Friday's Report: Smart and Hatcher/Part II, Alligood resigns; Braves, Hawks, Tech women, state hoops; 4 Nations, college hoops, NBA, NFL, college football, NASCAR, tennis, golf, soccer

February 21, 2025 Central Georgia Sports Report

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High Schools
⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Brentwood 17, GMC Prep 2
Crawford County 4, ACE 3
Carter Williams scored a pair of the Eagles’ runs.
FPD 24, Covenant 0
Hawkinsville 11, Wheeler County 0
Swainsboro 12, East Laurens 8

⚽ ⚽ ⚽ Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

B-Jasper County 7, Jones County 0
G-Jones County 2, Jasper County 0
G-Peach County 9, Macon County 0
B-Peach County 4, Macon County 0
G-Putnam County 4, Northeast 2
B-Putnam County 10, Northeast 0
G-Richmond Academy 4, Northeast 2
B-Richmond Academy 5, Baldwin 0
G-Stratford 3, Frederica 0
B-Swainsboro 1, Dublin 0

🎾 🎾 🎾Tennis 🎾 🎾 🎾

G-Bleckley County 5, Stratford 0
B-Bleckley County 4, Stratford 1

🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫

🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀

Furman 72, Mercer 70

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Mercer 17, Alabama State 0

Pro

🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀

Orlando 114, Atlanta 108

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Around/About Central Georgia

What goes around comes around: A Hatcher and Smart hook up again

Perhaps it was inevitable.

Back in 2000, the first real live coaching job for Kirby Smart came when he was hired at Valdosta State by Maconite and Mount de Sales grad Chris Hatcher.

Smart made $8,000 that first in a typical do-everything role – and defensive backs coach - at a small school as part of a new and young coaching staff.

Slow-forward more than two decades later, and maybe Smart is repaying Hatcher for a hiring gamble that’s led to a legendary career.

Smart has hired Ty Hatcher, another gym-rat of a high school and small-college quarterback, to Georgia’s staff as an offensive analyst and quality control coach.

The young Hatcher, though, has a stronger resume than Smart had when he joined the older Hatcher.

Ty grew up in Alabama and played, albeit sparingly, for his dad at Samford. Chris Hatcher won the Harlon Hill Trophy, the Divison II verison of the Heisman, while at Valdosta State.

And at the age of 24, he’s now with his fourth SEC program, having spent at year at Alabama, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma.

Around/About Georgia

Ozuna better prepared to handle the grind of a full season

Murphy eager to reclaim status as one of game's top backstops

Banchero scores 36 points as Magic rally past Hawks after huge rally

'There's too many breaks:' Hawks’Young on new All-Star format

James and Brooks score 17 points apiece, lead No. 13 N.C. State over No. 20 Georgia Tech

Lindsay puts up 23 as James Madison downs Georgia State

Wooley puts up 21 in Kennesaw State’s 83-73 victory against UTEP

Fagbemi scores 19 as Central Arkansas knocks off West Georgia

App State takes OT win over Georgia Southern

Hockey