Sunday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Henley rocks at John Deere; SEC Media Days starting; GSGA state am FPD battle; nice Braves Report;
Sunday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
Henley has a career day in second-place finish
Russell Henley was mediocre on Saturday and played championship golf on Sunday, taking second in the John Deere Classic after a career-best round of 61.
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SEC Media Days get underway
Coaches and players will talk about SEC football – and schedules and rules and transfers and championships and rivalries and winning and losing – for four days starting Monday in Hoover, Ala.
The schedule: Monday: Commissioner Greg Sankey, Missouri, Florida, LSU.
Tuesday: Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Tennessee
Wednesday: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi State, South Carolina.
Thursday: Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Auburn.
Former Houston County standout Jake Fromm will be joined by defensive back J.R. Reed and offensive lineman Andrew Thomas for Georgia.
Three players from each school will speak, along with the head coach.
Players and coaches talking about those things and more will be broadcast on the SEC Network, with analysis of what might be said and of what was said, and not said, each day.
Braves Report
A nice day in San Diego turned into a fairly action-filled pitchers duel.
San Diego’s Cal Quantrill threw six shutout innings and gave up three hits while Atlanta’s Mike Soroka went one more shutout inning with three more hits.
The bullpen doors opened and the action soon picked up.
Freddie Freeman’s two-out, three-run homer off Trey Wingenter to right lifted Atlanta to a 4-1 win and a series sweep of the Padres.
Nick Markakis added an RBI single in the inning for all of Atlanta’s runs.
Soroka and Quantrill have been long-time friends. Oddly, Quantrill plunked Soroka in the hand in the third inning. Didn’t matter much, Soroka striking out a career high nine.
Touki Toussaint, Sean Newcomb, Chad Sobotka, and AJ Minter followed Soroka, Toussaint giving up the lone run.
Next: Monday, at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m., FSSE; Tuesday, at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m., FSSE; Wednesday, at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m., FSSE; Thursday, vs. Washington, 7:20 p.m., FSSE
Watch this slide by Fernando Tatis
Around/About Central Georgia
Andress nips Dasher in Vikings golf battle
Only two players from Central Georgia were left in the Georgia State Golf Association’s state amateur tournament at Ansley Golf Club/Settindown.
The alum beat the youngster. Barely.
Grad and Georgia Southern golfer Wilson Andress shot a second straight 77 to finish with a 303, one shot ahead of FPD underclassman Luke Dasher, whose fourth-round 75 was his best of the tournament and put him at 304.
Andress finished in a tied for 41st, Dasher in the group at 44th.
Stan Gann of Warner Robins was among the leaders after two rounds before withdrawing.
Jonathan Keppler held off a strong final round by Timothy Schaetzel to win by three with a 281. Mercer senior Spencer Ball finished tied for fourth with a 287.
Around/about Georgia
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