The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Friday's Report: Scoreboard; Baldwin's Butts steps back; HS 🏈palooza; Braves, UGA, Georgia State; MLB, NFL, TV, college 🏈, soccer, NASCAR, WNBA

In Coverage: Friday night’s Central Georgia football scouting reports; Maxwell Ratings predictions, Central Georgia composite rankings, The Sports Report predictions

 

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High School

Football

Kendrick 12, Central 8

          The win improved Kendrick to 2-3, its first season of two wins or more since 2015, and set up the Cherokees for their first two-win region record since the same year.

Northeast 48, Southwest 6

          The Raiders stormed out to a 41-6 first-half lead en route to matching their 2021 win, and third straight conquest of the Patriots by at least 40 points. The fifth-ranked Raiders improved to 4-1 overall and 2-0 in Region 2-AA, the Patriots falling to 2-3 and 1-1. 

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Berrien 7, Dodge County 3
East Laurens 9, Jefferson County 1
FPD 20, Mount de Sales 1
GMC 15, Wilkinson County
Griffin 17, Baldwin 0
Houston County 13, Lee County 4; Houston County 6, Lee County 1
John Milledge 6, Bulloch 5
Marion County 9, Howard 1

          The Huskies’ three game win streak came to an end on a weak offensive and defensive night. Howard (10-7) is at Hawkinsville on Monday.

Northeast 7, Central 6
Perry 13, Spalding 4
Piedmont 12, Gatewood 0
Southland 8, Windsor 0
Tattnall 2, Stratford 1
Trinity Chritsian 9, Covenant 0
Upson-Lee 5, Peach County 4
Veterans 5, Tift County 0; Veterans 5, Tift County 3
Washington County 16, Richmond Academy 0; WACO 20, ARC 1
Westfield 15, Heritage 0; Westfield 8, Heritage 0 

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Mount de Sales 3, Stratford 0 (25-22, 25-23, 25-23)
Pike County 2, Peach County 0 (25-12, 25-17)
Tattnall 3, FPD 1

College

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W-Chattanooga 3, Mercer 2

Pro

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Atlanta 10, Washington 3

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Alumni Update

Baldwin grad Butts stepping away from new job to focus on cancer battle

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Albies’ 100th RBI, Acuña’s 140th run and Olson’s 53rd homer lift Braves

Walk-on Jones meeting the moment for Georgia

About UGA’s 2022 and 2023 offenses

The stat that makes UGA’s Logue sick

Grainger, Carroll team up to give Georgia State best start ever with win at Coastal Carolina

 

Baseball/MLB

Cole enhances Cy Young credentials with 8 outstanding innings

Castellanos drives in 4 to set single-season career-best of 103 RBIs

Mom sees son pitch in first MLB game, first time in 7 years

Voices Monday and Steiner together, on radio, for decades, with humor

Chicago’s top officer says a White Sox game where 2 were shot should have been stopped or delayed

Roundup 

Broadcast

Live sports heading to streaming, taking superpower of cable TV bundle

College Football/SEC/ACC

Auburn going with orange facemasks, white jerseys

Why Milroe didn’t play against USF

Louisville police credit Cardinals players for help in rescue of overturned car near their stadium

Ole Miss’s Dart thriving after fighting off challenges, next test is Alabama

Saturday could mark changing of the guard in ACC

FSU and the philosophical subplot against Clemson

College Football/South (SEC/ACC states)

Sark talks rivalries and injuries

College Football

Is it the Pac-2 championship game when No. 14 Oregon State visits No. 21 Washington State?

Oregon’s cleats will change color with the heat

Key to Oregon-Colorado

How does Purdue find defensive consistency vs. Wisconsin

Irish want to control the noise ahead of OSU game

Promotion/relegation in college football? Game-changing idea could save Pac-12

Sanders has delivered drama and become must-see TV

Soccer

Ertz says goodbye to the US national team during a 3-0 win over South Africa

Auto Racing

Kyle Busch: Becoming a fan favorite? 

Texas playoff race 101: outlook, trends, watching

NFL/USFL/XFL/Football

McCaffrey, 49ers win 13th straight, beat Giants

NFL’s two 70-something coaches proving they still have what it takes to compete in this league

Did missing ex-NFL player Sergio Brown post videos about mother’s death? Police are investigating

Hunt thrilled to re-sign with ‘hometown’ Browns after Chubb’s season-ending injury

Dallas loses Diggs to ACL

Column-We've seen this QB downfall before. Can Fields be different?

NFL vs NFLPA grievance: Sources explain league’s latest ‘warning shot’

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Dallas’ Sabally wins WNBA’s Most Improved Player award

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores, FBS

College football scores, FCS