Saturday's Report: Alums-Putnam County, FPD, Dodge County, Tattnall; Georgia College, Mercer; UGA, Falcons, Bananas, Kennesaw State; NFL, MLB, NBA, colleges, NASCAR, golf

Saturday's Report: Alums-Putnam County, FPD, Dodge County, Tattnall; Georgia College, Mercer; UGA, Falcons, Bananas, Kennesaw State; NFL, MLB, NBA, colleges, NASCAR, golf

News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

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Alumni Update

Putnam County’s Kilgore making transition at South Carolina

 

Alums in town for South Carolina softball at Mercer

          Central Georgia alums Karsen Ochs of FPD and Aniyah Black of Dodge County are in Macon this week for the Bear Invitational softball round-robin at Mercer.

          Ochs, a senior, improved to 4-0 with the Gamecocks’ 11-1 win over Mercer, giving up three hits with six strikeouts and no walks in the five-inning game.

          Black, a junior transfer from Georgia, got a pinch-hit single in the win over Mercer, and didn’t play in the 10-2 win over Jacksonville.

          The 11-1 Gamecocks play Tennessee Tech Saturday at 6:30 p.m., Belmont at 10 a.m. on Sunday and Tennessee Tech right after that.

BSB-Tattnall’s Dawson Brown sizzles on the mound for Tech

 

Around/About Central Georgia

BSB-Bobcats’ Hudgins handcuffs Flagler

BSB-Mercer rides good start to win

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Eagles may be interested in UGA’s Schumann

What will UGA offensive players see, think, hear from Bobo?

Former Tech QB and Jalen Carter’s odd trash talk

Hawks pull away to rout Cleveland

WBKB-UGA facing sellout crowd at South Carolina

A burning question for the Falcons’ defense

Johnny Damon as a Savannah Banana

MBKB-Kennesaw State wins ASUN regular-season title

BSB-Tattnall’s Dawson Brown pitches Tech to win

WBKB-First 20-win season in 20 years for Georgia Southern

 

Football/NFL/USFL

Doug Williams’ story is celebrated, but no fairy tale

Mahomes, Cousins, and Mariota – yes – part of Netflix docuseries

Raiders’ TE Waller shares testimony on album 

College Basketball

M-Tempers flare at end of No. 16 Xavier rout of Seton Hall

Column-The year the real world came for college basketball

M-Is this year’s tournament Cinderella already here?

M-Purdue’s Edey makes strong case for POTY

W-Miami hit with probation for NIL violation

M-Krzyzewski stays busy after basketball

Column-Alabama’s Oats tone deaf amid fatal shooting scandal 

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Giannis leaves early with knee injury in win

Booker’s 25 leads Phoenix

176-175 in double OT?

Roundup 

Golf

Suh leads, Kirk shoots 62 in second Honda round

Final Honda Classic, with new sponsor coming

Garcia: McIlroy’s immaturity ended our friendship 

Auto Racing/NASCAR

Auto Club Speedway’s finale 

Soccer

Among the MLS players to watch

Spanish league files new complaints for racist insults 

Around the nation/world

Russia’s sports exile continues a year after invasion 

Scoreboards

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games

College baseball scores