Central Georgia Sports ReportMarch 09, 2025Comment

Sunday's Report: Spring sports, Henley's hot, Mercer, Georgia College; Cousins/Falcons, Braves, Hawks, state 🏀; Conference tournaments/NCAA 🏀, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, ⛳, NFL, college 🏈, ⚽, NHL

Central Georgia Sports ReportMarch 09, 2025Comment

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High Schools
⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

FPD 10, Pace 0, 5 inn.
John Milledge 11, Terrell 0
Northside-Columbus 5, Piedmont 3
Tattnall 7, Strong Rock 6

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

North Georgia 63, Georgia College 22, Peach Belt Tournament

🏀🏀🏀Men’s basketball🏀🏀🏀

Chattanooga 76, Mercer 61, Southern Conference Tournament

⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

Georgia College 13, USC Beaufort 1, 7 inn.; Georgia College 10, USCB 2
Mercer 6, Southern 4
Middle Georgia State 10, Tennessee Southern 1

🥎 🥎 🥎Softball 🥎 🥎 🥎

Georgia College 8, USC Beaufort 4
St. John’s 8, Mercer 1; Mercer 6, North Florida 1

Pro

🏒🏒🏒 SPHL 🏒🏒🏒

Knoxville 3, Macon 1

🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀

Atlanta 120, Indiana 118

⚽ ⚽ ⚽MLS⚽ ⚽ ⚽

Atlanta 0, New York 0

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Around/About Central Georgia

Henley gets hot at Arnold Palmer

Two bogeys isn’t good, but they’re a whole lot more tolerable when you counter them with seven birdies.

That’s what Russell Henley did in the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.

He was 1 under after the front nine, then snapped off four straight birdies to start the back nine. He had a bogey on 15 then another birdie on 16, finishing the round with two pars.

“I feel like I did everything pretty well,” Henley said. “Had a couple good par saves. A couple shots I hit in the rough I was able to manage and make a par. Feel like I hit my lines really well on the greens and putted really well. Made some good par saves the last couple holes. I feel like I did everything really well. I played great.”

A day after an eagle, Henley rose three spots on the leaderboard into sole possession of second, a shot behind Collin Morikawa, who also shot a 67.

He got off to a huge start, dropping a 47-footer for birdie on No. 1, but couldn’t get in a 9-footer for birdie on 5. Henley teased a few other eagle chances, and had most everything working.

He was first on Saturday in shots gained around the green, tied for second in shots gained total, tied for first in sand saves and fifth in longest drive. He tied for fourth in greens in regulation.

“When the greens get this firm and this fast, hitting more greens is very advantageous,” he said. “ There's a lot of intimidating shots out there. So I think you get rewarded for doing some more basic stuff. Just hitting it to 20 feet, doing that a lot, you get rewarded for that out here.”

Weather is expected to have a major impact on Sunday.

“Today it wasn't super windy, but years past when the wind picks up a little, like it will (Sunday), it just gets very challenging,” Henley said. “You got to play a lot of break and not hit it very hard on a lot of putts, and that makes it hard to make the putt.”

Henley is going for his fifth career win, first since the World Wide Technology Championship in November of 2022.

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