Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 15, 2024Comment

Tuesday's Report: Mercer Tennis Classic, Macon TD Club/FPD/Tattnall/Rutland, Mercer; UGA-Texas week/Shovegate, Tech, Falcons; College🏈, MLB playoffs, NFL, WNBA playoffs, 🏀, NASCAR

Central Georgia Sports ReportOctober 15, 2024Comment

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Alumni Update/Honor Roll

SoCon football: Mercer’s Moore

Around/About Central Georgia

Seeds set for Mercer Tennis Classic

All of the seeded qualifying players advanced on Monday in the Mercer Tennis Classic at John Drew Smith Tennis Center.

Renata Zarazua is the top seed for the main draw, followed by Anna Blinkova and Maria Lourdes Carle.

Quin Ingride Gleason and Martins Gamarra are the doubles top seed.

Action begins at 9 a.m. Wednesday with several high seeds getting on the courts early.

Macon Touchown Club taps a Viking, Hurricane, and Trojan

Players from Tattnall, Rutland, and FPD are the latest Macon Touchdown Club players of the week:

Back: FPD quarterback and safety Major Simmons completed 11 of 15 passes for 243 yards and three touchdowns, rushing 12 times for 66 yards and three more scores. On the other side, he had nine tackles, one for loss in the 49-21 win over John Milledge.

Lineman: Rutland defensive lineman Antonio Slocumb had nine tackles, four for loss, and forced two fumbles in the 49-0 loss to Callaway.

Special teams: Tattnall specialist Carson Burnett averageding 42 yards on four punts, one downed inside the 10. He also went perfect on four PAT tries in the 28-12 win over Stratford.

Around/About Georgia

Here comes Georgia-Texas week: A very different road trip for Bulldogs and their fans

Smart reaches out to Mississippi State QB Van Buren to explain sideline shove

And Sankey responds to the incident

Evans III steps up for UGA

SEC betting lines: The ‘Big One’ features Georgia traveling to Texas as underdog

UGA notes

Smart had plenty to talk about to start a huge week

Tech duo takes ACC honors

Key shares update on Georgia Tech QB’s current status

Falcons are 3-0 against NFC South rivals as RBs Robinson, Allgeier take lead roles for offense

Column: The Falcons take another step on the road to eminence

Facts, stats, quotes from Falcons’ win

College Football/South

Florida QB Graham Mertz’s season and his college career are over because of a knee injury

No. 1 Texas’ dominant defense will be tested by No. 5 Georgia and Beck

Wake Forest’s fee for canceling football game vs. Ole Miss is covered by new Oregon State deal

No. 1 Texas putting the Golden Hat away with a focus on bigger trophies after a perfect SEC start

Why Memphis’ season, playoff hopes might go the way of its offense

Baseball/MLB

Tuesday: AL-Cleveland at NY, 7:37 p.m., TBS/TruTV
Wednesday: NL-LA at NY, 8:08 p.m., FS1
Thursday: AL-NY at Cleveland, 5:08 p.m., TBS; NL-LA at NY, 5:08 p.m., FS1

Soto, Stanton homers back Rodón as Yankees take advantage of wild Guardians to win ALCS opener

Lindor homers as Mets stop Dodgers’ scoreless streak in series-evening win

MLB playoffs averaging 3.33 million viewers through Division Series, an 18% increase over last year

Ohtani gives hope to young baseball players in Japan, and the rest of the country, too

Column-: Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame … the writers deserve to have the final say

MLB will air local games for Guardians, Brewers and Twins next season

Tuesday
Troy at South Alabama, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN2
Kennesaw State at Middle Tennessee, 8 p.m. | CBSSN
Louisiana Tech at New Mexico State, 9 p.m. | ESPNU

Wednesday
Western Kentucky at Sam Houston, 7 p.m. | ESPN2
Florida International at UTEP, 9 p.m. | CBSSN

Thursday
Boston College at Virginia Tech, 7:30 p.m. | ESPN
Georgia State at Marshall, 7 p.m. | ESPN2

College Football

Too many men: No. 2 Oregon purposely induced late penalty in win over No. 4 Ohio State

Parity reigns as 4 ranked games reached overtime on Saturday; 4 more decided by 3 or fewer points