The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Sunday's Report: Scoreboard (w/HS FB); Mercer, Russell Henley; HS FB in Columbus arrests, UGA, Falcons, Braves; NFL, MLB, soccer, tennis, realignment, college 🏈/more, NASCAR, ESPN sale?

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High School

🏈🏈🏈Football🏈🏈🏈

Hawkinsville 34, Rutland 20

          The homestanding Hurricanes led 20-12 at halftime, but the Red Devils of new head coach Tim Suttles changed the direction early in the second half with a 70-yard touchdown run from Zenard Smith followed by a conversion pass to tie it barely a minute into the third quarter. They pulled ahead at the 4:46 mark on a 1-yarder run from Nelson Singletary. Rutland had the ball near midfield, but turned it over on downs, the Red Devils converted on Smith’s 48-yard run in the final minute of the third quarter. Mistakes sabotaged a Rutland trip to the red zone again, and Hawkinsville stayed in control for its first win.

John Milledge 58, Canton Acad. Miss. 12

          The Trojans led in their 52nd straight win 44-0 at halftime.

Parklane, Miss. 28, FPD 7

          With their starting quarterback sidelined for reportedly a team academic miscue, FPD dug itself a three-touchdown hole by halftime and was held to its lowest point-total at home since falling 14-7 to Calvary Day in the second round of the 2020 GHSA Class A Private playoffs. Parklane scored twice in the first quarter, on a 3-yard run and 83-yard pass play, and added a 29-yard score throughthe air early in the second quarter. The Vikings avoided the shutout on an 11-yard TD pass from Major Simons to Benjamin McElreath with 4:06 left in the third. FPD was held to 209 yards in total offense, Parklane picking off three passes. Colin Doyle ran for 127 yards on 23 carries for Parklane.

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

ACE 9, Wayne County 2

East Paulding 2, Houston County 0

George Walton 5, Tattnall 4; Tattnall 10, John Milledge 2

Taylor County 26, Hampton 1; Taylor County 15, Spalding 0

Westfield 5, Stratford 0

Wheeler County 6, Trinity Christian 0 

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ACE 2, Central 0 (25-15, 25-14); ACE 2, Cook 0 (25-23, 25-22) 

College

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GMC 54, Georgia Christian College

Mercer 17, North Alabama 7

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W-SCAD Savannah 4, Middle Georgia State 0 (Friday)

🏐 🏐 🏐 Volleyball 🏐 🏐 🏐

Alabama 3, Mercer 0

Mercer 3, MVSU 0; St. Louis 3, Mercer 2 (Friday) 

⚾ ⚾ ⚾ MLB ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Atlanta 7, San Francisco 3

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Around/about Central Georgia

Mercer grinds its way past North Alabama

WBKB-Mercer schedule features UGA, Tech, Clemson

 

Bad stretch drops Henley further from contention

          For a little bit, Russell Henley was on the edge of contention at the Tour Championship.

          He improved from a tie for 13th to start the third round to a tie for eighth through 11. Three straight bogeys followed by a day-ending bogey dropped Henley into a tie for 19th at East Lake.

          The run came on 13, 14, 15, a day after he double-bogeyed 14. He was 2 under for the day through 12.

          A top-20 finish guarantees him at least $640,000, adding to the $6.2 million he’s earned this season.

Leaderboard

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Fights, gun-related incidents end Carver-Spencer game early

Beck shares lessons learned from Bennett

Georgia’s Brinson moves to the stage

Pollack-less ‘Gameday’ still grumbles many

Falcons release former starting left guard Jalen Mayfield among 4 cuts

Fried on target, Braves take series

 

MLB/Baseball/Little League

Angels GM says Ohtani and agent turned down MRI weeks before torn UCL diagnosis

Nationals score go-ahead run in 9th on passed ball

Pham loses homer on bizarre fan interference

White Sox say they weren’t aware at first that a woman injured at game was shot

Little League World Series: Curacao and California to square off in the final

Soccer

USWNT drops hard in FIFA rankings

FIFA suspends Spain soccer federation president after World Cup win kiss

College Realignment

Stanford and Cal can ‘die on the vine,’ says ACC head coach

Sun Belt stability: Lack of change has league poised to lead Group of Five conferences

Big 12 goes from endangered to bigger before No. 11 Texas and No. 20 Oklahoma leave for SEC

Sources: MWC and AAC ramp up courtship of Pac-12 remnants Oregon St., Washington St.

NCAA conference chaos leaves most fans unfazed: Sportico/Harris Poll

College Football/South

Auburn announces increased capacity, other stadium enhancements 

Pollack-less ‘Gameday’ still grumbles many 

College football

Hawaii has heavy hearts for fire-ridden state as season starts

New Nebraska coach Matt Rhule is having the time of his life ahead of opener against Gophers

Big Ten to require football teams to report which players are available to play on gamedays

Michigan to give 4 assistants chance to act as head coach during Jim Harbaugh’s 3-game suspension

WVU wants to keep the Backyard Brawl going

Column-Why this will be one weird season 

College Football Saturday

Jackson State does what Sanders couldn’t, beats S.C. State

Hartman throws 4 TD passes as No. 13 Notre Dame opens with a 42-3 win over Navy in Ireland

Interception rescues Jacksonville State in win over UTEP in FBS debut

Mayden hits Redman for 2 TDS, San Diego State holds off Ohio

Swann throws for 3 TDs as Vanderbilt holds off Hawaii

Heisman winner Williams throws 4 TD passes in romp

Football/NFL/USFL/CFL/XFL

Miami’s Davis carted off field after collision, game with Jags halted

Roundup 

Auto Racing

Buescher wins at Daytona, eliminating Elliott and helping Wallace land final NASCAR playoff berth

Preece taken to local hospital after brutal wreck

Former Cup Series champ Kurt Busch formally retires while still recovering from concussion

Golf

Hovland shoots 66 for 6-shot lead at Tour Championship to close in on FedEx Cup title

Chasing first LPGA Tour victory, Megan Khang opens 3-shot lead in CPKC Women’s Open

Tennis

US Open 2023: Novak Djokovic is back for the first time in 2 years and seeking a 24th major

US Open 2023: Iga Swiatek wants to win, of course. She wants to be heard on key issues, too

Around the nation/world

Amazon reportedly in talks to buy ESPN, Disney may charge $20-35 per month for service

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games