Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Cephus talks; Farriba sits on 199; Jones County's Gore on roster; Da Braves; and 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.
Scoreboard
High School
Softball
Brentwood 7, Trinity Christian 2
Crisp County 14, Central 1
Jones County 11, Eagles Landing 0
Mount de Sales 2, Stratford 1
The Cavs went up 2-0 with one in the seventh and sweated out the Eagles scoring one in the bottom of the seventh, despite being no-hit. Jordyn Partain struck out 16 against eight walks for the Cavs.
Peach County 14, Warner Robins 6
Perry 8, Spalding 7
Tattnall 13, FPD 1
Grace Hiller, Caroline Patterson, and Kaci Paul had three hits each, Hiller with three RBI and Patterson along with Hailey Daughtry driving in two each. Isabelle Pecorilli threw a four-inning two-hitter, striking out seven.
Upson-Lee 8, Mary Persons 0
Veterans 5, Lee County 4
West Laurens 8, Toombs County 1; West Laurens 7, Toombs County 1
Volleyball
ACE 2, Mary Persons 0 (25-22, 25-17
Mount de Sales 2, ACE 0 (25-13, 25-10)
ACE is 7-8 overall, and faces Lamar County Thursday at 6 p.m.
Quintez Cephus talks about his dad, gun violence, and freedom
In Coverage
Stratford’s Farriba hopes to get No. 200 out of the way Friday
In Coverage.
Alumni Update
Jones County’s Gore on Dodgers’ wild card roster
Around/About Central Georgia
GMC golf fares well at Bulldog Classic
Around/About Georgia
Bauer-Fried turns into a classic that Freeman finally ended
Braves first-game win in how long?
Column: Pitching staff comes through for Braves, like Freddie
Column: Fun game, but that was a lotta strikeouts
Column: Don’t the Braves usually lose this kind of game?
Auburns WRs vs. Georgia DBs a nifty showdown
Getting the TEs into UGA’s O
Is the early date a benefit for Auburn?
SEC hands out waivers, including ex-UGA pair
Atlanta gets a second NASCAR race
Sports and COVID 19
NFL postpones Pittsburgh-Minnesota
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Around the nation/world
Plenty of shakeup, some unhappiness with new NASCAR schedule
Kentucky influence all of NBA final
Seattle and Vegas for WNBA title
Rondo + Howard + Lakers = again?
Silver hopes for somewhat normal start next year
Achilles ends Serena’s French Open
Cramps put Bertens in a wheelchair