The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Saturday's Report: Bacon, Jones County drowning, Houston County's Burress, Henley at Travelers; Falcons/Penix, Dream/Clark, Braves; NBA/Celtics, WNBA, MLB, college ⚾🏀, NHL,🏌🏼‍♂️, NFL, Olympics, ⚽

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⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Coastal Plain League  ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

 Macon 12, Lexington County 2
           Big fifth and sixth innings led to a 7-inning win for Macon, aided by 5 Lexington County errors and 7 unearned runs.
          David Stokley had 3 hits and 2 RBI and Jayce Dobie 2 hits and 3 RBI for Macon, which got 2 hits and 2 RBI from FPD grad Parker Ingram in the No. 9 spot. 

Pro

⚾ ⚾ ⚾MLB ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Atlanta 8, NY Yankees 1 

🏀🏀🏀WNBA 🏀🏀🏀

Indiana 91, Atlanta 79

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Alumni Update

Eyes will be on Lamar County’s CJ Allen at Georgia this fall’

 

Alumni Update/Honor Roll

Former Jones County athlete drowns

          Eddren Chester, who played football and competed in track and field at Jones County, drowned Friday in the Ocmulgee River at Frank Amerson Park.

          The 2023 Jones County graduate was with friends, when Chester went under water around 6 p.m. on Friday. Witnesses state he went under twice, and the fire department and sheriff’s office responded.

          Deputy coroner Lonnie Miley pronounced Chester dead at the scene approximately 90 minutes after emergency calls were made.

          According to MaxPreps stats posted by the team, Chester played in 28 games from 2019-22.

          He caught 40 passes for 394 yards and 5 touchdowns in 2021 when the Greyhounds went 10-3 and won the GHSA Region 4-5A title, catching 14 passes for 210 yards as a senior in 2023, also rushing 17 times for 53 yards.

          He signed to play football at Reinhardt, and was listed as a freshman on the roster in 2023, but didn’t play in any games..

          Chester was a good track athlete as well, in the sprints, and was on the Reinhardt men’s outdoor track & field roster

 

Season’s over, but not accolades for Houston County’s Burress at Tech

          Future stars galore have been named to Baseball America’s All-America first-team in the 42 years of the publication.

          Drew Burress is now the 10th freshman position player and 24th overall freshman to earn first-team honors. Eight of the nine freshman first-teamers progressed to eventual first-round MLB picks.

          It’s the latest addition to a burgeoning resume: Perfect Game’s National Freshman of the Year and third-team overall All-American, an NCBWA First-Team All-American and freshman hitter of the year, and was selected to ABCA/Rawlings First-Team All-Southeast Region, ACC Freshman of the Year and first-team All-Conference,

          He was also a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes Award and Dick Howser Trophy.

          In addition to winning Georgia Tech’s 12th triple-crown recipient (team leader in average, homers, and RBI), he set the program record for assists by an outfielder with 10, and was among the top freshmen nationally in nearly 20 categories.

          And Friday, he made the ACC baseball All-Academic team.

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Henley digresses in second round

          The good news for Russell Henley is that there is no cut at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

          The bad news is he has quite a hole to dig out of for a respectable finish.

          He was moseying along to an even front nine only to wobble on the back nine to finish with a 3-over 73 for a two-round 143.

          That has him in a tie for 67th, only Eric Cole and Justin Rose below the group at the bottom of the 70-player leaderboard.

          Tom Kim had a 5-under day to maintain the lead at a 13-under 127.

          Henley bogeyed, thanks to two shots that missed the fairway, and then just missing a 12-foot par putt.

          A par and birdie were misleading.

          A par putt on 15 was too strong, an 8-footer on 16 was off by an inch, and  4-footer on 16 missed, and the tee shot on 17 hit the water.

          As below average the putting has been – he’s 70th in the field in shots gained putting, and 65th around the green – it certainly could’ve been worse.

          Henley isn’t in the field for next week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.

 

Around/About Georgia

Falcons,  Penix Jr. agree to terms on rookie contract

Falcons sign OT Jones-Smith, DT Emili

Clark scores 16 and Fever beat Dream in a front of a record-breaking 17,575 fans

Albies hits 2-run homer on Rodón’s second pitch and hot Braves romp over skidding Yankees

Grant Holmes' journey to Braves hard to believe, even for him

 

Basketball/NBA

Celtics' championship parade brings out the best in Boston

Closer look at MJ’s  1988 DPOY award raises questions; Has LeBron James been chasing a ghost?

A flood of talent from France will be following Wemby to the NBA

Redick equipped for Lakers job, high shine of L.A. But that doesn't guarantee success

 

WNBA

A'ja Wilson and Caitlin Clark lead WNBA All-Star fan vote

 

Baseball/MLB

Bonds 'knew I needed to come' to Rickwood Field for his godfather, Willie Mays

Reggie Jackson on playing in segregated Birmingham in 1967: 'I wouldn't wish it on anybody'

Column: Here's hoping Mays and Musial watched Thursday's game together

Martinez hits a 3-run homer as the Mets rough up Imanaga

Diamondbacks hit 3 HRs, power way to 5-4 series-opening win over Phillies

Roundup

 

College Baseball

The 'Dale Earnhardt of Knoxville': How a big arm, a bigger personality (and sweet mustache) are making a legend

String of injuries can’t stop Texas A&M on its run to College World Series finals against Tennessee

New champ coming to college baseball

'50% off eliminated teams': Bargain-bin hunting at the MCWS comes with a steep price

 

Auto Racing

 

Golf

Kim builds a 2-shot lead over Scheffler and Morikawa at Travelers Championship

Ancer opens with 64 for LIV Golf lead with U.S. Open champ DeChambeau 3 back

Korda shoots 81, sent packing early again at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

 

Tennis

Journeyman tennis player Billy Harris goes from van life to mapping his Wimbledon debut

 

Hockey

Oilers continue epic comeback, beat the Panthers to force a Game 7

Coyotes’ bid for new arena hits another snag with cancelation of land auction

 

College Football

Lots of money on Ohio State, Georgia and … Colorado?

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables gets new 6-year deal with pay raise as team prepares for SEC play

 

College Basketball

Column: Expansion of the NCAA men's basketball tournament is inevitable, so embrace it

Tallest college player ever: Meet 7-foot-9 Olivier Rioux

Hawkins transfers to Kansas State, will reportedly receive $2 million in NIL deal

 

Football/NFL/USFL

Manning, Taylor and other Giants greats swap stories at 'A Night with Legends' event celebrating 100th season

Barry Sanders reveals heart-related health scare

Commanders aren’t rushing to name Daniels the starter, but he’s already started working like one

 

Olympic Sports

IOC approves Oklahoma City to host Olympic softball, canoe slalom during the 2028 Los Angeles Games

Richardson overcomes wobbly start for win in first heat at Olympic trials

He’s back! Caeleb Dressel looks like himself again, winning at US Olympic swim trials

 

Soccer

Pulisic: Time for U.S. to 'prove ourselves' at Copa

Ronaldo can handle the physical intensity of Euro 2024, Portugal coach says

Mbappé watches from subs’ bench as France and Netherlands produce Euro 2024’s first 0-0

 

Boxing/UFC/MMA

Garcia suspended 1 year for failed drug test, win over Haney declared no contest

 

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games

 

Saturday's Report: Bacon, Jones County drowning, Houston County's Burress, Henley at Travelers; Falcons/Penix, Clark vs. Dream, Braves; NBA/Celtics, WNBA, MLB, college ⚾🏀, NHL,🏌🏼‍♂️, NFL, Olympics, ⚽