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

August 17, 2023 Central Georgia Sports Report

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

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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