Saturday's Central Georgia high school playoff scoreboard (includes entire week)
Previous results are in This Week's Coverage
SATURDAY
Baseball
Harlem 11, Bleckley County 2
Harlem doubled up Bleckley County in the first two innings and kept scoring while blanking the Royals, who buried themselves with 6 errors, leading to four unearned runs. Brody Little had 2 hits for the Royals.
Houston County 8, Brunswick 1
The Bears, as the visiting team, took worries about batting last out of the equation with 6 runs in the fourth. Houston County pieced together on three singles, two walks, a hit batter, error, and a grounder. Two came in on an error on a Chandler Ring fly ball.
Corbet Luna had 2 hits and 2 RBI, and Ring has 2 hits. Chandler Dawson fanned 8 and walked 3 in the complete-game 3-hit win.
Screven County 5, Washington County 1
Trion 14, Hawkinsville 1; Trion 9, Hawkinsville 5
Soccer
G-Rutland 3, SE Bulloch 1
FRIDAY
Baseball
Brunswick 8, Houston County 2; Houston County 10, Brunswick 5
Brunswick scored 5 in the top of the seventh to win the opener. The Bears returned the favor with a 7-run top of the seventh in the nightcap to even the series. Chandler Ring had a 2-run single, a run came in on a bases-loaded walk to Jacob Profit and on a single from Chandler Dawson and Corbet Luna and Cam Jones, and a fielder's choice grounder by RJ Preston.
Columbus 1, Perry 0; Columbus 7, Perry 1
Dodge County 11, Jefferson County 1; Dodge County 19, Jefferson County 3
Hardaway 11, Upson-Lee 1; Hardaway 4, Upson-Lee 1
Harlem 6, Bleckley County 2; Bleckley County 10, Harlem 1
Lane Kitchens and Brody Little had 3 hits each and Little drove in 3 runs for the Royals in the second game. Steven Knighton and Cody Dennis added 2 hits each. Tripp Purser fanned 7 with 3 walks in the complete-game win.
Pelham 11, GMC 3; Pelham 8, GMC 6
Pelham scored 5 in the sixth to pull out the second game.
Rutland 15, Islands 14
Rutland won the game 3 coin toss to be home team. Good thing. The Hurricanes watched Islands score 3 in the top of the 7th, and then answered with 6 in the bottom to tie it, getting the win in the eighth. Peyton McKinney opened the eighth with a walk, Logan Moss doubled, and McKinney then scored the game-winner on a wild pitch. A grand slam by Riley Jones was the bomb in Rutland's seventh, right after a 2-run homer in the 3-run sixth to spark the remarkable comeback. Jones went 4-for-5 with a whopping 8 RBI, Wesley Key adding 3 RBI. Rutland trailed 10-5 after 5 innings, and a 7-run fourth by Islands.
Shaw 7, West Laurens 3; West Laurens 8, Shaw 3; West Laurens 6, Shaw 3
Shaw won the completed game 1 early Friday with 5 in the top of the seventh, and the Raiders took care of business after that. A 5-run sixth - keyed by EJ Holmes' bases-loaded triple - paced the Raiders in game 2, Nolan Daniel going the distance. West Laurens pushed ahead for good in the finale with 3 in the sixth, Bradley Wilson coming up with a 2-run single after AJ Mathis' RBI single. They both had 2 hits, Wilson driving in 3 runs. Jacob Floyd fanned 9 in 4 innings for the Raiders.
Screven County 5, Washington County 3; Washington County 10, Screven County 7
Game 3 is at 12:30 p.m Saturday at Screven County
Stratford 2, Pinecrest 0; Pinecrest 10, Stratford 1
Pinecrest takes the series, having won 7-4 on Thursday.
Taylor County 9, Manchester 7; Taylor County 4, Manchester 0
Trion 14, Manchester 1
Game 2 at noon Saturday.
Veterans 2, Statesboro 1, 11 inn.; Veterans 15, Statesboro 0
Matthew Nunez sent a 2-2 count to center and brought in Derek Wylie - who tripled - with the one-out game-winner in the first game. Wylie went 6 innings (9Ks, 3 BBs) and Jackson William the final 5 (5Ks, 1 BB). The offense started early in the night cap with 7 in the first 2 innings of the four-inning game. Nunez had 5 RBI on 2 hits, Leyton Pinckney went 4-for-4 with 3 RBI, and Ben Gibbs and Jacob Pierce each had 3 hits and teamed for 5 RBI, Pierce scoring 4 times.
Westside-Augusta 7, East Laurens 5; Westside 7, East Laurens 4
Whitewater 2, Jones County 1; Whitewater 6, Jones County 2
Whitewater scored the game-winner in the first game in the bottom of the sixth, and allowed only 1 runner in the top of the seventh inning of the 2-hitter. The Greyhounds suffered from 4 errors in the second game.
Soccer
B-Dodge County 7, Johnson 0
B-Eastside 10, Baldwin 0
B-GMC 2, ELCA 1
Tolentino Palmer scored both goals for the Bulldogs.
B-Harlem 5, Washington County 3
G-Harlem 5, Dublin 1
B-Jefferson County 4, East Laurens 1
G-Model 3, Putnam County 1
B-Peach County 2, Island 2, PC wins on PKs
B-Perry 3, Hardaway 0
Mason King had 2 goals and Sebastian Molina for the second-seeded Panthers. Joseph Lee got the shutout in goal.
B-Putnam County def. Gordon Central 4-2 on PKs
B-Savannah Country Day 3, Mount de Sales 2
B-Shaw 3, Mary Persons 0
B-Upson-Lee 7, Cairo 1
B-Westside-Augusta 3, Dublin 1
THURSDAY
Baseball
Pinecrest 7, Stratford 4
The second game has been pushed to 4 p.m. Friday.
Rutland 7, Islands 5; Islands 10, Rutland 1
Rutland got the clutch offense late in a seesaw first game of 7 errors between the teams and the Hurricanes being outhit by 3. Rutland got 3 in the top of the sixth on a walk to Taylor Brummett, error on Jackson Heath's pop, another infield error on Triston Thompson's bunt, Aubrey Merritt's single, and a wild pitch. A double play on a flyball ended the inning. Peyton McKinney and Brummett had 2 hits for the Hurricanes, McKinney going the final 4.1 innings on the mound. In the nightcap, Islands got a big cushion with 6 runs in the third, aided by a few of Rutland's 7 errors, which overall led to 7 unearned runs.
Southeast Bulloch 10, Peach County 0; SEB 15, Peach County 0
A 6-run fourth put SEB in control against Peach County, which had more errors (4) than hits (3). The Trojans were no-hit in the nightcap, and had 4 more errors.
Statesboro 2, Veterans 0
The Warhawks stranded only 4, but the Blue Devils made every offensive play count, leaving only 1 runner and turning 2 hits and a walk into a win. The 2 in the fourth came on a walk, single, and error in the outfield. Veterans' Ben Gibbs fanned 9 with 1 walk in 5.1 innings.
Soccer
G-Columbus 6, Howard 0
G-East Laurens 10, Jefferson County 0
G-FPD 10, Treutlen 0
The Vikings got 2 goals from Sadie Frame and Maggie Davis, and 1 each from Lindsey Strickland, Olivia McMickle, Jansyn Samples, Gracie Matthews, Elizabeth Nelson, and Mary Daniel Windham.
G-Islands 10, Peach County 0
G-Johnson-Augusta 1, Bleckley County 0 (PKs)
G-Lamar County 11, Therrell 0
G-Mary Persons 6, Cairo 3
G-Northside-Columbus def. Perry
G-Screven County 1, Dodge County 0
B-Stratford 3, Calvary Day 0
Edlin St. Vil scored twice and Jake Jamison once for the Eagles in the road win.
Tennis
Second Round
B-Early County 3, Dodge County 3
B-Elbert County 3, Lamar County 0
B-West Laurens 4, Eastside 0
B-Woodward 3, Mary Persons 0
First Round (Class A)
G-Taylor County 3, Lanier County 0
B-Taylor County 3, Clinch County 0
G-Telfair County 3, Hawkinsville 1
B-Telfair County 4, Hawkinsville 0
B-Wesleyan 3, Mount de Sales 2