Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Falcons roll, Macon TD Club, Scoreboard; Mercer/Idle Hour host tournament; Honor Roll; and football all over the place
Sunday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
The college football follow-ups along with Falcons coverage is here today.
The Daily Scoreboard is here today
ICYMI: The GHSA football playoff pairings have been posted since Friday night/Saturday morning, and have been moved up. A preliminary look at the likely Class A playoff teams is in The Latest Coverage.
SUNDAY SCOREBOARD
Scores
College
Soccer
W-Columbus State 4, Georgia College 2, PKs (0-0), Peach Belt tournament
Georgia College was the seventh seed that didn’t play like a seventh seed, as national No. 3 Columbus State found out.
But the Cougars survived the battle to win the Peach Belt tournament in penalty kicks 4-2 and remain undefeated. Georgia College fell to 11-5-5.
Mount de Sales grad Sofia Lekas got the Bobcats’ first PK goal after going down 2-1. The Cougars then closed it out.
Goalkeeper Ashlee Graham, senior Savanna DeValle, and sophomore Kai Jeffries made the all tournament team.
The Bobcats, runners-up for the second time in program history, now hope – albeit with slim hopes – to get an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
Pro
MLS
Atlanta 2, New York City 0
Falcon roll over the Redskins
Julio Jones finally caught a touchdown pass, and it was icing on the cake of a 38-14 win over host Washington for Atlanta’s third straight win.
Matt Ryan completed 26 of 38 passes for 350 yards and four touchdowns, including the 35-yard screen to Jones that set off a team-wide celebration. The Falcons put up 491 yards on the Redskins, 80 coming from Tevin Coleman and 66 from Ito Smith on the ground.
It was Atlanta’s first 100-yard rushing game since week 2.
Jarrett led a spirited effort on D’
Column: OK, the Falcons are pretty good
Redskins’ streak comes to an ugly end
Washington caught with pants down
Atlanta trio takes home Gold Gloves
For the first time in team history, three Braves will have Gold Gloves to put on the mantle.
Ender Inciarte, Nick Markakis, and Freddie Freeman got the word Sunday night. It’s InNciarte’s third straight, Markakis’ third and Freeman’s first. Freeman tied with Anthony Rizzo, only the fourth tie in Gold Glove history.
Former Alabama QB Brodie Croyle the Macon Touchdown Club speaker
Brodie Croyle, who played at Alabama in a different era (2002-05), is the guest speaker Monday night at the Macon Touchdown Club.
FPD is the featured high school. West Georgia coach David Dean is next week’s speaker.
Croyle battled injuries throughout his career at Alabama, and finished with 6,382 yards in four seasons, completing 56.2 percent of his passes with 41 touchdowns and 22 interceptions.
He played five seasons in the NFL, throwing for 1,669 yards.
Croyle is the executive director of the Big Oak Ranch, a Christian home for abused and neglected children. It has three homes in Alabama and one in Missouri.
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.
Mercer to battle 12 teams in Idle Hour Collegiate
Idle Hour has been nice to Mercer’s women’s golf team.
The Bears hope it is again when they go for their third Idle Hour Collegiate title after the tournament tees off Monday.
Mercer hosts Georgia Southern, along with Towson, McNeese State, UNCG, Toledo, Western Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, Troy, James Madison, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Cincinnati, and Lipscomb.
Honor Roll (starting this week’s)
Georgia College put three women's cross country runners on the all-Peach Belt team: Rachel Boulineau, Tessa Allen, and Sydney Brown.
The Bobcats finished fourth in the conference meet. ...
Collin and Brendan Silliman earned all-PBC honors in men's cross country after helping the Bobcats to a fourth-place finish.
Honor Roll (last week)
Ashlee Graham, Unnbjorg Omarsdottier, and Amanda Bartholomew were named to the Peach Belt's all-conference women's soccer teams.
Graham, a senior goalkeeper, was a first-team pick while Omarsdottier and Bartholomew were second-team choices.
Graham is first in the PBC in minutes and shutouts, second in saves, third in saves percentage, and fourth in goals-against average in making her second all-conference team.
Omarsdottier is a leader on a defensive line that helped get 10 shutouts, but also played offense and scored four goals with three assists.
Bartholomew missed time with an injury, but still finished 10th in goals and 13th in points. She was an All American last year as well as PBC player of the year. ...
Fort Valley State's Nia Bell is the SIAC's volleyball Newcomer of the Week.
With four double-figure kill matches and two double-doubles, Bell had 71 kills (3.74 kills/set), 46 digs (2.42 digs/set), 11 blocks and five service aces in 19 sets covering four matches. She put the exclamation point in a road win over Benedict with 28 kills, 22 digs and three aces to lead the way.
In a doubleheader, she had 16 kills and 11 digs followed by 12 kills and nine digs. ...
The Georgia College volleyball team swept the Peach Belt Conference weekly award.
Senior Kayla Brockway is the specialist and Libby Bochniak the player of the Week.
Brockway had a record-setting week, becoming the first player in program history to post 4,000 assists, pushing her to third on the PBC’s all-time career assist list. She led the Bobcats to three wins, averaging 12.10 assists and 2.70 digs per set. Brockway is ranked second in assists per set and fourth in total assists in the PBC.
Bochniak had her fourth straight match of double-digit kills, to go with only nine attack errors in 102 attempts, and four assists, five blocks and three aces. She averaged 4.30 kills in three games.
Football updates
Georgia
The Bulldogs are up to sixth in the latest AP poll. And the Auburn game is now a 7 p.m. kickoff.
Column: Am picking Bama, thank me later
Georgia Tech
Nevertheless, Marshall is still starting
Kennesaw State