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February 27, 2023 Central Georgia Sports Report

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

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🏀 🏀 🏀Basketball 🏀 🏀 🏀

W-Fort Valley State 55, LeMoyne-Owen 51, SIAC Tournament

W-Virginia Tech 65, Georgia Tech 52

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ETSU 10, Georgia Southern 2

Flagler 2, Georgia College 1

Georgia 12, Princeton 7; Princeton 12, Georgia 11

Georgia State 10, Brown 1; Georgia State 6, Brown 5

Georgia Tech 11, Tennessee Tech 7

Kennesaw State 12, Long Island 8

Rhode Island 15, Mercer 4

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Georgia 5, Lipscomb 0

Georgia College 3, Flagler 2

Georgia Southern 4, NC. A&T 0;

Georgia State 5, Tennessee State 4

Georgia Tech 7, Kent State 4; Charlotte 7, Georgia Tech 3

Kennesaw State 5, Alabama 3

Pro

🏒🏒🏒 SPHL 🏒🏒🏒

Macon 7, Pensacola 4

🏀 🏀 🏀NBA 🏀 🏀 🏀

Atlanta 129, New Jersey 127

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Alumni Update

Tattnall’s Ball has big day for Georgia Southern

Around/About Central Georgia

WBKB-FVSU opens SIAC tourney

SB-Georgia College gets first PBC win

Mayhem win second straight

SoCon hoops tournaments set

The road to a Southern Conference basketball tournament title is more difficult than expected months ago for Mercer’s men and women.

The men were picked to seventh by coaches and media, and they’ll open the tournament on Friday at 5 p.m. as the eighth seed, taking on No. 9 The Citadel, which finished where it was predicted. The two just played on Saturday, Mercer rolling 72-50.

The winner faces top seed and preseason favorite Furman at noon on Saturday.

Mercer plays in the women’s tournament second game, as the fifth seed, against No. 4 UNC Greensboro, at 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday.

Mercer was the consensus pick, by coaches and media, to win the conference, UNC-G starting the season at No. 7/6 out of eight. Wofford was expected to contend, and is the top seed, the Terriers opening with No. 8 Western Carolina at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

Those two winners play at 11 a.m. on Friday. The championship is Sunday at noon.

All tournament games are at the Cherokee Center-Asheville in North Carolina.

BSB-Rhode Island bats thump way past Mercer

Around/About Georgia

Hawks make it official, and hire Quin Snyder

Young about ‘love and respect’ toward McMillan

Coaches are leaving Florida for better compensation, often in Georgia

Column: Why HS coaches should get paid more

Young’s buzzer-beater lifts Hawks

WBKB-Georgia battles, falls to South Carolina

Rosario focused on big year

RGIII advises Baltimore to draft Bennett