The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Wednesday's Report: Jones County, Mercer, Georgia College, Russell Henley; Braves, Falcons, UGA; Masters, college W&M 🏀/news, 🏈, college news, NFL, NBA, MLB, ⛳, NASCAR

In Coverage: Russell Henley again a player to watch in Augusta 

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High School

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ACE 16, Spencer 2; ACE 16, Spencer 1

Bleckley County 5, Dublin 1

FPD 5, Mount de Sales 0

          Hayes Bryant struck out 11 with a walk in the complete-game two-hitter.

GMC 14, Wilkinson County 2

Hawkinsville 4, Treutlen 2

Lee County 8, Houston County 2

Locust Grove 8, Jones County 1

Piedmont 2, Lake Oconee 1

Social Circle 2, Jasper County 1

Spalding 4, Howard 3

Tattnall 6, Stratford 2

Tift County 17, Veterans 2

Trinity Christian 16, CFCA 1

West Laurens 8, Baldwin 1

Windsor 17, Covenant 2

⛳⛳⛳ Golf ⛳⛳⛳

G-ACE 154, Mount de Sales 175, Peach County 206

B-ACE 91, Peach County 106, Mount de Sales 115

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Girls

ACE 11, Jordan 1

Dodge County 12, Sumter County 4

Mary Persons 5, Lamar County 1

Stratford 7, John Milledge 0

Valwood 3, CFCA 1

Warner Robins 3, Crawford County 0

Westside 10, Macon County 0

West Laurens 1, Spalding 0

Boys

ACE 3, Jordan 1, OT

CFCA 3, Valwood 2

Macon County 6, Westside 3

Mary Persons 6, Lamar County 2

Stratford 10, John Milledge 0

West Laurens 9, Spalding 7

🏫🏫🏫 College 🏫🏫🏫
Links may include game story as well as box
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Georgia 15, Kennesaw State 5

⛳⛳⛳ Golf ⛳⛳⛳

W-Brickyard Collegiate, final round, Mercer

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Georgia College 9, North Greenville 1; North Greenville 11, Georgia College 5

Pro

🏀 🏀 🏀NBA 🏀 🏀 🏀

Miami 117, Atlanta 111

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Atlanta 6, NY Mets 5

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 Around/About Central Georgia

Jones County announces new head basketball coaches

          A little more than two weeks after losing its girls and boys head basketball coaches, Jones County has hired new girls and boys head basketball coaches.

          Jones County grad Takeo Gray takes over the girls program, while Willie Reese is the new boys head coach, the school announced in social media posts Tuesday night.

          Gray graduated from Jones County in 1998, and has degrees from Fort Valley State and the University of Phoenix. The school’s announcement stated he has been an assistant at Jones County and Westside.

          Reese has a lot of Georgia Tech running through his blood.

          He played for head coach Bobby Cremins in the mid-1980s, the Carver-Atlanta grad earning four letters from 1985-89 and playing with Mark Price, John Salley, Tom Hammonds and Dennis Scott, among others.

          He was the team’s top scholar-athlete twice, earning a bachelor’s in industrial management.

          After five years in private business, Reese started his coaching career at Landmark Christian, going 87-35 in five seasons as head coach at Landmark Christian, also coaching cross country and winning two state titles, in 1995 and 1996.

          He rejoined his alma mater as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech for six seasons and then director of operations for five years, working with the Yellow Jackets from 1999-2010.

          Reese then became an assistant at Jonesboro, and head coach at Sandy Creek (2012-15), Meadowcreek (2015-16), Griffin (2016-19), and Lovejoy (2019-24)

          They replace ChoRonda Harris and Buck Harris, who resigned late last month take the same positions at Northside.

 

Around/About Georgia

Cousins vows to "do everything I can" to deliver a Super Bowl win for the Falcons

López throws 6 strong innings, Acuña scores 3 runs as Braves hold off Mets

The growth of Gunner Stockton

Smart compares Damon Wilson to past Georgia greats Azeez Ojulari, Nolan Smith

Another UGA hoops player portal bound

 

College Basketball/Women

Women’s NCAA title game outdraws the men’s championship with an average of 18.9 million viewers

From SNL to $500 tickets, women’s basketball is mainstream. But for how long?

Clark by the Numbers: A Cheat Code of a Career

 

College Basketball/Men

Indiana State's Avila, breakout star of March, enters transfer portal, per reports

 

NCAA Tournament/Women

Why does South Carolina's Staley collect confetti? Tradition started in 2015

Clark forever changed college game — and more importantly view of women's sports

Staley and South Carolina in good place to keep dynasty rolling and repeat as champions

Clark's decorated career won't have championship ending, but her legacy was already secure

Women's basketball had transformative weekend in Cleveland

Staley earns $680,000 in bonuses after championship

Clark's impact on women's sport 'coolest part of journey' as college career ends

Column-One word describes South Carolina=Dynasty

NCAA Tournament/Men

UConn season would've been 'disappointment' without Final Four

UConn’s Hurley at the pinnacle of his career, joining legends like Wooden, Krzyzewski

Defense frustrated Edey all night, despite good stats

Men’s final sees viewership increase over 2023, but not enough to outdraw women’s title game

Fans welcome UConn’s repeat champs back to the ‘Basketball Capital of the World’

Madness winners and losers: ACC, UConn, Cinderellas led NCAA Tournament highlights

Masters

Competing tours converge on Augusta National chasing the same prize

Ranking 1 through 89

LIV officials invited to Masters shows thawing of relations

Singh: Time to change an iconic hole

The unique pressure of being golf's top three at the Masters

Who are the top Masters contenders? Breaking down all 89 participants

 

College Basketball/Coaches

VanDerveer retires as Stanford women’s hoops coach after setting NCAA wins record this year

 Calipari departs Kentucky after 15 years, saying the program ‘needs to hear another voice’

Column-The top name Kentucky should go after is …

Column-Hurley is the perfect sports heel. So Kentucky job would be a perfect fit

Canisius hires former Boston College coach Christian

 

College Sports

College baseball notebook: Tennessee’s prodigious home run hitting on display against Auburn

Cal State San Marcos softball player Jillian Albayati makes history playing baseball game same day

ACC's motion to stay Florida State's lawsuit denied

UNC tennis player’s antitrust case could slam NCAA amateurism

 

College Football

Who's going to be Pearman's backup QB in 2024 at Clemson?

Washington player arrested, charged with raping 2 women

Which positions will Auburn target in the spring portal?

 

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

Celtics become 1st NBA team to shoot no free throws. Boston, Bucks combine for record-low 2 attempts

2-time All-Star Ja Morant acted in self-defense during pickup game fight, judge says

Edwards scores career-high 51 points, Timberwolves rally

Hornets to interview G League's Lindsey Harding for head coach job, per report

Roundup

 

MLB/Baseball

Column--Please, MLB, no more April baseball. Start the season in May

Ohtani says he feels settled off the field and at the plate. He even spilled a secret hitting drill

Auto Racing

Analysis: Hendrick celebration and milestone came at complicated track for NASCAR’s winningest team

 Tennis

Alcaraz pulls out of Monte Carlo Masters with right forearm injury 

Scoreboards

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

College baseball Div. I scores