Sunday's Report: Georgia College's Wilson retiring, Henley's oustanding third day, another good night for WACO's Gray, Bacon fall; Weather & wild British Open, WNBA, MLB, football

Sunday's Report: Georgia College's Wilson retiring, Henley's oustanding third day, another good night for WACO's Gray, Bacon fall; Weather & wild British Open, WNBA, MLB, football

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 Florence 7, Macon 6

          The hosts took the walk-off with 2 in the  bottom of the ninth.

          Gage Harrelson (Houston County) and Ty Dalley (Mercer) each had 2 hits for the Bacon.

          Macon hosts Boone on Tuesday, Lexington County on Thursday and Florence on Saturday in the regular-season finale.

Pro
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Atlanta 3, St. Louis 2, 10 inn.; St. Louis 9, Atlanta 5

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Atlanta 2, Columbus 1

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What a wholesome moment 🥹 ❤️<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/atlantadream?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#atlantadream</a> <a href="https://t.co/z6VQHzf24Z">pic.twitter.com/z6VQHzf24Z</a></p>&mdash; Atlanta Dream (@AtlantaDream) <a href="https://twitter.com/AtlantaDream/status/1814863910282956902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Alumni Update

WACO’s Gray closes out All-Star weekend in style

          First, Washington County grad Allisha Gray won the WNBA skills competition.

          A little while later on Friday night, she took the 3-point shooting contest.

          What would she have left for Saturday’s All-Star game against the Olympic team?

          Plenty.

          The Atlanta Dream standout was second in scoring with 16 points and led the WNBA All-Stars with 5 steals en route to a 117-109 win over the Olympic team.

          She was 9 for 10 from the line, and had 3 rebounds, 3 assists, and no turnovers in 22 minutes.

The WNBA is now off for the Olympics until Aug. 15, the Dream opening up the second half a day later when Seattle comes to town.

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Longtime Georgia College golf coach Wilson announces retirement

 

Around/About Georgia

Gorman helps Cards overcome Ozuna’s 2 homers for win after Braves take doubleheader opener in 10

Falcons OLBs ready to take a leap, 'show the world' in 2024

Good news on UGA RB Robinson

Gregersen scores twice on headers to rally Atlanta United past Columbus Crew

 

Baseball/MLB

MLB midseason awards: Skenes top rookie, more

Ortiz cruises through 7 innings, Cruz has 3 RBIs as Pirates win 6th straight, top Phillies

Young drives in go-ahead run as Nationals rally past Reds

Severino combines with 3 Mets relievers in shutout of Marlins 

British Open

Horschel leads on wild day of rain and big numbers at Royal Troon

Breaking down the top contenders to win The Open on Sunday

Several early starters took advantage of briefly benign conditions at Royal Troon

Kim records a Royal Troon first Saturday

Woods has never been less competitive, but he’s also never been more relevant

McIlroy rubber stamps ‘lost decade’ by saving worst major until last

College Football/South

Column-Why the SEC should keep its door open to FSU and Clemson

Case closed: Texas loses to Tennessee in the 'UT' debate for conference within SEC

Pittman is on the hot seat at Arkansas, and he brought in former Hogs coach Bobby Petrino as OC

An Alabama reunion and other sights and sounds from SEC media days

College Football

The Top 25 college stadiums: SEC, Big Ten dominate the top of our list

WNBA

Ogunbowale, Reese, and Clark lead WNBA All-Stars over U.S. Olympic team

Hoops legend Cheryl Miller filled with pride as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese make mark on WNBA

Olympics/Olympic sports

James hits game winner with 8 seconds left, US avoids upset and escapes South Sudan

South Sudan nearly beat the US in an Olympic tuneup. Here’s how it happened

Ledecky just keeps chugging along, still excited about swimming after all these years

Lyles warms up for Paris Olympics with personal best to win 100 meters in London

Auto Racing

Reddick uses final Brickyard 400 qualifying run to win the pole

Daring pass on final lap sends Riley Herbst to victory lane in Xfinity Series race at Indianapolis

NASCAR penalizes Martin Truex Jr.'s team for inspection violation at Indy

Tennis

Nadal reaches first final since 2022 French Open by beating Ajdukovic in Sweden

Golf

Wannasaen opens a 3-stroke lead in the LPGA Tour’s Dana Open for Children

College Sports

UNC settles open-meetings complaint tied to trustee discussions of athletics finances

College Sports, the changing landscape

Florida State would make sense in the SEC. But is that door open?

Football/NFL/USFL

LB Barrett, 2-time Super Bowl champion, retires

They're back! Examining the return of key injured players

Lamar Jackson challenges Troy Aikman's attempt to trademark their shared No. 8

QB McCarthy reportedly signing 4-year, $21.85M fully guaranteed contract with Vikings

Boxing/UFC/MMA

'Mike Tyson, you're next': Paul scores TKO win 

Around the nation/world

Tadej Pogacar equals Tour de France mark with 5th stage win in penultimate stage 

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games