Central Georgia high school and college plans regard activity cancellations and suspensions
Update: By all accounts, nearly all Central Georgia public high schools are going with the GHSA’s plan to suspend competition for two weeks, with several school closures of varying time frames.
School do have the ability to resume competition before March 27, a date of note from the GHSA.
The Sports Report will offer updates for any programs that do seek opponents before then.
More Central Georgia high schools have made public on social media their plans in light of the GHSA’s recommendation to suspend activity for two weeks.
Schools should email their plans to centralgasports@gmail.com so this can be updated throughout the day and alert, in one location, parents and fans about what games/events may take place.
Dublin, as of a Facebook post at 8:24 a.m., was still in session.
Monticello is “business as usual,” according to AD Matthew Martin (@CoachMartin99), and has room for baseball and track.
Rutland’s Friday baseball game against Central is still on, first pitch at 5 p.m.
Tattnall Tweeted around 8 a.m. that soccer against visiting Pacelli for Friday was cancelled, but baseball at home against ACE at 7 p.m. was still on.
Bleckley County’s boys soccer team will play Montgomery County at 7 p.m. Friday.
GMC Prep is open to play, but Saturday’s soccer matches against Portal and ACE have been cancelled
Bibb County released a statement at 10:20 a.m. that Friday’s action can go on as planned, but would revisit the situation on April 3, when the county’s spring break (March 30-April 3) concluded.
High Schools (as of Friday, 2:30 p.m.)
Dodge County: events suspended until March 27
Houston County: events postponed until March 27
Jones County: cancelled for two weeks
Mary Persons: events suspended until March 27
Mount de Sales: suspended for two week
Perry: events suspended until March 27
Putnam County: operating as usual
Upson-Lee: County schools closed Friday through Tuesday, evens cancelled/postponed
Washington County: school closed through March 17
Colleges
GMC: suspended until March 30
From Thursday night’s story, only in The Sports Report
Central Georgia Tech’s visit to the national junior college men’s basketball tournament is on hold, the National Junior College Athletic Association announcing a postponement for Division I and II men’s and women’s basketball until tentatively April 20.
The Division III tournaments are underway, and will conclude early, on Friday.
The GHSA announced in a late afternoon Tweet that it was postponing state literary meets on Saturday and March 21, and it was recommending a suspension of spring activities until further notice.
“The regular season belongs to the schools themselves,” executive director Robin Hines said in a release. “We can only recommend that they suspend playing. The final decision will rest with the local school systems, but we hope they heed the Governor’s and the GHSA’s recommendations.”
That means the decision for regular-season competition is up to schools and school systems. The GHSA technically can only cancel or postpone championship events.
The literary meet is expected to be made up, and Hines the GHSA will follow the recommendation of Gov. Brian Kemp and suspend championship competition for two weeks, and issue an update on March 27.
The GISA has suspended all activity beginning Saturday through April 10.
The Georgia Association of Private and Parochial Schools is postponing events scheduled through March 21 with plans to reschedule.
The Southern States Athletic Conference, home to Middle Georgia State, is suspending action until March 25.
The Southern Professional Hockey League, home to the Macon Mayhem, is suspending the season, at least indefinitely, and “will continue to monitor” developments over the weekend.
The Southern Conference finally released a statement at 7 p.m., that competition has been halted until the end of March, but teams may practice, according to the Charleston Post & Courier.
The Bears were to host the Mercer Bears Classic softball tournament this weekend, and the baseball team was to welcome Bradley for three games starting on Friday.
The Linger Longer Invitational golf tournament at The Landing at Lake Oconee, co-hosted by Mercer, was scheduled for March 20.
Georgia College postponed Friday’s softball doubleheader and weekend baseball series with UNC Pembroke. That’s the only information from GC.
The SIAC said it is cancelling “all spring athletic and championship events” for the rest of the academic year, but that “all athletic related events including, but not limited to, practices and spring football exhibitions will be suspended until further notice.”