The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Sunday's Report: Scoreboard; Mayhem, Mercer, Georgia College; HS legend resigns, Braves, UGA, Hawks; NCAA Tournaments, NBA, golf, MLB, NFL, UFL, tennis, NASCAR

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🏫🏫🏫 College 🏫🏫🏫

⚾ ⚾ ⚾Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Arkansas State 6, Georgia Southern 3

Boston College 16, Georgia Tech 7

Georgia State 8, James Madison 7

Kennesaw State 12, Austin Peay 11

Seton Hall 9, Mercer 7

Tennessee 16, Georgia 11

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Arkansas 3, Georgia 2

Augusta 9, Georgia College 7

Coastal Carolina 6, Georgia Southern 2

Jacksonville 8, Kennesaw State 0; Jacksonville 8, Kennesaw State 7

James Madison 8, Georgia State 1

Mercer 13, Western Carolina 1

Syracuse 7, Georgia Tech 1 

Pro

🏒🏒🏒 SPHL 🏒🏒🏒

Macon 3, Birmingham 2

 

🏀 🏀 🏀NBA 🏀 🏀 🏀

Milwaukee 122, Atlanta 113

⚽ ⚽ ⚽MLS ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

A 55-save night from Bostedt, after saving 51, lifts Macon on the road

BSB-Seton Hall overtakes Mercer late

SB-Augusta avoids sweep by Georgia College

SB-Mercer rolls to series win at WCU

BSB-USC Aiken avoid sweep by Georgia College

 

Around/About Georgia

Georgia HS football coaching legend Freeman resigns

          Freeman spent four seasons at Southwest, from 1998-2001, and went 17-24. His winning percentage of 41.46 is third among seven Patriot head coaches with at least four seasons.

          He went 3-2 against Dublin’s Roger Holmes, one loss in the 2019 state championship and won win in the second round of November’s playoffs, among the who’s who of current and past coaches Freeman faced at Brooks County (twice), Brunswick, and Southwest.

 

Albies, Olson, Ozuna, Harris hit homers, Braves pound 19 hits in 12-4 win over Phillies

Tumbling Bryce: Harper gives Phillies scare with crash landing in photo well

Braves' high-octane offense bails out Fried in rout

Georgia DL: One year later, still searching for train wreckers, havoc makers?

Six Georgia asst. coaches get boost in annual pay, incl. coordinators

Antetokounmpo has 36 points, 16 rebounds to power Bucks past Hawks

BSB-Record crowd watches Tennessee come back to beat Georgia

 

Tournaments/Women, Saturday

Johnson, Reese lead defending champion LSU past UCLA

Clark leads Iowa to romp over Colorado and rematch with defending champ LSU

Watkins scores 30, powers Southern California past Baylor 74-70 for spot in Elite Eight

Shorthanded UConn grinds its way over Duke into 28th Elite Eight

WNIT

WBIT

 

Tournaments/Men, Saturday

Clingan, UConn power back into Final Four behind 30-0 run 

Alabama rides tidal wave of 3-pointers to beat Clemson, reach 1st Final Four

End of the road: Clemson's Madness run over with Elite Eight loss

Sears provides needed fuel for Alabama

Roundup

Minnesota State edges Nova Southeastern 88-85, claims both D-II championships

NIT

CBI

CIT 

Sunday, Women

(1) South Carolina vs. (3) Oregon State, 1 p.m., ABC

(1) Texas vs. (3) NC State, 3 p.m., ABC

Monday, Women

(1) Iowa vs. (3) LSU, 7:15 p.m.,ESPN

(1) Southern California vs. (3) UConn, 9:15 p.m., ESPN

Friday, Women, Final Four

7 p.m., 9:30 p.m

NCAA Tournament/Women

Mulkey says she likely won’t read her Post profile, defends LSU team against media portrayals

Column: UCLA-LSU was America's sweethearts vs. its basketball villains

Mulkey rips Washington Post, then LA Times

Texas and NC State look to end Final Four droughts as Longhorns face Wolfpack in Elite Eight

South Carolina and Oregon State meet again with trip to Final Four on the line

Holmes ends stellar career at Indiana with loss in the Sweet 16 to South Carolina

Hijab-wearing players in women’s NCAA Tournament hope to inspire others

South Carolina escaped a nervous Sweet 16 finish with a familiar formula: 'How can you guard us?'

Just 3 wins from a perfect season, Staley and South Carolina aren't getting complacent

Sunday, Men

(1) Purdue vs. (2) Tennessee, 2:20 p.m., CBS

(4) Duke vs. (11) NC State, 5:05 p.m., CBS

Saturday, Men, Final Four

6 p.m., 9 p.m. (estimated)

NCAA Tournament/Men

It’s a Tobacco Road showdown in Big D between Duke and N.C. State for a spot in the Final Four

Madness masterpiece: All-Americans Edey of Purdue and Tennessee’s Knecht face off in Elite 8

Even Filipowski is a fan of NC State's March Madness star Burns

DeCock: Wave carrying NC State hasn't broken. It's taken Pack within a win of the Final Four.

Krzyzewski checks in on run by Keatts, NC State

By shrinking the floor, NC State basketball has extended its March Madness stay

Painter on the cusp of a career-defining win and he knows it

Brownell's parents are 'basketball nuts' just like him

Column-Creighton was good. Tennessee basketball's toughness better in reaching Elite 8

College Basketball

UConn's Auriemma stands by pick: Bueckers best in the game over Clark

Gohlke says he didn't trash talk Calipari because of Kentucky coach's 'defeated look'

College Sports

Tennessee softball beats Auburn for 19th straight win

Iowa hires independent investigator to look into women’s gymnastics team culture under Larissa Libby

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Tatum scores 23 as Celtics rebound from back-to-back losses

Roundup

Golf

Scheffler overcomes late double bogey for 66 and is part of 5-way tie in Houston

Carlota Ciganda shoots 6-under 66 in blustery conditions to share lead at LPGA Ford Championship

MLB/Baseball

Everybody Home! All 9 Orioles come in to score to start big 6th inning against Los Angeles

Benches clear during Blue Jays-Rays game after Cabrera, Caballero exchange words

The Texas Rangers have finished the celebration by getting their World Series rings

Kwan homers, Guardians get 15 hits and rout A’s 12-3 before crowd of just 5,425

Hoskins has 4 RBIs in Brewers’ contentious 7-6 win as Mets’ Ramírez ejected for throwing behind him

Rays’ Arozarena celebrates home run, signs autographs for fans in dugout

NFL/Football/UFL

UFL kicks off, with a 64-yard game-winning kick

Jets acquire 2-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Haason Reddick from the Eagles

NFL Draft is like poker, and McCarthy may be a bluff

Bears received ‘at least one better offer' for Fields than the Steelers': report 

Tennis

Danielle Collins wins Miami Open on her final try, topping Elena Rybakina in straight sets

Auto Racing

Larson wins Cup pole at Richmond

Chandler Smith wins spring NASCAR Xfinity race at Richmond Raceway for the second year in a row

Scoreboards

NBA scores/games
Women’s college basketball
Men’s college basketball

College baseball Div. I scores