Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Veterans signings; Mercer, FVSU; Acuna hot, Braves not; Georgia Tech, UGA; near perfect game; more

Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Scoreboard; Veterans signings; Mercer, FVSU; Acuna hot, Braves not; Georgia Tech, UGA; near perfect game; 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.

 

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Signings

          At Veterans: girls basketball player Ansley Miranda to Point University; boys basketball player DeAngelo Hines to Covenant College in Chattanooga; Daniel Ekwese to Butler Community College for football; Justin McCarty to Campbell for football; girls soccer player Alex Whitley to Lyons (Ark.).

 

Around/About Central Georgia

Georgia Southern nips Mercer

FVSU’s Flowers reviews win over Erskine

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Acuna keeps rocking, but Braves falter again

 

Pache, Fried on IL

Tech volleyball wins first NCAA Tournament match

Pastner recommits to Yellow Jackets

Alvarado will hire again, but might come back

Kendall Milton looking to boost RBU rep

Brooks not bailing on Crean despite transfers

Kennesaw State men’s hoops adds transfers

Teen driver in Auburn announcer crash granted youthful offender status

UNC Greensboro’s Miller headed to Cincinnati

 

Baseball

White Sox’ Rodon barely misses a perfect game

Son’s no-hitter boosts family’s coffee shop

MLB working on some experimentation

Simmons out with COVID-19, not planning on vaccine


Sports and racial/social issues

Black HS player subjected to racial harassment says ā€˜I’m fine’

Baylor refuses gifted vehicle after dealer’s insensitive remark

 

Sports and COVID 19

Simmons out with COVID-19, not planning on vaccine

 

NFL

Brown juice up defense by signing Clowney

Buffalo looking at full vaccinated stadium this fall

 

NBA/WNBA

WNBA plans on schedule, breaks for Olympics

 

College Football

Tennessee State introduces Eddie George

 

College Sports

One-time no-penalty transfer coming to the NCAA

Column: It’ll be messy, and fair

Rutgers’ Stringer signs a 5-year extension

Vandy plucks UConn’s Ralph as new women’s basketball coach

North Carolina ex-athletes look to profit from Tar Heel careers

Arizona taps Gonzaga for new men’s BKB coach

 

Around the nation/world

From national inspiration to Masters champ

NBA scores/games

NHL roundup/scoreboard

College football scoreboard