Tuesday's Daily News 'n Notes
Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
The latest update
Through the state’s Department of Public Health release at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Georgia has 1,097 confirmed cases, 361 in the hospital, and 19 deaths related to COVID-19. …
The GHSA will meet on Friday, the date it set a few weeks ago in advising a shutdown of all extracurricular activities. Gov. Kemp extended a gathering-of-10 mandate to April 6, which will carry down to high school events.
So everything is suspended until further notice.
Some scheduling FYIs: The first state playoff activity was for tennis and soccer on April 21. Track’s state meet and baseball championships were in mid-May, with golf’s state tournaments May 18-19 to finish off the athletics calendar.
Mercer’s Hall a top senior pitcher
Not surprisingly, Tanner Hall was having a good senior season for Mercer’s baseball team.
And then the season ended. Nevertheless, the Houston County grad was named by D1Baseball.com as one of the top senior pitchers in the nation.
Hall was ranked 10th out of 50 senior pitchers, with a 3-1 record and 37 strikeouts in 24.2 innings. He whiffed 11 Tennessee-Martin batters in six innings on Feb. 28.
Honor Roll
Mercer’s Dimitrijevic earns all-district pick
Around/About Georgia
Braves public stock takes a big hit
A look at the Braves’ best catchers
Ex-teammate of Gurley talks about Gurley
Around the nation/world
Olympics pushed to 2021, and that’s huge
Media, Clemson screw up Lawrence fund-raising page details
And the NCAA contacted Clemson to say it was OK
Newton released by the Panthers