Thursday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes: Keeping up with Tech's Collins; Braves Report; Falcons Report; Honor Roll (Mercer, GSU-Boro); Macon Co. asst. gets Groves gig; plenty more
Thursday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media. Updates will be noted, so check back.
Task for Tech: keeping up with Collins
Geoff Collins drinks coffee he doesn’t need, so his MPH are pretty high.
Braves Report
Remembering some ol’ Braves starting pitchers
Next: Friday, at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m., FSSO/MLB; Saturday, at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m., FSSO; Sunday, at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m., FSSO
Falcons Report
Breaking down D. Jones’ contract
Thinking out loud: More 3-4 coming?
Honor Roll
Academic honors for golf, baseball, lacrosse at Mercer, Georgia Southern
Golfers at Mercer and Georgia Southern have earned academic awards.
Mercer’s Spencer Ball and Stanton Schorr were named to the Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholars by the GCAA.
They were among the 269 honorees, the third straight year Mercer had players named.
Georgia Southern made the GCAA All-Academic Teams list for the fourth straight year, with a 3.38 GPA. This is Brett Barron’s first time named as a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar, with a 3.52 GPA.
Mercer’s baseball team racked up honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association as one of 50 Division I teams earn the academic excellence award.
The Bears’ women’s lacrosse team was named a Zag Sports Academic Honor Squad, with five players – Kendall Garrett, Katie Martin, Lily Morin, Audrey Robertson and Eva Thorn – making the honor roll of the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association.
Garrett is a two-time recipient.
Central Georgians on Kennesaw State’s honor roll
Nearly three dozen Kennesaw State football player made the Big South Presidential Honor Roll for 2018-19.
Je’Cory Burks, a sophomore from Perry, made the list, as did graduate Zack Taisler of Houston County.
Around/About Central Georgia
Macon County’s Latimore takes over at Groves
On the day of official conditioning, Macon County lost a football assistant and Groves found a head coach.
The school tweeted its announcement – the athletics department account’s third Tweet - of Latimore’s hiring Thursday afternoon, which Latimore promptly retweeted.
Latimore replaces Mike Martin, who was released by the school back in April and is now an assistant at Cedar Grove. Martin went 10-40 in five seasons, and also coached baseball.
Latimore coached quarterbacks with the Bulldogs football team as well as track.
Macon splits at Florence
The games were very different except for one thing: Macon won.
The Bacon thumped Florence 13-5 in the opener and then lost 4-3 in eight innings in the nightcap.
It was 3-2 Macon after one in the opener, and the RedWolves couldn’t answer Macon after that, the Bacon leading 8-3 after four and pulling away with four in the fifth.
Macon, which survived three errors, went 8 for 11 in the top three spots from Sean McQuillan, Jared Miller, and Calvin Estrada. The latter two drove in three runs each, and all three scored three runs.
Daniel Harris and Nathan Schreckengost each drove in two runs.
Veterans alum Preston Sparks whiffed six with no walks in five innings, giving up three runs for the win.
In the nightcap, the teams were tied at 1 after one, Florence went up with one in the sixth, and the hosts countered Macon’s two in the top of the sixth with one in the bottom half for a tie at 6 after six.
With a runner placed on second in the eighth, Florence got groundout and then a one-out sacrifice fly to center for the win, despite behing outhit 6-4.
Macon hosts Florence on Friday and Lexington County on Saturday.
Around/About Georgia
Auburn’s Malzahn speaks at North Metro Baptist Church in Lawrenceville
UGA FB: Awaiting Zamir White and contact
UGA FB: Dean brings a little extra to LB
Tech FB: Late to the game no problem for Deveney
Tech FB: Curry gets another year of eligibility
Georgia State FB: Panthers are getting bigger
Hawks: Young, Collins on U.S. Select Team