Friday's Report: Scoreboard; All-region, College ⚾&🥎 openers; Mercer 🏀; Falcons/Shrine Bowl, UGA, Tech/UGA/GSU 🏀; NFL/Brady/Super Bowl; NBA, colleges, soccer, golf, tennis

Friday's Report: Scoreboard; All-region, College ⚾&🥎 openers; Mercer 🏀; Falcons/Shrine Bowl, UGA, Tech/UGA/GSU 🏀; NFL/Brady/Super Bowl; NBA, colleges, soccer, golf, tennis

Thursday'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: Central Georgia’s all-region and all-district teams, in one spot

High School

Basketball

Girls

Crisp 49, Central Georgia Arts 27
Warner Robins 63, Locust Grove 25

Boys

Central Georgia Arts 46, Crisp 33 
Warner Robins 70, Locust Grove 46

Soccer

Girls

Crawford County 4, Central 1
Griffin 5, Howard 1
Perry 2, ACE 0
          Ari Marfell and Sadie Surber scored for Perry, which got a big night on defense as well as in the net form Olivia Martin

Boys

Bacon County 10, Dublin 0
Griffin 2, Howard 0
Perry 1, ACE 0
          Freshman Noah Windler hit the game-winner in the second half, Eli Flynn with the shutout at goalie.

College

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(Stories or boxes)

 

W-Georgia Tech 68, NC State 62
M Kennesaw State 90, Bellarmine 84, 2 OT
W-LSU 82, Georgia 77, OT
W Georgia Southern 74, Georgia State 49
M-Georgia State 64, Georgia Southern 60
W-Mercer 68, Western Carolina 44
W-Queens 79, Kennesaw State 75
M-UNC Greensboro 69, Mercer 49

 

College baseball openers/home openers
Feb. 1
Georgia College 4, Emmanuel 2
Feb.4
1 p.m., Shawnee State at Middle Georgia State
Feb. 11
Eckerd at Georgia College, 1 p.m.
Feb. 17
3 p.m., Jacksonville State at Georgia; Cincinnati at Georgia State
4 p.m., Miami, Ohio at Georgia Tech; New Orleans at Kennesaw State
6 p.m., William & Mary at Mercer
6:30 p.m., West Virginia at Georgia Southern

College softball openers/home openers
Jan. 27
Eastern Florida State College 3, GMC 2
Feb. 3
4 p.m., Roane State CC at GMC
Feb. 5
1 p.m., Middle Georgia State at Reinhardt
Feb. 7
4 p.m., Wesleyan at Clark Atlanta
Feb. 8
3 p.m., Wesleyan at Middle Georgia State
2 p.m., Fort Valley State at Georgia College
Feb. 10
12:30 p.m., Georgia State vs. Kansas City, at Miami
2 p.m., Georgia Southern vs. Lehigh, at Tuscaloosa
4 p.m., Kennesaw State at Tennessee Tech
8 p.m., Florida A&M at Mercer
Feb. 15
5 p.m., Mercer at Kennesaw State
Feb. 17
1 p.m., Coastal Georgia at Wesleyan
3 p.m., LIU at Georgia Southern; Eastern Kentucky at Georgia State

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Around/About Central Georgia

WBKB-Mercer cruises on the road

MBKB-UNC Greensboro controls host Mercer

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Inside Terry Fontenot’s Shrine Bowl week, and the Falcons’ coaching in it

Falcons, division eye a Brady-less future

Monken close to staying? Prepping for into-fall QB race?

Searels, McClendon recall first stints at Georgia: different

UGA’s Bowers skips NIL money to others get some

WBKB-Tech surprises No. 15 NC State

MBKB-Georgia State wins battle of GSUs

WBKB-UGA battles No. 3 LSU into OT

 

Football/NFL/USFL

Brady’s career filled with highlights

Column-Greatest underdog story in American sports history, period

Reid turned a six-inch binder into Hall of Fame career

Momma Kelce talks about one of her boys

Poppa Mahomes credits Momma Mahomes for youngster’s toughness

Mixon charged with pointing a gun at woman

A reunion, and battle of brothers

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

James pulls within 62 of Kareem

Embiid, Morant, Brown lead reserves

Pat Riley-Kareem never had potential, ‘only greatness’

Roundup

Griner return, free agency could spark charter flight change in WNBA

College Football

Alabama ‘wins’ recruiting ‘title’ again

Wisconsin working on NYC fan base, recruiting?

Napier avoids Rashada talk, expects no NCAA probe

New OC Riley to push Clemson’s O into next gear

College Sports

LSU tops coaches baseball poll,

Coaches poll (Tech, UGA, Georgia Southern get votes)

College Basketball

W-South Carolina wins 28th straight           

M-UAB surprises FAU, ends nation’s longest winning streak

W-UTEP stops Middle Tennessee’s 16-game streak

M-Iowa voids Illinois student tickets after prank

W-Top 25 roundup

Baseball/MLB

No extension, but Orioles and guv tout partnership

High Schools

No fans allowed at basketball games after fight, death

Soccer

Charges against Man United player dropped

 

Golf

Lebioda leads on day of changing conditions at Pebble Beach

Tennis

Dojo’s hammie at a 3-cm tear at Aussie Open

Scoreboards

NFL games/scores

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games