Monday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard (FB, BKB); Macon TD Club honors trio; Tech-Miami ppd; more signings; COVID pops Southwest; UGA, Falcons-Saints; CFB, NFL
Monday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Scoreboard
High School
Basketball
G-John Milledge 40, Gatewood 25
G-Brentwood 56, Trinity Christian 50
Football
Westside 35, Rutland 13
The win makes it official that Friday’s game with West Laurens is for outright third place in Region4-4A.
This week’s area high school football schedule
Coming Tuesday.
Signings
Central boys basketball standout Quay Primas signed with Mercer on Monday.
Primas, who committed to the Bears in August, is out this season for the Chargers as he works on rehabbing an ACL injury suffered a month later.
Catching up: West Laurens’ Bradley Wilson, also the starting quarterback for the playoff-bound Raiders, signed with Mississippi State.
Mary Persons’ Katelyn Shipman signed to play softball just up the road at Gordon State.
Macon TD Club taps Northeast, Central, and Jones County players
A Raider, a Charger, and a Greyhound earned Macon Touchdown Club player of the week honors.
Back of the week Travion Solomon of Northeast hit on 11 of 13 passes for 266 yards and five touchdowns in the romp over Jasper County/Monticello. The junior quarterback ran twice for 52 yards and a score.
Lineman of the week Walter Hawthorne racked up 11 solo tackles and two for loss in the Chargers’ loss to highly ranked Crisp County.
Special teams player Evan West of Jones County is back, after hitting all seven PATs in the rout of Woodland-Stockbridge, with five touchbacks on seven kickoffs and an average of 34 yards per punt.
Around/About Central Georgia
Southwest football is done, basketball games on hold
The final game of Southwest’s football season is canceled, following the same decision for its next-to-last game last week, and four basketball doubleheaders have been postponed as well.
The Patriots’ basketball twinbills from Nov. 21 to Dec. 4 – with Howard and Westside, both twice – have been shelved.
Around/About Georgia
Tech-Miami game moved to Dec. 19
Is Pickens coming back this week?
Kirby talks about South Carolina’s situation
And now prime-time UGA-USC is Smart-Bobo
Brees out indefinitely with ribs, lung
Maybe out until the postseason
And New Orleans has a decision to make
What’s it mean for the Falcons?
Braves give big bucks to Smyly
Interesting turn of events for former UGA player
Sports and COVID-19
NCAA expected to hold whole basketball tournament in one place
Column: And there “has” to be March Madness
Hurricanes now have three games rescheduled
NHL’s Tampa Bay lays off workers
Surges across the nation, and now the indoor-only sports start up
College Football
No.1 Alabama preps for first game after two weeks off
NFL
Cousins breaks losing streak against the Bears
Eagles’ Pederson more than just hacked
Bridgewater injury not serious
Antonio Brown’s latest Antonio Brown
A rough Sunday for Hopkins-less Texans
Around the nation/world
Report: Scores of LSU administrators ignored constant sexual assault complaints and charges
A big NBA day led by Chris Paul to Suns
New Miami GM an inspiration for a generation
Former Tennessee-Chattanooga hoops coach McCarthy can write, too