Monday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard, Falcons, Macon TD Club/Hatcher, Class A rankings, Honor Roll (Mercer, MGSU, GC, Peach Co.), football galore
Monday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Check out the Monday Morning Quarterback and area football polls in The Latest Coverage. The week’s football schedule is up, along with the GHSA softball championship schedule for Central Georgia teams.
Coaches/teams, please email playoff info – and send a roster and stats for the season – to centralgasports@gmail.com upon finalizing. Need info from volleyball coaches.
Coming in the morning: Chris Hatcher speaks at the Macon Touchdown Club.
SCOREBOARD
MONDAY
College
Golf
M-Mercer, sixth, Pinetree Intercollegiate, first round
W-Georgia College, sixth, Dyas Invite
Soccer
Mount de Sales grad Sofia Lekas had two goals and an assist on senior day.
Falcons hold off Giants in odd game
New York will get hammered by media for several oddities in the Giants’ 23-20 loss at Atlanta, a game in which the Falcons led all the way but watched the Giants score twice in the final five minutes.
But New York blew a chance to score with more than five seconds left with some interesting decisions by QB Eli Manning. Atlanta got what it thought was a solid cushion on new kicker Giorgio Tavecchio’s 56-yard field goal – also an iffy decision – with 1:55 left.
GHSA Class A football rankings updated
Things stay interesting in the GHSA Class A power rankings.
Mount de Sales stayed at No. 12 in A Private, as did Tattnall at No. 21 and Stratford at No. 22.
The top 24 teams in private and public make the postseason, but region champions can knock a team out if there’s an upset.
Hancock Central fell one to 16, but remain safely in the playoff field. Dooly County dropped to 19th, while Macon County and Taylor County moved up to 24th and 25th, on the fence.
Macon TD Club honors pair
Players from Mount de Sales and Jones County are the Macon Touchdown Club players of the week.
Mount de Sales quarterback Dexter Williams is the back of the week after running 19 times for 191 yards and three touchdown, and completing 5 of 7 for 73 yards while also catching a TD pass in the rout of FPD.
Jones County standout Jadarien Boykin is the lineman of the week after racking up 14 tackles, half for loss, and six sacks plus three QB hurries in the homecoming win over Eagle’s Landing.
There were no special teams nominations.
Honor Roll
Mercer's Maddie Nunley is the Southern Conference volleyball offensive player of the week.
The setter had 126 assists, 12.6 per set, in Mercer's two five-set conference road wins last week.
She had a match- and career-high 60 assists against UNCG, helping three teammates to double-digit kills, and had 10 digs.
Against WCU, she had 66 assists with six digs and five kills.
The Georgia College Golf team is ranked in the top-25 in the Golfstat Team Rankings. The Bobcats are joined by Peach Belt rival Young Harris at No. 7.
Georgia College also received votes in the latest Bushnell Golfweek Coaches Poll today with 25 votes. ...
Another former Peach County kickers takes conference honors.
Omar Cervantes, a redshirt freshman, is the Gulf South special teams player of the week.
He hit a pair of field goals of 42 and 44 yards in the Wolves' 27-25 win over West Alabama. He had three touchbacks and hit all the PATs.
Irony No. 1: The last West Georgia to be so honored is Hunter Heck, a Houston County grad.
Irony No. 2: He's the second Peach County kicker to earn a weekly award, joining Mitchell Fineran of Samford, a two-time winner in the Southern Conference. ...
Miagh Downey of Middle Georgia State is this week's Southern States Athletic Conference women's soccer offensive player of the week, while teammate Ronja Andersson is the defensive player of the week.
Football updates
Georgia
Cleveland's return still unknown
Georgia Tech
Return units to be a little different
At Tech, he was Joseph Anoa'i;WWE=Roman Reigns, announces leukemia return
Mercer
Kennesaw State
Georgia Southern
Some national love during ‘Hate Week’
Alternative unis for this week