Tuesday's Report: Scoreboard; Mercer; Big Falcons day, Tech hires Stoudamire, Braves, UGA; NCAA W & M tournaments/news, NFL, NBA, NASCAR, MLB
News and notes of interest to Central Georgia, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
High school coaches/teams
Please send postgame information and stats to centralgasports@gmail.com, post full scores and names/stats/records/info on Twitter and/or Facebook within 30 minutes of completion.
Colleges
Please enclose story links in emails or social media posts.
📰S📰C📰O📰R📰E📰B📰O📰A📰R📰D📰
High School
⚾ ⚾ ⚾Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾
Dodge County 21, Sumter County 1; Dodge County 12, Sumter County 1
GMC 18, Windsor 5
The Bulldogs took advantage of nine walks while banging out 12 hits.
Grace Christian 12, Fullington 1
Johnson County 7, Rutland 4
Lamar County 6, Jackson 5
Mary Persons 11, Trinity Christian 0
The hosts needed only 4.5 innings, led by three-hit nights from Ryan Causey, Jake Gore, and Cole Carr, Causey and Gore with two RBI each. Jake Grant and Thomas Brooks each struck out four.
Perry 14, Spalding 3
Stratford 6, Piedmont 4
Thomas Jefferson 2, Brentwood 1
Upson-Lee 11, Schley County 4
Beau Ellington and Colby Hemphill each had three hits and two RBI for the Knights, Jackson Blakely and Jackson Wells adding two hits each, Blakely two more RBI while striking out 11 in six innings.
West Laurens 22, Howard 1
The Raiders needed only nine hits for 22 runs, thanks to seven walks and three errors (leading to four unearned runs. Tucker Brown stole four bases and was joined by William Kellam with two hits. Brown and Ian Anderson scored three times and drove in two runs, Kellam with three runs and an RBI. Matthew Thigpen and Kolby Clark fanned five in three innings.
Wilkinson County 8, East Laurens 7
Wilcox County 9, ACE 0
⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
Girls
Central Fellowship 4, Valwood 1
Hawkinsville 6, Chattahoochee County 1
Perry 10, Westside 0
Sadie Surber recorded a hat trick for the Panthers, Reaghan Rees and Maddie Horan each adding two goals each, with one from Grace Surber, Madilynn Foster and Nevaeh Fields.
Putnam County 6, Greene County 0
Boys
Central Fellowship 2, Valwood 2
Chattahoochee County 4, Hawkinsville 0
Dooly County 11, Turner County 4
Perry 9, Westside 0
Gentry Arnette led Perry with a hat trick. Noah Wendler scored twice, with one goal from Luke Caulley, Robby Trent, Chase Howeth and Harrington Arnette.
Putnam County 10, Greene County 0
🏫🏫🏫 College 🏫🏫🏫
Links contain stories or boxes
🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎
Lane 5, FVSU 3; Tuskegee 10, FVSU 1
⛳⛳⛳ Golf ⛳⛳⛳
M-Southeastern Collegiate, first round, Georgia College
Pro
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀
📰C📰O📰V📰E📰R📰A📰G📰E📰
Honor Roll/Players of the Week
Peacb Belt SB-Georgia College’s Owens (GMC Prep alum)
FVSU’s Doucet names to D-II All-South Region team
Around/About Central Georgia
BSB-Mercer welcomes Tattnall, Houston County, Jones County alums
Georgia State’s roster has three Central Georgians: P-OF Cameron Jones of Houston County, P Quin McManmon of Jones County, and P Brooks Gorman of Tattnall.
Around/About Georgia/Southeast
Boom at The Branch: Falcons to bring in S Bates
Boom at The Branch: Lindstrom gets 5 more years, is highest-paid G in NFL
Atlanta adds ex-Saints LB Ellis
Atlanta’s free-agent signings (so far)
MBKB-Tech snags Damon Stoudamire as hoops coach
Braves could have historic trio of power
NCAA Men’s Tournament
How to fill out your bracket, I
How to fill out your bracket, II
What the committee got right and wrong
Top teams have talent, some with baggage
Returning Texas teams, newcomers in First Four
NCAA Women’s Tournament
International flair for many teams
College Basketball
M-Penders rips North Carolina for skipping NIT, wants punishment
M-Maravich’s record to stand, no postseason for Detroit Mercy
M-When will SEC’s investment in men’s hoops pay off with a natty?
M-Rutgers standout donates NIL money to Salvation Army, which got him started
M-Mississippi hires ex-Texas coach Beard
M-Clemson gives Brownell vote of confidence, looks ahead
W-Out:Michigan State’s Merchant steps down
W-Out: Georgetown’s Howard had four losing seasons
W-Every NCAA Final Four, and MOP
M-Every NCAA Final Four, and MOP
M-Before hoops at Syracuse, Boeheim played on and coached the school’s golf team
W-South Carolina completes wire to wire run at No. 1
Football/NFL/USFL
Garopollo heading to Las Vegas, three-year deal
Darnold bound for San Francisco
Winston returning to Saints as backup
College Baseball
NBA/Basketball/WNBA
Morant has entered counseling program in Florida
Celtics’ Smart fined for scuffle with Atlanta’s Young
College Football
The 29-year-old much at Florida is hinging on
Alabama coordinators to make $1.9 million each
Auto Racing
Byron emerges as another Hendrick star
MLB/Baseball
Obit-Pepitone was flashy, troubled, controversial
Obit-Cancer takes Orioles’ minor-leaguer
Tennis
Fritz, Wawrinka win at Indian Wells
Olympic Sports
Obit-Inventor of ‘Fosbury Flop’
Scoreboards
Women’s college basketball scores/games