Friday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes (5 p.m. edition): State XC; Fromm, Walker set for all-star games; Walker soft on UGA commit; and UGA, Tech, KSU, Falcons
Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
The final edition of the Central Georgia high school football roundup will be up around noon. The area GHSA playoff pairings are up.
The Peach State College Football Scouting Report will appear before the first area kickoff.
For full high school football pregame coverage – scouting reports, predictions, rankings, etc. – visit The Latest Coverage.
FRIDAY SCOREBOARD
College
Basketball
M-Central Ga. Tech 81, Georgia Gwinnett 58
Aaron Ridley III had 18 points, four rebounds and five assists. DeJon Waters added 12 points and Evins Desir 12 for CGTC.
M-Middle Ga. State 89, Regents 55
W-Middle Ga. State 9, Regents 42
Soccer
W-Georgia College 2, Young Harris 1, OT
The Bobcats advance to the Peach Belt tournament championship.
M-GMC 4, Spartanburg Methodist 4, NJCAA Southeast Regional
The top-seeded Bulldogs qualified for the national tournament, and play Eastern Florida State Saturday in the region final.
W-Middle Ga. State 4, Bethel 2, PKs (0-0)
MGSU advances in the SSAC tournament
Volleyball
Lander def. Georgia College 25-22, 25-22, 25-18
Mercer def. Chattanooga 25-17, 25-11, 25-20
Martin Methodist def. Middle Ga. State 3-1
Pro
Hockey
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Veterans, Jones County top area in GHSA cross country meet
Veterans’ Mackenzie Walls has the first top-5 finish among Central Georgians in the GHSA state cross country meet.
Mackenzie Walls.
It started Friday in Carrollton.
Walls took third in Class 5A girls after taking sixth last year, and improved her time by about three seconds.
Defending champ Erin Leonard of Jones County was 23rd (21:00.27), while teammate Laney Doster finished sixth.
Jones County finished sixth in 5A girls while Veterans was 17th.
Walls and Doster were the only two area runners to finish in the top 20 on Friday, which had Classes 6A, 5A, and A Private, with the other classes to compete on Saturday.
For complete results, go here.
Top 20 finishes (and the winning time) and team finishes
Class 6A boys
26. Houston County
28. Northside
Class 5A girls (19:07.0)
3. Mackenzie Walls, Veterans, 19:47.35
6. Laney Doster, Jones County, 19:59.29
Teams
6. Jones County
17. Veterans
Class 5A boys
10. Veterans
28. Warner Robins
Class A Private girls
11. Stratford
Class A Private boys
15. FPD
Tyler Fromm joins Travon Walker in All-American Bowl
Tyler Fromm’s senior season hasn’t gone anything like he planned and dreamed. He’s been injured and hasn’t played.
But he still got an invitation to the All-American Bowl, and was presented his jersey in a ceremony Friday afternoon at the high school. He is the third Demon to play in the game.
Older brother Jake played in the 2017 game, which this year is Jan. 5, 2019 in San Antonio on NBC.
Upson-Lee’s Travon Walker got his jersey on Thursday in a ceremony at the school.
The pair joins Dominick Blalock of Cedar Grove, Harry Miller and Quentin Skinnerof Buford, Steele Chambers of Blessed Trinity, Chris Hinton of Greater Atlanta Christian, Tyron Hopper of Roswell, and Kyle Hamilton of Marist on the East roster.
Tyler Fromm is an Auburn commit who will enroll in January.
For video of the ceremony, visit here and here
Upson-Lee’s Walker keeping options open
Travon Walker committed to Georgia in late July – announcing the decision by way of a commitment video that included former Upson-Lee basketball teammate Tye Fagan - but said Thursday he isn’t 100 percent locked in.
Travon Walker and his parents at the All-American jersey ceremony.
In fact, he’s visiting Florida this weekend, and is considering South Carolina and Clemson as well.
“I still love Georgia, but I just want to look at everything,” he said in a story on www.usatodayhss.com that was initially about the jersey presentation. “I’ll visit there in December. Right now, I’m trying to win this state title. I want to do that and then play in the All-American Bowl and have fun.”
Walker and Upson-Lee are in the GHSA Class 4A playoffs, and with a win Friday night will clinch the Knights’ first home playoff game since 1993.
Football update
Georgia
How did Ohio State whiff on Snell?
Running game in search of consistency
Kentucky has more and more big-game experience
Georgia Tech
Tech has found a groove UNC searches for
Kennesaw State
Falcons
Beasley looking for sack consistency
Sark hoping for improvements in run game