The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Tuesday's Report: HS/college scores, Veterans change, GMC JC/playoff, Mercer; UGA-Georgia Tech, Falcons, Tech women's 🏀; Rivalry week, college 🏈, NFL, College 🏀 W/M, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, soccer

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High Schools

🏀🏀🏀Girls basketball🏀🏀🏀

Dodge County 42, Wayne County 39

          Lyric Green hit 13 points for Dodge County, Jamaura Mizzell adding 4 3-pointers.

George Walton 68, Trinity Christian 46

Griffin 59,  Houston County 21

Stratford 69, Brookstone 25

🏀🏀🏀Boys basketball🏀🏀🏀

Brookstone 52, Stratford 50

Camden County 67, Dodge County 40

George Walton 67, Trinity Christian 40

Houston County 49, Griffin 41

          The Bears improved to 3-1 behind 17 from Malik Gillespie and 12 from Karon Plummer, plus 7 rebounds from Kam Plummer.

Southwest Georgia 59, Westfield 53

Tattnall 47, Westfield 27

🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫

🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀

Mercer 90, Jacksonville 89

Pro

🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀

Dallas 129, Atlanta 119

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

GMC JC gets good playoff news

          GMC JC knew the season would continue, having finished the regular season in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s top four, at No. 3.

          In the latest poll, GMC moved up to No. 2. And the NJCAA announced its final four, which meant GMC gets a home game in the national semifinals.

          The Bulldogs will host Hutchinson (Kan.) Community College on Dec. 8 at 3:30 p.m. Hutchinson is 9-1, GMC 10-1. No. 1 Iowa Western hosts Northwest Mississippi Community College.

          The championship is Dec. 18 at West Texas A&M in Canyon, Texas.

Bears come back to win OT thriller over Jacksonville

 

Around/About Georgia

Hawks honor late Dikembe Mutombo. Basketball was 'steppingstone to do something bigger.'

Irving’s big second half leads Mavericks past Hawks

Hate will keep Georgia from looking past Tech

London knows of Key’s hate

UGA notes

Smart, Georgia players share thoughts on playing in SEC Championship game, and Georgia Tech

Bulldogs honored for another trip to the SEC championship game

Jackets’ QB situation still not completely clear

Falcons plan to use more play action in offensive attack after bye week

Key talks about what a win over Georgia would mean

Termis scores 13, Georgia Tech beats No. 21 Oregon at Hawaii North Shore Showcase

 

College Football/SEC/ACC/South

Column: DeBoer is a failure and a hard Freeze is here for the Iron Bowl

Freeze reacts to bad calls postgame against Texas A&M: ‘I really wanted to fight.’

Campbell now a trustworthy target for QB LaNorris Sellers

What Freeze told kicker Ian Vachon after third quarter missed field goal

Duke’s Diaz: QB Murphy faces internal discipline for raising middle fingers in Virginia Tech win

 

College Football/Rivalry Week

Alabama loses starting linebacker Deontae Lawson to a season-ending injury

Why recent talks between Freeze, Thorne about more than X's and O's

Freshman QBs take center stage in Florida football-FSU rivalry

UF-FSU is personal for safety Jordan Castell, a Gator in family of Seminoles fans

Wake up the ghosts! Texas, Texas A&M rivalry that dates to 1894 is reborn

Clemson football vs South Carolina through the years

Lanning has yet to beat the Huskies

Why Heupel doesn't have to say ‘playoff’ for Tennessee to know stakes vs Vanderbilt

UM-OSU opening line

Michigan’s defense of national title fell short, aims to cap lost season with win against Ohio State 

Michigan’s longest-tenured player doesn't like red: "Rivalry runs within you"

College Football

Is there already a CFP controversy? Potential bye wracking nerves

Are the three-loss SEC teams still in CFP contention?

Longtime Utah coach Whittingham unsure if he'll return for 21st season

'I'll be stunned if they don't drop out of the (CFP) top 12 after that loss'

Player of the Week: Devin Neal runs for 207 yards and totals 4 TDs in Kansas’ win over Colorado

Extra Points: No. 14 ASU, No. 17 Iowa St front-runners in what could be wild Big 12 finish

NFL/USFL/UFL/Football

New QB DeVito can’t spark the Giants and gets trolled by Mayfield

Jackson accounts for 3 TDs, John Harbaugh moves to 3-0 vs. brother as Ravens beat Chargers

Winston’s performance in snowy win over Steelers adds new layer to Browns’ quarterback conundrum

Journeyman QB Allen gets little help from teammates in 1st start for 49ers

Emerging tight end Gray gives Mahomes and the Chiefs another option in passing game

Richardson’s rocky start proves costly in 2nd straight home loss as Colts fall to Lions

Texans foiled by mistake after mistake in 32-27 loss to Titans

Special teams miscues prove costly for Bears in overtime loss to Vikings

McDaniel stepped in to keep Dolphins from trading veteran DT Calais Campbell to Ravens

Browns’ Newsome calls Steelers’ Pickens “fake tough guy” after scuffle on last play of Cleveland win

Mahomes fined $14,069 for violent gesture

College Basketball/Women

UCLA women are looking for more after program’s first win over No. 1 team in 21 tries

South Carolina experiences rare sting of defeat, seeing 43-game winning streak end

Who’s No. 1? No. 2 UConn, No. 5 UCLA and No. 6 Notre Dame all have chance at top spot in AP poll

UCLA moves up to No. 1 in AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll for first time in history

Bueckers scores 23, No. 2 UConn women beat Oregon State 71-52 at Baha Mar

No. 23 Alabama women beat Alabama State 83-33 at Emerald Coast Classic

Gilbert makes clutch layup, steal as No. 7 LSU beats Washington

Jacobs has double-double, No. 18 Ole Miss women use balance, top Boston College 92-55 in Bahamas

College Basketball/Men

From Maui to the Caribbean, college hoops’ Thanksgiving tournaments a beloved part of the sport

Broome scores winning putback to lead No. 4 Auburn past No. 5 Iowa State

Memphis beats No. 2 UConn 99-97 in overtime to tip off Maui Invitational

No. 22 Xavier beats South Carolina 75-66 despite struggles from 3

Gayle scores 20 points as Michigan pulls away to beat Virginia Tech 75-63 at Fort Myers Tip-Off

Schieffelin rallies Clemson past San Francisco 70-55 to advance to Sunshine Slam championship

Bonham scores 28 to guide Chattanooga to 85-78 victory over Tennessee State

NBA

Anunoby scores career-high 40 points, Knicks dish out 45 assists in a 145-118 blowout of Nuggets

Morant finishes with 22 points and 11 assists in his return as Grizzlies beat Trail Blazers

Baseball/MLB

Pitcher Kikuchi and Angels agree to a $63 million, 3-year contract, AP source says

MLB Salary Arbitration Eligibles List

Red Sox lefty Booser wins Tony C. Award for overcoming adversity

Chirinos replaces Fredi González as Orioles bench coach

Auto Racing

Return of iconic Budweiser No. 8 unites Junior Nation at Florence Motor Speedway

Soccer

Vancouver Whitecaps fire coach Sartini following elimination from MLS playoffs

5 things we learned from the MLS Cup conference semifinals

 

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