Saturday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: State championship Saturday for soccer, tennis and track; Braves, Mercer, Georgia, Tech and more baseball, updated Honor Roll
Saturday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Washington County girls take second, more Central Georgians take state track titles
Three hot days of track in three places are over. Check out full results of the third day of action - and go ahead on and review the first two days - and see who did what.
In This Week's Coverage, along with full Central Georgia-related results.
FPD defense too much in state title game
Shutouts are normal for FPD’s girls soccer team, and playing the No. 1 team in the state championship game didn’t matter much.
In This Week’s Coverage.
Stratford finishes undefeated season properly
The Stratford boys tennis team got past Paideia 3-1 to win the GHSA Class A boys private tennis title to finish a perfect season. Both Bleckley County teams and Taylor County's girls went for titles.
In This Week's Coverage.
Braves bring big bats out to bop Miami
Freddie Freeman had a multi-homer game and six pitchers took care of business in Atlanta's 10-5 win over Miami.
College Baseball: Georgia College wins on walk-off in 11
Matthew Miller singled through the right side with two outs to score Perry alum Cal Gentry with the winning run and a 7-6 win over North Georgia in 11 innings in the Peach Belt Tournament.
Gentry went 3-for-5, and John Davis 3-for-3 for the Bobcats, who went right back to work for a late game against UNC Pembroke to determine the pool champ.
College Baseball: Mercer blasts Alcorn State
The game was moved back to a night game, which didn't matter to Mercer.
The Bears jumped out to a 10-0 lead after three and won 19-1 in 6.5 innings.
Mercer outscored Alcorn State (12-37) 46-7 in three games.
College Baseball: Florida clinched SEC top seed with win over Georgia
A four-HR day led Florida to a 9-3 win over Georgia and to the SEC regular-season title and top seed for the conference tournament.
College Baseball: Georgia Tech
Connor Thomas threw his third complete game of the season as Georgia Tech knocked off Virginia 5-1.
The daily scoreboard is up, high school scoreboard and schedule coming Sunday
This Week's Signings
Peach County softball standout - and baseball player - Savannah Osborne has signed with Middle Georgia State. ...
Jones County boys basketball player Garrian Wade will learn to dress warmly, having signed with Luther College in Iowa. ...
GMC's Mary Elizabeth Jones has signed for a track scholarship at West Georgia, for the shot and discus. ...
Veterans pitcher Daniel Hawthorne will sign next Thursday with Emmanuel. ...
Houston County's Clayton Martin signed to play men's soccer in the Peach Belt at North Georgia. ...
Northeast girls basketball standout Victoria Dumas signed Tuesday with Central Georgia Tech.
This Week's Honor Roll
Georgia College baseball players logan Mattix and Nate Schmal were named to the College Sports Information Directors Association academic all-district team.
Mattix has a 3.66 GPA in marketing and Schmal a 3.64 in management informaton systems.
Georgia College has had seven players make all-district. ...
Georgia College's Holland Coursey and Caroline Snider (Brentwood) have been picked for the National Fastpitch Coaches Association's All-Southeast softball team, Coursey on the first team and Snider on the second. ...
Former Warner Robins multi-sport standout Courtney Walker of Fort Valley State is the SIAC freshman softball player of the year. She went 16-17 and played in all 33 games for the Wildcats. ...
Cassius Young of Georgia College in the PBC baseball freshman of the week after a .667 on-base percentage and no errors at shortstop. ...
Georgia's Lu Harris-Champer is the SEC's softball coach of the year.