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Tuesday's Report: Scoreboard: State pairings, Peach County’s Ellis, FVSU, Mercer, Georgia College; Spalding coach arrested for murder, Falcons, UGA, Braves; NASCAR, NFL, NBA, W/M college 🏀/ 🏈 , golf

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High Schools
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Crawford County 4, Upson-Lee 3

          Isaac Meadows struck out 6 in four innings, with Dayton Prater following with two shutout innings. Drew Hammock’s homer in the top of the seventh was the difference.

Rutland 10, Howard 6, 6 inn. (darkness)

The Hurricanes pushed across four in the sixth for the win. Winning pitcher Fisher Hopkins had 2 hits and 2 runs, Kurt Weiche getting 3 hits and run for Rutland (3-0). Howard (0-3) is at Jones County on Wednesday while Rutland hosts Wilkinson County.

Stratford 10, Briarwood 0

⚽ ⚽ ⚽Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

G-Warner Robins 3, Bleckley County 0

B-Warner Robins 5, Bleckley County 1

Colleges

Links may include game story as well as box

🏀🏀🏀Basketball🏀🏀🏀

M-Benedict 81, FVSU 79


⛳⛳⛳ Golf ⛳⛳⛳

M-St. Leo Invitational, Georgia College, first round

M-Wexford Intercollegiate, Mercer, first two rounds

Pro

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Macon 5, Roanoke 2 

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Alumni Update

Former Peach County standout Ellis going from Georgia Southern to Alabama

Getting to know Ellis

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Mayhem take down Roanoke

MBKB-Late slump dooms FVSU in road heartbreaker

 

Honor Roll

Peach Belt SB: Georgia College’s Gutierrez

Peach Belt BKB: Georgia College’s Rigsbee

 

Around/About Georgia

Spalding head FB coach arrested in Maryland for murder, reactions

          Spalding went 12-1 in 2023, winning Region 2-4A ahead of Perry, which won the state 4A title.

Lefty Driesell’s impact on Georgia State (and those he coached, battled, and worked with)

Yates ready to take over the quarterbacks group for the Falcons

Frustrations boil over for White as UGA blows lead against Florida

Strider toys with new pitch shapes in first spring BP session

Braves notes

 

Women’s College Basketball

Auriemma surpasses Krzyzewski, now second on all-time NCAA wins list

Clark: the supernova driving women’s basketball to new heights

Why ESPN's Jay Williams is unwilling to say that Caitlin Clark is 'great'

No. 13 LSU women dominate first half, cruise past Texas A&M

Nebraska’s response to player-assistant coach’s sexual relationship was inadequate, lawsuit says

Southern California jumps to 7th in women’s AP Top 25. South Carolina is still unanimous No. 1

Bueckers, Edwards lead No. 15 UConn over No. 21 Creighton to secure the Big East’s top seed 

Men’s College Basketball

Column-Expand March Madness? No thanks. What a bad idea from Big 12 Commish Yormark

Remembering Lefty, a showman, salesman, and rebel

No. 1 UConn makes statement in dominant 81-53 win

Big crowd, big test, big win for USF as it takes down FAU 

Michigan’s Howard says he's not going anywhere: 'Never quit in my life'

Hardaway rips some Memphis basketball players, questions their commitment to team

Right now 'frustrating and angry' is how to describe Clemson after loss to NC State

Watching Hoosiers slog through another loss, it feels like IU has begun assuming the worst

Kidd propels Virginia Tech to romp over Virginia

UConn is unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25. No. 21 Washington State ends 302-week poll drought

Auto Racing

Byron survives late wrecks to win Daytona 500

Bowman triggers ‘the big one’ in the Daytona 500 but escapes damage and comes home second

Johnson runs into early trouble, finishes 28th at Daytona 500

Results, notes

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

NBA All-Star weekend takeaways: Lots of points, lots of winners in Indy

Damian Lillard sweeps All-Star weekend by adding MVP Award to 3-point title

Nets fire coach Vaughn with team in 11th place at the All-Star break

MLB/Baseball

Nationals are no longer for sale, principal owner Mark Lerner says

Trout says leaving Angels would be 'easy way out,' wants owner to sign 'big guys'

NFL/USFL/XFL/Football

Kelce's foundation makes big donation to girls who were shot at Chiefs rally

Bucs take on over $14 million in dead money as Evans, Mayfield contracts void

Broadcasting

Report: Paramount, Comcast have discussed combining streaming services

College football

AJ McCarron to Saban: ‘I’m coming to get some of that NIL money that I missed out on’

Swinney is college football’s highest-paid head coach after Saban retired

Golf

McIlroy calls for new Champions League-style global Tour amid PGA Tour-LIV Golf negotiations

Scoreboards

NBA scores/games

Women’s college basketball

Men’s college basketball