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August 23, 2024 Central Georgia Sports Report

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High Schools

🏈🏈🏈Football🏈🏈🏈

John Milledge 39, Augusta Christian 19

The Trojans got their first lead of the season on Kolt McMichael’s 10-yard pass to David Todd in the second quarter. Augusta Christian tied it, and then McMichael ‘s 1-yar run put JMA up for good with a 13-6 halftime lead. McMichael ran in two more short-yardage scored in the third quarter, the Trojans getting a run form Cole Vining and 20-yard interception return to seal it. John Milledge won despite being outagained Augusta Christian 416-348 and grabbing seven fewer first downs. Vining ran for 132 yards and McMichael passed for 138.

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ACE 16, Northeast 0
The Gryphons went off for 15 runs in the first inning, aided in the shortened game by 8 Northeast errors and no Raider hits. Madisyn Haller and Avery Stone had 2 hits each for ACE.

Crawford County 12, Upson-Lee 4
The Eagles broke open a close game with 4 runs in the third inning. Kinley Howard had 3 hits, with 2 hits from Bailey Phillips and Adalynn Puckett.

ELCA 11, Jones County 3

FPD 12, Covenant 1, 5 inn.
Addison Arnold, Gracyn Fuller, and Hannah Davis each had 2 hits for the Vikings, Arnold with 3 RBI and Fuller and Davis with 2 each. Fuller fanned 6 with no walks in 3 innings.

Fullington 8, CFCA 5
Heritage 15, Mount de Sales 0

Houston County 12, Lee County 0, 4 inn.; Houston County 17, Lee County 14
Hayley McElroy drove in 5 runs on 2 hits, a triple and homer in the opener. Ansleigh Darby added 2 doubles and scored twice, and Kinley Snider added 3 RBI in the opener. Ann Marie DeFore sent Houston County home happy with a walk-off homer in the nightcap slugfest, after the Bears blew a 13-7 seventh-inning lead by giving up 7 runs, only to score 4 in the bottom half and survive a 5-error game in which Houston County coughed up 11 unearned runs. Claire McArthur went 4 for 4 with 9 RBI, 4 coming on a grand slam, one of her two homers in the game.

Jackson 9, Rutland 5

Mary Persons 6, LaGrange 4

New – and not-so-new – head coach Ronnie Shipman got his 200th career win, the Bulldogs taking the lead for good on Taylor Mosteller’s 2-run bomb in the top of the seventh.

Perry 5, Griffin 4; Perry 2, Griffin 1
The Panthers took the lead in the top of the seventh and held on in the bottom half. Avery Grant doubled, advanced on a pop up, and came in on error. Grant and Anna Dean each had 2 hits. All the scoring in the nightcap came in the first two innings of a 7-error game. Emma Rose Wood struck out 5 with no walks for Perry, outhit 6-5 by Griffin.

Schley County 10, Taylor County 6

Stratford 8, Gatewood 0, 5 inn.
Emma Jordan was dominant in the circle with 11 strikeouts and a 5-inning no-hitter. Taylor Monroe had 2 of Stratford’s 8 hits.

Tattnall 8, Strong Rock 4
Annamary Talcott belted 2 homers to lead the Trojans. Callie Still added a homer while also getting the win. Gradie Appling went 3 for 3 for Tattnall, Reese Covington also adding 2 hits.

Veterans 4, Coffee 3; Veterans 7, Coffee 1
Kharisma White had 4 RBI to lead Veterans in the opener, with a homer and 2 doubles. The Warhawks overcame a 3-1 first-inning deficit. Maddy Kinkade and Katelyn Haines had two-run singles in Veterans’ 5-run third in the nightcap. Kinkade and Kharisma White each had 2 hits for Veterans.

Washington County 6, Bleckley County 5
The Golden Hawks were outhit 9-4, but had 2 fewer errors, getting 3 unearned runs. Lily Duncan drove in 3 runs for Washington County, while Lyric Stephens, Emmie Williams and Addison Hill had 6 of Bleckley County’s hits. The Royals pulled within one in the seventh.

West Laurens 15, Howard 0, 5 inn.
The Raiders got all their runs in the first three innings. Jaclyn Hogan had 3 hits, and Maggie Lord, Cheyanne Phillips, and Halley Nobles and Audrey Lord had 2 hits each.

Windsor 11, Rock Springs 3
Five run in the first was enough for the Knights, who had an 11-4 hits advantage. Sealy Dent and Maddie Treem each had 3 hits, and Lily Perry drove in 3 runs on 2 hits.

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Peach County 4, Sumter County 1 (25-22, 25-21, 11-25, 27-25)

College
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W-Mercer 3, Troy 0
M-Middle Georgia State 0, Ave Maria 0
M-UCF 3 Mercer 0

Pro
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Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 2

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Around/About Central Georgia

Henley sizzles through par 5s for good BMW opener

The first hole of a tournament and par 5s have not been great for Russell Henley.

And then came Thursday.

On a course he’s never played and in a state the PGA hasn’t visited in a decade, Henley opened the BMW Championship in style, with a birdie on the par-5 No. 1 en route to an impressive 2-under 70.

Henley sits in a tie for 10th with an impressive group of four others: J.T. Poston, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, and Tony Finau. They’re four shots back of leader Keegan Bradley, the last player to make the 50-member field for the second FedEx Cup playoff tournament.

Henley ended up with one of his best rounds in his battle with par 5s, racking up birdies on three of the four and parring the last, not a bogey in site on those holes.

That wasn’t the case on the par-3 No. 7 and par-4 No. 5. He found the rough off the tee on No. 7, and hit a bunker on his second shot on 9, barely missing right on a par try.

On No. 1, Henley got up and down nicely from the left rough with a good chip inside a half-dozen feet. He had a quality par save on 12 and 14, and was just off on several putts under 20 feet.

On the other hand, he tied for the fifth for the longest drive of the day, finish with a better-than-normal ranking of 18th in driving distance, averaging 319 yards topped by a 417-yarder.

In the 13 stats for the round posted by www.pgatour.com, Henley is in the top 20 in all but one, 35th in shots gained/approach to green, unofficially one of his best statistical rounds in a long time.

On the other hand, the four par-5 holes ranked 17th, 18th, with two tied for 15th. On the five toughest holes, Henley bogeyed two, birdied two, and parred one.

He tees off at 10:40 a.m. Friday with Sam Burns. The Golf Channel starts broadcasting at 2 p.m., action otherwise on ESPN-Plus.

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MTEN-SSAC picks MGCU second

Alumni Update

Lamar County’s Allen becoming a problem solver

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