyan – coverage (when info is offered).
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Photo: Dodge County football
Signings
Athlete Lamari Mitchell and linebacker Damarian Simmons of Dodge County signed to play football at Faulkner.
Around/About Central Georgia
State wrestlers invade Coliseum for GHSA traditional championship
Macon is the center of the Georgia high school wrestling world for the next three days with the start of the GHSA traditional wrestling tournament.
Jones County leads the Central Georgia contingent with nine qualifiers, followed by East Laurens with eight, with five from Lamar County and Putnam County,
Veterans’ Latrell Schafer (48-0, 175 pounds), Mary Persons’ Anthony Mannella (45-1, 157 pounds), Northeast’s Je’Quez Robinson (30-1, 215), and Veterans’ Damien Johnson (45-2, 120), and Dodge County’s Dayvion Huttoe (39-3, 120) are among the top Central Georgia wrestlers in their classifications.
Schafer won the 5A 145 title last year, Mannella taking 160 in 4A.
Last year, West Laurens followed up its duals state title by winning the Class 4A traditional championship last year, led by career standout Chase Horne, now at N.C. State.
Veterans was sixth in Class 5A and Perry 10th in 4A. Veterans is now in 6A, and the field no longer has Macon teams Mount de Sales (17th in Class A), Tattnall, Stratford, and FPD.
Tickets are $15 per day, or $35 for a three-day pass and $25 for a two-day pass. Action begins at 8 a.m. Live results are posted on www.trackwrestling.com.
The Central Georgia Sports Report is the area’s lone source for daily coverage of state wrestling.
WBKB-Georgia College holds on, clinches PBC berth
MBKB-Wofford nips Mercer at the end
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Bally regional networks’ parent misses payments
The importance of the star position at UGA
MBKB-Coleman leads Jackets over Hokies
Brunson, Randle lead Knicks to rout of Hawks
NFL/USFL/Football
‘Our own dynasty’: Kansas City celebrates
Eagles rip Smith-Schuster for viral Valentine
Ex-UGA DC Grantham with the Saints
Bears buy land for new stadium
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Jordan donates $10 mil to Make-A-Wish for 60th birthday
College Basketball
Izzo decries gun violence after campus shooting: ‘Our lives have been permanently changed’
M-Tennessee ends Alabama’s No. 1 honeymoon
M-Akron’s Freeman one of the game’s best stories this year
Impact transfers paying dividends at contenders
New Mexico State AD gets vote of confidence
Texas prosecutor drops domestic violence case against Beard
Auto Racing
Bowman, Larson give Hendrick sweep of front row at Daytona
And Bowman signs 3-year extension with Hendrick
College Football
Bill to set remembrance for Marshall plane crash
College Football/Southeast
Column-Florida had no sense or the money when it came to Rashada
Golf
Woods wonders about Champions Dinner
Scoreboard