Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Falcons falter hard, TD Club welcomes McCollum, names top players; GHSA E.C. to meet; Monday AM QB; 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.
Falcons sluggish from start to finish at home
Atlanta averaged 3.4 yards on 17 carries and got a rushing touchdown, Matt Ryan threw 53 times and not once for a touchdown, and the Falcons defense gave up 138 rushing yards and 227 passing yards in a 24-10 loss to Tennessee.
Many of the paid 72,108 didn’t show up, and many of those who did weren’t around for the end even though Tennessee couldn’t quite completely pull away.
Atlanta outgained Tennessee 422-365 and had two more first downs. The Falcons converted on 36 percent of their third downs and were 1 of 4 on fourth down.
Grady Jarrett’s understatement
TD Club taps players from Westside and Central
Last week
Friday night’s roundup and scores
Scouting Reports for Friday night
Statewide polls and Maxwell predictions
The Sports Report tells you the winners
Weekly football honorees (from teams)
Class A power ratings
Monday Morning QB (polls and notes)
Macon TD Club honorees
Recently
Friday night’s roundup and scores
Scouting Reports
Statewide polls and Maxwell predictions
The Sports Report tells you the winners
Weekly football honorees (from teams)
Henderson work not quite done, Rutland game changed
Class A power rankings
Monday Morning Quarterback (with all-class area poll)
Macon TD Club honorees
Westside had two players and Central one as the latest Macon Touchdown Club players of the week.
Westside’s Vansean Jackson is the top back after rushing for three touchdowns and 136 yards on 13 carries in the win over Rutland.
Central linebacker Walter Nesbitt is the lineman of the week after 14 tackles, three for loss, and a blocked punt in the two-point loss to Jackson.
Westside’s Diego Pedraza is the special teams player of the week after averaging 54 yards per punt and being perfect on six PAT kicks against Rutland.
Former head coach, assistant Andy McCollum to speak at Macon TD Club
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. There is a one-time special-guest fee of $20, $10 below the regular non-member rate.
Northeast is the featured high school. Georgia Southern head coach Chad Lunsford is next week, followed by Samford’s Chris Hatcher.
McCollum’s coaching career started in 1981 as an assistant at Middle Tennessee State, and stints followed at UTEP and Baylor.
McCollum was head coach at Middle Tennessee from 1999-2005, going 34-45 overall and 16-18 in Sun Belt Conference play. He spent a year with the Tennessee Titans organization, and then was linebackers coach at N.C. State.
He moved to Georgia Tech in 2010 as defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator. McCollum stayed with the Yellow Jackets in different coaching duties until 2018 and the resignation of Paul Johnson.
The 1981 graduate of Austin Peay was a guard and tight end who started for four years for the Governors. He is a Marietta grad, and joined the school’s hall of fame in 2012.
GHSA Executive Committee to meet Monday
Reclassification is among the major topics to be addressed Monday morning at a GHSA Executive Committee meeting at the Marriott City Center.
It begins at 9 a.m. with some eligibility ruling appeals, including one from Hancock Central.
All of the individual committees for sports and events met on Sunday. The results of those meetings lead to additions to the previously published agenda.
Mary Persons principal Jim Finch and Michelle Masters of the Peach County Board of Education are on the board of trustees as well as the executive committee. Other Central Georgians on the executive committee: Northside athletics director Kevin Kinsler, Chris Brown of the Houston County school system, and Rex Hodges of the Dodge County school system.
Come back Monday afternoon for coverage of the meeting.
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Braves Report
The game went 11 innings, and the Braves went through 10 pitchers, three in the final innings.
But the Mets won anyway, 7-6, with three in the bottom of the inning after the Braves score two in the top half of the regular-season finale.
More than 31,000 showed up at Citi Field – only 2,000 less than the Braves’ home finale – for the game, the Mets having been long ago eliminated from the postseason race. They got their money’s worth, their patience rewarded with Dominic Smith’s walk-off three-run homer.
The Braves enter the postseason on a three-game losing streak and having lost eight of their last 12 and gone 9-11.
Atlanta now gets ready for St. Louis in the playoffs.
Next: Playoffs: Thursday, vs. St. Louis, TBS; Friday, vs. St. Louis, TBS; Sunday, Oct. 6, at St. Louis, TBS; Monday, Oct. 7, at St. Louis, TBS
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