Saturday's Report: Scoreboard; Stratford's Henley, Dodge County's Floyd, Mercer; Tech/Pastner, GHSA 🏀, Falcons, Hawks, Braves; college 🏀 tournament HQ/changes/news, NBA, MLB, golf, NASCAR, NFL
News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
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High School
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Girls
ACE 7, Central 0
Bleckley County 3, Dublin 0
Kayla Kerce had two goals and an assist and Ellen Arnold a goal for the Royals.
Griffin 8, Northeast 0
Houston County 2, Thomas County Central 0
Lamar County 6, Temple 1
Lincoln County 3, GMC 0
Mary Persons 3, Upson-Lee 0
Oglethorpe County 7, Jasper County 4
Perry 8, West Laurens 0
Pike County 7, Peach County 0
Boys
ACE 6, Central 0
Bleckley County 4, Dublin 0
GMC 9, Lincoln County 1
Oglethorpe County 6, Jasper County 0
Perry 2, West Laurens 0
Pike County 3, Peach County 0
Spalding 10, Howard 0
Thomas County Central 4, Houston County 1
Veterans 4, Northside 1
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Basketball
M-Georgia Highlands 63, Central Georgia Tech 54, GCAA Tournament
The fifth-seeded Titans end the season with a loss in the conference tournament semifinals, finishing 15-15 in the first year of head coach and Westside grad Gerald Fitch.
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Clemson 9, Georgia State 8
Georgia 18, Charleston Southern 9
Georgia College 10, USC Beaufort 1
Georgia Tech 7, Notre Dame 4
Mercer 11, Baylor 2
Rutgers 5, Georgia Southern 2
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
Auburn 6, Georgia 5
Florida 14, Mercer 3; Rutgers 6, Mercer 3
Georgia Tech 5, Virginia 2
Young Harris 10, Georgia College 9
Pro
🏒🏒🏒 SPHL 🏒🏒
Evansville 4, Macon 3, OT
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀
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Signings
FPD’s Candler Woods signed to play men’s lacrosse at LaGrange.
Alumni Update
As expected, Rams release Dodge County’s Floyd
Around/About Central Georgia
BSB-HRfest leads Mercer to road romp over Baylor
Henley amid rough round when play suspended
Russell Henley went from a decent first round at the Players Championship to needing to sharpen up to make the cut.
Play was suspended Friday, again, with more than half of the field unable to complete the second round. The day ended with the project cut at 1 over.
Henley sat below that tied for 68th, thanks to a 2-over first nine. He started on No. 10, and almost half the round was bogeys, four, with two birdies, to put him 2 over for the tournament.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Georgia Tech ends it with Pastner after seven seasons
Falcons have options in the pass rush game
Hawks finish two-game set at Washington
NL East-Braves the envy of MLB
College Basketball Tournaments
W-GCAA (nothing posted)
M-GCAA (nothing posted)
College Basketball
Out-Ex-Tech coach Gregory at South Florida
Out-Oliver at East Tennessee after two seasons
Out-Anderson at St. John’s after four seasons
Extended-Missouri’s Gates, after one season
M-Arkansas’ Musselman loses it during, after loss
M-Vandy takes down Kentucky, again, in SEC quarters
M-Virginia pulls away from Clemson
W-MTSU advances to C-USA title game
M-Houston wins 30th for second straight year
Former Bama player indicted by grand jury
W-There could be serious madness in this year’s Madness
NCAA considers expanding the tournament
M-Gun policy at Mississippi State?
M-Ridiculous to question effort, says Pearl
M-Clemson’s Brownell appears safe to return
M-‘There will never be another Jim Boeheim’
NBA/WNBA/Basketball
Spurs overcome Jokic’s triple-double
MLB/Baseball
Swanson initially tentative about joining the Cubs
Golf
Storms interrupt Players chaos
New lawsuit against Woods could get very ugly
Rahm withdraws from Players before second round
Auto Racing/NASCAR
Chastain helps remove wall at Martinsville to commemorate ‘Hail Melon’
College Football
Oklahoma player recovering after collapsing at practice
Iowa to use own funds, not taxpayer, to cover race bias settlement
Column-SEC can ignore Saban barking up wrong tree on scheduling
Football/NFL/USFL
Bears trading No. 1 for a bunch of picks?
Smith in the spotlight after new deal with Seattle
Vikings cut WR Thielen after 10 seasons
Where everybody stands in cap tracker
Hockey
Flyers dump GM and president of operations
Around the nation/world
Shiffrin gets record 86th World Cup win
Scoreboards
Women’s college basketball scores/games