The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Thursday's Report: Signings (Veterans, Stratford, Jones County, East Laurens, GMC, Rutland), Mercer, Georgia College; Braves, Falcons; NBA, MLB, soccer, college business, NFL, golf, tennis, boxing;

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High School
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GIAA Playoffs
Girls

Westminster 2, Trinity Christian 0

Boys

Westminster 2, CFCA 0

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Links may include game story as well as box

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Georgia Southern 13, Jacksonville 2

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Georgia 6, Auburn 5, 14 inn., SEC Tournament

Mercer 1, Wofford 0, Southern Conference Tournanament

Pro

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Atlanta 5, Boston 0

 

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Signings

          Veterans has had a busy signing week: Samuel Mitchell to USC-Beaufort for track and field, Mychal Stillwell and Elijah Wright with LaGrange for football, Chandler Thomas with South Georgia State for men’s basketball.

          Leana Minus is heading to East Georgia State for women’s basketball, Desteyn Seaton and Rionna Byrd bound for LaGrange for the same, with Florida A&M getting Sanaa Sheppard ….

          Stratford’s Khalil Green has signed to play men’s basketball at Georgia College & State.

          Jones County’s Ben Ridley has signed with Fisk for men’s golf.

          East Laurens’ Anna Bethea has signed with ABAC for women’s soccer.

          GMC’s Johnathan Roach has signed to play football at Huntingdon in Alabama.

          Rutland’s Rosaceicilia Lopez has signed to join the new women’s soccer program at Central Georgia Tech.

 

Honor Roll/Alumni Update

Stratford’s Mitchell makes all-conference

Honor Roll

Four from Mercer make all-conference

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Georgia College hosting Peach Belt championship series

          Georgia College’s Central Georgians: IF Keegan Baxter, Jones County; P Trent Ringer, Houston County; P Bradley Wilson, West Laurens;  IF Matthew Mebane, West Laurens; OF/IF Brandon Bellflower, John Milledge; P A.J. Mathis, West Laurens; OF Aiden Payne, Jones County.

          Flagler’s Central Georgians: P Benjamin Stubbs, Tattnall

Mercer wins first SoCon tourney opener in 6 years with walk-off

 

Around/About Georgia

Sale records season-high 10 strikeouts as Braves shut out Red Sox

Red Sox activate pitcher Pivetta, infielder Gonzalez from injured list before facing Braves

Lindstrom 'extremely fortunate' to have offensive line continuity going into 2024 season 

 

NBA/Basketball

Jokic wins NBA’s MVP award, his 3rd in 4 seasons. Gilgeous-Alexander and Doncic round out top 3

Inside the NBA MVP Race: Jokic’s consistency was key, and No. 1 picks were denied the trophy again

Brunson sparks Knicks past Pacers for 2-0 lead in East semifinals

Malone reminds the Nuggets they’re the defending champs and asks them to play like it

WNBA

Candace Parker takes a new job with Adidas after retiring from a 16-year WNBA career

MLB/Baseball

Future of MLB’s Tampa Bay Rays to come into focus with key meetings on $1.3B stadium project

Pirates are calling up top pitching prospect Paul Skenes for his major league debut, AP source says

Mizuhara, ex-interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani, will plead guilty in betting case

Mateo’s go-ahead hit in 12th helps Orioles survive Kimbrel’s blown save, beat Nats and avoid sweep

Roundup

College Basketball

No hate crime charges filed against man who yelled racist slurs at Utah women’s basketball team 

College Sports

In the NIL landscape, schools are turning to companies to train and manage in-house general managers

Republican congressmen introduce bill that would protect NCAA and conferences from legal attacks

NFL/XFL/USFL/CFL/Football

CFL’s Chad Kelly suspended at least 9 games after investigation into ex-coach’s lawsuit

Report says Chiefs’ Rashee Rice suspected of assault weeks after arrest over high-speed crash

Golf

PGA Championship invites 7 LIV players to get top 100 in the world

The opening round of the Wells Fargo Championship is delayed with rain in the forecast

After appearing on red carpet at Met Gala, Nelly Korda goes for a sixth straight win on LPGA Tour

McIlroy won’t rejoin PGA Tour board, says others were ‘uncomfortable’ with his potential return

Soccer

Soccer or football, the world’s most popular sport has its own day for fans to celebrate — May 25

Real Madrid rallies late to beat Bayern 2-1 and reach another Champions League final

De Ligt says linesman apologized for late ‘mistake’ in Bayern’s loss to Madrid in Champions League

Tennis

Osaka plays solidly in her opening match at the Italian Open. Darderi eliminates Shapovalov

Nadal’s clay game is rounding into form just in time for the French Open. ‘Things are happening.’

Auto Racing

Larson leads NASCAR Cup standings as series heads to Darlington

Former Daytona 500 winner McDowell will leave Front Row Motorsports for Spire in 2025

Boxing/UFC/MMA

UFC champ Sean O’Malley ‘changing up’ on Conor McGregor allegiance after being targeted in rant

Matt Brown, owner of second-most knockouts in UFC history, announces MMA retirement

NHL/Hockey

Roundup

Scoreboard

NBA scores/games

MLB scores/games
College baseball Div. I scores