Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Braves on top, Fagan officially a Bulldog, GHSA battles injunction, signings, and Honor Roll
Wednesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Braves thump Mets to take first in division
Sean Newcombe was on point pitching and the offense was on point as Atlanta beat the New York Mets 7-0 to take over sole possession of first in the NL East.
Atlanta improved to 18-11, the second-best record in the NL, and 10-7 on the road.
The Mets’ Todd Frazier was none too happy with the umpiring.
There’s a September feel to things these days.
Fagan signs on UGA dotted line
Upson-Lee standout Tye Fagan wasted little time after committing with Georgia to signing with Georgia.
He did that on Wednesday, two days after announcing his plans.
“We are truly excited to be adding Tye Fagan and honored that he chose to be our first commitment as we embark on building our UGA basketball program,” head coach Tom Crean said in a statement. “Tye not only has numerous abilities to impact the game on both ends of the floor and the character and personality to make others around him better, but he also is a pure winner and achiever.
"He will help bring many, many qualities that we value at Georgia. Any time you can add a championship-winning player and person to your program, it’s great.
"But I can’t recall ever signing anyone that was 63-0. That’s unique.”
Crean will be on Thomaston radio station WTGA 101.1-FM Thursday morning between 9 and 10 a.m.
GHSA has to put Class A public baseball playoffs on hold
An injunction because of a pitch count, forfeit, and seedings forced the GHSA to postpone the second round of the Class A public baseball playoffs.
Taylor County will have to wait, but the private schools will play as per scheduled.
In This Week's Coverage.
College Baseball Roundup: Wins for Knights and Panthers
Middle Georgia State cruised to an 18-6 win over Blue Mountain in the SSAC opener.
Trenton Nash, MJ Rookard, Zach Cornell and Mikal Flores all had 3 hits for MGS. Dayton Beasley had 4 RBI and Cornell 3.
The Knights play Mobile at 4 p.m. Thursday. ...
Georgia State cruised past Savannah State 10-2.
The daily scoreboard is above with college and pro baseball. GHSA playoff results and pairings are posted
This week's signings
Val'Dazia Todd of Houston County has signed to play soccer at Agnes Scott in Decatur. ...
Four more Warner Robins football players signed letters of intent at a ceremony on Monday at the school. See story in This Week's Coverage. ...
Perry's Charisma Walker will take her softball pitching skills down the road to Middle Georgia State, signing last week.
This week's honor roll
Middle Georgia State placed six players on the Southern States Athletic Conference all-conference baseball team, led by Houston County grad Blake Jackson and Jones County's Crandall Poole.
Joining Jackson on the first team: pitcher Austin Goff, catcher Dayton Beasley, second baseman Jacob Durant, infielder Trenton Nash, and outfielder Zach Cornell.
Second-teamers along with Poole is outfielder MJ Rookard.
Austin Goff earned a gold glove and Jackson Braden made the all-freshman team, and Nash made the Champions of Character team.
Cornell, Kevin Smith, Alex Snider, Preston Sparks of Veterans, and Jacob Walden made the all-academic team.
The conference tournament begins Wednesday. 14th-ranked MGS tied with Mobile for second and is the third seed. The Knights play Blue Mountain at 1 p.m.
The tournament is in Montgomery, Ala. ...
Former FPD standout Wesley Hanson of Valdosta State was named the Gulf South Conference freshman golfer of the year.
He tied for 25th in the conference championship and helped the Blazers to third in the tournament. ...
Two Peach Belt players of the week are from Georgia College.
Jessie Morris is the softball freshman of the week, going 2-1 with a 1.66 ERA and 10 Ks in 12.2 innings, including a solid outing against Columbus State
Charlie Hecht is the baseball pitcher of the week after throwing his second career complete-game shutout, over No. 5 Columbus State, with 10 strikeouts.