Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; GHSA coin flip; Bud Dupree done; Mercer-Clemson; state college FB, BKB; Falcons, Braves; GAPPS; NFL, COVID, more
Wednesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
In Coverage: Central Georgia’s GHSA and GISA high school football playoff schedule
Coming Friday: The Sports Report’s predictions, and Loughdmouthings/QB
Scoreboard
High School
Basketball
G-GMC 42, FPD 29
College
Basketball
M-Georgia 84, North Georgia 62
W-Georgia State 88, Tennessee State 83, OT
M-UAB 73, Kennesaw State 48
Alumni Update
Wilkinson County’s Dupree done for the year with ACL
Around/About Central Georgia
Good news for a few area teams after GHSA coin toss
Ouch. Central Georgia is 5-8 on the GHSA quarterfinal coin flip, held Wednesday afternoon.
If the seeds are the same next week, the top team in the bracket is home.
This is good news for Jones County, Perry, Dodge County, Dublin, and Hancock Central, who will be home next week if they win. Upson-Lee and Bleckley County are the only four seeds left, and travel no matter what.
The area’s other GHSA survivors – Warner Robins, Baldwin, Peach County, Central, Northeast, FPD, Stratford, and Macon County.
Mercer women hang with Clemson
Change in schedule, immediately, for Mercer men
GAPPS prepping for football finals
Two Central Georgia teams will play for Georgia Association of Private and Parochial Schools 11-man football championships on Friday.
John Hancock faces Lafayette Christian in LaGrange in the Class A game while Central Fellowship hosts Flint River in the Class AA game.
Four teams make the playoffs in each class. CFCA advanced by forfeit. John Hancock beat top seed Georgia Christian.
No scores are posted on the GAPPS website. The association also sponsors 8-man football. As per the website, CFCA is 9-1, Flint River 7-2. There appears to be no Class A, with John Hancock listed at 1-6 as a Class AA program, and Lafayette Christian is 3-6.
Only nine teams are listed in AA and four in AAA.
Around/About Georgia
Dear Vandy: Hire an option coach
Collins, coordinators happy to have another game
Get to know UGA interim AD Josh Brooks
Duval released, Braves agree to three other deals
Hawks getting Young and Co. some help, and expectations grow
Improving long-distance shooting is a task
Sports and COVID 19
Michigan-Maryland is off; Michigan AD responds to speculation about OSU
Daytona 500 to have limited attendance
Chunk of NBA players test positive
College Football
LSU’s embattled Pelini finally speaks: not using 4-3 people in a 4-3 scheme (Coach O chimes in)
Fanless or not, home is still cool in the ACC
Finish line is near for the SEC
Former West Georgia head coach now the boss at Southern Miss
NFL
Steelers stay undefeated, edge Ravens
League works to stay on schedule
Kansas City and the “pick your poison” dilemma
Better Baker has Browns quietly efficient, and winning
College Basketball
Villanova’s Wright on being in a mini-bubble
Around the nation/world
Olympic legend Rafer Johnson won the 1960 decathlon, dead at 86
Men’s college basketball scoreboard
Women’s college basketball scoreboard