Friday's Report: GHSA hoops, Mercer, Middle Georgia State, Signing: ACE, Henley; Hawks, UGA, Tech, Georgia State; NCAA hoops, NBA, MLB, golf, college FB, NFL, soccer, NHL, boxing
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High Schools
⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾
Appling County 16, West Laurens 11
Flint River 9, Windsor 3
Gatewood 3, FPD 1
GSIC 18, Wilkinson County 4
Jefferson County 16, Northeast 15
Peach County 13, ACE 0, 5 inn.
Jackson Peavy fanned 13 in a shortened complete-game no-hitter.
Piedmont 12, George Walton 1
Tattnall 5, Bulloch 4
Trinity Christian 8, Thomas Jefferson 3
Westfield 6, Stratford 5
⚽ ⚽ ⚽ Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
G- Baldwin 9, Westside-Augusta 2
B-Bleckley County 5,
B-Central 3, Washington County 2
B-Westside-Augusta 2, Baldwin 1
🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫
🏀🏀🏀Women’s basketball🏀🏀🏀
Chattanooga 68, Mercer 47, SoCon Tournament
Pro
🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀
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Around/About Central Georgia
WBKB-Mercer season comes to a close
MBKB-Western Carolina and Mercer open SoCon tourney right after meeting
Henley has nice first round at Arnold Palmer
Russell Henley was on target for a top-10 round until a few bogeys on the back nine dropped him into a tie for 15th.
Henley shot an even-par 72 after three bogeys on the final seven holes of the day, starting and ending the round that way.
Signings
ACE Charter’s Madisyn Hallar has signed with Brewton-Parker for softball and Hunter Guy with Brevard (N.C.) for football.
Around/About Georgia
Young has 22 points and 16 assists in the Hawks’ win
Snyder returns to Hawks’ bench against Pacers after missing 1 game due to an illness
Former Georgia offensive linemen give their takes on Searels
Morgan scores 19, Georgia Tech women use 17-0 run in 4th to top Virginia Tech in ACC tourney
No. 10 Oklahoma rolls past Georgia for 8th straight win, setting up rematch with Kentucky
Georgia Southern women knocked out by Georgia State
Aaaaaand Georgia Southern men knocked out by Georgia State
Worth a read
Sports is a powerful tool for grassroots empowerment. A Philly basketball coach made it her focus
Conference tournaments/women
Moore, Mikayla Blakes combine for 47 points as Vanderbilt beats No. 18 Tennessee women in SEC
North Carolina women reach ACC quarterfinals for 3rd time in 4 years
Ole Miss beats Mississippi State 85-73 to advance to SEC Tournament quarters for 5th straight season
Louisville pulls out 70-68 overtime win against Clemson in ACC Tournament
Brown scores 41 points, third-most in Big 12 Tournament history in Iowa State’s
Conference tournaments/men
North Alabama tops Jacksonville 78-63 in Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament semifinal
Little Rock defeats UT Martin 82-77 in Ohio Valley Conference Tournament
College Basketball/Women
Auburn fires Johnnie Harris after early SEC Tournament exit caps 12-18 season
Bueckers wins Big East Player of the Year for third time as UConn sweeps major awards
College Basketball/Men
Angry Auburn fans among 2 groups who complained most to 2024 NCAA tournament chair
DeCock: Cooper Flagg's 'Freshman Night' Cameron farewell hints at what may be still to come
Brakefield propels Ole Miss to 78-76 win over No. 4 Tennessee
McGhee scores 27 in UAB’s 89-80 win over Florida Atlantic
No. 8 Michigan State takes outright Big Ten regular-season title with 91-84 victory over Iowa
Norfolk State takes down Howard 81-69 to clinch a share of the MEAC regular-season championship
NBA
Mavericks’ Kidd blasts speculation that a heavy workload contributed to Irving’s knee injury
Curry scores 40 points and the Warriors finish a 4-1 trip with victory over the Nets
White scores career-high 44 points in the Bulls
Baseball/MLB
The Mets have spent more in Cohen’s 4 years than Marlins, Pirates and Rays over the past 21
Pete Rose said he'd make Hall of Fame after his death. Will he be right?
One-of-a-kind card featuring jersey patch of Pirates star Paul Skenes is heading to auction
Gil sidelined for at least 3 months, Stanton gets more elbow injections, LeMahieu out a few weeks
In-game interview with Phillies manager gets really awkward
Golf
Clark handles a stressful test at Bay Hill to lead by 2
McIlroy says PGA Tour deal with Saudis isn’t close and an agreement might not be necessary
Lefty rips Couples' LIV comment: 'This is a low-class jerk move'
NFL/USFL/UFL/Football
Hunter's take on NFL two-way difficulty panned when he downplays Shohei Ohtani's feats
Jaguars center Mitch Morse announces his retirement after 10 seasons and nearly 100 wins
Jags continue makeover by cutting TE Engram and KR Duvernay
Browns restructure Watson’s contract to get under the salary cap
Who's getting cut, who's getting extended
Eagles retain All-Pro LB Baun before he tests free agency
Seahawks star WR Metcalf has requested a trade, AP source says
College Football
Nebraska makes end of spring game official, announces it will be replaced with skills competitions
College Football/SEC/ACC/South
Belichick is coaching practices again. Only now he’s a college rookie at UNC
Florida QB Lagway ‘limited in throwing activities’ during spring practice
Soccer
FIFA promises $1 billion total prize money to 32 teams at men’s Club World Cup in the United States
With Messi sitting out again, Suárez and Allende score to lead Inter Miami past Cavalier FC 2-0
Hockey
Guentzel has hat trick, Bjorkstrand scores go-ahead goal and Lightning rally past Sabres
Crosby and MacKinnon bring out the best in each other as teammates internationally or rivals in NHL
Boxing/MMA/UFC/WWE
Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano bring trilogy women’s boxing bout to MSG, site of the original
Scoreboards
Women’s college basketball scores/games