Central Georgia Sports ReportFebruary 21, 2026Comment

Saturday’s Report: Hall of Fame, GIAA/GHSA basketball, spring sports, Mercer, Houston County, Russell Henley; UGA golf/football, Tech, Braves, Olympics, college 🏈/🏀, NBA, NFL, golf, NASCAR, MLB

Central Georgia Sports ReportFebruary 21, 2026Comment

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High Schools

(Teams: Please post first and last names, and names are preferred over social media handles (they know who they are, most people don’t) and post team names, not mascots)

(Basketball: Postseason tournament scores/pairings on www.centralgasports.com)

🏀🏀🏀Girls Basketball🏀🏀🏀

Baldwin 40, Cross Creek 35
Conniya Reeves put up 17 points and Suri Clark 14 to lead the Bravettes to the region title.

Brentwood 66, Sherwood Christian 55

Callaway 54, Rutland 31

East Laurens 52, Northeast 42
The Falcons led 21-16 at halftime, but won the third quarter 20-13 – led by eight points from Deanna Lowther - to take control. Lowther finished with 12 for the defending region champs, Garyunna Mitchell adding 10.

Gatewood 50, Edmund Burke 37

George Walton 55, FPD 40
The Vikings end the season at 17-12 in the second round.

GMC Prep 44, Johnson County 38

Glascock County 62, Hancock Central 59

Hephzibah 48, West Laurens 47

Lamar County 56, Putnam County 54
The Trojans pulled off one of the week’s top upsets, handing the homestanding War Eagles only their second loss in 20 games.

Loganville Christian 66, Mount de Sales 39

Macon County 43, Taylor County 36

Morgan County 36, Westside 34

Southwest Georgia 54, CFCA 52

Stratford 69, St. Anne-Pacelli 39

Trinity Christian 53, Windsor 50

Trinity Christian 80, Upson-Lee 61

Washington County 43, Central 41

Westfield 50, John Milledge 35

🏀🏀🏀Boys Basketball🏀🏀🏀

Chattahoochee County 40, Taylor County 32

Cross Creek 53, Baldwin 51

Greenforest 56, Putnam County 53
Jaylen Nelson had 17 and Tamaud Woodson 15 for the War Eagles in the region title game.

Macon County 79, Marion County 51

Morgan County 52, Rutland 34

Washington County 48, Dodge County 43
Aiden Watts and Braylon Yorker teamed for 21 points to lead the Golden Hawks to third in 2-A/Division I and drop the Indians to fourth.

Southwest 61, Dublin 36
The upstart Irish watched their postseason run come to an end against the top seed and defending state runner-up. Southwest led 34-16 at halftime and kept on cruising, holding the Irish to 3 points in the fourth quarter. Chase Dupree led Southwest with 19 points while CJ Howard added 13 and Alex Butts 11. Chris Dixon had 14 for Dublin.

⚾ ⚾ ⚾ Baseball ⚾ ⚾ ⚾

ACE 25, Central 0

Crawford County 9, Bowdon 2

Dublin 10, East Laurens 0

FPD 11, George Walton 5

Houston County 8, Perry 4

Mary Persons 11, Luella 1

Mount de Sales 6, GMC Prep 5

Northside 12, Bradwell Institute 1

Piedmont 7, Ola 4

Putnam Conty 12, Treutlen 3

Warner Robins 15, CFCA 0

⚽ ⚽ ⚽ Soccer ⚽ ⚽ ⚽

B-Aquinas 3, Howard 0

G-East Laurens 3, Hawkinsville 2

G-Houston County 3, Lee County 0

B-Jasper County 2, Upson-Lee 0

G-Pike County 8, Mary Persons 0

G-Warner Robins 6, Crawford County 1

B-West Laurens 4, Harlem 1

🏫🏫🏫College🏫🏫🏫

(Colleges: Please post links to stories with social media posts, and team names instead of logos in graphics)

⚾⚾⚾ Baseball⚾⚾⚾

Georgia Southwestern 7, Georgia College 6

Mercer 14, Columbia 8

USC Aiken 12, Middle Georgia State 0

Pro

🏒🏒🏒SPHL🏒🏒🏒

Macon 2, Huntsville 1

🏀🏀🏀NBA🏀🏀🏀

Miami 128, Atlanta 97

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Alumni Update

Houston County’s Chiappetta earns POTW

Around/About Central Georgia

Rarity: Henley misses the cut

For awhile, Russell Henley was right there with the world’s top golfer.

Closer to the bottom – much closer – than the top.

But Scottie Scheffler was able to barely make the cut at the Genesis Invitational while Henley missed out.

Both shot a 68 on Friday, but Henley’s 76 on Friday was too much to overcome, and he had a 144, two past the cutline of even.

Henley’s day was sabotaged on No. 12.

His tee shot went into the rough, putting him in a hole right away. His 27-foot par putt missed, and his 8-1/2 foot bogey putt was off, leaving him a 17-inch sixth shot.

A bogey two holes followed, but he ended on a roll with four straight birdies on the final holes. The double-bogey erased the to birdies Henley had on the front nine.

Henley had some impressive company in the early departures: Sam Burns, Harry Hall, Chris Gotterup, Justin Rose, Tom Hoge, and Jason Day, among others.

His streak of made cuts ended at 11, dating back to the PGA Championship last May.

BSB-Kersey's first powers Bears to thrilling comeback W

Around/About Georgia

Legendary Haack retiring from Georgia golf

DeMoss names immediately as replacement

Cole,Ikinnagbon share statements following arrests

'We wouldn't miss it': Valdosta makes six-hour trip to girls flag football clinic

G-Day date set

Braves learning new strike zone with ABS Challenge System

Herro scores 24 points in return to help the Heat beat the Hawks

State college baseball/softball

Tech puts up a couple dozen, up to 6-0