Sunday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard, UGA-Florida follow-ups galore; Tobias Oliver's HS coaches not surprised; Donnan to TD Club; more coming
Sunday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
See who won the Mercer Tennis Classic in The Latest Coverage.
The Daily Scoreboard is here today. To be updated with the Falcons, and more college football this evening and Macon TD Club honorees. Later this afternoon, the results of the Mercer Tennis Classic.
There’s a chunk of UGA-Florida coverage under Football Updates below, plus more on the ‘unveiling’ of Northside alum Tobias Oliver at QB for Georgia Tech.
SUNDAY SCOREBOARD
College
Soccer
W-ETSU 1, Mercer 0, Southern Conference Tournament
Volleyball
Albany State def. FVSU at Albany State 3-1
Soccer
4:30 p.m.
Toronto 4, Atlanta 1
And the United surrendered the Shield and top Eastern Conference record.
Late Saturday
College
Soccer
M-Middle Ga. State 2, Brewton-Parker 0
W-Middle Ga. State 0, Brewton-Parker 0
MGSU is the fourth seed in the SSAC tournament and hosts a game at 6 p.m on Friday.
Volleyball
Middle Ga. State def. Brewton-Parker 3-0
Pro
NBA
Macon TD Club honors a Charger and Patriot
The Macon Touchdown Club has picked a Central and Southwest player for weekly honors.
Central quarterback Donald Lamb completed 7 of 18 passes for 134 yards and ran seven times for 127 yards, accounting for four touchdowns in the win over Rutland, adding a two-point conversion catch.
Southwest linebacker Marquez Baxter racked up 15 tackles, two for loss, and had a 33-yard interception and a 70-yard fumble return for a touchdown in the win over West Laurens.
Former Georgia coach Jim Donnan the Macon Touchdown Club speaker
Longtime football coach Jim Donnan is Monday night’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club.
Howard is the featured high school. Brodie Croyle is next week’s speaker.
Donnan, a regular speaker at the Club, brings a versatile resume.
The 73 year old was a quarterback and kicker at N.C. State in the mid-1960s
His career started at N.C. State in 1969 as an assistant, and continued at Florida State, North Carolina, Kansas State, Missouri, and Oklahoma before becoming head coach at Marshall in 1990.
Donnan went 64-21 at Marshall and replaced Ray Goff at Georgia, going 40-19 before being fired, despite being the first Bulldog head coach to take Georgia to four straight bowl games.
The club meets at the Methodist Home for Children and Youth, in the Rumford Center, at 304 Pierce Ave. It starts at 6:30 p.m. with dinner and the program to begin around 7. Cost is $30 for non-members, who needn't be accompanied by a member.
Football updates
Georgia
Fromm back to form after, well, one subpar game
What Kirby said, after he got jiggy in the locker room
Now, onto Kentucky ... can't wait
Enjoy it, Georgia, just wait for Mullen to get some talent
Georgia Tech
Tobias Oliver's Northside coaches hardly blinked at his showing out
Georgia Southern
Georgia Southern made sure App State's visit to the AP top 25 was a short one by thumping the Mountaineers 34-14 on Thursday.
That led to speculation, albeit premature, that the Eagles were destined for a ranking.
Not so fast. But Georgia Southern did make some noise, earnign enough votes for 28th, ahead of the likes of Michigan State, South Florida, Stanford, Oklahoma State and Auburn.
They are the fifth non-power 5 team getting votes, behind UCF, Huoston, Utah State, and Fresno State, all in the top 25.
The Eagles' lone power-5 opponent was Clemson, and the Tigers rolled 38-7 in mid-September.
This is likely to be wear GSU peaks in the polls, even if it wins out, with only conference games left and no Sun Belt teams anywhere near getting ranked.
App State's power-5 loss was by a touchdown in overtime at Penn State, a game the Mountaineers gave away.
The Eagles are 34th in the coaches poll.
Falcons