Central Georgia Sports ReportNovember 09, 2026Comment

Monday's Report: GHSA changes, Macon TD Club (Peach County, Rutland, Windsor), Mercer; Falcons, UGA; College football, NFL, NBA, college basketball, NHL, golf, NASCAR, tennis

Central Georgia Sports ReportNovember 09, 2026Comment

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W-Mercer 4, Furman 1, Southern Conference Tournament quarterfinal

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Around/About Central Georgia

GHSA Class 4A playoff games moved to Saturday

After a year off, a classification of GHSA playoff games will have to play on Saturday because of the ongoing struggle to find and retain officials.

The GHSA has pushed one class to Saturday or Thursday every year since COVID in 2020, and more than one classification a few times, but not last year.

The move gives an extra day of rest and prep for four Central Georgia teams and their opponents:

No. 32 East Jackson, at No. 1 Peach County, 10-0
No. 25 Harlem, 6-4, at No. 8 Baldwin, 7-3
No. 19 North Clayton, 7-3, at No. 11 Mary Persons, 6-4
No. 17 Westover, 7-3, at No. 20 West Laurens, 6-4
No. 23 Howard, 5-5, at No. 10 Calhoun, 6-4

That classification will be back on schedule next Friday.

Macon Touchdown Club picks a Trojan, Hurricane, and Knight

Back: Peach County senior quarternback Caiden Ivory. completed 10 of 22 passes for 131 yards and a touchdown while running 22 times for 229 yards and 2 scores in Peach County’s 52-38 comeback win over Troup.

Lineman: Junior defensive end Charles Martin of Rutland racked up14 tackles, 4.5 sacks, 3 quarterback pressures while batting down 2 passes in the 44-18 win over Central.

Special teams: Senior Seth Daugherty of Windsor totaled 98 yards in punt returns, including an 81-yarder for a touchdown in the 57-8 playoff win over Robert Toombs. The wideout/safety/returner also had 4 tackles and 2 interceptions with 71 yards in returns.

ESPN/SEC Network host Nowkhah at the Macon Touchdown Club

Dari Nowkhah of ESPN and the SEC Network is Monday’s speaker at the Macon Touchdown Club in its final regular meeting of the year.
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.

Former Houston County and Georgia standout quarterback Jake Fromm is next week’s speaker.
          Nowkhah grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma. He worked at TV stations in Montana, Nebraska, and Oklahoma before joining ESPN in 2004, and then the SEC Network in 2014.
          Nowkhah and wife Jenn have had three biological children and an adopted child. They lost an infant son in 2011 to complications from an infection that compromised his heart, and started Hayden’s Hope, a foundation to help families with expenses due to children’s organ transplants. supporting organ donation, in his memory. They adopted Nahla two years before Hayden’s birth and passing.
          November is National Adoption Month.

MWSOC-Mercer stuns Furman with four unanswered goals in SoCon Tournament quarterfinals

Around/About Georgia

Burrow powers Bengals past the Falcons in Madrid for their 4th straight win

Chase has career 1st half in Madrid and gets crowd going with matador touchdown celebration

Pearce Jr. active for game against the Cincinnati

Georgia is back at No. 1 in AP Top 25 ahead of Utah and Notre Dame; Ohio State drops to No. 21

Key plays that got Georgia going in Oxford

State college basketball

Forbes, Cooke help No. 24 West Virginia women cruise past Georgia Tech

UGA women roll over Nicholls

A Worthy Read

Texas Tech center Stephanie Okechukwu becomes women’s college basketball’s tallest player at 7-1