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Tuesday's Report: Scoreboard; GHSA tennis/soccer, GHSA meeting, CGTC; Braves, Hawks, UGA, Dream; WNBA draft, NBA, MLB, golf, NASCAR, college football, tennis, UFC

In Coverage: GHSA tennis and soccer pairings

 

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High Schools

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ACE 12, Rutland 2

          The Gryphons clinched their fourth region title.

Baldwin 19, Howard 8

Callaway 8, Lamar County 2

Central Georgia Arts 7, Stratford 2

Fitzgerald 4, Dodge County 1

Jasper County 12, Oglethorpe County 3

John Milledge 19, Brentwood 3

Piedmont 19, Westminster 1

Putnam County 6, Washington County 0

Southwest 10, Northeast 9

Strong Rock 8, Westfield 5

West Laurens 7, Perry 6, 11 inn.

          The Raiders clinched the region title in an action-packed game that ended when Jakob Sahli singled in courtesy runner N Hester with the game-winning run in the 11th inning. Hester took over for P Bryant, who drew a two-out walk, Hester stealing second and advancing to third on a passed ball. The Panthers led 5-0 after one, the Raiders scoring 3 in the third, 2 in the fourth, and 1 in the fifth to tie it after Perry added 1 in the third. The Panthers suffered four errors, leading to five unearned runs. Parker Bryant, Sahli, and Kaden Bagget each had two hits for West Laurens, Sahli with two RBI. Kameron Vandersee drove in 5 runs on 2 hits, including a homer for Perry, Peyton Davis and Seth Harper with two hits each. 

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Girls

Stratford 11, FPCA 0

Boys

Stratford 10, FPCA 0

Trinity Christian 7, John Milledge 2

Colleges

Links may include game story as well as box

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W-Southern Conference, second round, Mercer

Pro

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Atlanta 6, Houston 1

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Honor Roll

NJCAA All-American list: Central Georgia Techā€™s Jones

Around/About Georgia

GHSAā€™s new executive director approved, among other business

          There was little suspense or notable items in Mondayā€™s meeting of the GHSA executive committee in Macon.

          The group made the change in leadership official by unanimously approving Dr. Tim Scott as the associationā€™s seventh executive director. Robin Hinesā€™ final official day is July 31.

          Scott was announced as the lone finalist on March 18, the top choice out of eight applicants and three finalists.

          Scott is the superintendent of Dalton Public Schools, and will assume his new role on July 1.

          Scott has a degree from Georgia College, and started his education and coaching career at Northside in 1987, moving a few miles away to Warner Robins a decade later as assistant principal.

          He then surprised local observers by returning to Northside as principal in 2001.

          Scott was a principal at Dublin and Douglas County before joining the Dalton system as an assistant superintendent, moving to the top spot in 2018.

          The committee voted to allow students in non-GHSA associations who transfer to a GHSA school to be immediately eligible if thatā€™s the studentā€™s first enrollment at a GHSA school.

          The group ā€œreceived as informationā€ an item on allowing a two-week arm conditioning period b efore the start of baseball practice during which only pitchers and catchers could participate in pitching conditioning.

          The latest reclassification debate is about competitive balance, brought up for discussion only on Monday. Itā€™s unlikely the GHSA is anything but several years away from seriously approaching the possibility.

          A budget of $6.6 million for 2024-25 was approved, an increase from $5.8 million. There were notable revenue jumps in state tournaments and playoffs, officiating, and corporate/vendor partnerships.

The notable increase in expenses were in member shares and officiating.

 

Column: Baseball's hiring practices at highest levels fail to honor Hank Aaron

Riley leads the Braves over the Astros

Young says he feels better after late-season warmup for play-in game versus Bulls

UGA RB room takes a transfer hit

Whoā€™d the Dream draft?

 

WNBA Draft

Clark taken No. 1 in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever, as expected

The CC Effect grows in Indiana with invigorated fans

ā€˜Bayou Barbieā€™ ready for next act, with Chicago

Winners and losers

Sky High: Cardoso and Reese picked by Chicago

The picks 

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

WNBA commissioner anticipates expansion from 12 teams to 16 by 2028

WNBA will pay for flights for playoffs and back-to-backs. Expansion to 16 teams possible by 2028

Inside the NBA numbers: Lots of comebacks, no home-court edge, 3s went up, scoring went down

How Wembanyama's rookie season ranks in history

Williamson, at long last, set to suit up for the Pelicans in the NBA postseason

NBA Play-In Game Preview: West games on Tuesday. East games on Wednesday. Eliminations on Friday 

MLB/Baseball

Jackie Robinson remembered around MLB on 77th anniversary of him breaking baseballā€™s color barrier

Ken Holtzman, MLBā€™s winningest Jewish pitcher who won 3 World Series with Oakland, has died at 78

Pacheā€™s single, Harperā€™s catch in 10th inning lift Phillies

Inside baseball's arms crisis: What can be done to curb the game's outbreak of pitching injuries?

'It was just a surreal experience': The story behind the father-son duo that caught Andrew McCutchen's 300th home run ball

Roundup 

Auto Racing

Elliott drives backward after Texas win that could get him going in the right direction again

Winners, losers after NASCAR Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway

Green Jackets and Yellow flags: Scheffler did NASCAR, Elliott a solid Sunday 

Golf

Woods plans to play all four majors this year

Might it be best if this was Tiger Woods' last Masters?

A telecast unlike any other: inside the Mastersā€™ $0 TV deals

Homa, Collin Morikawa get a lesson in how to close a Masters

Rookie mistake spoils Ludvig Aberg's run at Masters

Scheffler turns the Masters into another Sunday yawner with a dominating win 

Tennis

Nadal says heā€™s ā€˜ready enoughā€™ to play in his last Barcelona Open

NFL/UFL/USFL/XFL/Football

Eagles lock in WR DeVonta Smith with 3-year contract extension

Chiefsā€™ Rashee Rice, facing charges from Texas car crash, will participate in offseason work

College Football

Steve Sloan, former coach and national title-winning QB at Alabama, has died at 79

Ohio State changes bonus structure for assistants with College Football Playoff expansion

QB Sanders finally goes to class in person, with cameras in tow

Column-Count Jackie Sherrill among the Aggies and Longhorns everywhere counting the days

Sabanā€™s top 5 players at Bama

College Basketball

Pitino says Pope will 'win in a big way' ay Kentucky

How each UConn contributed to title run

Clark gets personalized AFC Richmond jersey from 'Ted Lasso' star Jason Sudeikis

Boxing/UFC/MMA/WWE

Fan punched by UFC fighter isn't suing. He's apologizing

Scoreboards

NBA scores/games

MLB scores/games

College baseball Div. I scores