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Special weekend ahead for Mason Massey, Beau Slocumb family

Beau Slocumb was 26 years old when he died in 2011 from a rare form of cancer, after a two-year battle.

Mason Massey was 14 at the time. But now he’s the same age as Slocumb was when he died, and he’s paying tribute to the driver he watched growing up.

Massey’s No. 8 Chevrolet Camaro has been dressed up to match Slocumb’s camo and orange design he showed off around the Southeast before his death.

And fans at Atlanta Motor Speedway will get to see it this week at the Xfinity Alsco Uniforms 250.

“It’s really cool to be able to honor Beau at both of our home track,” Massey said in a release on his website. “He was a heck of a racecar driver and definitely someone that I always looked up to. I am looking forward to representing Beau Saturday night at Atlanta in the 08 orange and camouflage hot rod.”

Slocumb went to high school at Mary Persons and FPD. He made four ARCA Racing Series starts in 2009, with two top-10 finishes and a fifth-place finish at Kansas, part of 131 feature wins in his short career that included Legends and late-model competition.

Massey grew up in Douglasville. He’ll be driving for SS Greenlight Racing.

The race is 8 p.m. on Saturday, and will be on USA Network.

“Beau loved racing Thursday Thunder at Atlanta and mentoring many kids over the years, including Mason,” said Buster Slocumb, Beau’s father. “We are honored that his life and racing career are still impacting the younger generation today. Thank you to Bryan Hill, Joey Clanton, Tony Gresham and the Massey family for making this happen.

“Thank you especially to Mason for honoring Beau in this way.”

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Windsor alum Gordon returning to Mercer as pitching coach

Mercer’s new pitching coach knows his way around campus, around town, and around Central Georgia.

The Bears have hired former Windsor standout Tanner Gordon as their third pitching coach in four seasons.

Cory Barton was fired just before the Southern Conference Tournament started back in mid-May, but the school made no announcement, and he was still on the baseball team’s coaches online list as of Sunday morning.

Gordon, though, changed the bio info on his Twitter page to the job last week, although he hasn’t posted anything about his hiring of a little more than two weeks ago.

Gordon was last August as VCU’s pitching coach, after five years in the same role at Murray State of the Ohio Valley Conference. The Racers had the No. 3 ERA in the OVC in 2022, and No. 2 in 2020.

Eight pitchers earned conference honors during his three seasons at Trevecca Nazarene, a Division II program in Tennessee. Three were first-teamers, and one the conference reliever of the year, in 2016.

Gordon was a volunteer assistant at Mercer in 2015, when the Bears went 35-23 and won the Southern Conference title. That followed a year as assistant at Middle Georgia State, the Knights going 38-15.

His first job was as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Andrew College, a junior college in Cuthbert.

The four-sport standout at Windsor – and 2007 Louisville Slugger honorable mention All-American after helping the Knights to the GISA AA title and earning Dugout Club GISA AA state player of the year honors - went on to play at Andrew College and Auburn-Montgomery, followed by a year in the Arizona Developmental Independent Baseball League.

Henley set for John Deere Classic

Russell Henley has played in the John Deere Classic only three times, but they’ve been pretty good times.

He has tied for 27th and 11th, and finished second, earning more than $800,000 in this tournament alone by going 10 under, 19 under, and 14 under.

Henley will try to maintain or improve on that this week in Silvis, Illinois.

Henley tees off at 8:29 a.m. on No. 10, with Taylor Moore and Chris Kirk.

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