Central Georgia Sports ReportComment

Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Falcons did what? Alum update: big NFL plays for John Milledge, Twiggs County products; Macon TD Club speaker; Braves update; UGA, Tech; false positives at Ga. State

Central Georgia Sports ReportComment
Sunday's Daily News 'n Notes: Falcons did what? Alum update: big NFL plays for John Milledge, Twiggs County products; Macon TD Club speaker; Braves update; UGA, Tech; false positives at Ga. State

Sunday'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.

Around/About Central Georgia

Macon TD Club welcomes Mercer’s Cronic

          First-year Mercer head coach Drew Cronic is Monday’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown 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. Cost is $30 for non-members.

          Rutland and Covenant are this week’s featured high schools. Georgia Southern’s Chad Lunsford is next week’s speaker.

          Cronic was named in mid-December to succeed Bobby Lamb and become Mercer’s second head coach since the program was restarted. He was on the sidelines for the Bears’ first game, when he was an assistant at Reinhardt under his father.

          He came to Mercer from Division II Lenoir-Rhyne to a 25-3 record in two seasons, tying a school record with 13 wins in 2019.

Cronic was head coach at Reinhardt, an NAIA program,  for two years after serving as an assistant. Before that, he was on the staff at Furman and James Madison. He spent another year, 2017, at Furman.

          The Southern Conference postponed the fall football season with plans to compete in the spring, but it allowed programs to play games in he fall.

Mercer currently has three games scheduled: Oct. 10 at Jacksonville State, Oct. 24 at Army, and Oct. 31 against Abilene Christian.

 

Alumni Update

          John Milledge grad Harrison Bryant picked up his first NFL touchdown on Sunday. That was his only catch in the 34-20 win over Washington.

          Twiggs County alumn Darqueze Dennard helped the Falcons keep the Bears out of the end zone at a key point in the second half with an interception in the end zone. He finished with six tackles before leaving the game in the final few minutes with an injury.