Thursday's Report: Scoreboard; Warner Robins' Burley, Upson-Lee's Walker, Mercer soccer, HS 🏈 starts; Henley-BMW, FPD's Cox, FVSU fueled; Braves/Acuna, UGA, Falcons; WNBA, colleges, Blind Side, golf

Thursday's Report: Scoreboard; Warner Robins' Burley, Upson-Lee's Walker, Mercer soccer, HS 🏈 starts; Henley-BMW, FPD's Cox, FVSU fueled; Braves/Acuna, UGA, Falcons; WNBA, colleges, Blind Side, golf

Coming every day: The only place in Central Georgia with daily high school scores in basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, and the only place with college – Mercer, FVSU, Georgia College, CGTC, MGSU, GMC, Wesleyan – coverage (when info is offered).

 

In Coverage: This year’s Central Georgia high school football master schedule, and this week’s slate of games

 

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High School

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Central 22, Westside 7

John Milledge 6, FPD 2

Jones County 13, ACE 12, 9 inn.

          After seven innings, it was 4-4, both teams scoring in the seventh. Then the Greyhounds and Gryphons scored 17 runs inI the next two innings. Jones County scored three in the top of the ninth, then watched ACE counter with two in the bottom half and put runners on the corners with two outs only to end the game with a pickoff at first. Jones County won despite being outhit and striking out 12 timers. Tranasia Parker had two hits, and Leah Betts drilled an eighth-inning grand slam. The Greyhounds scored sixth in the top half, and the Gryphons matched it. Laney Bridges had five of ACE’s 12 hits, while Avery Stone added four.

Piedmont 5, Loganville Christian 1

Warner Robins 11, Dublin 8

          Dublin led 6-0 after two, Warner Robins finally tying it with four in the fifth.  The Demons put three across in the bottom of te sixth and got out of the seventh after a walk and single. Eight Warner Robins runs were unearned, thanks to seven Dublin errors.

Pro

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Atlanta 2, NY Yankees 0

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Alumni Update

Warner Robins’ Burley may miss opener for Clemson

Jaguars’ Walker (Upson-Lee) plans to use his ‘superpower’ in Year 2 as he eyes gold jacket

Honor Roll

MSOC-Mercer pair makes all-conference

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Central Georgia high school football season starts tonight

          Three area teams – all in Bibb County – are among nearly 30 opening the 2023 football season a day early.

          Rutland is on the road to face Towers, while Southwest and Howard will go at it at Ed DeFore.

          Most of the rest of Central Georgia gets going Friday, with two games on Saturday.

          Towers is in Region 5-AA, and looks to avenge the Hurricanes’ 15-0 win last year. The Titans managed only 38 points in going 0-9-1, their ninth straight losing season and 15th consecutive non-winning season.

          Teams led by a pair of former Georgia Southern standouts face off when Howard and Southwest kick off.

          Howard’s Paul Carroll was a record-setting linebacker in Statesboro, and Southwest’s Joe Dupree transferred to the Eagles after starting his college career at quarterback at Georgia.

          Howard, which leads the series 6-4, has a solid defensive group back, led by its linebackers. Southwest scored more points last year, in going 3-7, than it has since 2008, when the 8-3 Patriots put up 326. And they bring back most of their firepower.

          Southwest is looking for its first win over a higher-classification team since beating Class AAA Central 34-33 in 2019. Howard is 7-3 in its last 10 games against Bibb County public-school teams.

 

Henley set for BMW Championship

          Russell Henley carries his No. 15 ranking in the FedExCup rankings into the PGA’s second playoff tournament, the BMW Championship in Illinois.

          Henley has made all seven cuts in the tournament, with three top-40 finishes, topped by tied for 25th in 2020. And that was at the North Course at Olympic Fields, hosting for the first time since 2020. The tournament started in 2007 and hasn’t been on the same course two years in a row since 2010-11 in Cog Hill, Ill.

          The Stratford grad is 51 under par in his last eight tournaments, including the lone missed cut, a 7-over trip to the British Open. In that stretch, Henley has shot in the 60s in 19 of 32 rounds, and 65 or under four times.

          He has finished tied for second and for sixth in his last two tournaments. That’s his best two-tournament run in finishes since tying for third and fourth in October of 2020.

          The top 30 FedEx ranked players advance to the Tour Championship next week in Atlanta.

          He tees off Thursday – weather permitting – at 10:43 a.m., playing with No. 16 Nick Taylor.

‘It gives us extra fuel:’ Fort Valley State looks to prove preseason doubters wrong

 

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Morton in command to lead 2nd straight shutout, sweep of Yankees

Mets' Acuna's older brother Ronald says 'watching him play feels like watching myself play'

Atlanta’s Acuña Jr. is approaching a new power-and-speed frontier - the 30-60 club

No. 1 Georgia ready for season after tragic offseason

Georgia showing some toughness on experience defensive line

Atlanta defensive line passing the eye test

Falcons G Hennessy out for season: knee

 

Mental Health

Athletes with fear of flying have greater resources than predecessors 

MLB/Baseball

Raley races for 1st pinch-hit, inside-the-park HR in Rays’ history

Detmers takes no-hitter into 8th inning, Ohtani hits 42nd homer as Angels beat Rangers 2-0

Dominican investigation of Rays’ Franco is led by gender violence & minors division

Roundup 

College Realignment

Inside the Pac-12 collapse: four surprising moments that crushed it

Could George W. Bush and Condi Rice help push ACC to expansion? Here's why some member schools are unhappy

Spurrier: Bowden wanted none of the SEC when FSU had the chance

Conference realignment shakes up recruiting landscape as Big Ten, Big 12, SEC widen footprints 

College Football/South

South Carolina, QB Spencer Rattler are expecting another step forward this season

Brohm is back home coaching Louisville with much expected of the Cardinals in first year

Swinney happy with camp so far, survives ‘must see TV’ fire alarm

Virginia Tech seeks explosiveness on offense and defense in Pry’s second year of rebuilding

College Football

Notre Dame QB Hartman heads list of transfers who could make impact this season

Fewer college football programs are leaving campus for training camps even in portal era

Northwestern coach expects cheers at home despite scandals

Not enough players fought against teammates, says Sanders

Best tailgaters

O-Line questions continue at Ohio State

High Schools

Devastated Tuohys ready to end conservatorship for Oher, lawyers say

Golf

Tweaks, trains, and implications to watch at BMW

Column: Small fields in FedEx Cup is a dangerous comparison with LIV

Cantlay tries to defend title

The cup that matters to some Americans at BMW Championship has nothing to do with money

NFL/XFL/USFL/Football

For Cowboys, 5-foot-5 rookie RB Deuce Vaughn's potential impact is no small thing

Bucs’ Gage may be done for the year

Ravens teammates remember Collins: 'Tell your people you love them'

Cook signs his deal with Jets, looks forward to being ‘part of something special’

Patriots announce signing of Elliott

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NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Liberty beat the Aces WNBA Commissioner’s Cup

USA Basketball’s coaching staff for this year’s World Cup is a star-studded mix

Soccer

England fans back home celebrate their team’s spot in the Women’s World Cup final

US women’s national team coach Andonovski resigns after early World Cup exit, AP source says

Auto Racing

Chase Elliott needs a win, and he's the Watkins Glen favorite

Schedule at Watkins Glen

Boxing/UFC/MMA

This big-money matchup with Álvarez is no mismatch, says ‘little brother’ Charlo

UFC 292: Sterling isn't looking past O'Malley as move to featherweight looms

Scoreboard

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games