The Central Georgia Sports Report

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Saturday's Report: Bleckley County's Wiegert, Houston County's Burress; Braves fall to Phils/make moves, Kennesaw State official; MLB, Wimby, NBA, NFL, soccer, Olympics

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Alumni Update/Honor Roll

Houston County’s Burress named national freshman of the year 

Former Bleckley County standout earns All-America scholar honor

          Lucy Wiegert, who racked up honors galore during her golf career at Bleckley County, is doing the same at Young Harris.

          The 2022 Bleckley County graduate senior (this fall) was named to the 2023-24 Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholar Team. The Sports and Recreation major had a 3.94 GPA as a sophomore.

          Wiegert, who turns 20 on July 27, also was named to the Conference Carolinas all-conference team in April. She also has made the President’s List at Young Harris.

          She was a three-time all-state pick in high school, and the state golf coaches’ player of the year for 2022. 

Around/About Georgia

Short-handed Phillies get to Fried, hold on series opener

Braves keep plugging holes in outfield by recalling White and signing Rosario to minor league deal

Conference USA Officially Welcomes Kennesaw State as 10th Member

Cousins improves Falcons' QB room, rest of offense is ...

Ogunbowale scores 19, Sheldon adds 17 including 5 3s to help Wings beat Dream

Baseball/MLB

Mother of big league Lowe brothers sees them face each other for 1st time since her cancer diagnosis

Pressure on rookie Wood? He's not feeling it

Bochy won’t have any of his players in AL All-Star lineup at home after Texas had 5 starters in ’23

Pirates tie club record by pounding seven homers in demolition of the Mets

Twins DH Miranda sets club record with hits in 10 consecutive plate appearances

Tennis

Defending champion Alcaraz comes back to beat Tiafoe in the third round

Gauff overcomes Kartal’s home-court advantage to reach 4th round

Actor Dustin Hoffman and Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes among celebrities at Wimbledon

'I wouldn't be here without Andy': Murray's legacy at Wimbledon, and in British tennis

Wimbledon is monitoring social media to try to protect players from cyberbullying

Raducanu defends decision to team up with Murray for mixed doubles

Auto Racing

Busch has broken out of slumps like this before: Can he do it again?

van Gisbergen is back in Chicago after his career-altering NASCAR Cup Series win a year ago

Golf

Rai and Pan share the John Deere Classic lead

Basketball/NBA

Green: Thompson's Warriors exit might bring back joy of basketball

Magic keep their man: Wagner agrees to 5-year, $224M extension

WNBA

Plum, Young, Wilson power Aces to 6th straight victory

Ogunbowale scores 19, Sheldon adds 17 including 5 3s to help Wings beat Dream

Olympic sports

Full schedule for Paris Olympics

USA Basketball men’s Olympic team arrives for camp in Las Vegas

It’s Luka vs. Giannis, with either Slovenia or Greece set to move 1 win from Paris Olympics

Soccer

France beats Portugal in a penalty shootout in Euro quarters to knock out Ronaldo

Canada beats Venezuela in extra round of penalty kicks, reaches semifinals in 1st Copa

Spain advances to Euro 2024 semis with extra time win over Germany

Ecuador and coach Bas part ways after losing Copa America quarterfinal

College Football

Sanders' bankruptcy case: How alleged actions in youth led to $11 million debt

Casualties of conference realignment, Pac-12 officials detail hope, devastation in search of new opportunities

College Sports

Grambling State athlete seeks HBCU class status in NCAA bias suit

Football/NFL/USFL

Do Bank of America Stadium renovations bring Charlotte closer to hosting a Super Bowl?

Around the nation/world

Tour de France Results

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

WNBA scores/games