The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Saturday's Report: Georgia College, Mercer, Macon Bacon; Falcons, Braves, Hank Aaron, UGA 🥎📰🏀; NBA, MLB, college news/b/s/f, NFL, racing, 🎾⛳⚽🏒

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Colleges
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Catawba 9, Georgia College 6; NCAA Division II Super Regional

Samford 9, Mercer 7; Mercer 10, Western Carolina 8; Southern Conference Tournament

Southern Tournament

SEC Tournament

ACC Tournament

Sun Belt Tournament

Atlantic Sun Tournament

Softball

UCLA 6, Georgia; NCAA Super Regional,Georgia eliminated 

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Lexington County 8, Macon 7

          A six-run stretch over two innings put Lexington County in control until Macon’s 3-run rally in the ninth.

          Macon’s home opener is Saturday at 7 p.m. against Forest City.

Pro

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Pittsburgh 11, Atlanta 5

 

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Around/About Central Georgia

BSB-Down 7-0, Samford stuns Mercer with 9-run 7th

BSB-Mercer gets lead, blows lead, retakes lead, holds on

BSB-Down 9-0 through 7, Georgia College’s late rally falls short

 

Around/About Georgia

Defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake building a deceptive unit for 2024

Gonzales drives in 4 runs, Falter takes 11-0 shutout into 8th as Pirates beat Braves

Hank Aaron's 'keep swinging' attitude in focus as new Baseball Hall statue

SB-Palacios leads UCLA to 13th straight win, sweep of Georgia in super regional

UGA News and Notes: Ticket prices could be on the rise

Georgia men’s hoops will be ‘process driven’ 

NBA/Basketball

Doncic lifts Mavericks with go-ahead 3 with 3 seconds left to top Wolves for 2-0 lead

Pacers put unbeaten home playoff record on the line vs. Celtics road success in Game 3

After firing, Cavs embark on coaching search with All-Star Donovan Mitchell’s future bigger priority 

WNBA

Reese is excelling on and off the court in her WNBA rookie season with the Chicago Sky

Clark and Indiana Fever win 1st game of season, beat LA Sparks in front of 19,103

Aces' 1st matchup with Caitlin Clark is one of WNBA's hottest tickets

Aces rookie Kate Martin prepares out of spotlight for Caitlin Clark reunion and meeting with Fever 

MLB/Baseball

Pitcher injuries more likely to occur during spring training, early in season

MLB says robot home plate umpires unlikely for 2025

Giant comebacks: San Francisco is 2nd team since 1900 to erase 3 straight 4-run deficits on road

Back-to-back-to-back: Guardians become 1st team in the majors this season to hit 3 straight homers

Harper ejected early, has choice words for umpire 

College Sports

The NCAA has agreed to settle a major lawsuit. It still faces a number of legal challenges

Who gets paid? How much? What to know about the landmark NCAA settlement

With college sports at critical juncture, private equity groups pushing for their piece

NCAA's finance question: 'How desperate are you?'

Column-College sports should learn from Red Lobster's mistakes and avoid the private equity bros 

College Baseball

Tibbs III hits team-leading 25th homer and Florida State advances to the ACC semifinals

Obertop drives in final four runs to rally Clemson past Louisville 8-7 for spot in ACC semifinals

South Carolina advances to the SEC Tournament semifinals behind home runs by Casas and Tippett

Kurtz sparks Wake Forest to 9-5 victory over North Carolina for spot in ACC Tournament semifinals

Burke, Tennessee eliminate Mississippi State from SEC Tournament with 6-5 comeback win

College Softball

Florida beats Baylor 4-2 to begin Gainesville Super Regional behind Otis’ home run in the fifth

Curd retires 11 straight and Duke beats Missouri for its first super regional win in program history

Mealer hits go-ahead homer as Tennessee rallies past Alabama 3-2 in Knoxville Super Regional opener

Oklahoma beats FSU 4-2, sweeps Norman Super Regional to earn 4th consecutive WCWS berth 

College Football

Jewish QB Retzlaff sees BYU as a welcomed shelter from the storm

Reports: Shilo Sanders facing NIL questions after filing for bankruptcy, lawsuit 

NFL/Football

Fields is eager to start over in Pittsburgh, even as a backup behind Russell Wilson

NFL closer to filling every day of the week with a game as league’s reach keeps growing

Auto Racing

Coca-Cola 600 betting: Does Indy/Charlotte double make Larson a favorite to fade?

33 things to know about Indy 500: Larson goes for 'Double' and other drivers to watch

Logano hopes All-Star Race victory will help his team climb out of hole in Cup Series standings

Tennis

If this is Rafael Nadal’s last French Open, it should be similar to Serena Williams’ last US Open

Osaka's message to young Asian players: Embrace your unique backgrounds and cultures

Evert thinks Iga Swiatek could surpass her record of 7 French Open titles

Djokovic loses Geneva semi and goes to French Open with no titles in 2024

Golf

Louisville officer in Scheffler arrest faced previous discipline

Riley has 70-minute wait before last putt in bogey-free 2nd round for lead at Colonial

Bland posts 66 and leads Senior PGA in his senior major debut

Soccer

After nearly walking away from Man City, Kyle Walker is reaping the rewards for staying

NHL/Hockey

Goodrow scores in overtime, Rangers outlast Panthers 2-1 in Game 2 to even Eastern Conference final

Boxing/UFC/MMA/WWE

Harrison's UFC jump, Conor McGregor's BKFC stake highlight PFL's core challenge of competing with an MMA giant

Scoreboards

NBA scores/games

MLB scores/games
College baseball Div. I scores