Tuesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Basketball is here; Mercer dominates SoCon soccer awards; McGarity offers notable tidbits; Mayhem update; interesting football stuff
Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Basketball is here, and teams are starting
Mercer’s men open the season tonight, as do the men at Georgia State as the Division I basketball schedule rolls out the ball tonight.
Wesleyan is in action tonight, at Savannah State in the Tigers’ opener. Middle Georgia State’s women are at home.
For a look at The Sports Reports’ college openers, season and home, and who has Central Georgians on the roster, visit The Latest Coverage.
Mercer dominates SoCon men’s soccer awards
The Bears took home three of the four individual honors in Southern Conference men’s soccer, and had five first-teamers and three second-teamers plus three of the top freshmen.
Brad Ruzzo won his second coaching honor, and was joined by player and freshman of the year Trevor Martineau. He was also the conference player of the month.
Regular-season champ Mercer (12-3-2, 5-1) battles fifth seed UNCG (7-8-2, 2-2-2) at 3:3 p.m. Friday in the conference tournament semifinals at ETSU. Mercer beat UNCG 3-0 earlier this season.
Mercer defends Idle Hour title
Terese Romeo finished second to spark Mercer to its third straight Idle Hour Collegiate Championship.
The Bears lost 10 strokes from each of the first two rounds and shot 6-over overall, but still won by 22 strokes over Toledo. Georgia Southern finished fifth.
McGarity talks about some interesting scheduling topics
Will Georgia-Auburn come earlier in the years? Is the Cocktail Party up for debate to move to campuses?
Mayhem update
The Macon Mayhem are bringing back forward Jimmy Soper.
He played for the Mayhem late in the 2017-18 season with 20 games and 10 points. …
Jake Trask was named the SPHL player of the week after helping Macon to a sweep of Fayetteville.
Around Georgia
United ready for next set of playoffs
Football updates
Georgia
Fromm limping, was not fishing or boat-riding
Swift, Holyfield part of a deep unit
Georgia Tech
Tech run game starting to put up silly numbers
Jimmy Johnson disagrees with Richt’s playcalling move
Kennesaw State
Burks keeps adding to the resume
Falcons