Sunday's Report: Scoreboard; GHSA & GIAA basketball, Mercer, Georgia College, Russell Henley; UGA/Combine, UGA-Tech ⚾, state🏀, Hawks; college 🏀, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, golf, 🏈l

Sunday's Report: Scoreboard; GHSA & GIAA basketball, Mercer, Georgia College, Russell Henley; UGA/Combine, UGA-Tech ⚾, state🏀, Hawks; college 🏀, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, golf, 🏈l

Saturday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.

 

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Around/about Central Georgia

MBKB-Halftime lead lost early, Furman dismisses Mercer

BSB-Walk-off from Houston County’s Hughes caps Mercer sweep

 

Henley takes advantage of second chance

          After missing and then making the cut, Russell Henley turned in a solid round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

          The Stratford grad shot a 2-under 70 Saturday to move into a tie for 39th, even for the tournament and nine shots back of the lead.

          He had two birdies on th front nine, and got busy on the back nine, ending with bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie-par.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Bennett has surprising effort at Combine

Washington turns heads

Nolan Smith stayed:”that’s just how you do it

He gave a big Georgia recruiting pitch before huge Combine day

BSB-UGA overpowers Tech

MBKB-Georgia falters at South Carolina

MBKB-Tech rallies past BC

Young struggles in Atlanta loss

  

College Basketball

W-Tennessee storms back stuns LSU in SEC semi

M-Taylor leads A&M over Alabama

What’s this ‘Net’ and ‘quadrant’ stuff?

W-Staley vs. Mulkey the game’s next great rivalry

M-Buzzer-beater lifts Wofford over UNCG 

College Basketball Tournaments

W-Southern Conference

M-Southern Conference

W-Peach Belt, Wednesday

M-Peach Belt, Thursday

W-SIAC

M-SIAC

W-GCAA (nothing posted)

M-GCAA (nothing posted)

W-SEC

M-SEC

W-ACC

M-ACC

W-Sun Belt

M-Sun Belt

W-ASUN

M-ASUN 

NBA/Basketball/WNBA

Morant to step back, seek help

Column-Morant is on precipice of so much, but has more to lose

Sixers rally, stop Bucks’ 16-game streak

Roundup 

Auto Racing

Busch a fan favorite entering Las Vegas race

Logano gets Vegas pole

Where did Busch come up with the bow? 

Golf

Kitayama holds on to Bay Hill lead 

MLB/Baseball

‘Every number is good’ with analytics speeding it up

Female minor-league manager gets a day on MLB bench 

College Football

Young, Stroud defend against criticisms at Combine

Richardson’s workout, Young’s heat all the rage

Richardson raised the most eyebrows

Napier has tough sledding, no “Goofs” in the schedule

South Carolina RB – ex of Georgia – to retire

UFC/MMA/Boxing

UFC 285

Scoreboards

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball scores/games

Men’s college basketball scores/games

College baseball scores