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March 2, 2025 Central Georgia Sports Report

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🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀

Columbus State 70, Georgia College 68

Lane 42, FVSU 28, SIAC Tournament (Saturday)

🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀

Central State 78, FVSU 71 (Saturday)

Columbus State 87, Georgia College 73

⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Georgia College 8, Augusta 2

High Point 6, Mercer 4

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

College of Charleston 9, Mercer 1

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Honor Roll

Middle Georgia State puts two on all-tourney team

Around/About Central Georgia

Is Mercer’s Jacobs a candidate at Bowling Green?

Mercer might be looking for its third head football coach in a mighty short time.

Footballscoop.com reported over the weekend that Mercer head coach Mike Jacobs is a top candidate for the same job at Bowling Green in Ohio.

Scot Loeffler left to join the Philadelphia Eagles’ staff last month.

Jacobs is a natural candidate because of his success – an 85-20 record in nine seasons – as well as geographical ties.

He grew up about half an hour from Bowling Green, played at Ohio State and has coached in Indiana and Ohio before moving to Lenoir-Rhyne, where he succeeded Drew Cronic before succeeding Cronic at Mercer.

Cronic completed his first year as Navy’s offensive coordinator in 2024.

Mercer defensive coordinator Jahmal Brown started his coaching career at Bowling Green, and has coached at Youngstown State and with Jacobs at Notre Dame College in Ohio and Lenoir-Rhyne.

Henley has brief lapse, still finishes strong

There was Russell Henley, cruising along in a tie for first or second for a good stretch.

Back to back bogeys later, Henley was merely looking for a nice finish, which he got.

Despite dropping from contention, Henley finished tied for sixth at the Cognizant Classic in Florida with a solid 15-under-par weekend.

His 269 left him four shots behind Joe Highsmith, who surged to the top of the leaderboard with consecutive 64s after a second-round 72.

A rough Sunday dropped Jake Knapp from the lead into a tie for sixth with Henley and Michael Kim.

Henley took home $310,500 for his effort.

He was rolling early, with three birdies in his first seven holes.

A sweet birdie – with a sweet read and hook – on No. 7 put Henley back into a tie for first, catching Knapp at 17 under. He shared the lead at times on Saturday as well.

He dropped from a tie after an approach on 8 that left him a 10-footer for par, which lipped off the right side of the hole for bogey, his first of the day.

Henley had three birdies and was 2 under at the turn, and dropped out of first, but was only a shot back until returning to a three-way tie for first at a birdie on 10.

But his chipping got in the way, and he lost ground with bogeys on 11 and 12 to fall three back of Knapp and Highsmith.

Temporarily, because Knapp went from a share of the lead to a tie for sixth – with Henley - with a triple bogey on 11, still three two shots back.

Within a few holes, it became Highsmith’s tournament to lose, and he birdied four holes on the back nine to seal it, beating Jacob Bridgeman and J.J. Spaun by two shots.

Henley, who greeted his family after finishing on 18, will stay in Florida for the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. After finishing tied for 41st at last year’s Cognizant, Henley tied for fourth at the Arnold Palmer.

WBKB-Last-second shot downs Georgia College

MBKB-Georgia College falls in season finale

BSB-Bobcats complete sweep of Augusta

WBKB-Slow start dooms Fort Valley State in SIAC tourney

MBKB-Rally falls short for FVSU at SIAC tournament

Around/About Georgia

Free Agency Tracker: The latest Falcons signings, extensions and reports

With March here, Georgia is 'figuring itself out' in crucial stretch of season

Tech gets monster day from Ndongo

The improbable journey of Xavier Truss is not over

Woolfolk, Flournoy power Georgia women to 72-69 win over No. 11 Tennessee

Olson hopes to carry hot 2024 finish into '25

White's dazzling play at second strengthens his case to stay on the roster

Braves update: Riley,cuts, good outings

Georgia gets walk-off to finish off FGCU

Tech picks up another run-rule win

UGA at the Combine

United even record after Charlotte visit

College Basketball Tournaments

Southern Conference women, March 6-9, Asheville, NC

Seventh-seeded Mercer plays No. 2 Chattanooga at 1:15 p.m. on Thursday.

Southern Conference men: March 7-9, Asheville, NC

Eighth-seeded Mercer plays ninth-seeded Western Carolina in the men’s opener at 5 p.m. on Friday.

Peach Belt: March 5-9, campus sites

Georgia College’s men didn’t qualify. The fourth-seeded women host fifth-seeded Flagler on Wednesday.
SIAC: March 1-8, campus sites, W-Morehouse, M-Savannah State

Fort Valley’s women and men were eliminated on Saturday.

Southern States Athletic Association

Middle Georgia State’s men (19-8)lost in the tournament championship. The NAIA national tournament field of 64 will be announced on Thursday. The women didn’t qualify.

Atlantic Sun women: March 7-15, campus sites

Atlantic Sun men: March 2-9, campus sites

ACC women: March 5-9, Greensboro, NC

ACC men: March 11-15, Charlotte

SEC women: March 5-9, Greenville, SC

SEC men: March 12-15, Nashville

Sun Belt women: March 4-10, Pensacola, Fla.

Sun Belt men: March 4-9, Pensacola, Fla.

College Basketball/Women

South Carolina gets No. 1 seed in SEC tournament after winning coin flip with Texas

Johnson to sit out SEC tournament with right shin inflammation