Central Georgia Sports ReportJune 23, 2024Comment

Sunday's Report: Bacon, Bevill/GSU HoF, Mercer Tennis Classic/Olympics, Henley; UGA's Condon, NBA No. 1 picsk/Hawks, Falcons/Robinson, Braves; NBA, WNBA, MLB, CWS, NASCAR, colleges, 🏌🏼‍♂️golf, 🏒,⚽

Central Georgia Sports ReportJune 23, 2024Comment

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Lexington County 11, Macon 10

Macon had a 7-2 lead after four, but Lexington County battled back for the home win.

The Blowfish scored 4 in the fifth, 3 in the sixth, and 1 in the seventh and ninth, getting a one-out walk-off fly to left.

Elijah Smith and David Stokely each had 4 hits for the Bacon, Charles Dean driving in 3 runs.

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NY Yankees 8, Atlanta 3

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Around/About Central Georgia

Maconite Bevill to be inducted into Georgia Southern Hall of Fame

Leonard Bevill, the former owner of Macon Occupational Medicine, and a two-time graduate of Georgia Southern, will be inducted into the GSU Athletics Hall of Fame this fall.

Bevill graduated in 1990 and added a degree in 1993.

He was the athletic foundation’s chair from 201-23 and led it to the largest fund-raising total in school history. He is an Oak Circle member, the highest level of donors, chipping in to the Anthony P. Tippins Family Training Center.

Since getting out of the occupational medicine field, he spearheaded the Eagle Nation NILL Collective.

Here’s the full class.

A Mercer Tennis Classic influence in the Paris Olympics

Alums of the Mercer Tennis Classic continue to do well, and now, some will represent America in the Paris Olympics.

The U.S women’s team, headed by world No. 2 Coco Gauff, includes three world top-20 singles players who have competed in Macon:

No. 5. Jessica Pegula and No. 11 Danielle Collins played in Macon in 2016, while No. 17 Emma Navarro was a three-time visitor, from 2020-22.

Henley was rolling along, and then on 18 …

After two rugged days, Russell Henley found a comfort zone on Saturday at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

A couple birdies on the front nine, and the back-to-back birdies on tbe back nine had Henley 4 under par, a place he hadn’t been in awhile.

But two shots into trouble led to a bogey on 18, the lone spot on a 3-under third round, even through three rounds.

Not that it helped much on the leaderboard, Henley improving only six spots to get up to a tie for 61st, with Jordan Spieth and Harris English, 18 back of leader Tom Kim.

Around/About Georgia

UGA’s Condon take elite Golden Spikes Award

A decade of No. 1 NBA picks: The good, bad and ugly

The next Christian McCaffrey? Bijan Robinson eyes breakout with Falcons

Yankees snap skid, lose Stanton in win over Braves

Basketball/NBA

By the numbers: Which title team was more dominant, UConn or the Celtics?

Thunder GM says Giddey didn’t want to come off the bench, prompting trade

WNBA

Mystics have improved since starting 0-12, but they face an uphill climb to make the playoffs

Stewart leads New York over Los Angeles for 10th victory in last 11 games

Engstler scores career-high 23, grabs 9 rebounds as Mystics beat reeling Wings